Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

[kTimesG]

Has any of those 3700 files helped you solve any puzzle (or at least help you make any progress whatsoever)?

In back testing I have come within 0.001 % +/-, but we all know how much space that amount still is to cover.

I do, it's very very small, do-able in a day or less (costs would be less than 100$). So I think the answer of my question was a no.

I find it hard (impossible actually) to believe that you can solve within a 0.001% error, but haven't snatched anything, it would have taken just a few hours or days even for 71. Looking in retrospective, anything can be solved without errors, but this has zero impact on the future. But if you manage to prove that you have that kind of a error margin with any set of random data (any other set of 70 fixed samples), you'd sit in the Hall of Fame of cryptographic breakthroughs.

[Wanderingaran]

I find it hard (impossible actually) to believe that you can solve within a 0.001% error, but haven't snatched anything, it would have taken just a few hours or days even for 71. Looking in retrospective, anything can be solved without errors, but this has zero impact on the future. But if you manage to prove that you have that kind of a error margin with any set of random data (any other set of 70 fixed samples), you'd sit in the Hall of Fame of cryptographic breakthroughs.

I don’t see anything concrete here. Just more and more crazy ideas and an even greater addiction to AI. It’s sad to watch how people are being ruined, both materially and psychologically, because of this puzzle.

[GoVanza108@23]

This puzzle gives you an understanding of the beauty of Mathematics. I am very glad that it exists. I think one address will be Mine! There are a huge number of options to search for.


I've been watching everything that's happening here since 2016, all the Ideas that you propose and dispute. Interesting. The Creator has given a field of action, Want to be rich, be the first to figure out how to deal with 16 numbers. Thanks to Him the Creator for His generosity, and to everyone who is trying to find a method that can give wealth for many centuries for all children and children from children.

[mohamedabb]

