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    April 16, 2025, 11:01:09 AM
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    What is the thing with prefixes ?

    From what I understand there is no correlation between input  data and output data in cryptography. Two private keys differing only one character should give the output of two completely different public keys and addresses and hash160 values.

    Finding a hash160 with similar prefix as different one doesn't indicate that both private keys are from similar range, right ?

    Maybe I am wrong ...

    You're not wrong. But the people who are, ignore even the two guys who solved the last 5 puzzles, with the 6th on its way. None of those puzzles were solved with prefixes or miracle algorithms, because they don't work. Most of us simply ignore these kind of posts, that doesn't mean we agree with them - maybe just tired to repeat the same thing to the same people over and over again.

    What is the thing with prefixes ?

    From what I understand there is no correlation between input  data and output data in cryptography. Two private keys differing only one character should give the output of two completely different public keys and addresses and hash160 values.

    Finding a hash160 with similar prefix as different one doesn't indicate that both private keys are from similar range, right ?

    Maybe I am wrong ...


    19vkiEaj67Ed1ZEhp8TsWU8aaLMHZ3daQ3:61eb8a50c7b37f922add55060140b9c927466ac1
    19vkiEajLRd2jRNmAca4Sa2ux8fGKgMUue:61eb8a50c801b3f74d622e00bbf893153c391681
    19vkiEajLTJGwrxRF3kiSFt7uXDsjYvTV2:61eb8a50c801dc63aca0a295483f511349dcce9a
    19vkiEajckhHAr8CzhTYQHsYqVFvF9FPCh:61eb8a50c85ae5a6b51b69cf50788588a11339ac
    19vkiEajrRfH9WbbGUL4Uinx9XvsBBZB7C:61eb8a50c8a593d6e5f60769765b43583f9b3246


    All these addresses have 69-bit keys.

    Excellent. You just need to find the other 1 billion of them.


    what does this have to do with a billion more keys, if the question was, if hashes160 have the same prefix - can they be in the same key range or not.

    and by the way, Bram also collects data on address prefixes at the beginning and end of the search range at the beginning of his full brute force.
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