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    April 17, 2025, 06:02:05 PM
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    However too (lol), in doing this and that and testing this and that, I feel like I have a better method for identifying "more than likely" ranges and the whole work distribution, than I had in the past.

    P.S. If my bot says I found the key, reach out to me...LOL

    P.S.S Still a lot of openings in the Beat Bram donations/crowdsourcing Wink

    Oh, man. I really hope you're not influenced by getting a few unlikely strikes sooner than expected, like your 58-bit hit last night.

    Hitting the end-tail of the distribution does not mean it stays there long-term. By long-term, I don't mean scanning another 0.01%, but rather maybe long-term to the point of having chances to hit something like a 67-bit prefix.

    I already gave a counter-example: I applied the prefix theory gaps however you want to name it over 9000 trillion keys, and the results were worse then by simply scanning sequential.

    In other words: I never stumbled on a 53-bit key. More smaller-prefix lengths? Yes, indeed. But how in the world would that ever be useful for anything, except as a base for "please scan more"? Where was the "we can avoid scanning a vast amount of the search space" in my experiment? Well, probably in the skipped regions, but going over those as a backup simply means I was better off scanning in sequence, or am I missing some wisdom?

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