My Honest Doubts About the Puzzle Solutions – A Response to @Bram24732’s Claims on Puzzle #67 and #68

In recent weeks, the Bitcoin puzzle-solving community has been buzzing about @Bram24732 — the individual who claims to have solved Puzzle #67 and #68 back to back in just 67 days for #P67 and 46 days for #P68, using 2,000+ GPUs. Now, he's also encouraging others to join a crowd-funded GPU pool, claiming that even higher puzzles can be cracked this way.

Let’s entertain this hypothesis:

The puzzles were originally created by someone with long-term foresight and significant resources.

That person seeded the puzzles with real Bitcoin, perhaps as a clever marketing stunt or social experiment.

Years later, that same person (or group) resurfaces, pretending to “solve” the harder puzzles, when in reality they are simply revealing private keys they already have.

Why?.......... ............. To build credibility — and convince the community to join their GPU crowd-fund effort.

The crowd-fund ends up renting vast GPU fleets, possibly tied to their own interests or hardware partners — all while not actually scanning the keyspace, but instead using pre-held keys to simulate “success.”

Could This Be a Hidden Marketing Tactic?

This could be a strategic move by:

A GPU manufacturer trying to drive demand for high-end cards

A mining hardware reseller(ETH shifted to staking  )

Or simply the original puzzle creator who now wants to profit from the community's belief that these puzzles can be cracked with brute force.

Why We Should Be Skeptical

Solving Puzzle 67 in 67 days is mathematically implausible with 2,000 GPUs.

Solving Puzzle 68 just days later makes it even less believable.

Pushing for crowd-funding and renting GPUs after these “successes” looks like a classic setup:

First, show fake success → then sell the dream → finally monetize the crowd’s hope.

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@Bram24732 You openly asked the community to share any doubts, and I’m simply responding with an honest, analytical perspective based on the facts and numbers available.These questions and theories are already circulating within the community, and rather than letting them grow in silence, I believe it's better to express them openly and constructively.

Regards: