I need academics to translate these hieroglyphics.
Bram: 0.1 BTC for cracking a 160-bit hash vs. RetiredCoder: 0.1 BTC, just out of boredom.

First of all, RC kinda acknowledged he messed up, and he only sent 0.01 anyway.
Second: finally, some actual progress! I encourage you 100% to send that ChatGPT academic paper for peer review. Honestly, I really REALLY want to see such a paper to be seen by people like Bernstein and guys of that calibre. I am literally dying of curiosity about their opinion, even though it's basically a certainty by now: even if God Almighty himself shows up and proves it's BS, it won't matter much for some. Because there's always the need for a higher and higher authority to take a shot, even though a 10 year old gets it by now.
Oh, also... was it easier to skip posts in this thread about why the theory was disproven like maybe 783 times in all possible ways (and then some), or easier to just have some AI cook up non-sense science pseudo knowledge thesis?
You've got more chances for the horoscope to match your daily mood than for the prefix method to have any advantages over any other of the other 100.000! possible ways in which you can traverse the range. You know, out of all those gazillion permutations, in only one of them you can ever think there might ever think it ever has an edge. Otherwise, you need 100.000! different prefix methods.