Unsolved
Bitcoin puzzle #159
Bitcoin puzzle #159 is unsolved. It holds 15.90 BTC, and its private key is an unknown number between 2158 and 2159−1 — a keyspace of 3.65 × 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 — #159
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: 4000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Puzzle #159 at a glance
- Reward
- 15.900026 BTC
- Address
- 14u4nA5sugaswb6SZgn5av2vuChdMnD9E5
- HASH160
- 2ac1295b4e54b3f15bb0a99f84018d2082495645
- Range start
- 4000000000000000000000000000000000000000
- Range end
- 7fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
- Bit length
- 159-bit
- Keys in range
- 3.65 × 1047 (365375409332725729550921208179070754913983135744)
- Transactions
- 6
The arithmetic
The range for puzzle #159 contains 3.65 × 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 2..8 × 1021 years. Searching randomly instead of in order does not change that expectation — it only changes which unlucky order you fail in.
Puzzle #159 — common questions
How many private keys does Bitcoin puzzle #159 contain?
Puzzle #159 spans the range 2^158 to 2^159−1, which is exactly 3.65 × 10^47 private keys — twice as many as puzzle #158.
How long would it take to solve Bitcoin puzzle #159?
An eight-core machine running this browser solver at four million keys per second would need about 2..8 × 10^21 years to sweep the whole range. A pooled GPU cluster reaching one trillion keys per second would need about 1..1 × 10^21 years.
How much is Bitcoin puzzle #159 worth?
The address holds 15.900026 BTC, roughly $1,244,256 at a reference price of $78,255 per BTC.
Is Bitcoin puzzle #159 solved?
No. #159 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 #159?
From 4000000000000000000000000000000000000000 to 7fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff in hexadecimal. The address is 14u4nA5sugaswb6SZgn5av2vuChdMnD9E5 and its HASH160 is 2ac1295b4e54b3f15bb0a99f84018d2082495645.