Topic: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it - page 278. (Read 204585 times)

Like in 23 days "or so" we will have #52 
https://lbc.cryptoguru.org/stats

And that's just because we're covering our 4-day "search debt". @BurtW - you hear this?


Rico

Bitcoin is a virtual currency, it has a high level of security, in addition, it also has a freedom, so we can not find out who sent the funds. That is a good thing, but it is also a disadvantage to bitcoin. And I think the author of those deals does not matter, the main thing is that you can get rewards from it.

I know.
I just tried to give some sort of reasoning behind what could mean that self-sending of those funds.
Anyone with a better idea is most welcome to share it

As far as I know the "author" of this puzzle-transaction is unknown.
Whom are you asking?

I guess that the reason is to prove they know the private key. I guess that it was found by the large collider
thing, since, from what I know, they ask only for a % of the money after "cracking" the private key of a wallet.

I think the same reason as for sweeping #1 - #50: These are bounties - right?

Rico

What is the reason to sweep to the same address?
https://blockchain.info/tx/70ee9ab241829a6f49ebf9f109e97f6e466d938e558bade1c5fe341310bc356e
proof of knowing private key?

I repeat: LBC found #51 tonight!   

All of this story tell us something.

We now know that someone out there is able to crack aprox. 2^50 private keys in about 1 year.

(in a worst case scenario, also assuming that the one who cracked the 50 addresses brute forced all the possible addresses sequential)

As time goes by this capability will increase, it may take decades and decades or centuries but eventually it will be possible to crack 2^256 pvks.

The transaction referenced in this thread is a good reference to test how far the mankind cracking capabilities are.

...

2^50   1125899906842620   <- This is aprox. the number of bitcoins private keys someone is able to crack in about 1 year
...
2^160   1461501637330900000000000000000000000000000000000   
...
2^256   115792089237316000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000   <- And this is how safe bitcoin is.

What we can say with respect to these two posts:

Between 2⁰ and 2⁵⁰ there were 50 - 0 = 50 bounties found.

Somewhere between 2⁵⁰ and 2⁵¹ there is at least one bounty.
Somewhere between 2⁵¹ and 2⁵² there is at least one bounty.
Etc.

If every single private key between 2⁰ and 2⁵⁰ was not tried then there is a (small) possibility that you might have missed another bounty.

So, once you find one bounty in a search space (2⁵⁰ ... 2⁵¹ for example) you really should search the entire remaining space to see if there is a second (aliased) larger bounty!

However if you happen to find the expected bounty and then skip to the next range there is a chance you will miss a larger bounty in the remainder of the range.

You're saying the right thing (about entropy), but you do not think it through to the end.
The 161-256 are already (as collisions) in the 1-160 search space. So for the puzzle creator there's no need to do anything. :-)


Rico

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.18206936

LBC Pool front set to 2^50 - the hunt for #51 of the puzzle transaction has begun! 0.051 BTC bounty awaits in 0-41 days. Start your engines!

Rico

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.

// snip //
When I run oclvanitygen.exe 1Test I can hear my video card fan fire up and then I get the exception.

According to Dependency Walker I am using c:\windows\system32\OPENCL.DLL

Anyone have any ideas?

Hi guys,

In continuation to this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/brute-force-on-bitcoin-addresses-video-of-the-action-1305887

While playing around with my bot, I found out this mysterious transaction:

https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

those 32.896 BTC were sent to multiple addresses, all the private keys of those addresses seem to be generated by some kind of formula.

For example:

Address 2:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU74sHUHy8S
1CUNEBjYrCn2y1SdiUMohaKUi4wpP326Lb
Biginteger PVK value: 3
Hex PVK value: 3

Address 3:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU76rnZwVdz
19ZewH8Kk1PDbSNdJ97FP4EiCjTRaZMZQA
Biginteger PVK value: 7
Hex PVK value: 7

Address 4:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU77MfhviY5
1EhqbyUMvvs7BfL8goY6qcPbD6YKfPqb7e
Biginteger PVK value: 8
Hex PVK value: 8

Address 5:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Dq8Au4Pv
1E6NuFjCi27W5zoXg8TRdcSRq84zJeBW3k
Biginteger PVK value: 21
Hex PVK value: 15

Address 6:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Tmu6qHxS
1PitScNLyp2HCygzadCh7FveTnfmpPbfp8
Biginteger PVK value: 49
Hex PVK value: 31

Address 7:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7hDgvu64y
1McVt1vMtCC7yn5b9wgX1833yCcLXzueeC
Biginteger PVK value: 76
Hex PVK value: 4C

Address 8:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU8xvGK1zpm
1M92tSqNmQLYw33fuBvjmeadirh1ysMBxK
Biginteger PVK value: 224
Hex PVK value: E0

Address 9:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUB3vfDKcxZ
1CQFwcjw1dwhtkVWBttNLDtqL7ivBonGPV
Biginteger PVK value: 467
Hex PVK value: 1d3

Address 10:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUBTL67V6dE
1LeBZP5QCwwgXRtmVUvTVrraqPUokyLHqe
Biginteger PVK value: 514
Hex PVK value: 202

Address 11:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUGxXgtm63M
1PgQVLmst3Z314JrQn5TNiys8Hc38TcXJu
Biginteger PVK value: 1155
Hex PVK value: 483

Address 12:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUW5RtS2JN1
1DBaumZxUkM4qMQRt2LVWyFJq5kDtSZQot
Biginteger PVK value: 2683
Hex PVK value: a7b

Address 13:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUspniiQZds
1Pie8JkxBT6MGPz9Nvi3fsPkr2D8q3GBc1
Biginteger PVK value: 5216
Hex PVK value: 1460

Address 14:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFVfZyiN5iEG
1ErZWg5cFCe4Vw5BzgfzB74VNLaXEiEkhk
Biginteger PVK value: 10544
Hex PVK value: 2930

and so on...

until the addresses 50 (1MEzite4ReNuWaL5Ds17ePKt2dCxWEofwk) it was already cracked by someone.

Any ideas what's the formula behind the generation of these addresses?

Address 2, pvk decimal value: 3
Address 3, pvk decimal value: 7
Address 4, pvk decimal value: 8
Address 5, pvk decimal value: 21
Address 6, pvk decimal value: 49
Address 7, pvk decimal value: 76
Address 8, pvk decimal value: 224
Address 9, pvk decimal value: 467
Address 10, pvk decimal value: 514
Address 11, pvk decimal value: 1155
Address 12, pvk decimal value: 2683
Address 13, pvk decimal value: 5216
Address 14, pvk decimal value: 10544
Address 15 and after, pvk decimal value: ?

The prize would be ~32 BTC

EDIT: If you find the solution feel free to leave a tip 1DPUhjHvd2K4ZkycVHEJiN6wba79j5V1u3