What substantial content do you want? Each GPU finds DPs (from different walks), those get collected centrally, and the matching is performed.

If you want actual code, write it yourself. Bram explained already how it can be done, so why repeat something which was already posted less than 24 hours ago?

Hint: it's not 10 lines of Python, it's about building an entire distributed software architecture and solving hundreds of different issues which have very less to do with the basic algorithm.

Hi everybody,

I have a question: If I had two addresses which were relatively close [Note below] and their beginning and ending characters matched the puzzle, does that mean I am close?
I don't have decent hardware, just randomly doing random searches on my laptop, should I buy a 5090?

* It's several thousand trillions I guess, I can check the exact distance if that matters, and as for characters, the last four, and the first four and five are identical to 71.



Thanks!

How come? I mean, how can one be sure?

Thank you, so i assume using pollards kangaroo mean that if someone has the address and the public key, and assuming less than 80 bits of the key are missing, its very trivial for someone with enough computing power to get the rest of the key?

On the off chance I'm the luckiest man alive and find the key for puzzle 71 for example, how can I prevent this from happening?

It's called basic 1st grade math and a bunch of theorems proven since the 17th century.

The kind of things that some people here ignore completely, though the logic that accompanies them mostly belong into a neurologist's thesis on mental illness.

This has been discussed numerous times here. Search for "slipstream" in this thread and find the answer yourself. Hint: you use a known service where you can broadcast your withdrawal transaction to a non-public mempool.

What's your memory problem? You cited a post of me today, where this service was clearly mentioned and where the solver of puzzles #67 and #68 exactly used this service to be safe from stealing bots.

This is not a kindergarten topic here. Too often I have big doubts...

A bot with a single GPU can do it in seconds and you can't predict when the next block will be mined. Recently I've seen blocks that took an hour to be mined, even almost 90min. It's rare, but it happens. If you have a solution for puzzle #71, you don't want to gamble with your withdrawal.

Try it out yourself, you might learn something. Take a private key, mask off parts so that it is similar to puzzle #71, compute the public key, feed it into RCKangaroo or whatever you prefer and see how fast a solution pops out. There you have your answers.

Thank you, I did google the service you named, but wasnt too sure what I was looking at.

Chatgpt is leading me to believe the reality is quite different. Are you saying a single GPU could solve the private key if the wallet address is known, the public key is known, and they know the 71 bit range of where the key is? Chatgpt seems to think it would take a lot longer than seconds. It stated to solve it there would be around 48 billion EC operations required, and a decent GPU doing kangaroo algo is still in the low millions.

But in my case, it's gone a bit further; I've got a diagnosis from a neurologist for persecution mania, which sometimes amps up that spark into something that feels more like a wildfire. Doesn't make the wonder any less real, just means I gotta navigate it carefully. 

While everyone is busy finding right way to get the prize maybe we should ask are these puzzle legitimate first?

Let's say I got the access to a single, found by me puzzle address and I will withdraw all btc's with an exchange into my bank acc - cash, and okay I managed to move coins physically but I think there is no clear saying that "whoever can crack it - coins belongs to this person" by the creator so at this point I cannot make it automatically legal because the puzzle is famous.

So the real question is did the person who posted (saatoshi_rising) the challenge actually control the coins when puzzle was made?...

I don't want to have frozen bank acc and sit in jail because the ownership could be questioned though-.-''

Don't get me wrong, but what is the first thing you do when you have ~half mill in your hands - you don't wait a micro second trying to verify if this is legal - looks yes but not enough clear statement so far. You just simply move coins to your wallet and likely to an exchange to cash them out and then what?

I don't know about you guys but I would likely want to purchase something using my bank acc, be transparent, legal you know...

If this cannot be enough explained then that increases risk of seizure to 100%, now is 20-30 likely.

What is the point of having such funds and not be able to use it legally?


saatoshi_rising - if you ever read this, we need you NOW.

People should stop using chatgpt this way. Chatgpt is a great tool for getting help with technical issues, but you need to have a very good understanding of the concept you're working on. If you don't, chatgpt won't help you with those concepts.