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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it on: September 20, 2025, 08:31:22 AM
Why everybody want everything for free? From what i see there are smart guys and beggers...If someone is giving a good ideea, internet and chatGPT can help you build that ideea.
Everyone want to win with work from other people without doing anything...this is not ok...

I have my own tools and theories, I'm new here and no one has asked for them so I don't share them. But if I see someone like Zahid saying that this app "has no relation to the actual private key." and "Heads up though: don’t buy tools from anyone (even if they pretend to be me) — everything’s already open-source and free." then I would think the guy doesn't want to sell the app and likes open source apps which are, free. No one is begging.

If he would like to share hes app or code, it would be a plus for this community trying to crack the puzzle, maybe someone can make something better out of it. If he doesn't want to? It's hes choice and not yours or anyone else's here.

Thank you for your time.



Why everybody want everything for free? From what i see there are smart guys and beggers...If someone is giving a good ideea, internet and chatGPT can help you build that ideea.
Everyone want to win with work from other people without doing anything...this is not ok...

I have my own tools and theories, I'm new here and no one has asked for them so I don't share them. But if I see someone like Zahid saying that this app "has no relation to the actual private key." and "Heads up though: don’t buy tools from anyone (even if they pretend to be me) — everything’s already open-source and free." then I would think the guy doesn't want to sell the app and likes open source apps which are, free. No one is begging.

If he would like to share hes app or code, it would be a plus for this community trying to crack the puzzle, maybe someone can make something better out of it. If he doesn't want to? It's hes choice and not yours or anyone else's here.

Thank you for your time.

If any single 1 of you here is thinking they can find a faster way to crack the puzzle alone then wake up from your dreams. Whoever is living in the real world, has a real job and actually has had these kind of problems where they would need to think a lot about something knows that sometime they have to see things in a different perspective, this is what communities are for, for 1 to help the other.

Right now? This is just luck. No one is using 1000 GPU's as it's unprofitable for them. So here we are now.
2  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it on: September 19, 2025, 06:21:50 PM
I want to clear up something important for everyone in this Puzzle journey.

The truth is: prefixes (whether in Base58 addresses or HASH160) have no relation to the actual private key. Through many experiments step by step till now, I can confirm that once we pass through the irreversible transformation of elliptic curve multiplication, any hope of tracing back from a prefix to the real private key is gone.  Cry

Thinking that a certain prefix gives us a “hint” about the actual key is just wishful thinking.

The only practical use of prefixes is to measure and track our scanning progress. For example:

Base58 (addresses):

Each character = 1 in 58 chance. 
Probability of matching n chars = 1 / 58ⁿ. 

In 2³² ≈ 4.29B scans you expect: 

1 char ≈ 74M matches 
2 chars ≈ 1M matches 
3 chars ≈ 22K matches 
4 chars ≈ 376 matches 
5 chars ≈ 7 matches 
6 chars ≈ 1 matches 

HASH160 (hex):

Each hex digit = 1 in 16 chance. 
Probability of matching n digits = 1 / 16ⁿ. 

In 2³² ≈ 4.29B scans you expect: 

1 char ≈ 268M matches 
2 chars ≈ 17M matches 
3 chars ≈ 1M matches 
4 chars ≈ 67k matches 
5 chars ≈ 4k matches 
6 chars ≈ 268 matches 
7 chars ≈ 16 matches 
8 chars ≈ 1 matches 

(On my one RTX 3060 Ti, this 2³² scan finishes in ~2 seconds, and I typically get 1 or 2 addresses with an 8-chars initial HASH160 hex match - sometimes none at all.) 

This shows clearly: prefix matching is only a statistical milestone, or a POW, not a clue toward the target private key.

Regarding fixed bits - my own “fixed bits” formula based on prefix matching is still random - it doesn’t inject any new logic or shortcut.

So in the end, prefix-based searching is just for fun, to keep ourselves engaged while facing the massive challenge of scanning through a 2^71 keyspace.

This puzzle is all about grinding through the natural variance of randomness until we get lucky. That’s the true nature of brute force.  Angry

Hey, could you please share your "prefix" app? Or any open source ones which as you said were better? I don't seem to find any.
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