You really think he just changed 1 digit? Some one who is an expert in cryptography would know better, but maybe he didn't want to make it very difficult and really used randomly generated keys. But if I were him, I'd have changed a few characters to make it really really hard, for example having a few 0s in a key will make it hard to reverse engineer a key manually, and brute force/kangaroo, well they have their limits.

One other thing could be placing a key outside a bit range, I'm curious did Satoshi ever confirmed that the keys are truly in the assumed bit ranges or we just hope the amounts of transactions are enough of a proof that the keys are exactly there?

But you know what I'd like to see? A large amount in a key with no exactly known bit range, somewhere between 160 and 180 bit not lower and not higher, then solving that key would be a global challenge, though not any amount which someone could spend half of it to use special tools and grab it, something which could only be solved by math and new methods.

For example, I haven't seen any tool/ algorithm capable of  adding or subtracting 1 to a key and then divide it by 2, kangaroo  engages square root calculations, BSGS looks for a match after adding/subtracting calculations, but no tool does + or - 1 then divide!

from sympy import mod_inverse
import secp256k1 as ice

k=mod_inverse(2,N)
neg1=ice.point_negation(ice.scalar_multiplication(1))

def ters(Qx,Scalar):
     ScalarBin = str(bin(Scalar))[2:]
     le=len(ScalarBin)
     for i in range (0,le):
        if ScalarBin[le-i] == "0":
            Qx=ice.point_multiplication(k,Qx)
        else:
            Qx=ice.point_addition(Qx,neg1)
            Qx=ice.point_multiplication(k,Qx)
     return ice.point_to_cpub(Qx)

for x in range(65536):
         print(ters(pub,x))

Why have you published fake privs?

What are you trying to tell us?

Hi, yes there is in development a pool for #125 puzzle. If you want to follow me, DM me.

I have yet to figure it out. Therefore, I had to create my stride function with the help of python lol...python creates next stride; but this is not as fast as if it were built into the program.

program, python stride, program, python stride, etc.

If do you have the idea of building a GPU pool, i'm here. I can join together with someone else.

What domain do you own/have?

I had a pool running over 2 years ago, for #64. People say they will run their GPUs but we only had around 2-4 people running consistently.

What would be nice is to know everyone’s fire power, and then decide what tools to use, and best setup. But most get excited in the beginning and then fizzle out a week or so later when the key hasn’t been found lol.