is there no way create new way. i have create my own tool i take from puzzles history  and learn use ai  from data too know pattern  and this result   2025-06-13 14:00:29,307 🧩 Theoretical maximum candidate pairs: 49995000
2025-06-13 14:00:57,238 📈 Top 5 Candidates This Generation:
2025-06-13 14:00:57,239 🧬 5.6925 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005099ce3343efb3d059 → hash160: b'\xf6\xc1\x16)\xa2{q\xb1'...b'\x8a}\x1e\x97\x18\xd4nW'
2025-06-13 14:00:57,239 🧬 5.6731 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005481237a52c5102905 → hash160: b'\xf6\x92D\x96\xff\xb5d\x10'...b'\xac`\xba\x17;\xea\xc1\xf8'
2025-06-13 14:00:57,239 🧬 5.6150 → 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000464abc931326e88535 → hash160: b'\xf6]Iu\x9a \xf5\xad'...b'\xfc]\xb1\xc8\xc9\xc0\x93l'
2025-06-13 14:00:57,239 🧬 5.6130 → 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000731385aa52f7956921 → hash160: b'\xf6\xf1\t\xed\xe3&\x17\xf5'...b'\xe7\xa2/v\xf8\xf6c\x9a'
2025-06-13 14:00:57,239 🧬 5.5839 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006e8f8fd37e62856913 → hash160: b'\xf6,\x90\xb6OS\xd2Q'...b'u\x04>q\xb8x=\x0e'
2025-06-13 14:00:57,239 🔧 Shrinking tight-window → 2^28 (256 Mi-keys)
2025-06-13 14:00:57,240 🧠 Structural Analysis → {'byte_alignment_score': 0.06, 'prefix_overlap': 0.0, 'hex_pattern_similarity': 0.25, 'spectrum_similarity': 0.3144, 'structure_match': 0.1339}
2025-06-13 14:00:57,240 📈 Top 5 Candidates This Generation:
2025-06-13 14:00:57,243 🧪 Starting Kangaroo trial: range=(00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005099ce3343efa3d059 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005099ce3343efc3d059), steps=11585, step_size=181
2025-06-13 14:00:59,762 🧪 Trial completed without direct match.
2025-06-13 14:01:00,761 ⚠️ Skipped weak BSGS match (prefix<->2): d=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005099ce3343efa3d3db
2025-06-13 14:01:00,762 ✅ Batched 1 false matches
2025-06-13 14:01:00,767 🔍 Ring Analysis Δ=2097152 → Trend=pass, Kangaroo=miss, BSGS=skip
2025-06-13 14:01:00,872 🧪 Starting Kangaroo trial: range=(00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005481237a52c5002905 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005481237a52c5202905), steps=11585, step_size=181
2025-06-13 14:01:03,359 🧪 Trial completed without direct match.
2025-06-13 14:01:04,337 ⚠️ Skipped weak BSGS match (prefix<->2): d=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005481237a52c5002c87
2025-06-13 14:01:04,339 ✅ Batched 1 false matches
2025-06-13 14:01:04,342 🔍 Ring Analysis Δ=2097152 → Trend=pass, Kangaroo=miss, BSGS=skip
2025-06-13 14:01:04,412 🧪 Starting Kangaroo trial: range=(0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000464abc931326d88535 → 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000464abc931326f88535), steps=11585, step_size=181
2025-06-13 14:01:06,689 🧪 Trial completed without direct match.
2025-06-13 14:01:07,753 ⚠️ Skipped weak BSGS match (prefix<->2): d=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000464abc931326d888b7
2025-06-13 14:01:07,755 ✅ Batched 1 false matches
2025-06-13 14:01:07,759 🔍 Ring Analysis Δ=2097152 → Trend=pass, Kangaroo=miss, BSGS=skip
2025-06-13 14:01:07,873 🧪 Starting Kangaroo trial: range=(0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000731385aa52f7856921 → 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000731385aa52f7a56921), steps=11585, step_size=181
2025-06-13 14:01:10,625 🧪 Trial completed without direct match.
2025-06-13 14:01:11,697 ⚠️ Skipped weak BSGS match (prefix<->2): d=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000731385aa52f7856ca3
2025-06-13 14:01:11,699 ✅ Batched 1 false matches
2025-06-13 14:01:11,704 🔍 Ring Analysis Δ=2097152 → Trend=pass, Kangaroo=miss, BSGS=skip
2025-06-13 14:01:11,818 🧪 Starting Kangaroo trial: range=(00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006e8f8fd37e62756913 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006e8f8fd37e62956913), steps=11585, step_size=181
2025-06-13 14:01:14,335 🧪 Trial completed without direct match.
2025-06-13 14:01:15,436 ⚠️ Skipped weak BSGS match (prefix<->2): d=00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000006e8f8fd37e62756c95
2025-06-13 14:01:15,438 ✅ Batched 1 false matches
2025-06-13 14:01:15,443 🔍 Ring Analysis Δ=2097152 → Trend=pass, Kangaroo=miss, BSGS=skip
2025-06-13 14:01:15,523 🧊 Score plateau — skipping contraction this round.
2025-06-13 14:01:17,571 ✨ Post-Gen 2: pop=10000 | unique=10000 | byte-div=0.9163 | prefix2-hits=32
2025-06-13 14:01:17,581 Gen     2 | best=5.884987 | mutpb=0.400 | cxpb=0.80 | no_improve=2 | pop_size=10000
2025-06-13 14:01:18,315 📊 [Niche Match] 2-byte: 0, 3-byte: 0, 4-byte: 0 (Pop size = 10000)
2025-06-13 14:01:18,325 📈 Top hash160[:3] prefixes: 62a22a:2, cc1b7c:2, f09435:1, dfaba6:1, 948d9a:1
2025-06-13 14:01:18,374 🎛️ Population Diversity (variable segments): 0.9163
2025-06-13 14:01:18,380 🎛️ Diversity: 0.9163 | Mutation Rate: 0.400 | Crossover Rate: 0.817
2025-06-13 14:01:18,380 🧬 Diversity > 0.8 → Mutation rate reduced to 0.120
2025-06-13 14:01:18,453 🧩 Theoretical maximum candidate pairs: 49995000
2025-06-13 14:01:46,182 📈 Top 5 Candidates This Generation:
2025-06-13 14:01:46,183 🧬 5.5840 → 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000060221925b206139e26 → hash160: b'\xf6\x1b\xb9\x90q\x83Y\xee'...b'#\x8e\xa7D\xd1\x89\xbf\xa0'
2025-06-13 14:01:46,183 🧬 5.5758 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007de25b27cc8a0d2735 → hash160: b'\xf6\xd0\xbd=\x9b^\x1b\x88'...b'\xd8\x04I\xaa\x12\xfa0\xa8'
2025-06-13 14:01:46,183 🧬 5.5602 → 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000007694edf11ac1f4e313 → hash160: b'\xf6n\x93\xa8\x00\xe1Q\xf8'...b'\xe7dd\x87rnE\x89'
2025-06-13 14:01:46,183 🧬 5.5529 → 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000512ddb903c8462409c → hash160: b'\xf6NC;\\\xf71\xa3'...b'\xf3(\xbb8!\xbc\xe4m'
2025-06-13 14:01:46,183 🧬 5.5177 → 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000061276c5e32cdab0236 → hash160: b'\xa0\xf5\xac\x034\x0f\xb1P'...b'\xf1\xf5\t\x82R\xb5L\xbc'
2025-06-13 14:01:46,184 🔧 Shrinking tight-window → 2^28 (256 Mi-keys)
2025-06-13 14:01:46,186 🧠 Structural Analysis → {'byte_alignment_score': 0.06, 'prefix_overlap': 0.0, 'hex_pattern_similarity': 0.25, 'spectrum_similarity': 0.3578, 'structure_match': 0.1426}
also i well share my work .if you like my idea i will be happy to support me i work all time for new way :BTC  12QujePz3SdiKkqsZ8GVV8mkzj3nnLhK3s

