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...
Topic: == Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~1000 BTC total bounty to solvers! ==UPDATED== - page 31. (Read 56094 times)
January 24, 2023, 08:29:05 PM
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.
January 05, 2023, 09:01:56 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.
January 05, 2023, 07:57:59 PM
Hi nerds 🤣
That isn't a kind start, is it? Don't be YouTube. I just started to code this morning, could anyone give me advice and tell me what I am doing wrong here?
Did you code all that or did you... you know just grabbed it from some git something. If you coded, then asking for help isn't the right place (and maybe no place is right other than your desk). If someone else did, could you provide a link? There has to be a brief explanation of this script.Code:
# Target public key to find a match for
target_public_key = "13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so"
target_public_key = "13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so"
This AI I'm asking to code for me is driving me crazy, it writes half completed codes mostly.
OpenAI
January 05, 2023, 04:48:11 PM
Hi nerds 🤣
That isn't a kind start, is it? Don't be YouTube. I just started to code this morning, could anyone give me advice and tell me what I am doing wrong here?
Did you code all that or did you... you know just grabbed it from some git something. If you coded, then asking for help isn't the right place (and maybe no place is right other than your desk). If someone else did, could you provide a link? There has to be a brief explanation of this script.Code:
# Target public key to find a match for
target_public_key = "13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so"
target_public_key = "13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so"
January 05, 2023, 04:36:33 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.
Code:
import ecdsa
import hashlib
import re
# Hexadecimal string range to use as input
start_hex_string = "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000"
end_hex_string = "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003ffffffffffffffff"
# Convert hexadecimal strings to integers
start_int = int(start_hex_string, 16)
end_int = int(end_hex_string, 16)
# Target public key to find a match for
target_public_key = "13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so"
# Iterate through the range of integers
for i in range(start_int, end_int+1):
# Convert integer to hexadecimal string
hex_string = hex(i)[2:]
# Check if the string contains only hexadecimal characters
if re.match(r'^[0-9a-fA-F]+$', hex_string):
# Convert hexadecimal string to bytes
hex_bytes = bytes.fromhex( '200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003ffffffffffffffff')
else:
print("Invalid hexadecimal string")
continue
# Use SHA256 hash function to generate a private key from the bytes
private_key = hashlib.sha256(hex_bytes).digest()
# Use the ECDSA algorithm to create a public key from the private key
sk = ecdsa.SigningKey.from_string(private_key, curve=ecdsa.SECP256k1)
vk = sk.get_verifying_key()
# Encode the public key as a hexadecimal string
public_key = vk.to_string().hex()
# Compare the generated public key with the target public key
if public_key == target_public_key:
print("Match found! Private key:", private_key.hex())
# Save the private key here (e.g. write it to a file)
break
else:
print("No match found")
import hashlib
import re
# Hexadecimal string range to use as input
start_hex_string = "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000020000000000000000"
end_hex_string = "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003ffffffffffffffff"
# Convert hexadecimal strings to integers
start_int = int(start_hex_string, 16)
end_int = int(end_hex_string, 16)
# Target public key to find a match for
target_public_key = "13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so"
# Iterate through the range of integers
for i in range(start_int, end_int+1):
# Convert integer to hexadecimal string
hex_string = hex(i)[2:]
# Check if the string contains only hexadecimal characters
if re.match(r'^[0-9a-fA-F]+$', hex_string):
# Convert hexadecimal string to bytes
hex_bytes = bytes.fromhex( '200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003ffffffffffffffff')
else:
print("Invalid hexadecimal string")
continue
# Use SHA256 hash function to generate a private key from the bytes
private_key = hashlib.sha256(hex_bytes).digest()
# Use the ECDSA algorithm to create a public key from the private key
sk = ecdsa.SigningKey.from_string(private_key, curve=ecdsa.SECP256k1)
vk = sk.get_verifying_key()
# Encode the public key as a hexadecimal string
public_key = vk.to_string().hex()
# Compare the generated public key with the target public key
if public_key == target_public_key:
print("Match found! Private key:", private_key.hex())
# Save the private key here (e.g. write it to a file)
break
else:
print("No match found")
December 29, 2022, 08:03:03 PM
Yeah, seems like it could be a cool project/spiritual cousin however, I am not sure I trust the math/numbers that his program is showing lol
Code:
GPU : GPU #0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (46x128 cores) Grid(256x256)
