Whilst a few members have been arguing into a large void...others have been analyzing data, running tests, recording results, tweaking results, re-analyzing, re-doing everything lol.

Here is what I know, which is public data from my Puzzle Prefix channel...I have came up with good results on finding the next 48+ bit, matching h160 (leading).

Yesterday I was able to:

Find, 33 each, minimum of 48 leading h160 bits, using a single 5090, a single 4090, and 256 CPU cores, averaging about 2 MK/s, all in a 14 hour period. Seems pretty decent.

Earlier today I was able to:

Find eight, 48+ bit prefixes, in a little over 1.5 hours, with only 264 CPU cores. Yeah, you do the math on that one.

Currently I am testing a combo method, and then I will test one more method, and either use some hybrid method or single method.

Does it mean I will find the key first, no. If I had the same power as Bram, would I find it before him? I dunno, but I would like my chances.

Five more 48+ found in the last 1.5 hours. Let's do the math on this one real quick, which may be off, but you get the idea, I think:

(2^48 * 5) / 5400 = 260,624,978,435 average speed normally needed to find five 48+ prefixes no? (I mean unless you are one of the ones who say they could all be in a row, lol).
My actual speed = 264 CPU cores averaging 2.5ish MK/s = 660,000,000

Anywho, nothing really to write home about, but something to write about here.

Data used: Bram's data from 67 and my data from 64, 67, 68, and some of the current 69.