What do you mean? The explanation of my finding or something else here on the thread?

Very nice finding tyz, this gives us some hope that this puzzle will still be solved during our lifetime 

Yes the problem are those divisions like -673909/1307674368000, not sure whats the formula behind this, will have a look on it.

Thanks for the explanation! Good to know that bitcoin uses an encryption curve that was not designed by the NSA. Also feels good that bitcoin is one of the only ones to use this method, as it gives less incentive for hackers to try and crack the cryptography (would be worth more if you hack a bank right?).

Back to the puzzle: Nice find tyz, looks like it is less random than we thought a bit before. It's getting interesting now, I'll take another crack at it

Every now and then I regret not attending college, like when reading this post and skimming over this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB3HcPgm_FI

Many a times in our one room home (I have 5 siblings) my mom would make me turn off the light and go to bed at one in the morning while I was teaching myself calculus because it wasn't offered at the school I attended, but even if it was, I would've been reading the text months ahead of the class like I did in them classes that taught about shapes and things, and in the class that dealt with letters like a, b, c, x, y, etc., and sometimes foreign symbols which I think were Greek letters. Come to think of it, I think them Greek letter thingies were mostly taught in that shapes and things class. Or was it that other class that had to with stars and things. Or was it the class that taught me about moles. Or was it that class about copper wires making light bulbs light. Whatever it was, I aced them all... for funsies. That was the extent of my nerddom back in the mid-70's. Good times! Thanks to the advent of Bitcoin et al. I'm now able to revisit them years thanks to accidentally stumbling upon this space in mid-2011... or was it 2009 like when Marshall Long and Leroy Fodor falsely claimed to start their foray into Bitcoin?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jpD-kGY5IRwJ:mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/102967/forumla-producing-the-sequence-of-1-3-7-8-21-49-76-224+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


Amazingly, some dude probably not a Bitcoiner  was seeking the same thing the OP was only a couple days ago. What are the odds?

This thread started 2 days ago (on December 28), so looks like that guy posted there after reading this thread.

I find funny his excuse... "an interview" 

Funny thing, I've searched for the sequence and found this too.

How are you calculating that formula?

I just did a simple app to calculate that and I get completely different results:


Results:


 

Am I getting something wrong?

But still, so often more than one address is claimed at the same time. So either there is some system behind, or somebody is lazy and claiming them in bundles after he get more adresses.

Maybe just bruteforcing considering if you use modifed oclvanitygen and get probably 5 million tries per second with one or two GPUs it takes depth 50 with 562,949,953,421,312 possibilites to check all (as worst case) in 3 and half years.

Seems lazy bruteforcer claiming few adresses at once to me - but risky move considering anybody other could bruteforce and empty the address although the lazy one had the priv key stored! Obviously he does not give these Bitcoins much value and he is bruteforcing just for the challenge.

That is why everyone calls you Gleb "Gullible" Gamow