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Actually, the hashes matched too. Just a heads-up that a hidden space in your text might mess with browser searches.

What’s stopping you? Go for it! Pay close attention to those sentences and let’s see if you can solve this for the cash. 😉

Honestly, the creator should just step forward and solve it publically. The prize doesn’t seem worth the hassle and the image quality isn’t helping at all.

The only way to have a different receiving address is when canceling a transaction. If your seed generated change addresses, that could be what you’re seeing. But sounds like you're a bit confused about what happened.

You say it’s just for fun, but what’s the fun in mining 24/7 and not hitting anything? Any chance of giving estimates on how long it takes to find a block?

Just because they mined an empty block doesn’t mean it’s a conspiracy. They just happened to find it right after the last one.

Just came across this challenge and thought some of you might find it interesting. Apparently, there's a bounty for anyone who can crack the seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves. Check it out here.