User zieler has pledged to match the same key finder bonus that I have agreed to pay the finder. His $500 plus my $500 make the total key finder bonus $1000.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5218972.msg59543162#msg59543162

Here is a throwback to the very first working implementation of the pool during development.

server back up after storms took it down. I am in florida right now and did not know about it.

sorry everyone another storm related extended power outage. Up again!

It seems someone else found the solution for the 64 bit address. They posted the solution on bitcoin talk this morning.
F7051F27B09112D4 | 16jY7qLJnxb7CHZyqBP8qca9d51gAjyXQN
I checked the db and it had not been checked yet on our side. I tested that range and that is in fact where the solution was hidden.

I have a seemingly working 66 pool running. Not everything is available yet but you can check it out if you like. The ranges are 16 times larger and there are 1/4th as many as on the 64 bit pool
http://www.ttdsales.com/66bit/

BTC address field was limited to 34 chars now updated to 62. If your address is to short let me know so I can correct it.

After extensive testing on vast.ai with every conceivable GPU I have released the Linux version of the vanity client. It works great. I was even able to test on a 8x 4090 rig yesterday and it performed amazingly at a whopping 3600 watts for the owner.

Woohoo quarter percent completed!

Just a heads up that starting sometime tomorrow the auto user pruning feature will start. Once a day any user that has never requested a range and is older then 30 days will be removed. They can recreate their account if they wish.

ttdclientBC66.0-Lin.zip client download has now been updated with working bitcrack source and working binaries for nvidia and AMD GPUs in Linux. Built and tested on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

We just crossed over the 1% milestone. Congrats. Lets hope for some luck!

ok so apparently someone sent a large sum of bitcoin to the 66 bit address bringing the total balance to 6.6 btc and some change. This should increase the amount of work people are willing to put into trying to solve it. I have updated the code to reflect the new balance. Good luck.

Severe storms in the area contributed to prolonged power outages. We are back up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I have added worker support on the pool. Simply edit your settings.ini file and change the username line to "username.worker" The stats page will adjust automatically once ranges start getting submitted with your workers. Very useful for monitoring multiple PCs.

Just had a talk with F4lc0n90 that runs the newish pool over at http://f4lc0n.com:8080/ I have saved this chat for everyone to read that is interested. I have serious doubts about the legitimacy of this pool and I have definitive doubts in his logic. In the order of transparency I show all of you our chat today. Feel free to repost on forums of your liking. Also side note. I would never cross share ranges with another pool. http://www.ttdsales.com/66bit/F4lc0n90/messages.html

Congrats to all contributors on the pool for reaching 2% completed.

I am going to cover two milestones with this message. We crossed 1 million ranges checked over night and we are hours away from passing 3 percent. Average range completion rate is indicating a predicted whole percent being completed every 44.14 days right now. Also a reminder that this pools percentage is ACTUAL checked ranges not hopeful assumptions like some others.

Congrats everyone for reaching 4% completion. At current speed we can expect the next percent to happen in about 49 days.