I had a few people want me to update a program that was built by someone else.
I have forked it, updated it and posted it. It now includes up to challenge #108. I will update to #160 as time permits.
https://github.com/WanderingPhilosopher/BitcoinChallengeScanner
It is a slow program but very easy to run, especially for beginners in the hunt for Red October (challenge/puzzle); but it will be a program like this that will probably find the key versus GPU power LOL!!
Download the BitcoinChallengeScanner.zip and extract all. Then double click on the BitcoinChallengeScanner.exe file to get started.
Enjoy!
Topic: == Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~1000 BTC total bounty to solvers! ==UPDATED== - page 29. (Read 53635 times)
January 29, 2023, 09:43:12 AM
January 27, 2023, 07:51:14 AM
New ranges.
Link:
https://easyupload.io/es3jib
Password: BTCChallenge
Total ranges checked (in the file) with single card: 19,482,624
One piece at a time...
Link:
https://easyupload.io/es3jib
Password: BTCChallenge
Total ranges checked (in the file) with single card: 19,482,624
One piece at a time...
January 26, 2023, 12:25:46 PM
Rome nor any city was built in a day...the same is true for this challenge.
Agreed, however don't forget the original purpose of this challenge, which is to persuade people work together and find unforeseen weaknesses, so we should share all of our ideas publicly so the people in charge of development could have a chance of preventing any fatal damage to the system, because you know, it's not about one man becoming rich, it's about millions of people and their lives on the line.________________________________________________
I'm interested to know if there is any way to calculate how often on average a certain address pops up in the key range, for example, take the first half from #66 address and search in sequence to see if you can find any pattern, if there was any then you could follow that same pattern for any other address.
What I realize is that we can never find any easy way to solve the riddle of breaking EC.
My suggestion is not just for you, Anyone with enough hash power could do this.
January 26, 2023, 09:39:29 AM
Rome nor any city was built in a day...the same is true for this challenge.
It's critical to understand that, and that you just have to come up with your own way of approaching this challenge...1 piece at a time, regardless of how large or small that piece is.
So I ran a smaller card, GTX 1660Ti, for 8 hours in the 66 through 69 bit range, searching for the addresses of #66 through #69 challenges.
In those 8 hours, the card generated 14,690,305 different starting keys/points and checked 2^20 keys from each starting key/point. I saved every random starting point and added FFFFF to each one to show the ranges and keys checked in those 8 hours.
That is only 15+ trillion keys checked in total, but they are all spread out over the 66-69 bit range.
If you want to look at what this single card was able to accomplish in 8 hours, you can download the text file here and look at all the different ranges searched.
The file has been sorted for easier viewing.
link:
https://easyupload.io/tyeppz
password:
BTCChallenge
Let me know if you have any issues trying to download the text file. The file is only downloadable for 7 days.
One piece at a time...
(I am running round 2 of the same setup; a single card, searching for the four addresses, 66 through 69 bit. I will upload that file when it is done running/I stop the program.)
It's critical to understand that, and that you just have to come up with your own way of approaching this challenge...1 piece at a time, regardless of how large or small that piece is.
So I ran a smaller card, GTX 1660Ti, for 8 hours in the 66 through 69 bit range, searching for the addresses of #66 through #69 challenges.
In those 8 hours, the card generated 14,690,305 different starting keys/points and checked 2^20 keys from each starting key/point. I saved every random starting point and added FFFFF to each one to show the ranges and keys checked in those 8 hours.
That is only 15+ trillion keys checked in total, but they are all spread out over the 66-69 bit range.
If you want to look at what this single card was able to accomplish in 8 hours, you can download the text file here and look at all the different ranges searched.
The file has been sorted for easier viewing.
link:
https://easyupload.io/tyeppz
password:
BTCChallenge
Let me know if you have any issues trying to download the text file. The file is only downloadable for 7 days.
One piece at a time...
(I am running round 2 of the same setup; a single card, searching for the four addresses, 66 through 69 bit. I will upload that file when it is done running/I stop the program.)
January 26, 2023, 07:36:06 AM
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How long will it take to exhaust #66 search space assuming the same setup and one person searching it?
I think I estimated something between 89 to 100 years LOL; for a complete exhaustion however, as everyone else, I am hoping for a little bit of luck and find it way before then.
January 26, 2023, 06:10:13 AM
I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.
How long will it take to exhaust #66 search space assuming the same setup and one person searching it?
This has the same build dependencies as bitcrack, thanks though, guess I'll have to download 40GB of VS and CUDA.🥱
10GB is more realistic to be honest, considering I installed Visual Studio 2022 just now so I saw the actual install size.
