oh did you stop solving for now?   you are probably right though about what you said about most people here.  they are just using AI code and hoping for a miracle to happen someday.  LOL!

whatever you all do, dont keep giving bram more of your code.  he already has 3000 computers and the rest of us might only be using two.  so giving away all of your code secrets to him will only make sure that the rest of us end up broke with no money when he uses that knowledge to solve every remaining puzzle.   dont say i never warned you when it happens.  lol   i do believe in some knowledge sharing though.  but he has too big of an advantage already over the rest of us.  just my opinion or thoughts. 

Maybe someone has had a breakthrough and finally found a method that exists that doesnt rely on bruteforce.  Wouldnt that be the only thing to explain that most recent puzzle being solved so fast?   Unless many of you just believe it was bruteforce with dumb luck.

My method has nothing to do with bruteforce and I am still going to keep trying to solve,  even if its only just 1 puzzle that i manage to solve eventually, i would still be happy with that.  I will admit though that ive lost more of my motivation to try to solve now.   At the current rate though of taking about 2 months to solve every puzzle by bram,  I guess that still leaves me with a few more years of time to keep trying to solve some of the remaining puzzles that bram isnt working on yet.  I'll take those odds,  still better than nothing I guess.  Dont you all go giving him even more hints though or he might solve every remaining puzzle in just a few days.   All puzzle solvers must keep hope alive for us remaining solvers with terrible hardware.   LOL!

Oh wow, alot has happened since I stopped checking the forum posts for almost 2 months again.   So is there really no sense in trying to solve any of the remaining puzzles now because bram has a superior method thats fast enough to solve all of them?   Can anyone tell me as just confirmation?   Or maybe I understood the some of the previous discussions wrong.   I might still keep trying though if anyone thinks  that the higher numbered puzzles will still take a very long time to solve no matter what.   My method is slow though and I dont have too many GPUs,  thats why im asking here again to make sure its even worth the time to keep trying to do any of the remaining unsolved puzzles.

oh ok, thanks for verifying.  i just had more time to read through some of the other pages of the forum so its good to see a solver that actually posts here often for a change.  dont think that has happened for many months or longer.   my method of trying to solve is nothing like anything that is written here but it also scans much more slowly so i have less hope i will solve the other puzzles now since you all have found much faster methods it seems like.  still going to try 68 next though and see how more attempts go with that.

Does anyone know if the most recent puzzle solver for puzzle 67 used mara successfully to get the funds?   Or is there just no way to be sure about it again if the solver isnt posting here?   I havent had time to read all recent posts, just thought I would ask.  Never expected puzzle 67 to be solved so quick since 66 took an insane amount of time.

A long time ago, I would think that the prefixes were important too and that I could somehow use them in my code.  But eventually I just realized they dont help very much.  Its still all just a random search space and the solution could still be anywhere.  My code though is also terrible and can only find 1BY8G prefixes most days.  So you guys are far ahead of me in your progress if you believe that the longer prefixes are important.   I just am trying to say that I dont believe they are as important anymore.  I am more in agreement with the skeptics that post here recently about the prefixes instead.   

visually if you only just stare at the puzzle for some minutes, it just can sometimes look like a pattern exists.  many others have commented about it on this thread in the earlier pages but it is just misleading to actually think that a real pattern exists.  what i was actually trying to say.  like i just find it fascinating how it looks that way even with some of the past solved puzzles but then when you start writing the code yourself and trying different things, you begin to quickly realize that it really only comes down to brute force searching and alot of waiting or good luck.

This made me laugh, sounds about right though.   The struggle of the bitcoin puzzles summed up in a few short words.   I do think that some patterns exist in the puzzles but being able to use it in code is an entirely different story and it probably wont really help much because the search space is just too large.

I wont say that my knowledge of crypto wallets is very high but I can only assume that this problem exists because these puzzles are all held in older crypto wallets that are only p2pkh focused?   So just doing something simple like trying to direct swap your BTC into another currency first before you try sending it to another wallet that you own probably wont stop the bot theft either.  Newer crypto wallet software however doesnt seem to have this problem since people make transactions constantly.   Interesting ideas though from the AI, might try to read more about lightning networks later.  My first thought was to just put all of the btc into a liquidity pool since that somewhat transforms your transaction immediately and then maybe you could just remove it from the same liquidity pool later using another wallet as long as that liquidity provider allows multiple wallets to connect to it.  Many liquidity providers dont allow multiple wallets from what I know about them though.  So you would probably have to do your own research and find one that does if you became the next puzzle solver.   

But if all legacy wallets have little to no security at all,  I agree with what most of you have already said that its probably hopeless and no way to move the funds.   I am just surprised by this because I thought most crypto wallet software also had options that stopped frontrunning attacks or any type of bot attack for that matter.  Usually such options would just enabled in the wallet settings with a checkbox next to them.  But I have only been involved with crypto for about 1 year so I still have alot to learn,  lol.   Just some of my random thoughts about the situation.  I am more of a crypto investor so I dont mess with coding nearly as often as a fulltime programmer would.    I was often trying to solve puzzle 66 though for about 3 months until that was solved so now I just keep trying to pick at 67 now whenever I have some free time.  I prefer to use python code mostly even though I realize that its not the fastest and its probably putting me at a major disadvantage.  I just overall find it easier to work with the different crypto modules or libraries in python compared to some of the other programming languages.

So is it fair to suggest that no one really knows for sure if your funds will get stolen now or not even if someone ends up using the mara slipstream service just because anyone that has solved some of these puzzles in more recent years probably solved them before these bot attacks started happening?   I just spent some time on maras website so that was my only question.  If I manage to solve even just one puzzle though,  I will definitely post here with the results of using mara and what happened to me because that mara service portal might not be immune from bots taking the entire prize too.  Its difficult to be sure.  The description of mara makes it kinda sound like it still has to go through the mempool in some way but you really still think its safe?   

I guess you could always try asking chat gpt for other strategies or security methods to avoid having bitcoin stolen the moment that you transfer it into another wallet.  But I get the feeling that ai  is too dumb to be helpful in coming up with a way to prevent that,  mostly just my attempt at a joke or humor.  Its unfortunate though if no other ways exist to really stop legitimate solvers from just losing their winnings now. 

Does anyone know if this one forum post of 288 pages is the only place for most of the puzzle discussion about puzzles 66 - 160?  Or are there actual other community groups too like a discord or telegram for example?   Just thought I would ask since I had more free time during the last 2 days and finally managed to read through at least 200 pages here.   Decided to skip reading the first 88 pages though since they are probably only about the puzzles below 66 that were already solved since a very long time ago,  lol.  And thought I would just ask about the withdrawal problem too.   The creator made no announcement still about it right?   So even if anyone manages to solve, they also must find their own method to not lose the funds during transfer to their own wallet?   I havent solved it either,  just wondered if the situation was still the same.   Guessing it is unfortunately.

Does anyone still happen to have the public keys for all of the solved puzzles?   Like starting from puzzle number 1 upto number 65 for example?   Just was curious since usually only the private key is listed after a puzzle is solved.  But knowing what the public keys were helps greatly too.  Maybe you will reply here later if you have that list of values,  thanks

Does anyone still happen to have the public keys for all of the solved puzzles?   Like starting from puzzle number 1 upto number 65 for example?   Just was curious since usually only the private key is listed after a puzzle is solved.  But knowing what the public keys were helps greatly too.  Maybe you will reply here later if you have that list of values,  thanks