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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
kTimesG
on 30/06/2025, 18:04:27 UTC
Proof:

Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, vol 3: Sorting and Searching https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html

Prefix searching does NOT make brute-force key searches fundamentally faster. The numbers don’t lie.

You'll get a "Knuth doesn't understand probabilities". After all, why would the #1 computer programming professor be any good at coding crypto prefixes in Python, he should just stick to his books and giving out free hex dollars. Rigged results, man. Rigged programming.