Base Key : Randomly changes 65536 start Private keys every 1,000,000,000 on the counter
ROTOR Random : Min 42 (bit) 20000000000
ROTOR Random : Max 42 (bit) 3FFFFFFFFFF
[00:01:39] [R: 392] [3D70309E4B8] [F: 0] [GPU: 573.08 Mk/s] [T: 4,623,532,294,144]
=================================================================================
PubAddress: 1E32GPWgDyeyQac4aJxm9HVoLrrEYPnM4N
Priv (WIF): p2pkh:KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9zzYEemjCVJ3vo9
Priv (HEX): 2A221C58D8F
PubK (HEX): 03EEC88385BE9DA803A0D6579798D977A5D0C7F80917DAB49CB73C9E3927142CB6
=================================================================================
[00:01:40] [R: 392] [3FF4FC9A22C] [F: 1] [GPU: 573.31 Mk/s] [T: 4,624,471,818,240]
Base Key : Randomly changes 65536 start Private keys every 1,000,000,000 on the counter
ROTOR Random : Min 42 (bit) 20000000000
ROTOR Random : Max 42 (bit) 3FFFFFFFFFF
[00:01:39] [R: 392] [3D70309E4B8] [F: 0] [GPU: 573.08 Mk/s] [T: 4,623,532,294,144]
=================================================================================
PubAddress: 1E32GPWgDyeyQac4aJxm9HVoLrrEYPnM4N
Priv (WIF): p2pkh:KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9zzYEemjCVJ3vo9
Priv (HEX): 2A221C58D8F
PubK (HEX): 03EEC88385BE9DA803A0D6579798D977A5D0C7F80917DAB49CB73C9E3927142CB6
=================================================================================
[00:01:40] [R: 392] [3FF4FC9A22C] [F: 1] [GPU: 573.31 Mk/s] [T: 4,624,471,818,240]
Let me know when you see it lol.
ha - great eye - yeah, the total completed and hashrate do not jive with the time completed.
it will be 2023 in a few days and progress bars, time remaining and items complete (simple division) remain of the bane of meaningful UI feedback. Funny, though the version I built didn't seem to have a fairytale hash rate but it also didn't have what I was looking for in terms of gpu-accelerated random-private key production. The key assembly is still CPU bound from vectors of gpu-built device_vector of 16 or 32 bit-length unsigned ints. Mildy sympathetic.. I haven't figured out a pure GPU method of initial key production, either.
Yeah, I played with it a year or so ago and the GPU is not ideal. Python is the purest form of generating 1 random at a time (that I have played with and used, maybe something in C would work faster, maybe albert0bsd could create something), versus generating random starting keys and checking x amount from the starting key until it's rekeyed. Even the CPU with these programs doesn't create a random key and check and a new random key and check...the CPU still creates random starting keys, etc.
My VBC can solve a 36 bit pretty fast in random mode, but that is a small space compared to 66 bit and beyond. Soooo for now, I am checking each and every key, spread out over the entire key space. 30 quadrillion keys and counting lol...
December 29, 2022, 07:53:36 PM
Yeah, seems like it could be a cool project/spiritual cousin however, I am not sure I trust the math/numbers that his program is showing lol
Code:
GPU : GPU #0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (46x128 cores) Grid(256x256)
Base Key : Randomly changes 65536 start Private keys every 1,000,000,000 on the counter
ROTOR Random : Min 42 (bit) 20000000000
ROTOR Random : Max 42 (bit) 3FFFFFFFFFF
[00:01:39] [R: 392] [3D70309E4B8] [F: 0] [GPU: 573.08 Mk/s] [T: 4,623,532,294,144]
=================================================================================
PubAddress: 1E32GPWgDyeyQac4aJxm9HVoLrrEYPnM4N
Priv (WIF): p2pkh:KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9zzYEemjCVJ3vo9
Priv (HEX): 2A221C58D8F
PubK (HEX): 03EEC88385BE9DA803A0D6579798D977A5D0C7F80917DAB49CB73C9E3927142CB6
=================================================================================
[00:01:40] [R: 392] [3FF4FC9A22C] [F: 1] [GPU: 573.31 Mk/s] [T: 4,624,471,818,240]
Base Key : Randomly changes 65536 start Private keys every 1,000,000,000 on the counter
ROTOR Random : Min 42 (bit) 20000000000
ROTOR Random : Max 42 (bit) 3FFFFFFFFFF
[00:01:39] [R: 392] [3D70309E4B8] [F: 0] [GPU: 573.08 Mk/s] [T: 4,623,532,294,144]
=================================================================================
PubAddress: 1E32GPWgDyeyQac4aJxm9HVoLrrEYPnM4N
Priv (WIF): p2pkh:KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9zzYEemjCVJ3vo9
Priv (HEX): 2A221C58D8F
PubK (HEX): 03EEC88385BE9DA803A0D6579798D977A5D0C7F80917DAB49CB73C9E3927142CB6
=================================================================================
[00:01:40] [R: 392] [3FF4FC9A22C] [F: 1] [GPU: 573.31 Mk/s] [T: 4,624,471,818,240]
Let me know when you see it lol.
ha - great eye - yeah, the total completed and hashrate do not jive with the time completed.
it will be 2023 in a few days and progress bars, time remaining and items complete (simple division) remain of the bane of meaningful UI feedback. Funny, though the version I built didn't seem to have a fairytale hash rate but it also didn't have what I was looking for in terms of gpu-accelerated random-private key production. The key assembly is still CPU bound from vectors of gpu-built device_vector of 16 or 32 bit-length unsigned ints. Mildy sympathetic.. I haven't figured out a pure GPU method of initial key production, either.