[analyticnomad]

When did this entire thread get turned into a donation farm for ideas?

[7xminer]

... But hey, congrats for not going the horoscope font size path...

Damn it! I was planning to do this 

 

[mahmood1356]

Has any of those 3700 files helped you solve any puzzle (or at least help you make any progress whatsoever)?

In back testing I have come within 0.001 % +/-, but we all know how much space that amount still is to cover.

I do, it's very very small, do-able in a day or less (costs would be less than 100$). So I think the answer of my question was a no.

I find it hard (impossible actually) to believe that you can solve within a 0.001% error, but haven't snatched anything, it would have taken just a few hours or days even for 71. Looking in retrospective, anything can be solved without errors, but this has zero impact on the future. But if you manage to prove that you have that kind of a error margin with any set of random data (any other set of 70 fixed samples), you'd sit in the Hall of Fame of cryptographic breakthroughs.

Metrics such as Hex Pattern Similarity or Structural Matching Score are meaningless for hashes of the type SHA-256 → RIPEMD-160, because even the smallest change in the key bits randomly alters all bits of the hash (avalanche effect)
Genetic algorithms are essentially useful in spaces where the fitness score aligns with the goal. However, in the Bitcoin puzzle, taking small steps in the key space does not lead towards the  target address
In your log there were some duplicate entries causing wasted I/O and time  but even this is insignificant compared to the scale of the problem.

[nameavailable]

i don't think duplicate entries denounces anything. similarity against unknown values is useless, but useful fir back testing.

[Benjade]

Good evening,

I just added an AVX512 version of KeyQuest V1.3 available at https://github.com/Benjade/KeyQuest promising higher speed. Available only on Linux or via WSL.

Best regards

[7xminer]

Good evening,

I just added an AVX512 version of KeyQuest V1.3 available at https://github.com/Benjade/KeyQuest promising higher speed. Available only on Linux or via WSL.

Best regards

Hi, nice! but what is the main difference to Keyhunt from AlbertoBSD?

[decal]

Quick clarification -  if someone were to discover the private key for one of the remaining unsolved puzzles, how would they verify ownership or prove they actually solved it? Apologies if this has already been addressed.


Thanks guys!

[pbies]

Good evening,

I just added an AVX512 version of KeyQuest V1.3 available at https://github.com/Benjade/KeyQuest promising higher speed. Available only on Linux or via WSL.

Best regards

I am getting 134.14 Mkeys/s with 28 threads on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X.

[analyticnomad]

Does anyone have any experience with TensorDock cloud GPU? Trying to find a legit provider with a lot of GPU's to deploy.

[mahmood1356]

Good evening,

I just added an AVX512 version of KeyQuest V1.3 available at https://github.com/Benjade/KeyQuest promising higher speed. Available only on Linux or via WSL.

Best regards

I am getting 134.14 Mkeys/s with 28 threads on AMD Ryzen 9 9950X.

