Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it - page 329.

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Quote from: Bulista on January 07, 2016, 09:12:37 AM

Something interesting.

I posted this in the first post of this thread:

Quote from: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 11:12:47 AM

-snip-

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

1DPUhjHvd2K4ZkycVHEJiN6wba79j5V1u3

I checked now that address, and I got another mysterious transaction Cheesy

But this transaction doesn't seem to be with generated private keys, probably the sender grabbed dozens of existing addresses and sent a low amount to all of them...

Maybe the creator of this puzzle sending some signals?

https://blockchain.info/address/1DPUhjHvd2K4ZkycVHEJiN6wba79j5V1u3

https://blockchain.info/tx/152d726f7155ffdbb47ae564fe7950c574c3e1c9f1d30982a3504dfb7540b6b8

So I was checking this transaction more in detail, look at the addresses where the funds came from:

https://blockchain.info/address/123KDU1b3PNfP7PHDvcXsgGVxHvMdskh2Y
https://blockchain.info/address/1JYt8iJd6ZdQu39VJ5LCzXHWArdkZaCXXq
https://blockchain.info/address/14F8FYRRq4VbdBQy9esYfBA4xvVKYGHZSQ
https://blockchain.info/address/1A8w1hSTSjbUQiiQ19XT3t5qHvvXKtehhM
https://blockchain.info/address/1AtsKkuA7J37izvwFfvpsniQa7ZKcQ1WXP

Look at the amount of transactions that are done on a similar way as the transaction from this puzzle!

They are not 100% like the puzzle but still... hundreds and hundreds of transactions done in a similar way.

it looks to me this transaction sent to my address was done by the creator of the puzzle.

To the creator of the puzzle: any hints you want to give us to solve this puzzle?

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Quote from: CIYAM on January 07, 2016, 09:15:34 AM

Quote from: BurtW on January 07, 2016, 09:00:19 AM

These local "idiots", including amaclin, have already claimed 50 of the 256 rewards. Wink

Fixed

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Quote from: BurtW on January 07, 2016, 09:00:19 AM

This local "idiots", including amaclin, have already claimed 50 of the 256 rewards. Wink

Should that be these?

Anyway I just wanted to say that this is an interesting thread and I think is likely to be a test of some sort of key generation method that has been used for cold storage (so I think the creator of the puzzle would like you to keep at it).

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Something interesting.

I posted this in the first post of this thread:

Quote from: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 11:12:47 AM

-snip-

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

1DPUhjHvd2K4ZkycVHEJiN6wba79j5V1u3

I checked now that address, and I got another mysterious transaction Cheesy

But this transaction doesn't seem to be with generated private keys, probably the sender grabbed dozens of existing addresses and sent a low amount to all of them...

Maybe the creator of this puzzle sending some signals?

https://blockchain.info/address/1DPUhjHvd2K4ZkycVHEJiN6wba79j5V1u3

https://blockchain.info/tx/152d726f7155ffdbb47ae564fe7950c574c3e1c9f1d30982a3504dfb7540b6b8

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Quote from: Bitcoinpro on January 06, 2016, 08:20:37 PM

it may be some kind of idiot test

These local "idiots", including amaclin, have already claimed 50 of the 256 rewards. Wink

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Quote from: shorena on January 06, 2016, 04:23:55 PM

Quote from: Bulista on January 06, 2016, 03:36:47 PM

-snip-
EDIT: and btw,

this is the sequence:

and this is x = y - 2^n:

Given the numbers we are dealing with you should probably use a log scale.

Log 2:

http://imgur.com/8aW8tj6
http://imgur.com/dGguJcK

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Quote from: amaclin on January 07, 2016, 03:05:31 AM

Quote from: Bulista on January 07, 2016, 03:02:30 AM

if you dont know if there is sequence or not, why are you talking shit?

Because this is public resource and anyone can say whatever he wants

Good point Cheesy

Quote from: tarrant_01 on January 06, 2016, 06:20:22 PM

Is there any way to tell what time an address was generated? I'm asking because the results for x = y / 2^n could be converted to a time of day.

That's not possible

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Quote from: Bulista on January 07, 2016, 03:02:30 AM

if you dont know if there is sequence or not, why are you talking shit?

