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Hi all! Modified version with jumps and partial match: https://github.com/Dookoo2/Cyclone
Try your luck:)

We got robbed of Puzzle 69.


Now, our problem is how to pay our remaining GPU bill which amounts to $158,954.07. This is so frustrating! Why can't people play fair and square???

We are accepting donations to help us pay our remaining GPU bill in these addresses:

1BMWUDeiq15EDZETNG49YfdQvLoEzGBjxm
bc1q2pqem06ad053rnt656dta4nej6uqe9p786kjls

I had to sign up to this forum today just to to say WOW!

I was working on this little puzzle constantly and was bummed when I saw it was solved, and even more bummed when I saw someone stole it. Terrible.

Can someone explain how this even happened? I didn't know you could rbf to a completely different address. What am I missing?

caffeinated squirrel on a sugar rush.

Off by one error, sorry

Continuous unknown bits sequences:

Puzzle 16 100100100110110
Puzzle 17                0111011001001111
Puzzle 18                                10000100000001101
Puzzle 43     101011110100111011001001111100010110010001

Let's get back to the puzzles guys.

Did anyone else notice that Puzzle 16 is fully contained in Puzzle 42?

And that's not all: the end of Puzzle 15, the entire Puzzle 16, and the first bits of Puzzle 17, they are fully contained in Puzzle 42. That's one long sequence: 22 continuous bits. Just sitting there in the middle of #42.

I'm framing this on the wall for future research.

wtf are you talking about? my node running right here sounds like you missed out

SCAM coin, i will stay away !!

its not mining its a timer set on the background giving you a feel of mining. nothing is happening on the background. PI project is nothing but a data collection team, stay AWAY !!

I've been less active on this forum for a while now, thats because I developed some health issues and they don't seem to go away, not knowing that what's causing the constant break down is in my home.

Since 2022 I've been mining Ethereum with some GPUs and when ETH mining stopped I switch to mineable platform and convert whatever I mine back to BTC, the whole set up is over 1GH and a S19 Asic miner that I connect to viabtc, this mining rig was installed in my room and the Asic miner down in a store, basement like room.

I can't put the two together because of higher heat detection.

I started noticing that I became so weak, to wake up in the morning becomes harder for me, I can't lift a big bucket of water like I used to normally, followed by cramps, headaches, nauseous and dizziness here and there, I went to the hospital and the doc recommended that I go through blood tests and so on.

The first question the doc asked me was if I work in a coal factory, my mind went straight to my mining rigs, I had to exposed it all to him, and he prescribed some drugs to me and warned me to stay away from my rigs, after sevarl weeks battling with fatigues and dizzy like feeling I finally start getting better, I had to build another block nearby brick by brick just to make sure I have my room to myself only.

If you are planning on sleeping in the same room as your miners make sure it is very limited, make sure the heat is very minimal, maybe I wouldn't have faced this if I stopped at my first 400MH mining rig. While BTC is your goal always look out for your well-being too.

I didn't censor anything. Because the leading 0 was covered.

I think the creator said this. Did you listen?


You're right.

I like soup salty. They say no, it's better without salt.
What about you, you eat it without salt. I like it salty. lol

They say soup is not made like that.
You eat the soup you make.
I say I eat the soup I make.

Oh quit it already, you verbalist

I can't understand why someone would create a brand new account, and out of all the questions to ask, ask that one, especially since all of it has been discussed...very recently.

Enlighten yourself via reading the last 10 pages or so of this topic. Read, or don't. Collect addresses, or don't.

But I will enlighten you. If you can find 2 prefixes where they match at least 53 bits of your target address, you can solve the private key using the Pythagorean theorem. In this case, "C" would be your target address!

I am silently watching and learning from all you guys that have been in this space for quite some long time and doing the puzzle, but again and again people say you need to find more than one or that. What exactly does that mean? Is it if someone has multiple addresses with private key in 69bit range that starts with 19vkiEajf, does it help to achieve goal faster

I wonder why none of the prefix believers fails to answer this simple question:

Assuming the prefix theory works, it automatically implies a weakness in the cryptographic guarantees of Bitcoin, and more generally automatically implies that the elliptic curve cryptographic assumptions are broken, and also the cryptographic security of SHA256 and/or RIPEMD-160 are also broken.

Yielding BTC as a 0$ asset. Hence, why would you try to solve the puzzle?

If so, why the hell aren't you guys publish a paper and wait for the academic gratitude? It would worth infinitely more than some stupid satoshis... RIGHT ?!?

Maybe because you know deep inside that you're simply just chasing ghosts of the statistical fluctuations of something that is not distinguishable from randomness? Or are you afraid that you'll need to call all the academic peers who'd dismiss your paper in 5 seconds, as people who obviously "don't understand probabilities" and have zero clues about math?

  All puzzle solvers must keep hope alive for us remaining solvers with terrible hardware.   LOL!

Bram = Doing something that everyone can do with 2200+ GPU is not a very high-level result.