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I think I’ve approached all of this the wrong way.

I’m offering a 0.1 BTC bounty for the formal proof of any traversal method that provides a statistical edge over a linear scan for puzzle 69. By statistical edge I mean that this new traversal method running on a statistically significant number of executions requires significantly fewer checks (let’s put the threshold at 5%) to find the key.

Conditions :
- Has to be written using math semantics. Not “where does John lives” metaphors.
- Has to be empirically validated using a python / nodeJS script.
- First one posting it to this thread will be recipient of the bounty.

I can show you my method—it has nothing to do with random or sequential search or patterns. It's pure statistics. But it would be stupid to make it public for obvious reasons. This has to be a private message. Grin

Feel free to DM.
Ofc the bounty is now for puzzle 71, not for puzzle 69, for obvious reasons

I want to send you my proof, but since my account is only 7 months old, I get a message saying "Bram has blocked messages from new users."

Now you can