Puzzle #71 hunt progress: live stats
The key to Bitcoin Puzzle #71 has not been found yet, and the hunt is running right now. This page shows how many stars the hunt has already born, how the search moved this week, and what the galaxy looks like today. The numbers update automatically.
How to read these numbers
The whole search space of key #71 is folded into one galaxy of 663 sectors. Each sector is a concrete range of keys. When an Explorer clicks a point or a Hunter plugs in a GPU, that patch gets computed for real, a star is born, and the result stays on the shared map forever.
The point of the shared map is simple: thousands of solo seekers around the world keep re-scanning the same ground blind. Here every finished patch is closed for everyone, so the search actually moves forward instead of running in circles.
Latest hunt events
- 3 min agoa hunter closed a patch in sector 279
- 11 min agoa hunter closed a patch in sector 397
- 48 min agostar Pale Dusty Stone was born in sector 56
- 56 min agostar Sunset Ripened Lantern was born in sector 56
Questions people ask
Can I join for free?
If you own a GPU - plug it in as a Hunter: you get free ranges that never overlap with anyone else, and everything you clear becomes your trail on the map. The Hunter subscription is symbolic. Watching the live map and all the stats costs nothing at all; renting compute per click is the Explorer way.
Are these numbers real?
Yes. The stats come from the same database that powers the live galaxy map. Every star is a real computed patch on real hardware.
Is the key really still unfound?
The puzzle address is public, you can check it on the blockchain any second: as long as the funds sit there, the key is not found. The moment someone finds it, everyone will see.
What happens when the key is found?
The key goes to the finder encrypted - the service never sees it. The 7.10 BTC on the puzzle address belong to whoever\u0027s patch held the key.
Galaxy 71 is a compute service built around Bitcoin Puzzle #71. Not a casino, not a lottery. A star NFT is proof of compute. The puzzle address is public and verifiable on the blockchain.