I am not sure if understood correctly. Do you mean the puzzle creator used the same source and deriving ALL puzzles from this single source? If so, I absolutely disagree because I don't think he wanted that intentionally. This is not smart. Consider the original goal and the idea behind it. The point is to show how good or bad the security behind this concept is. If one were to take a single seed phrase as the origin and only mask it with the corresponding number of bits, this would mean: if someone should manage to get the correct initial values, then he can solve ALL puzzles from 1-160 in one fell swoop. That would be fatal and would speak against the actual sense of the puzzle. I cannot imagine with the best will in the world that the creator would be so stupid.
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!
Here I have underlined only one hint of the puzzle creator It is important to know what is a deterministic wallet. A deterministic wallet is a type of cryptocurrency wallet that generates a series of public and private keys from a single master seed. This means that every time a new transaction is made, a new public and private key pair is generated from the master seed.
Well, it's not as easy as it looks .. the seed phrase that people take for granted can be trillions upon trillions of combinations of any number of letters, numbers or symbols.. using CRUNCH on Linux for a while back in the days showed me that seeds are so unbearable to use for cracking. A simple 16 digits consisting of both letters, numbers and symbols would need entire Google servers to contain the data of all possible combinations. And even then you would take years and years to crack using such data. Why go through that when you can simply try your luck with a 17 digit hex pvt key like in the case of puzz #66? Huge difference in difficulty.
I know it's very difficult to determine the exact seed phrase of this deterministic wallet. It could be a 12, 15, 18, 21, or 24-word seed phrase. If it's 12 words, it has a difficulty of 128 bits. If it's 15 words, the difficulty is 160 bits. If it's 18 words, the difficulty is 198 bits. If it's 21 words, the difficulty is 230 bits, and if it's 24 words, the difficulty is 256 bits. Although I am aware of all these difficulties, I don't think you've noticed what I'm trying to say above -
There is no pattern here, you cannot deny this fact. The person who created the riddle has themselves stated that they used a deterministic wallet and increased the complexity of the puzzle from 1 to 256 bits using zeros. Apart from these words from the person who created the puzzle, we have no other clues. Keeping this fact in mind, I am trying to solve the puzzle using a deterministic wallet. If god gave me a favor, then the entire puzzle will be solved at once.
I know that everything here is based on luck and chance, so why not try something bigger using certain gestures instead of being completely random.
