Unsolved
Bitcoin puzzle #157
Bitcoin puzzle #157 is unsolved. It holds 15.70 BTC, and its private key is an unknown number between 2156 and 2157−1 — a keyspace of 9.13 × 1046 possible keys. You can search that range with the solver below; it runs in your browser and never sends anything to a server.
Solver — #157
IdleJump to a random point in the range, sweep a block of keys, jump again. Best when many people search the same puzzle.
Each thread is one Web Worker on one core. Leaving a core free keeps the page responsive.
Walk the range in order from your start key up to the end of the range, splitting that region evenly across threads. Keys below the start key are not searched. Best when you are coordinating a systematic sweep.
Range covered: 0%
· Current key: 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Puzzle #157 at a glance
- Reward
- 15.70001 BTC
- Address
- 14JHoRAdmJg3XR4RjMDh6Wed6ft6hzbQe9
- HASH160
- 242d790e5a168043c76f0539fd894b73ee67b3b3
- Range start
- 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000
- Range end
- 1fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
- Bit length
- 157-bit
- Keys in range
- 9.13 × 1046 (91343852333181432387730302044767688728495783936)
- Transactions
- 4
The arithmetic
The range for puzzle #157 contains 9.13 × 1046 private keys. A modern eight-core laptop running this solver checks on the order of four million keys per second, so an exhaustive sweep would take about 7..2 × 1020 years. Searching randomly instead of in order does not change that expectation — it only changes which unlucky order you fail in.
Puzzle #157 — common questions
How many private keys does Bitcoin puzzle #157 contain?
Puzzle #157 spans the range 2^156 to 2^157−1, which is exactly 9.13 × 10^46 private keys — twice as many as puzzle #156.
How long would it take to solve Bitcoin puzzle #157?
An eight-core machine running this browser solver at four million keys per second would need about 7..2 × 10^20 years to sweep the whole range. A pooled GPU cluster reaching one trillion keys per second would need about 2..8 × 10^21 years.
How much is Bitcoin puzzle #157 worth?
The address holds 15.70001 BTC, roughly $1,228,604 at a reference price of $78,255 per BTC.
Is Bitcoin puzzle #157 solved?
No. #157 is one of the 78 unsolved puzzles. Its public key has never been exposed, so square-root methods like Pollard's Kangaroo do not apply — brute force over the range is the only option.
What is the key range for puzzle #157?
From 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to 1fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff in hexadecimal. The address is 14JHoRAdmJg3XR4RjMDh6Wed6ft6hzbQe9 and its HASH160 is 242d790e5a168043c76f0539fd894b73ee67b3b3.