Because this is public resource and anyone can say whatever he wants

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Quote from: Bitcoinpro on January 06, 2016, 08:20:37 PM

Quote from: TreasureSeeker on December 28, 2015, 01:35:32 PM

The transactions seem to originate from address 173ujrhEVGqaZvPHXLqwXiSmPVMo225cqT which had a Total received amount of 56,457.80848111 BTC and a Final Balance of 312.04932734 BTC

Definitely a very big player of some kind.

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their is no sequence i dont think
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if you dont know if there is sequence or not, why are you talking shit?

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Quote from: Bitcoinpro on January 06, 2016, 08:20:37 PM

why would u try to solve a sequence of random numbers

Because everyone reads only the subject of this topic Grin

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it may be some kind of idiot test

This board? The whole bct.o? Yes.

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Quote from: TreasureSeeker on December 28, 2015, 01:35:32 PM

The transactions seem to originate from address 173ujrhEVGqaZvPHXLqwXiSmPVMo225cqT which had a Total received amount of 56,457.80848111 BTC and a Final Balance of 312.04932734 BTC

Definitely a very big player of some kind.

a player of one special word

its called bs

their is no sequence i dont think

spam thread

why would u try to solve a sequence of random numbers

found in a transaction

does the question even makes sense to anyone

it may be some kind of idiot test

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Is it possible that the entity who created this is seeking employees capable of cracking it for its endeavor? I recall the NSA (or some other) putting out a contest, with the reward for solvers to become employees. Just a thought.

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Is there any way to tell what time an address was generated? I'm asking because the results for x = y / 2^n could be converted to a time of day.

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Quote from: Bulista on January 06, 2016, 03:36:47 PM

-snip-
EDIT: and btw,

this is the sequence:

and this is x = y - 2^n:

Given the numbers we are dealing with you should probably use a log scale.

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Quote from: Bulista on January 06, 2016, 09:54:58 AM

Quote from: BurtW on January 06, 2016, 09:07:30 AM

Quote from: Bulista on January 06, 2016, 05:46:00 AM

-snip-

I think that what you have done is to pretty much prove it is random and there is no predictive formula.

I'm not sure.

I got some infos that are getting me to believe that there is a possible formula behind it.

I give you an example. I'm playing around by creating random formulas, and I get pretty much similar results. Yet they are predictable with a formula.

All I use for inputs are 2 arrays, one with the current position and another with the sequential list of prime numbers.

For example:

Consider n = count, p = prime numbers, and y = sequence based on the formula 2^n + (n mod p) * Log(n+1, 2) <--- Random formula I invented.

y / 2^p + 1 and y-2^p *-1 are similar formulas to what was shown before for the var x in the real sequence, their results also appear to be random...

n	p	y = 2^n + (n mod p) * Log(n+1, 2)	y / 2^p + 1	y-2^p *-1
0	2	1	1.25000000	3
1	3	3	1.37500000	5
2	5	7	1.22406016	25
3	7	14	1.10937500	114
4	11	25	1.01234752	2023
5	13	45	1.00548399	8147
6	17	81	1.00061679	130991

Yet this sequence is breakable with a simple formula.

EDIT: this formula doesn't make any sense I know, just playing around

Am I the only one noticing that this guy makes a random formula using prime numbers and his first 3 results are exactly the ones as the sequence for this puzzle?

It seems pretty obvious that there is some formula using prime numbers behind this, no? And possibly the formula he posted is not so far from the real one.

Keep up the good work all!

Yea, I was actually surprised by those 3 first results since I was genuinely trying random stuff.

Maybe with some tweaks we can get to the right formula, if there is indeed one Grin

One thing I'm sure if we stop looking we won't know.

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Quote from: tarrant_01 on January 06, 2016, 03:05:27 PM

31-33 doesn't follow the pattern either. I missed that.

Yes, I see, but it was well observed.

Here is a chart of those values with the ups and downs for x = y / 2^n:

EDIT: and btw,

this is the sequence:

and this is x = y - 2^n:

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31-33 doesn't follow the pattern either. I missed that.

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Nice colletive work y'all! Gonna try to use matlab to make some intergers experiments.

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