Does every power of two arise as the difference of two primes?

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Conjecture:

For each $n\in\mathbb N$ there are primes $q<p$ with $p-q=2^n$.

Verified for $n\leq 26$:

 n        p  q
 0        3  2
 1        5  3
 2        7  3
 3       11  3
 4       19  3
 5       37  5
 6       67  3
 7      131  3
 8      263  7  
 9      523 11  
10     1031  7  
11     2053  5  
12     4099  3  
13     8209 17  
14    16421 37  
15    32771  3  
16    65539  3  
17   131101 29  
18   262147  3  
19   524341 53  
20  1048583  7  
21  2097169 17  
22  4194371 67
23  8388619 11  
24 16777259 43  
25 33554473 41  
26 67108961 97  

Proofs or counterexamples may be far away, but is something known about this topic?