Quote from: Bram24732 on Today at 03:20:37 PM

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Quote from: mcdouglasx on Today at 02:38:41 PM

In fact, Bram's proof-of-work confirms the prefix theory, but they behave like stubborn children.

It does not.

Also

There is no formal math proof that this prefix theory works.
There is not a large enough empirical example that this prefix theory works. Even on the full set of proofs for BTC67, this does not apply.
There are all the statistics in the world, along with all the people who know anything about math on this forum, including people doing this as their day job for 20 years, who tell you it does not work the way you think it does.

Dont make me write a formal math proof you wont be able to read anyway, please.

Take it easy; this isn't a debate between a Christian and an atheist. The atheist theorizes that God doesn't exist but cannot prove it, and vice versa. Creating a pool doesn't make you Fermat or Pascal. You know that you can't 100% refute something without evidence. Therefore, you conjecture, and I conjecture, both of us are right and wrong at the same time. However, it is a mathematical error to assert things you haven't firmly investigated.

This is me being easy. I believe I've kept it civil.
I do not conjecture, I gave you the PRECISE reason for why it does not work. Several times. Based on how statistics work.

Creating a pool does not give me authority here, you are right. In fact, nothing does. I'm just hoping that at some point you come to the realisation that when a cryptographer tells you you're wrong about basic math, you have the humility to consider that it might be the case.

Would love it if said cryptographer could stop posting back to back posts and consolidate them

Should be easy, right? lol!

Also, to your ramblings about prefixes; What specifically does not work? There are different things you can do with found prefixes. I think you misunderstand what has been said about using them.

Depending on how they are used, you should say, they do not offer up any faster results versus sequential, key x to key z, or random sequential (such as what you are doing). Just because you aren't using a method like I have outlined using prefixes, does not mean it doesn't work. It works no better or worse than your method. And the ease of use and tracking, probably a lot easier than what you are doing; unless you upgraded from tracking in excel

Alas, you use probabilities during your search as well, you just use them differently.