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TacticalCoder
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Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) wi...
Ah gotcha, that's what I missed. Thanks for your explanation. For a regular address, even with the public key, if there are 256 unknown bits it'd be 2^128, which is statistically unlikely to be solvable.
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