INVESTIGATIVE DOSSIER · RESEARCHED 03 OCT 2026
BITCOIN PUZZLE #145 · 145-BIT · OPEN · PUBLIC KEY EXPOSED

Bitcoin Puzzle #145

Still unsolved. The private key for this puzzle is an integer between 2^144 and 2^145 − 1, and whoever finds it can sweep 14.50000600 BTC from 19GpszRNUej5yYqxXoLnbZWKew3KdVLkXg.

How to attempt Bitcoin puzzle #145

The creator published this puzzle’s public key in 2019, which turns the search into a bounded discrete logarithm. Pollard’s kangaroo solves a 145-bit interval in about 2^72 group operations, far fewer than the 2^143 key tests a blind search would need. JeanLucPons’ CUDA Kangaroo is the standard tool; puzzles #130 and #135 were cracked this way by large GPU pools.

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