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		GistNoesis on Sept 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) wi... >Is that true for every single Bitcoin transaction I think so, for outgoing transaction (aka to remove from the address), it's kind of needed to verify the signature. The 2^66 is only for this game where only 66 bits were left unknown. In the general case obtaining the private key from the public key is much longer.

TacticalCoder on Sept 15, 2024 [–]

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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