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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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smracer
on 23/07/2025, 02:14:49 UTC

found 1PWo3JeB9jrGLDTmsp45h1pDXXtb7zisQH


What is the key for this address?
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Re: 50к bitcoins from 2011
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smracer
on 04/07/2025, 16:27:08 UTC
The OP_Return was sent to hundreds of old addresses.

Best case scenario is this owner of the 80K coins got spooked and moved his coins.

My guess is this is another holiday FUD scheme to induce panic and drop the price.
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Re: 50к bitcoins from 2011
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smracer
on 04/07/2025, 15:57:00 UTC
Why the strange op_return messages hours before the coins were moved?
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Re: Probabilistic search of prefixes vs random+sequential-Part II
by
smracer
on 01/07/2025, 00:30:27 UTC
Say for puzzle 71 you started searching for the prefix 1PWo3JeB9jr.  There are ~ 3150 prefixes in the keyspace that start with 1PWo3JeB9jr and let's say you starting searching in the middle and found the first 1PWo3JeB9jr around 50%.

Break up the 71 keyspace into 3,150 blocks each with 750 Quadrillion keys each.

What if you made approximately 1570 (+750 quadrillion) jump points going up from the prefix 1PWo3JeB9jr and 1570 (-750 quadrillion) jump points going down from the prefix 1PWo3JeB9jr and then searched all those points simultaneously from the midpoints outwards?
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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smracer
on 27/05/2025, 21:37:31 UTC
If 100,000 people were independently running RCkangaroo searching for Puzzle 135 with a 4090 each, would theoretically 1 person get lucky and find the key earlier or does RCkangaroo not work that way?

Absolutely not. Kangaroo isn't a lottery contest (like a hash brute force search is). It's only reason of being more and more likely to find a solution after some number of operations is because it uses the output of those some number of operations. 100.000 separate guys will need to each compute for themselves those ops before ever reaching equal odds. Not a one-ticket lottery. at all

Some may say this is wrong and anyone can hit the key from the first try.

Totally agree. Just as feasible as having that one-legged unicorn riding a monocycle, on a tight rope, over a volcano, blind-folded, with meteors popping off.

Thank you.  That is what I thought. So they only way would be to have a central server that is running RCkangaroo periodically saving the progress (in case you have to restart it) and then you would have client GPU's that would connect to the server.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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smracer
on 27/05/2025, 20:59:36 UTC
If 100,000 people were independently running RCkangaroo searching for Puzzle 135 with a 4090 each, would theoretically 1 person get lucky and find the key earlier or does RCkangaroo not work that way?
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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smracer
on 05/12/2024, 03:17:33 UTC
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It's been an honor, Gentlemen.
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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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smracer
on 21/11/2024, 05:19:06 UTC
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It's been an honor, gentlemen.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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smracer
on 19/09/2024, 14:27:34 UTC
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So out of curiousity, did anyone ever hit a non-related funded wallet during puzzle solving?

You would have to check the balance of each private key.  It would slow down the brute forcing to a crawl.  I highly doubt there are any funded wallets in the keyspace, except for some dust in some test wallets that people made to test their bots.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
smracer
on 19/09/2024, 06:14:13 UTC
If I were the finder, I would've moved the three UTXOs worth 0.066, 0.594 and 5.94BTC in a private transaction via slipstream.mara.com ..
could someone show how to make a raw transaction for 67? it can be created without privatekey, are there any services for creating raw transactions, or using bitcoincore? to spend all outputs on one address with the required commission. so that I can then sign it and send it via MARA

ps: I haven't found the private key yet, but if I do I'll thank you for this tip))

If you find the private key to 67 and you want to send it through mara I think this is the way.  Someone please correct me if i am wrong.

bitcoin-cli createrawtransaction '[{"txid":"12f34b58b04dfb0233ce889f674781c0e0c7ba95482cca469125af41a78d13b3","vout":2},{"txid":"5d45587cfd1d5b0fb826805541da7d94c61fe432259e68ee26f4a04544384164","vout":15},{"txid":"08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15","vout":66}]' '{"bc1q0pju92kh0qyaygvnm074mpdhdg28qa357w7usd":6.69}'

The bitcoin address at the end should be replaced with your address otherwise you will send me 6.69BTC.

The output gives you this.

