There's simply no feasible way to withdraw the funds on lower end puzzles like #66. It will be snatched up by bots. Not maybe, but it's 100% guaranteed. There will be hundreds of withdrawal transactions with varying fees all battling each other. You will simply be left in the dust.

It's a fundamental flaw in this puzzle that was originally aimed to bring the community together and try to solve the puzzle. The puzzle creator did not think much about the puzzle, and this is proof of it.

The only way the original solver will get the funds of puzzle #66 is if they can prove to be in possession of the private keys directly to the puzzle creator. The puzzle creator then withdraws the funds at a 6BTC fee (they can afford it) to your address.

Huge breakthrough in prime number theory— study from City University of Hong demonstrates primes can be predicted
Revolutionary breakthrough in prime number theory: according to new study from City University of Hong, primes can be predicted. Credit: City University of Hong Kong

Both arithmetic aficionados and the mathematically challenged will be equally captivated by new research that upends hundreds of years of popular belief about prime numbers.


Contrary to what just about every mathematician on Earth will tell you, prime numbers can be predicted, according to researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK) and North Carolina State University, U.S.

The research team comprises Han-Lin Li, Shu-Cherng Fang, and Way Kuo. Fang is the Walter Clark Chair Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. Kuo is a Senior Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, CityU.

This is a genuinely revolutionary development in prime number theory, says Way Kuo, who is working on the project alongside researchers from the U.S. The team leader is Han-Lin Li, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at CityUHK.

We have known for millennia that an infinite number of prime numbers, i.e., 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, etc., can be divided by themselves and the number 1 only. But until now, we have not been able to predict where the next prime will pop up in a sequence of numbers. In fact, mathematicians have generally agreed that prime numbers are like weeds: they seem just to shoot out randomly.

"But our team has devised a way to predict accurately and swiftly when prime numbers will appear," adds Kuo.

The technical aspects of the research are daunting for all but a handful of mathematicians worldwide. In a nutshell, the outcome of the team's research is a handy periodic table of primes, or the PTP, pointing the locations of prime numbers. The research is available as a working paper in the SSRN Electronic Journal

Finally i found how to import wallets, but whats this error now... errors killing me haha



importdescriptors "[{\"desc\": \"wpkh(L5oLkpV3aqBjhki6LmvChTCV6odsp4SXM6FfU2Gppt5kFLaHLuZ9)#c9eja2dd\", \"timestamp\": 0}]"



[
  {
    "success": false,
    "error": {
      "code": -1,
      "message": "Rescan failed for descriptor with timestamp 0. There was an error reading a block from time 1711177032, which is after or within 7200 seconds of key creation, and could contain transactions pertaining to the desc. As a result, transactions and coins using this desc may not appear in the wallet. This error could be caused by pruning or data corruption (see bitcoind log for details) and could be dealt with by downloading and rescanning the relevant blocks (see -reindex option and rescanblockchain RPC)."
    }
  }
]

What do you see, when you have the public key ?

A mathematician who developed formulas to make random processes more predictable and helped to solve an iconic model of complex phenomena has won the 2024 Abel Prize, one of the field’s most coveted awards. Michel Talagrand received the prize for his “contributions to probability theory and functional analysis, with outstanding applications in mathematical physics and statistics,” the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo announced on 20 March.

Assaf Naor, a mathematician at Princeton University in New Jersey, says it is difficult to overestimate the impact of Talagrand’s work. “There are papers posted maybe on a daily basis where the punchline is ‘now we use Talagrand’s inequalities’,” he says.

Thanks to Talagrand’s techniques, “many things that seem complicated and random turn out to be not so random,” says Naor. His estimates are extremely powerful, for example for studying problems such as optimizing the route of a delivery truck. Finding a perfect solution would require an exorbitant amount of computation, so computer scientists can instead calculate the lengths of a limited number of random candidate routes and then take the average — and Talagrand’s inequalities ensure that the result is close to optimal.

can anyone tell me if the puzzle 130 starts from 2 or 3 ?  since the range is 0x200000000000000000000000000000000 and 0x3ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff can anyone tell me if its private key starts from 2 or 3 ?