Has anyone made a 64-bit version of Bitcrack yet? VanBitKraken perhaps? I haven't actually ran it before so I just want to confirm whether that optimization has already been tackled.
January 25, 2023, 04:41:18 PM
Concerning #66.
I think I finally have a setup/plan in place for #66.
I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.
The ranges are not sequential, they are random.
TTD's pool has 66 bit space broken down into 2^25 * 2^40 chunks. The ranges are selected randomly however, if a user selects to run 16 ranges in their settings file, then those 16 ranges are sequential.
TTD's pool averages anywhere from 50 to 91 * 2^40 ranges ran in an hour.
It will be interesting:
a) if the pool and myself actually keep plugging along at #66
b) if a = true, which method will find the key first
c) if I don't change up my plan in the next hour, LOL
d) someone else gets lucky (which is all part of it), finds it first
TBC...
I think I finally have a setup/plan in place for #66.
I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.
The ranges are not sequential, they are random.
TTD's pool has 66 bit space broken down into 2^25 * 2^40 chunks. The ranges are selected randomly however, if a user selects to run 16 ranges in their settings file, then those 16 ranges are sequential.
TTD's pool averages anywhere from 50 to 91 * 2^40 ranges ran in an hour.
It will be interesting:
a) if the pool and myself actually keep plugging along at #66
b) if a = true, which method will find the key first
c) if I don't change up my plan in the next hour, LOL
d) someone else gets lucky (which is all part of it), finds it first
TBC...
looks just like this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52304416
I have kept track of random keys and it looks like it is spreading the wealth well; example:
Code:
28D4E0277C081E5CA:28D4E0277C091E5C9
28D4E02BBA5D1332A:28D4E02BBA5E13329
28D4E041E395F2573:28D4E041E396F2572
28D4E0607F14C80B0:28D4E0607F15C80AF
28D4E075FDD34F148:28D4E075FDD44F147
28D4E07C37F011453:28D4E07C37F111452
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...........
28D4EF044F95DE2E4:28D4EF044F96DE2E3
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Every sub 44 bit range is being searched in, in roughly every 2.6 minutes. Which eventually, every sub 40 bit will have been searched, and then every sub 36 bit, etc. etc.
Your way wasn't wrong, mine isn't, the pool's isn't...it's just luck at this point lol.
January 25, 2023, 03:41:47 PM
Concerning #66.
I think I finally have a setup/plan in place for #66.
I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.
The ranges are not sequential, they are random.
TTD's pool has 66 bit space broken down into 2^25 * 2^40 chunks. The ranges are selected randomly however, if a user selects to run 16 ranges in their settings file, then those 16 ranges are sequential.
TTD's pool averages anywhere from 50 to 91 * 2^40 ranges ran in an hour.
It will be interesting:
a) if the pool and myself actually keep plugging along at #66
b) if a = true, which method will find the key first
c) if I don't change up my plan in the next hour, LOL
d) someone else gets lucky (which is all part of it), finds it first
TBC...
I think I finally have a setup/plan in place for #66.
I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.
The ranges are not sequential, they are random.
TTD's pool has 66 bit space broken down into 2^25 * 2^40 chunks. The ranges are selected randomly however, if a user selects to run 16 ranges in their settings file, then those 16 ranges are sequential.
TTD's pool averages anywhere from 50 to 91 * 2^40 ranges ran in an hour.
It will be interesting:
a) if the pool and myself actually keep plugging along at #66
b) if a = true, which method will find the key first
c) if I don't change up my plan in the next hour, LOL
d) someone else gets lucky (which is all part of it), finds it first
TBC...
looks just like this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.52304416
January 24, 2023, 08:29:05 PM
Concerning #66.
I think I finally have a setup/plan in place for #66.
I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.
The ranges are not sequential, they are random.
TTD's pool has 66 bit space broken down into 2^25 * 2^40 chunks. The ranges are selected randomly however, if a user selects to run 16 ranges in their settings file, then those 16 ranges are sequential.
TTD's pool averages anywhere from 50 to 91 * 2^40 ranges ran in an hour.
It will be interesting:
a) if the pool and myself actually keep plugging along at #66
b) if a = true, which method will find the key first
c) if I don't change up my plan in the next hour, LOL
d) someone else gets lucky (which is all part of it), finds it first
TBC...
I think I finally have a setup/plan in place for #66.
I am completing 2^25.5 * 2^20 ranges about every 40 minutes. There is never a stop in the program to receive new ranges...it'll just keep churning.
The ranges are not sequential, they are random.
