It would be a coincidence if you find an address with the target prefix in the near neighborhood of the target address.
Wrong information is doomed to wrong results.
Everyone knows that the distribution of each bit is not equally distributed. But a similar prefix near the target address is a coincidence, this is wrong information.
There is at least 1 (Sister Wallet - I named it.) near each prefix.
Then you move on to neighboring wallets. Then you move on to distant neighboring wallets.
Akito did you modified the FixedPaul's code to specifically search in 71bit range and another thing i want to ask is, like nodemath code he is searching for prefix f6f543, if someone is able to find multiple of these prefixes in the range, will it help in any way to reach the target faster?
If you are at least close to f6f5431d25bbxxx h160 it can help with some calculations. In low bit matching, too many possibilities come out and it becomes difficult to calculate the result.