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Re:Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn by Cthulhu_ on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:36AM (#41554336)
Not necessarily, if there's e.g. a trillion keys to try, every tried key as a 1 in 1-trillion chance to be it, so it could be found by chance after just one try.

(disclaimer, I don't know statistics, cryptography, bitcoin or chances)

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Re:Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn by GTP on Monday September 16, 2024 @07:28AM (#41554949)
Yes, but in your example the probability of finding it at the first try would be one in a trillion, which is already so small to be negligible. And 2^66 is much bigger than that.
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