TTD's pool has 66 bit space broken down into 2^25 * 2^40 chunks. The ranges are selected randomly however, if a user selects to run 16 ranges in their settings file, then those 16 ranges are sequential.
TTD's pool averages anywhere from 50 to 91 * 2^40 ranges ran in an hour.
It will be interesting:
a) if the pool and myself actually keep plugging along at #66
b) if a = true, which method will find the key first
c) if I don't change up my plan in the next hour, LOL
d) someone else gets lucky (which is all part of it), finds it first
TBC...
January 24, 2023, 08:26:05 AM
So for interested groups/individuals - I have these progress files and I will sell them for 2ETH (upfront payment). If you are interested, please contact me via private message. To be fair - I sell files only once.
Hello!
I want to clarify, do you track PM? check it pls...
January 17, 2023, 03:31:00 PM
A new VanBitCracken Random version will be released soon. I am doing some final testing.
The new version works with full addresses with RTX 30xx cards.
It also supports the usual -topr and -subr flags AND now will support -bits. So if you want to dig deeper into the bits range, you can use the -topr and -subr flags, or if you want to randomly search the entire bit range, you can use the -bits flag.
I have CPU and GPU tests in the link below.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61612442
The new version works with full addresses with RTX 30xx cards.
It also supports the usual -topr and -subr flags AND now will support -bits. So if you want to dig deeper into the bits range, you can use the -topr and -subr flags, or if you want to randomly search the entire bit range, you can use the -bits flag.
I have CPU and GPU tests in the link below.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.61612442
January 10, 2023, 11:24:45 AM
Is there any script I could run with Vscode on Win 10?
I stumbled on this a short while back. Not even sure why I saved it...but anyway...
https://github.com/BTC-HUB-GROUP/PubHunt
Hope that helps you.
Apologies, I am an amateur coder really so my knowledge is limited. It just seemed similar to your wants.
January 09, 2023, 12:43:37 PM
Is there any script I could run with Vscode on Win 10?
I stumbled on this a short while back. Not even sure why I saved it...but anyway...
https://github.com/BTC-HUB-GROUP/PubHunt
Hope that helps you.
January 09, 2023, 11:17:29 AM
Is there any script I could run with Vscode on Win 10?
I stumbled on this a short while back. Not even sure why I saved it...but anyway...
https://github.com/BTC-HUB-GROUP/PubHunt
Hope that helps you.
January 08, 2023, 03:30:24 PM
Is there any script I could run with Vscode on Win 10?
January 07, 2023, 01:25:14 PM
I guess my problem is with math and cryptography
Don't try to reinvent something you don't understand. Use already written code, which is tested. To be honest for someone trying to dive into py or complicated coding I managed to learn a lot about coding, which is that I know zero about coding
I'm not a beginner in coding anymore, but I'm sure that the AI can help you a lot. Just ask it whatever you feel lazy about, and you'll see what I mean. Debugging? Explaining? Suggesting? Everything. You only need to connect the dots properly. January 07, 2023, 11:33:48 AM
Hello everyone, I've been studying this challenge for some time and developing some algorithms.
Soon I will post about some curiosities and some numbers
Soon I will post about some curiosities and some numbers
January 06, 2023, 09:26:28 AM
I didn't code it, AI did
Lol. Why don't you ask it what's wrong then? 
This AI I'm asking to code for me is driving me crazy, it writes half completed codes mostly.
If you don't know how to code, then using an AI isn't recommended (yet). At the moment, it can greatly assist you learn programming, but it can't write exactly what you tell it to do; part of the problem, in this case, is that you don't know either what you want to do. Let alone the AI. But I always wanted to learn how to code something to do exactly what I'd intended, who knows maybe this topic about the puzzle sparked a desire and fueled a long lost motivation to start doing what I really love to do, that's why I'm here after all, to learn from the best.
January 06, 2023, 04:24:37 AM
I didn't code it, AI did
Lol. Why don't you ask it what's wrong then? This AI I'm asking to code for me is driving me crazy, it writes half completed codes mostly.
If you don't know how to code, then using an AI isn't recommended (yet). At the moment, it can greatly assist you learn programming, but it can't write exactly what you tell it to do; part of the problem, in this case, is that you don't know either what you want to do. Let alone the AI. January 05, 2023, 09:51:41 PM
Hi nerds 🤣 I have a question, I just started to code this morning, could anyone give me advice and tell me what I am doing wrong here? Thank you.
You're trying to program a robot to solve something that humans haven't solved first.
Also, the output from OpenAI Codex is very inaccurate, and is wrong about 50% of the time for specialized functions. ChatGPT is much better but it can still introduce "variable not declared" errors.
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