Topic: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it - page 297. (Read 240924 times)

There's still a lot of people who believe that the price of BTC will skyrocket at some point in the future.

supika
Looks like you are one of those guys who truly believes in conspiracy theory. 

@Bajula what would you do if you would find the 70-bit key? I tell you what I would do, I would change it to fiat and enjoy the money. But our winner of 70bit key moved the funds to other address and the satoshi are still there from 9 of June and is not the only one.

I still believe that this puzzle has a higher goal. And the goal is not to give 32BTC to the people like you, me or other, some crumbs here and there maybe to make the puzzle legit and to make the enthusiasts still searching for solutions.

This is possibly the silliest thing I have read today. - if the owner decided to take the btc it would all already be gone. if he (guessing but the odds are 'he') wanted his friends to have it... same.. poof.. gone...  - the something that you believe (still not sure what that is btw- but a guess is to follow) that you will believe differently when you find a private key etc... I'm guessing is some sort of strange conspiracy where a guy takes a hundred billfolds with money in them, hides them all over the place and goes "find them" but secretly tells his friends where they are.. umm a) - why not just hand over some bills to your pal bob? b) why... like why the whole thing at all?  c) if that was the case, owner/friends would go get the 1.6 immediately.   -as a sidenote, but only slightly to the side... somewhere the owner spoke up and was talking about it being a way to encourage people to see what they can do towards figuring out ways around the cryptography, thus proving/disproving the "safety" of your coins. As we have seen, so long as you didn't use reaaaaally low entropy keys, and so long as you don't reuse an address you are fairly okay (so far) but keep using the same address and you are asking for trouble... maybe not fast trouble.. but trouble none-the-less. (It is my personal belief that the move revealing the pubkeys was prompted by all the talk about programs to get the private key from public and he was like "well hey let's see what they can really do here..." (otherwise why skip by five...) Now if you want a plausible conspiracy - which doesn't really take away from the "puzzle" so much as show a human side to things.. let's say bob creates puzzle when btc is cheap as dirt.. time goes on.. btc gets really up there.. bob has a hospital bill/car trouble/baby on the way etc.. whatever... people are popping off with prv key from pub, he needs a little something... but more than .62 so move.. and grab the first one.. still giving others a shot  (This imho is still VERY unlikely.. 'cause as we know he already has all the keys.. could take whenever he likes. so really he could have just snagged it all and walked away if he needed cash, so he really wants people to strive for better/shorter ways or similar to the lbc show exactly how hard this would be to do... the harder it is btw the more acceptable it is to joe public even though they will never REALLY understand that it is ALREADY harder even with low entropy to get a priv key than it is to get into their bank account - or their atm pin which is likely to be a family member's b-day anniversary or some foolish stuff like that.)
There is my 5 satoshi. inflation yo.

weirdo

supika
what the hell are you saying

For the creator this puzzle, I have some question 

What next step after we on this step https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=MFatdCqzM9o 
Because I don't see any more clue on there, are we finis after this step ? and the name this puzzle "The Gold Gate"
Let me know if any more step..............

Or could be that those who found the private keys are individuals in the same group with the owner of the puzzle.
I'll believe something else when I will find one of the private keys and I will be able to spend it.

It very well could be 3 different people that have solved the last few keys.

Bitcoin isn't worth $3000 anymore like it was at the beginning of the year. Its almost $13K so the person who found the 1 BTC made alot of money.

Most people who visit this thread could be lurkers and they can have more knowledge than us and hardware. So there could be about a dozen or so people who are trying to find the remaining private keys. Its definitely worth the time.

oops, thanks, and fixed.

You are off with the numbers.
Security is 128 bit for 256 bit public keys, and 50 bit for 100 bit pk.
So the security headroom is 128-50 = 78 bits.

Currently not an issue for those that use proper secure random full entropy 256 bit private keys even if the attackers use "cool equipment and leading programmers".

These keys still have 128 bits of security even with the current search algorithms.  The current record on this thread is 100 bits which leaves 128 - 50 = 78 bits of headroom.

Assuming 115 bits is possible then that still leaves 128 - 58 = 70 bits of headroom.

If you want your coins to be more secure than that then use a standard 160 bit Bitcoin address and never reuse your Bitcoin addresses.

If you want even more security then use a 256 bit Bitcoin address and never reuse your Bitcoin addresses.

Finally, if there is a breakthrough and ECDSA is deemed less secure then Bitcoin will simply switch to another algorithm with network consent - which I believe would happen given a known reduction in the security of the ECDSA (as long as the change did not try to sneak in a whole lot of extra baggage with it).

Thank you for sharing, very informative.

C++. Single threaded 4 to 5 (but probably hardly matters). You increase your chances to hit a sweet-spot but spread speed over the kangaroos. So it compensates.
To parallelize: as many as needed. Ratio 1:1.

If now investors in bitcoin learn that a small bunch of intusiasts with the help of improvised means were able to find private keys in 100 bit space ,then what will happen to this whole story if it is seriously engaged in professionals with cool equipment and leading programmers.And I wonder how soon the cost of cryptocurrencies will cost $ 0.

Just out of curiosity, implemented in C or Python? I see there is a discussion how many kangaroos is optimal, any conclusions from your side on this question?

Sorry I won't release source code at this point in time.

As I am out of the game I want to say thank you to the creator of this puzzle. You had a good timing for revealing the public keys for us! Hope the next solvers will be lucky and grateful too. I will donate a good amount of the BTC I found for good purposes. Regards.

that's the puzzle developer wants to see

Explained in the thread if you bothered to read it.

Three more to go to a new world record. 

It will be interesting to see how far people can/will go on this.