So Puzzle 66 has been out there for over two years, and no one's been able to crack its privkey yet. But you gotta think, mining a block is way easier compared to that. Like, why isn't anyone using their hashing power to mine BTC puzzles instead?
Take this for instance: a block hash looks like this
00000000000000000000 53795dbe26e2befb0c081e50826c88997900207d4c90
And then you have puzzle 66 which is
00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 3a838b13505b26867
That means it's 27 times easier to mine a block!
Can anyone explain more about this difficulty comparison between mining a block and puzzle 66?
>1HELPME8PG2FVhGgLJjvXnRNqpfC5ossxU this address is dreaming of getting 1 whole BTC<
Mining vs Puzzle Difficulty
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If you refer to brute forcing address with known range of private key, then it's impossible task. ASIC for mining Bitcoin only can perform SHA-256 while brute-forcing address perform ECDSA operation which convert private key to public key.
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