Unsolved
Bitcoin puzzle #158
Bitcoin puzzle #158 is unsolved. It holds 15.80 BTC, and its private key is an unknown number between 2157 and 2158−1 — a keyspace of 1.82 × 1047 possible keys. You can search that range with the solver below; it runs in your browser and never sends anything to a server.
Solver — #158
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: 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Puzzle #158 at a glance
- Reward
- 15.80001 BTC
- Address
- 19z6waranEf8CcP8FqNgdwUe1QRxvUNKBG
- HASH160
- 628dacebb0faa7f81670e174ca4c8a95a7e37029
- Range start
- 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000
- Range end
- 3fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
- Bit length
- 158-bit
- Keys in range
- 1.82 × 1047 (182687704666362864775460604089535377456991567872)
- Transactions
- 4
The arithmetic
The range for puzzle #158 contains 1.82 × 1047 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 1..4 × 1021 years. Searching randomly instead of in order does not change that expectation — it only changes which unlucky order you fail in.
Puzzle #158 — common questions
How many private keys does Bitcoin puzzle #158 contain?
Puzzle #158 spans the range 2^157 to 2^158−1, which is exactly 1.82 × 10^47 private keys — twice as many as puzzle #157.
How long would it take to solve Bitcoin puzzle #158?
An eight-core machine running this browser solver at four million keys per second would need about 1..4 × 10^21 years to sweep the whole range. A pooled GPU cluster reaching one trillion keys per second would need about 5..7 × 10^20 years.
How much is Bitcoin puzzle #158 worth?
The address holds 15.80001 BTC, roughly $1,236,429 at a reference price of $78,255 per BTC.
Is Bitcoin puzzle #158 solved?
No. #158 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 #158?
From 2000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to 3fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff in hexadecimal. The address is 19z6waranEf8CcP8FqNgdwUe1QRxvUNKBG and its HASH160 is 628dacebb0faa7f81670e174ca4c8a95a7e37029.