Simon Males has launched Krackpot, a browser-based game that lets users use GPU power to try to crack the private key for Bitcoin Puzzle 71, according to a post from Bitcoin News on X. The reward is 6 BTC. The time required depends on how much GPU power is used: one gaming GPU would take about 830,000 years, 1 million GPUs would take one year, and if all Steam players joined at once, it would take about one week. Krackpot runs locally in the browser through WebGPU. If a user finds the private key, the 6 BTC reward will be sent to a Bitcoin address specified by that user, while the remaining portion goes to the developer.
Simon Males has launched Krackpot, a browser-based game that allows anyone to use GPU power to try to crack the private key for Bitcoin Puzzle 71, according to a Bitcoin News post on X.
The reward is 6 BTC. Based on the figures shared in the post, the odds improve with more GPUs: one gaming GPU would take about 830,000 years, 1 million GPUs would take one year, and if all Steam players participated at the same time, it would take about one week.
Krackpot runs locally in the browser via WebGPU. If a user finds the private key, the 6 BTC will be sent to a Bitcoin address designated by that user, and the remaining portion will go to the developer.
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