Maybe someone has had a breakthrough and finally found a method that exists that doesnt rely on bruteforce.  Wouldnt that be the only thing to explain that most recent puzzle being solved so fast?   Unless many of you just believe it was bruteforce with dumb luck.

Brute-force is always a luck. No matter if you start at the beginning, the end or random.

Nope. They do convert from private key to h160, not just strip, rstrip.

Not only 1 ppl is cracking this. There are thousand of people cracking this. Some of them have thousand of GPU, I think it is possible crack it within 1 month with some luck for puzzle 69

You have to decide which version to use: NoMachine or Dookoo2.

NoMachine has a random option but no jumps.



Yes, a strange situation.

If that method exists and brute force does not have to be used, all puzzles can be solved immediately. For example, if someone guessed the random seed for all puzzles—unless they intend to solve one puzzle per month while pretending to use brute force. Another possibility is that someone hacked the puzzle creator, so they also pretend to use brute force to avoid detection. A third possibility is that the creator is joking with us. There's no such thing as dumb luck.  

how exactly is dumb luck suddenly working this year when it hasn’t worked for the past four years?  

Even if you had a miracle code, you still need the computing power of at least a few graphics cards or 1000 cores.if you want to solve it before the competition
By the way, the fewer people solving this puzzle, the better.
because it is now increasingly difficult for those who do not have computing power

64 took so long to solve because a few people were trying to solve it, when you compare it to 63 which Zielar solved in 3 days, it must have been frustrating.
and now a whole army of people are cracking it
by the way 63 Zielar solved it with 3 graphics cards

       

It will be resolved within a month

Guys Please try to make your own creative code whether C++ or python or if you are using even others code try to analyze it before running it on your device , being eager to get the prize may lead you to not getting after even getting the hex .