December 29, 2022, 02:52:47 PM
Hello!
...
I found saved kangaroo progress files that allowed me to find key 115 in the past!
...
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.
Regards
...
I found saved kangaroo progress files that allowed me to find key 115 in the past!
...
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.
Regards
Just distribute these files for free and clean your disk space. No need to sale
December 28, 2022, 08:05:16 PM
this thread makes me want to drink heavily and hurts my head because of this pattern:
[rando new person]: I did it! I figured it out!
[person with established account and actual contributions towards the puzzle]: dude, that's not how math works.
At any rate, congrats to whomever solved 64 this fall.
I was looking for roto-cuda and found a couple repos with forks of it: https://github.com/search?q=rotor-cuda
I know linking to how to search github is essentially a lmgtfy move but some of youz guyz seemed to need that level of help.
Also ran into this, which looks to be at least a spiritual cousin if not a direct descendant to roto-cuda: https://github.com/graffitilogic/KeyScanner
This person's code looks to be informal with plenty of commented out paths of experimentation but I appreciated that it actually compiled for me in visual studio with minimum effort.
The random number generator was... novel? but the majority of the rest looks to be forked riffs on VanitySearch and BitCrack in the older commits.
anywho happy hunting you crazy kids.
[rando new person]: I did it! I figured it out!
[person with established account and actual contributions towards the puzzle]: dude, that's not how math works.
At any rate, congrats to whomever solved 64 this fall.
I was looking for roto-cuda and found a couple repos with forks of it: https://github.com/search?q=rotor-cuda
I know linking to how to search github is essentially a lmgtfy move but some of youz guyz seemed to need that level of help.
Also ran into this, which looks to be at least a spiritual cousin if not a direct descendant to roto-cuda: https://github.com/graffitilogic/KeyScanner
This person's code looks to be informal with plenty of commented out paths of experimentation but I appreciated that it actually compiled for me in visual studio with minimum effort.
The random number generator was... novel? but the majority of the rest looks to be forked riffs on VanitySearch and BitCrack in the older commits.
anywho happy hunting you crazy kids.
Yeah, seems like it could be a cool project/spiritual cousin however, I am not sure I trust the math/numbers that his program is showing lol
Code:
GPU : GPU #0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 (46x128 cores) Grid(256x256)
Base Key : Randomly changes 65536 start Private keys every 1,000,000,000 on the counter
ROTOR Random : Min 42 (bit) 20000000000
ROTOR Random : Max 42 (bit) 3FFFFFFFFFF
[00:01:39] [R: 392] [3D70309E4B8] [F: 0] [GPU: 573.08 Mk/s] [T: 4,623,532,294,144]
=================================================================================
PubAddress: 1E32GPWgDyeyQac4aJxm9HVoLrrEYPnM4N
Priv (WIF): p2pkh:KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9zzYEemjCVJ3vo9
Priv (HEX): 2A221C58D8F
PubK (HEX): 03EEC88385BE9DA803A0D6579798D977A5D0C7F80917DAB49CB73C9E3927142CB6
=================================================================================
[00:01:40] [R: 392] [3FF4FC9A22C] [F: 1] [GPU: 573.31 Mk/s] [T: 4,624,471,818,240]
Base Key : Randomly changes 65536 start Private keys every 1,000,000,000 on the counter
ROTOR Random : Min 42 (bit) 20000000000
ROTOR Random : Max 42 (bit) 3FFFFFFFFFF
[00:01:39] [R: 392] [3D70309E4B8] [F: 0] [GPU: 573.08 Mk/s] [T: 4,623,532,294,144]
=================================================================================
PubAddress: 1E32GPWgDyeyQac4aJxm9HVoLrrEYPnM4N
Priv (WIF): p2pkh:KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9zzYEemjCVJ3vo9
Priv (HEX): 2A221C58D8F
PubK (HEX): 03EEC88385BE9DA803A0D6579798D977A5D0C7F80917DAB49CB73C9E3927142CB6
=================================================================================
[00:01:40] [R: 392] [3FF4FC9A22C] [F: 1] [GPU: 573.31 Mk/s] [T: 4,624,471,818,240]
Let me know when you see it lol.
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