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failed to open /dev/urandom
Windows does not have /dev/urandom. The way random numbers are generated must be changed in the code. Here is the relevant discussion and contact the author:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5544649.0
Solving puzzle 71 is actually quite simple, but we haven't found the appropriate code yet.JeanLucPons may be able to easily solve such puzzles.But I have never seen him discuss this topic here, perhaps it is a mystery.He is an excellent developer.
Even with JeanLucPons' expertise, solving the 71-bit puzzle requires approximately 3,000 GPUs running for months. Or a massive GPU farm, due to the brute-force nature of the search (2⁷¹ keys).
A 1000x faster implementation would still demand 3 GPUs running for months or a custom supercomputer.
This isn’t about miracles. It’s about physics. Even with perfect parallelism, the energy, cost, and time required make it unrealistic without quantum breakthroughs or a flaw in the puzzle’s design (which is not the case here) .
If JeanLuc ever discovers a clever mathematical shortcut, we’d all celebrate.... Until then, it remains a hardware-bound challenge.
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failed to open /dev/urandom
Windows does not have /dev/urandom. The way random numbers are generated must be changed in the code. Here is the relevant discussion and contact the author:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5544649.0