I used all the math I know to go from 352M to 12M CPU years

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It's silly going afer Satoshi's wallet, I know. However, I was able to improve my algorithm's running time from 352 million cpu years to 12 million cpu years. All this was pure mathematical optimizations, no assembly or GPUs involved.
I used primitive roots to write a custom Pollard Kangaroo/Pollard Rho modulo the generator's order, not the curve's order
Here's the link for anyone interested

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