I spent about $30k over a couple of years renting cloud services to attack these puzzles with no luck. I'm down to about $1k a year in electrical costs running my own equipment right now. It would be interesting to know how much others are willing to gamble on this. Given a large enough pool of money, we should set up a LLC to attempt this in a more organized and professonal manner. If 120 and 125 was cracked by the same person/group then I'm going to suggest that it was done by an investment fund.
Not only that, the person that cracked 120 and 125, are also attacking 130 now. So we need to unite.
funny thing about that group or the person that solved it is that they moved the funds and never touched it. They didn't need to buy more computers or rent more GPUs. I must think they probably must be using some forms of manual calculations to beat the puzzles. Because if they needed more computational force, they probably might be needing to spend from the money to get that achieved. Or probably they had saved so much money from the beginning before starting. It's just a guess anyway. More force doesn't mean higher chances. I have wasted over $15k renting GPUs trying to beat level 66 but I'm out of funds now. The only issue here is the levels with the public keys seem to be more prone to calculations without the need for too many computers if you know what you're doing though. But the levels without the public keys, I'm sure you need a pool of resources to beat those levels. I'm about ready to give up right now but where do I start from if I give up now?
here the opinion has already been expressed that the person who solved the last keys of the puzzle has a large number of farms for mining. He does not need to purchase equipment, since after the completion of the mining of the ether, there are a lot of video cards left, which has nowhere to apply.
there is a possibility that he even used only part of the equipment.
People reason that the next key will be decided in January, February next year. But I think it will happen much sooner.
Now the reward is high and large miners have joined, so ordinary people have nothing to do here. In principle, it was the same with mining. At the initial stages, you can mine coins with a processor, and then there is nothing to catch there, since large players are connected.
