Yearly update on my verifiable brute force strength gist.

- Bitcoin mining is still just shy of exhausting 95 bits annually.
- Distributed.net's RC5-72 project is still just shy of exhausting 65 bits annually.

We're still 10+ billion years out for completely exhausting every possible key in a 128-bit key space with the current Bitcoin mining power.

gist.github.com/atoponce/a7715

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