Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
Honestly, I think I'm just overly sensitive rn because for months I could easily ignore everything by just getting back to work coding and problem solving, etc... But now I'm at the hardest stage: sitting and waiting. The coding is basically all done, my script is running, and now I can't do much more other than wait and see what happens... And it's gonna be a long wait... And, yeah, it very likely still won't result in any solved puzzles... I'd just rather not focus on that, and be reminded of it constantly, while I sit and wait and hope I get lucky anyway...
Luck is something that can be computed. Why would you hope to get lucky when you can simply know how lucky you can get today, by tomorrow, or after 5000 years? It goes the same way when you buy a lottery ticket, you should know what you're getting yourself into.
The only reason 69 is not solved by tomorrow might be because there aren't enough available resources to do it by then. If those would exist (at a fair price), it would simply be solved sooner.
The equation is simple: cost = time x resources. Have enough money? Too bad you can't have enough resources to solve it ASAP. Have enough time? Too bad you can't handle the cost on your own.
Hoping to get lucky just because it takes a projected 2 months or 4 months for someone else to do it, does not mean that some "script" (I hate that word, scripts are not at all the same thing as program source code) that does millions of times less work has the same chances to succeed. It just becomes dead time for us to criticize ideas that don't really help with anything, on the contrary
And anything has a cost attached, even an idle Python scanner doing 10 k/s - if someone wants to try their luck, why not spend the exact same cost and hash away many many times more? Maybe because they're afraid to see how futile their approach was anyway.