0200000003b3138da741af259146ca2c4895bac7e0c08147679f88ce3302fb4db0584bf31202000 00000fdffffff6441384445a0f426ee689e2532e41fc6947dda41558026b80f5b1dfd7c58455d0f 00000000fdffffff15cda65f1e46982fc082b15c8dbb60985d12a7e60b0c742263608cc9349f380 84200000000fdffffff014021e027000000001600147865c2aad77809d22193dbfd5d85b76a1470 763400000000

After you get the private key you need to sign it.

bitcoin-cli signrawtransactionwithkey "0200000003b3138da741af259146ca2c4895bac7e0c08147679f88ce3302fb4db0584bf31202000 00000fdffffff6441384445a0f426ee689e2532e41fc6947dda41558026b80f5b1dfd7c58455d0f 00000000fdffffff15cda65f1e46982fc082b15c8dbb60985d12a7e60b0c742263608cc9349f380 84200000000fdffffff014021e027000000001600147865c2aad77809d22193dbfd5d85b76a1470 763400000000" '["PRIVATE KEY WIF"]'

The result is what you put into mara slipstream. 




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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
smracer
on 20/03/2024, 02:37:56 UTC
Let's assume the mempool is low when you do the transaction for the puzzle.  If I send the coins with a fee of .1BTC and someone else finds the private key 30 seconds later and sends the transaction with a 1BTC fee, would they both be in the same block and the first transaction would win because it has an earlier timestamp, or would that not matter?
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
smracer
on 19/03/2024, 15:48:17 UTC
If there are thousands of bots watching the 66 address, which I think there are, they will all watch the mempool as well and keep increasing the fee against each other.  Maybe the answer is to send the transaction first with the entire amount as the fee minus 1 sat to your address and hope whichever miner that finds it will return it to you.  This way no one can increase the fee any higher and your timestamp is first.  Would that work?
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Re: Innosilicon T3 hashboard repair
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smracer
on 22/04/2022, 12:52:42 UTC
What do you use to shut the farm down when grid energy price spikes?

I use 60AMP PDU's with a definite purpose contactor modded into it.  Raspberry pi  turns wemo switch on/off.

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Innosilicon T3 hashboard repair
by
smracer
on 21/04/2022, 21:18:12 UTC
Hey guys. 

Yesterday.  5:30am power prices spike so my farm shuts down.  2 exhaust fans were left on.

Started to rain a little and humidity spiked.  Fans were bringing in humid air and all the miners were still hot.

8:30am power prices came down and the farm restarted.

I instantly lost 25 (out of 200) Avalon 1047 PSU's and around 30 Innosilicon T3+ hashboards. (out of 195 hashboards)

The hashboards almost all had the same chip blown.  This little BOOST_MP3426 board looks like it is removable.  Does anyone know what could have caused this?  Was it moisture?

I have added a humidity sensor and the farm will not restart after a humidity spike until humidity < 70%.  Also all fans now shut off when the farm shuts down.  Does anyone know anything about this chip?

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Re: Lost 16 psu's in one night Innosilicon T3+
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smracer
on 25/01/2022, 22:06:55 UTC
We mine together.  I am local at the mine.  He is on a beach, earning interest. Smiley
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Re: Lost 16 psu's in one night Innosilicon T3+
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smracer
on 25/01/2022, 21:55:59 UTC
⭐ Merited by Welsh (1) ,vapourminer (1)
Also popped the transistors. 

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Re: Lost 16 psu's in one night Innosilicon T3+
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smracer
on 25/01/2022, 21:55:04 UTC
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It was the warm day we had yesterday then rain and 91% humidity.  The only PSU's that died were the ones closest to the air intake.

I opened a couple of the PSU's and found condensation.

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Re: avalon 1047 not working after shipping
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smracer
on 01/12/2021, 22:02:43 UTC
Make sure both PSU fans are spinning freely.  If the metal gets bent a little and stops one of the PSU fans from spinning freely you will get a 4% fan speed reading and no mining.  I have a couple hundred of these miners.  I have changed out many PSU fans.
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Avalon 1041 help
by
smracer
on 07/04/2021, 14:28:52 UTC
I have a bunch of Avalon 1041's (They are 1046's but they say 1041 on the side).

Every once in a while,  one of them will just stop mining.  They always do the same thing.  I am attaching a screenshot of the log and status screen.  Has anyone seen this before or know how to fix this issue?  Maybe a PSU issue?  If it was a bad hashboard you would think it would mine at a lower speed.  After reboot they just come up the same way.  I have been just putting them in a pile and grabbing a new one to replace them when this happens.  I probably have 20 with the same issue.

Any help would be great.



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Re: Most reliable Bitmain S9? (S9, S9i, S9J, S9K, S9 SE-13, 13.5, 14, 14.5, 16Th/s)
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smracer
on 03/04/2021, 16:22:17 UTC
S3+ was the most reliable Bitmain machine I ever mined with.