How much you can get for the Puzzle #71 key
A fixed amount sits on the puzzle address - it neither grows nor shrinks with the number of participants. Whoever\u0027s patch holds the key gets all of it. Here is how much that is and what the money-equivalent depends on.
01What exactly the finder gets
The reward for puzzle 71 is 7.10 BTC, sitting on a public address right now. The amount was locked in by the puzzle creator back in 2015 and does not depend on the number of hunters or how many patches have been checked. It is not split between participants, no fee is taken from the find, it is not paid out "in parts". The key turns up in your patch - all 7.10 BTC are yours.
You can verify the money is there on the blockchain any second - the address is open.
The amount in bitcoin does not change. Only its price in money does.
02The reward is yours in full
There is no "contribution to a common pot" here, and no percentage the service would take from the find. You only pay for the work itself: Explorer for renting compute per click, Hunter with their own GPU for the map and coordinating the search. That is payment for the process, not the result. The key turns up in your patch - all 7.10 BTC are yours, no deductions.
The key waits in one of the galaxy\u0027s patches. Start with any - your first patch has exactly the same claim on the find as any other.
Open the galaxy03Questions people ask
Can the amount grow or shrink?
In bitcoin - no, 7.10 BTC are fixed on the address. In dollars the equivalent moves with the bitcoin rate, up or down.
Do you take a cut of the find?
No. The found key and all 7.10 BTC go to the finder in full. We only charge for computation and coordinating the search, not from the reward.
Is getting this money actually realistic?
The key comes to the finder encrypted, and the funds on the address are public. Withdrawal is a separate task, and a solvable one: the solvers of puzzles 67-69 managed it.
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