Topic: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it - page 161. (Read 230035 times)

It's been months since 125 was solved and they didn't bother to post the private key, we even asked the author to reveal the key after 1 month giving them time to sweep those garbage coins, but still no news, no keys revealed, does that mean this community is only good to contribute but not good enough to fulfill their request?

Not only 125 but 120 is also missing, if we want to solve this "puzzle" we need to have all the pieces which includes 120 and 125 keys, since the author listened to our call and added extra funds to the puzzles, why not do us another favour and reveal 120, 125 keys? It could be sent via PM to a trusted person so they can cash forked coins and give it to someone who really needs it and then they can reveal the emptied keys for us to have a look. 

Maybe I'm expecting too much? Just open your laptop and copy paste the keys in someone's inbox with instructions on what to do. Lol
How much money is in the forked coins anyways, anyone knows?

The logical thing is that he did it manually, because it would not make sense to create an HD wallet, take the pk and then pass them through a 256-step script to obtain the desired ranges. If a script were made, an HD wallet would simply not be chosen, it would be generated the pk randomly to avoid the task of taking the pk from the wallet and modifying them as desired.
Or would you as a programmer not do it like that?

hahaha two bad jokes in a single post, bravo.


This process can be automatized and the probabilities of error are zero after some tests.

1- the keys belong to an HD wallet.
2- to put the hd in required ranges for each one, manual edits were made.
3- hexes can lead to errors if you modify them manually, deleting or changing a single letter of the hex can reduce 1 bit or increase 1 bit if you make a mistake.
4- there were initially 256 keys, therefore, if we assume that he edited from 1 to 256.
As it progresses it becomes repetitive and the probability of an error increases.

How can you say that the chances are nearly zero?

Given that keys for ranges 1 to 65 and 70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110,115 were found in the intended ranges, the chances of any error on behalf of the creator are nearly zero. Now coming to puzzle 120, we see that the coins associated with BCH and BTG have not been moved yet (since 8 months) which makes it a bit suspicious. Whoever found keys 120 and 125 is either too rich to bother about the other coins or intentionally left the coins for others to keep working.

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

Yes, I expect to see  dozens of colorful pages and long quotes, it's time for a change of scenery.😅
Seems like you had a good sleep last night, you are not whining.😂

Hints in order to make it easy for people to grab the prize? Why would he do that? Instead there is this DLEQ method he could use to create a new puzzle and joins us to find the key, it would be a good experience to taste his own medicine for once. Lol.

The last increase of the prize was a bait, to lure more wanderers into the cave of the "gold hoarding dragon", so any golden coins out side the reach of the dragon would mean these wanderers could grab the coins quickly and run, that would be counterintuitive to the concept of baiting.

One does not exclude the other. I am not in the matrix. I created the matrix. 

Yes, if the puzzle prize has increased it doesn't mean that it would increase the chances of success, but it give us more motivation espeically for developers to develop new ideas.

@citb0in: How are you online here in the forum when you have work to do? I thought you work from 9 to 17 like all other people that are stuck in the matrix inside the planet..?   

Well, I don't think anyone would mind if the prize money was increased tenfold again. But I don't think that would increase the chances of our potential success. It is difficult, we know that. Instead of increasing the prize money, I would appreciate more hints from the puzzle creator 

Lol. We've gone way off topic damn the son of the sun...

I think Satoshi should recharge our batteries and boost our motivation by skyrocketing the puzzles again by 10x.

Would you agree guys?

would you expect one ?

If anyone is interested in comparing base58 character match, rmd160 character match etc, I have an idea and if you are a coder you might be able to pull it off.

Basically what you need is a color encoding  tool to create colors from base58 or rmd160 hash characters, once you have your algorithm ready, you just need encode addresses or hashes with this new algo, then you should take a look at the color spectrum of the addresses you find in a certain range and compare it for example with #66 address and it's color composition, if the found similar matches were of the same colors, you might have a chance to determine whether you are close to puzzle address or not.

First thing you should do is converting adds/hashes into color bars something like this:

1111111111111111111114oLvT2

Rmd160 :

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Add:
11111111111111111111BZbvjr
Rmd160:
0000000000000000000000000000000000000001
Add:
11111111111111111C3CPpNyMcq
Rmd160:
0000000000000000000000000000000001234567

Or you could base the colors on a certain range, like  the above hexadecimal rmd160 converted to decimal is :
19088743, then you could mix color hues together like 1908, 1+9+8= 18, so you'd set a color for any sum of 4 digits less than 20 to red, if the sum of next 4 digits are 8+7+4+3= 22 between 22 and 25 you'd set a different color, if the sum of 4 digits is between 25 and 30, another color and so on.

Then you won't need to look at the hex/decimal values anymore, just pure color compositions of certain hashes in different bit ranges. And then check to see if you can find any pattern.

cauz' you didn't like or understand that reply?  love it or hate it - off-topic enough.


indeed, such requests (asking for partial matched strings) are boring even if reoccurring from time to time

Very boring comments, please DM to me only if anyone has one! thanks

for the first time in my life i agree with citb0in

what for ? why should anyone be interested in finding a partly matching string of a puzzle BTC address ? it's completely useless

Has anyone ever found a key matching: 13zb1hQbWVsc ? just would be interesting to see!

Thanks! This is a fork, it’s not mine programm, the program is optimized for a puzzle, but I removed everything unnecessary from the code and introduced a new random generator - no predictable random, as it was before.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62144570

Almost six months ago, I undertook various tasks of a similar stuffs..