Hi all, I have not been here for a very long time and was hoping I could get some information on this thread.
First
There is a list in this thread showing all the addresses from 1 - 160
Do I understand this correctly?
Address 66 13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so still needs resolving
I ask as I see in the post people congratulating others on finds in much higher ranges, is this one not worth the effort since its the easiest remaining.
And secondly
I wrote some custom software tonight to have a go at the above address, the software is currently checking slightly above 45,700 addresses per second, am I wasting my time? and how does this equate to the hash rates I see mentioned here.
Sorry if these seem dumb questions, answers would be very much appreciated.
So I did a little digging, is this correct
A hash will always be the same number of characters used so 1 Bitcoin address checked per second would equal a hash rate of 64?
If my above statement is correct then the software I wrote is running at 2,924,800 Hash's per second or 2.924 Mh/s, again am I wasting my time?
It's not a hash per second, but key per second, generating public key from a private key, hashing the public key 2ice to generate the address, an old laptop with low end GPU can search for 25 million + keys per second, good GPUs can do billions of keys/s.
From 5 to 160, every 5 puzzle there is an exposed public key, so since we already have the public key we can skip 2 hashes and only generate public keys, and that also is not 1 key at a time, we could practically subtract or add 10,000 trillion keys per second, just a minimum, that's why they can be solved faster.
Have a look at bitcrack and other tools to see what speed you get and compare with your tool.
