Quote from: FrozenThroneGuy on Today at 09:03:56 PM

Puzzle 69 is the last puzzle for software developer. Next puzzles will be for embedded engineers with hi-end FPGA and people with a huge amount of money for ASIC prototyping. But it is really difficult to develop asic crystal with secp256k1 logic.

Quote from: kTimesG on Today at 09:46:19 PM

You guys are aware that XOR-ing some key with some whatever bits, produced in whatever way, is basically the same thing as using some whatever bits as the key, right? That's like, bit logic 101 knowledge.

The "benefit" is that you also have to do a totally useless extra operation to simply get a random number. You're all getting drunk with cold water.

Half the people here are doing their best to come up with creative ways of gaining any edge, no matter how small, over the otherwise nearly insurmountable odds these puzzles present; and the other half seem to be here just to shit on them and generally be as depressing and defeatist as possible Roll Eyes

Personally, I'm having much more fun learning and expanding my horizons in the first group Cheesy