...Or someone scared as s**t, since they've used stolen resources. ...
This is someone who knows he’ll be in deep trouble the moment he starts cashing out.
What?? where do you get that?
Well what we expected from some new accoun t with just 8 messages?Those aren't stolen resources, the puzzles were made with the sole purpose of being cracked the author of the puzzle state it.
This puzzle is very strange. If it's for measuring the world's brute forcing capacity, 161-256 are just a waste (RIPEMD160 entropy is filled by 160, and by all of P2PKH Bitcoin). The puzzle creator could improve the puzzle's utility without bringing in any extra funds from outside - just spend 161-256 across to the unsolved portion 51-160, and roughly treble the puzzle's content density.
If on the other hand there's a pattern to find... well... that's awfully open-ended... can we have a hint or two?
I am the creator.
You are quite right, 161-256 are silly. I honestly just did not think of this. What is especially embarrassing, is this did not occur to me once, in two years. By way of excuse, I was not really thinking much about the puzzle at all.
I will make up for two years of stupidity. I will spend from 161-256 to the unsolved parts, as you suggest. In addition, I intend to add further funds. My aim is to boost the density by a factor of 10, from 0.001*length(key) to 0.01*length(key). Probably in the next few weeks. At any rate, when I next have an extended period of quiet and calm, to construct the new transaction carefully.
A few words about the puzzle. There is no pattern. It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty).
It is simply a crude measuring instrument, of the cracking strength of the community.Finally, I wish to express appreciation of the efforts of all developers of new cracking tools and technology. The "large bitcoin collider" is especially innovative and interesting!
What if they are a bussines that is waiting to bitcoin reach some 100K or something high per coin, just to recover investments and get some real profit?
There are wallets with more bitcoin without being moved in more than a decade, based on what you said are all those also stolen founds?
Well with exception of the 1Feex Wallet...
Since the solver hasn't said anything all that we said here is a pure speculation.
