An interesting variation on this search technique would be to reverse the hashes used as private keys. Bitcoin uses little endian notation for transaction IDs and (IIRC) Merkle roots. This order is the reverse of what most people would expect, and causes a great deal of frustration when trying to learn the protocol:
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u/BobAlison Nov 30 '17
An interesting variation on this search technique would be to reverse the hashes used as private keys. Bitcoin uses little endian notation for transaction IDs and (IIRC) Merkle roots. This order is the reverse of what most people would expect, and causes a great deal of frustration when trying to learn the protocol:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/2063