With an RTX 2070 graphics card, what is the maximum and fastest number of keys that can be scanned?

[Akito S. M. Hosana]

With an RTX 2070 graphics card, what is the maximum and fastest number of keys that can be scanned?

It depends on which program is used:

https://github.com/FixedPaul/VanitySearch-Bitcrack

RTX2070 ~ 1600Mkeys/s

RTX3060 ~ 2000Mkeys/s

[Jorge54PT]

Great speed but dont have range Start and End.

[Akito S. M. Hosana]

Great speed but dont have range Start and End.

This is also very fast:

https://github.com/WanderingPhilosopher/VanBitCrackenRandom2

Anyway, I've been running both for months and I haven't found anything.

Puzzle 71 is impossible to solve even with 5 RTX4090 GPUs. Been there, done that

[nomachine]

5 RTX4090 GPUs. Been there, done that

You should’ve just bought shark fishing gear instead, bro. 

[Jorge54PT]

Great speed but dont have range Start and End.

This is also very fast:

https://github.com/WanderingPhilosopher/VanBitCrackenRandom2

Anyway, I've been running both for months and I haven't found anything.

Puzzle 71 is impossible to solve even with 5 RTX4090 GPUs. Been there, done that

I use this at 1000mk/s with my 3060 but so far without success

[jeLACOSTE]

[Puzzle?] 90.42691 BTC unspent UTXO at bc1qnfmreg… (Tx 308fd7…2103, 16-Apr-2023)

Hi everyone,

While reviewing the **16 April 2023 “×10 refresh” transaction** that boosted all *unsolved* Bitcoin-Puzzle rewards, I spotted one output nobody seems to have covered:

Code:

TXID   : 308fd7b9cad3526907739ead99ae1deaa233574a044c370f45030d4e292a2103
Block  : 785 611   (16 Apr 2023 • 21:18 UTC)
Address: bc1qnfmregvreguzxsvped4vxxvdrxcqfcuclzymax
Value  : 90.426 910 BTC  (9 042 691 000 sats)
Status : Unspent – zero outgoing tx since creation

Why it caught my eye

Detail	Relevance
All other outputs (~872 BTC) from the same TX were fanned out to every known puzzle address (#66 → #160) at exactly 10 × their previous reward.	Classic “refresh” pattern.
This UTXO is the only leftover and was NOT part of the original puzzle list.	Looks intentionally isolated.
9 042 691 000 sats = 9 042 691 × 1000.  The core integer 9 042 691 is prime (the 605 088-th prime).	Prime indices are a hallmark of the puzzle creator.
Puzzle #90 is already solved (privkey = 868012190417726402719548863).	So this 90-BTC chunk cannot be the original #90 reward.
No OP_RETURN, no child tx, no dust “pings”.	Address looks like a deliberate parking spot.

Working theories so far

• Fee / staging buffer – The creator might hold a large reserve for future fan-outs; 90 BTC is more than strictly necessary.
• New puzzle seed (maybe #161?) – [icode]9042691[/icode] could serve as seed or checksum, e.g. 
  [icode]priv_161 = SHA256(priv_90 || 9042691) mod n[/icode]
• Timing beacon – Leaving a juicy UTXO idle helps measure how fast bots notice any movement.

What I’m hoping the community can clarify

• Has the puzzle author (“Midori”, “13E”, etc.) ever referenced 9042691 or this 90-BTC address on IRC / Telegram / Reddit / Bitcointalk?
• Any archived chats from April 2023 that mention a prime × 1000 marker?
• Do the TX values align with any known SHA256-chain or XOR-chain progression of the solved puzzle keys?

Explorer link: 
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/BTC/bc1qnfmregvreguzxsvped4vxxvdrxcqfcuclzymax

Inputs that funded the refresh (for context – they are NOT puzzles)

Code:

bc1qpgf7usrugzxllvydvrnngpsw3rlewelk3qfjg4   83.22524 BTC   (spent)
bc1q9e8hc4p5lf677p3jsmwl36hgq84x4wwhdrundc   12.222868 BTC  (spent)
bc1qrm6wtwc9vu9rzsdt3hf6rat40hdndrt2tjyxd0   24.93108 BTC   (spent)
… more inputs omitted for brevity …

Thanks in advance for any leads or theories — and happy hunting! 
— JeLACOSTE