Puzzle 71 Database — unlocked by the community

This site holds a database of 988,779 candidate values for the Bitcoin Puzzle 71 challenge. The data is locked. It is unlocked by everyone together: the more Bitcoin the wallet below receives, the more rows become visible to every visitor, permanently.

💡 The rule: every $1 the wallet receives unlocks 0.1% of the database. At $1,000 total, 100% is public — free, for everyone, forever.

Send any amount of BTC

Scan the QR code or copy the address. There is no signup, no account, no minimum.

The site checks the blockchain

Your payment is counted automatically from the public blockchain — nothing to submit.

More rows appear

The unlocked share grows for everyone at once. Nothing ever re-locks.

Send Bitcoin to unlock more

every satoshi counts toward the same shared goal

Raised so far

$— / $1,000

Unlocked

0.00%

Rows revealed

0 / 988,779

Goal in BTC

— BTC

0% Goal: $1,000 ≈ — BTC

Scan with any wallet app

₿ BITCOIN ADDRESS bc1qg2ay6jvcvqd4f8r35acp7738932s6ulssuzq0u

unlocks 0.1%
≈ 989 rows

$10

unlocks 1%
≈ 9,888 rows

$100

unlocks 10%
≈ 98,878 rows

$1,000

unlocks 100%
the whole database

Figures refresh about every 5 minutes.

What you are unlocking

every figure below is computed from the dataset itself — check any row with any Bitcoin library

What a single row looks like

Each row is one 71-bit private key in hex, 18 characters. Derive its compressed-pubkey address and you always land on an address opening with the same 8 characters as the Puzzle 71 target. The addresses are not stored — you regenerate them yourself, which is exactly how you verify the data is real.

private key (hex)derived address

4BD161439C2650E84C1PWo3JeBN9KFCQjBREENiAXdcemkzLEwd2

5265C4A459C39282311PWo3JeBzNFEjQxDW6EaW6pccMM7yPq3Ty

7E8B8E27810BBCE3631PWo3JeBvuG8qKMu24o1icPbJwpDYW4mYF

puzzle 71 target1PWo3JeB9jrGwfHDNpdGK54CRas7fsVzXU

How deep the prefixes go

Every row matches at least 8 characters. Some go further — those are the rows people actually come for.

Prefix matched	Chars	Rows	Share of database
1PWo3JeB	8	988,779	100%
1PWo3JeB9	9	18,606	1.882%
1PWo3JeB9j	10	165	0.017%

Deepest match in the set: 10 characters. Example — key 7FE354A854B30961F6 gives 1PWo3JeB9jD1Zgp9y8EnJbneJ7kdS2hXwm. All 165 of those rows are in here.

Integrity of the set

988,779

rows, exact count

duplicate keys

100%

inside the 2⁷⁰–2⁷¹ range

99.9987%

of the range spanned

The part nobody else has published: these keys are not uniform

If the channel's generator picked keys uniformly across the range, each leading hex digit would hold about 25% of the rows. It does not:

4…42.57%

5…21.07%

6…17.74%

7…18.62%

One 1% slice of the keyspace holds 19.4% of the entire database.

Split the range into 100 equal slices: the slice from 4CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC to 4D70A3D70A3D70A3D7 contains 192,165 rows — 19.4× what uniformity predicts. The five densest slices, 5% of the keyspace, hold 30% of all rows. The emptiest slice holds 3,804.

Honest caveat: this measures the data as recovered. It could be a property of the generator, or an artefact of which videos yielded the most readable frames. Telling those two apart is the one genuinely open question in this dataset — and it takes the full set.

Gaps between consecutive keys

Sorted by key value, across all 988,778 consecutive pairs:

Statistic	Gap
Minimum	12,865,720
Median	4,886,649,421,923
Mean	1,193,975,336,099,036
99th percentile	15,759,772,870,388,957
Maximum	78,554,349,498,788,177

Heavily right-skewed: half the gaps are under ~4.9 trillion, but the mean is 244× larger because of a few enormous holes. Useful if you are deciding where not to search.

What this is not

This dataset does not solve Puzzle 71 and is not presented as if it did. Addresses are Base58Check(RIPEMD160(SHA256(pubkey))) — hashing destroys structure, so keys whose addresses share a prefix have no mathematical relationship to each other, and #71 has no exposed public key, so it stays brute force over 2⁷⁰. These 988,779 keys are 0.0000000000000838% of the range. What is being funded is the extraction work — months of GPU time, the channel's full back catalogue of frames, and an OCR pipeline built to defeat the distortion the uploader applied — and the fact that the result becomes public instead of staying on one person's drive.

The database

Loading…

Questions

What exactly is in the database?

988,779 candidate values compiled for Bitcoin Puzzle 71, a public, well-known challenge in which a single Bitcoin address holds a prize for whoever finds its private key. This list is a research dataset of candidates — it is not a list of keys, and there is no guarantee that any row in it is the winning one.

What do I get for sending Bitcoin?

More of the database becomes visible — to you and to everyone else, at the same time. This is a shared unlock, not a personal purchase: there is no private download, no account, and no exclusive access. You are funding the release of the data to the public.

How does the site know I paid?

It reads the wallet's total amount ever received straight from the public Bitcoin blockchain and converts it to USD at the current BTC price. Nothing is tracked per person, no payment ID is needed, and the unlocked share only ever goes up.

Why didn't the bar move right after I sent?

The blockchain figures are refreshed at most once every 5 minutes (this keeps the site from hammering the block explorer, no matter how many people are visiting). Your payment is counted as soon as it appears in the mempool — just give it a few minutes and reload.

Is there a minimum amount?

No. Any amount counts, and every contribution adds to the same total. $1 is 0.1% of the database; the goal is $1,000 for the full release.

What happens once $1,000 is reached?

The entire database is public and stays public. The unlock never reverses, and further payments are not needed.

The unlocked percentage is driven by the wallet's total received amount, read live from the public Bitcoin blockchain and priced in USD. It is cumulative across all contributors — everyone sees the same unlocked portion. This is a community data-funding project for the public Bitcoin Puzzle 71 challenge, provided as-is, with no guarantee that any value in the database is the winning key. Bitcoin payments are irreversible; send only what you are happy to contribute.