Topic: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it - page 171. (Read 229908 times)

He says he wants to divide 101 times, and since he doesn't know the pk he needs to do pk/2 and ( pk-1)/2 which results in 2x2x2x2.... 101 times (2**101)
by 3 is 3x3x3x3.... 14 times (3**14) equivalent to puzzle 105

So reducing 25 bits, if dividing by 2 we need 2^25 public keys with 1 one of them to be the correct result, but dividing by 3 we need 3^14 keys, one of them would be correct, how did you calculate it?

I hope your scrip saves the results to a file, because I only see print, are we supposed to print thousands of keys on screen? 😅  save us from this abomination!

the problem of dividing by 2 is that you need 2**101 pubkeys (according to your approach).
update:
dividing by 3 you need 3**14 pubkeys, to reduce puzzle130 down to the equivalent of puzzle 105.

I'm not sure if it helps, but for 130 bits, we only need to divide the point by 2, 101 times. The issue is figuring out where to subtract 1 to avoid floating-point errors.

I still can't understand where you're going with this.

5/3 = 1.66666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 6666666666666666666666666666666666666666667

Puzzle 65/3 =
10189459104021400951.6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 6666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666 6666666666666666666666666666666666666666667

Puzzle 65/333 =

91796928865057666.2312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312312 3123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123123 1231231231231231231231231231231231231231231

5/333 =
0.01501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501501 5015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015 015015015015015015015015015015015015015015015

Puzzle 65/9 =
3396486368007133650.55555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555 5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555 5555555555555555555555555555555555555555556

5/9 =
0.55555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555 5555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555 55555555555555555555555555555555555555555556

5/27 =
0.18518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518 5185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185 18518518518518518518518518518518518518518519

Puzzle 65/27 =
1132162122669044550.18518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518518 5185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185185 1851851851851851851851851851851851851851852

Puzzle 65/999 =
30598976288352555.4104104104104104104104104104104104104104104104104104104104104 1041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041041 041041041041041041041041041041041041041041

5/999 =
0.00500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500500 5005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005 005005005005005005005005005005005005005005005

Puzzle 65/666 =
45898464432528833.1156156156156156156156156156156156156156156156156156156156156 1561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561561 5615615615615615615615615615615615615615616

5/666 =
0.00750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750750 7507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507507 5075075075075075075075075075075075075075075075

Puzzle 65/18 =
1698243184003566825.27777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 7777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 7777777777777777777777777777777777777777778

5/18 =
0.27777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 7777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 77777777777777777777777777777777777777777778

Now ignore whatever you see before the dot "." Just look at whatever you see after the dot.😉 chop chop and good luck.

I'm also quite curious about it.

I took the number 150 just as an example.

For example Puzzle #65:

target = 30568377312064202855
target_2 = 30568377312064202855+1 #= 30568377312064202856

t1= target/3 #= 10189459104021400951.666666666666667
t2= target_2/3 #= 10189459104021400952

r= t1+t2 # = 20378918208042801903.666666666666667

30568377312064202855 − 20378918208042801903.666666666666667 = 10189459104021400951.333333333333333


I cannot understand how this method will help in solving the puzzle if the "target" is unknown to us.

is just what I wanted to say.It's just what the script does (if the condition I wrote is met)


Why do you want to apply to a number that is division of 3? 150/3= 50

It works for the private key, but what we have is the public key; in this case, Python doesn't round the result.

in Python the // operator stands for floor division, that means it divides the first number by the second number and rounds the result down to the nearest integer.

Unfortunately, if the division results in a decimal number, the result will be incorrect.

Unfortunately, this method does not work for all numbers:

target = 150
target_2 = 150+1 #= 151

t1= target/3 #= 50
t2= target_2/3 #= 50.333333333333336

r= t1+t2 # = 100.333333333333336
150 − 100.333333333333336 = 49.666666666666664

33.333333333333336+33.666666666666664 = 67
use 1 "/" symbol, 2 " //" is for rounding, sorry.
even if you run the script it gives you like

pk decimal=67

03df9d70a6b9876ce544c98561f4be4f725442e6d2b737d9c91a8321724ce0963f

edit

and if you subtract 100-67= 33
you would get the division of 100/3 rounded to 33.

---snipp---

t1 = t2 = 33
r will not result in 67 as you said, r=66

Please post the code so it's more clear what you're talking about.

hello.For private key 2 the x and y values of pubkey are

c6047f9441ed7d6d3045406e95c07cd85c778e4b8cef3ca7abac09b95c709ee5
1ae168fea63dc339a3c58419466ceaeef7f632653266d0e1236431a950cfe52a

i change generator points of elliptic curve to the values above.
let us assume we want to bruteforce scan the puzzles 1 to 20.
end range of puzzle20 is 0x100000 and normaly we would scan 1:100000 but as i changed G I divide the range by 2
therefore new reduced scan range is 0x1 to 0x80000

they keys found are:
4
26
70
101
A30
1498
649B

now we multiply by 2 and get correct prvkeys for seven puzzles 4 7 8 10 13 14 16

we miss thirteen keys and i understand that it didnt find them because they are and our scan used even.

someone please show what are the exact steps to find also rest keys within that range?

please show example with private key 4 for understanding

Hello 👋 all.
If we divide an odd number X by 2, as a result we will have a remainder of X.5, is it also impossible to determine whether there is a remainder at this point?.

if i have a satoshi each time that i see that question...

Sadly there is no way to determine if a point in the curve is odd or even, also there is no way to determine if bit in any position is 1 o 0 that would totally break ECDSA

I already try a lot of things to try to anwser that question, but none of them works and actually i really give up that way, my recomendation is not lose time in that topic (Unless you are full cryptographer with wide knowledge in that field)

Welcome to the club by the way.

Is there a way to determine if a point on the curve is even or odd?