What are the tax implications of this in the US, I am assuming it would be not taxable unless you sell because when you find a privkey you technically now own that wallet so when you send it to another of your wallets that would be considered transferring between wallets you own which according to coinbase is not a taxable event and if you sell I am guessing it would be considered as regular income.
I will go to Malta if i hit #130. All I need is a suitcase with a lock.
I think this puzzle thing has stalled, the creator should release all the remaining public keys if he really wants to test the robustness of bitcoin, here only sha256 and ripemd-160 are being tested at this point
He can give out all public keys from 130 to 160, and nothing will happen.
This clearly illustrates how ridiculous these numbers are.
Let's consider how many Kangaroo hops are needed to hit 130...
from math import log2, sqrt
# Given puzzle number
puzzle = 130
# Calculate the expected hops
expected_hops = 2.2 * sqrt(2 ** (puzzle - 1)) # 2.2 * sqrt(2^(puzzle-1))
expected_hops_log2 = log2(expected_hops)
# Print the result
print(f"[+] [Expected Hops: 2^{expected_hops_log2:.2f} ({int(expected_hops)})]")
Expected Hops: 2^65.64 (57392798431464251392)
I would need approximately 95,654,664,052,440,418 hops per second to generate 57,392,798,431,464,251,392 hops
in 10 minutes. There's no SHA-256 and RIPEMD-160 hashing for Kangaroo, just plain point addition as fast as possible.
Gray Alien technology is required. 👽