Unsolved
Bitcoin puzzle #96
Bitcoin puzzle #96 is unsolved. It holds 9.60 BTC, and its private key is an unknown number between 295 and 296−1 — a keyspace of 3.96 × 1028 possible keys. You can search that range with the solver below; it runs in your browser and never sends anything to a server.
Solver — #96
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: 800000000000000000000000
Puzzle #96 at a glance
- Reward
- 9.600006 BTC
- Address
- 15ANYzzCp5BFHcCnVFzXqyibpzgPLWaD8b
- HASH160
- 2da63cbd251d23c7b633cb287c09e6cf888b3fe4
- Range start
- 800000000000000000000000
- Range end
- ffffffffffffffffffffffff
- Bit length
- 96-bit
- Keys in range
- 3.96 × 1028 (39614081257132168796771975168)
- Transactions
- 4
The arithmetic
The range for puzzle #96 contains 3.96 × 1028 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 3.14e+5 billion years. Searching randomly instead of in order does not change that expectation — it only changes which unlucky order you fail in.
Puzzle #96 — common questions
How many private keys does Bitcoin puzzle #96 contain?
Puzzle #96 spans the range 2^95 to 2^96−1, which is exactly 3.96 × 10^28 private keys — twice as many as puzzle #95.
How long would it take to solve Bitcoin puzzle #96?
An eight-core machine running this browser solver at four million keys per second would need about 3.14e+5 billion years to sweep the whole range. A pooled GPU cluster reaching one trillion keys per second would need about 1.26 billion years.
How much is Bitcoin puzzle #96 worth?
The address holds 9.600006 BTC, roughly $751,248 at a reference price of $78,255 per BTC.
Is Bitcoin puzzle #96 solved?
No. #96 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 #96?
From 800000000000000000000000 to ffffffffffffffffffffffff in hexadecimal. The address is 15ANYzzCp5BFHcCnVFzXqyibpzgPLWaD8b and its HASH160 is 2da63cbd251d23c7b633cb287c09e6cf888b3fe4.