Quote from: mcdouglasx on Today at 06:05:31 PM

Quote from: kTimesG on Today at 05:24:59 PM

Quote from: mcdouglasx on Today at 04:47:08 PM

For those who don't understand prefixes, if you want to try your luck, this is the best current option for puzzle 71. If you're not interested in searching the entire range, where random + sequential and prefixes are equal in terms of statistical significance, you're just trying your luck, which means you don't need to scan the entire range. You get better results by using prefixes, which have huge advantages.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5546684

Have you not learned anything from what fixedpaul and others tried to show you regarding your most fatal fallacy? You're comparing both walks in the same order, however you're only attaching the "random +" to the sequential version, for reasons only you understand, even though they both walk the exact same sequence of data. If you simply start off the sequential from 1 instead of 0, prefix loses in 99.999999% of the cases, but of course this is not allowed, since you gotta keep your obvious bias to perform well for total n00bz.

If you have a well-formulated mathematical position that dismisses this idea as anything more than a half-baked theory, you can comment directly on the thread I shared, something you apparently avoid doing at all costs because you know that in the technical area it is not allowed to share false information, and generally there are the most knowledgeable, where beyond your theoretical statements they verify the facts.

You dont need well-formulated mathematical, If you’re only searching for addresses that start with a given prefix, then yes, your hits will go up, but that’s just because you’re redefining your target.

But if you’re looking for one specific value, randomly checking only a subset with a certain prefix just reduces your chance of ever finding it unless you get lucky.

Your own numbers show that the prefix method wins in partial search, but only because you’re comparing the probability of matching a prefix, not the probability of finding the exact solution.

Prefix search can be useful if your goal is just to find any matching prefix, but it gives no advantage if you’re searching for a single specific solution. Filtering by prefix just biases your random guesses, not your actual odds of finding a unique target.

The goal is not finding any prefix match but finding the exact solution. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of probability in brute-force searches.