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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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fixedpaul
on 22/04/2025, 23:05:12 UTC

Now, to play around with your theory: if both follow the same order, and that order changes in each simulation, why on earth does it favor prefixes? Where’s the magic?

Does it prove that prefix-based search is better? Or is Python rigged?

No magic here — all the scripts made by you, me, and others only prove that all the methods are equivalent. As the number of total checks are the same.

I specifically made you a Python script, with no prefixes, no hashes, just to show how easy it is to introduce a bias in the number of wins and that what matters is the total number of checks. Or do you seriously think that counting from 1 to 20 first and then from 50 to 21 somehow increases your chances of finding a uniform random number?

And on top of that, having your method search using random prefixes doesn’t change the result. Have you asked yourself why?

Honestly, I don’t know how to make it any more basic than this — but maybe you’re just a troll and should simply be agreed with. I will give up Smiley