Topic: Find the WIF challenge (Read 1717 times)

I had fun going through these ranges on the basis of the principle to reduce the search time that the last character before the 5 could perhaps be:  a c e n h G . According to the script I purposely excluded all other ABCDEF....123456789

Kw111111111a5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kwzzzzzzzzza5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kw111111111c5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kwzzzzzzzzzc5bCRZhiS5sEGMPmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kw111111111e5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kwzzzzzzzzzze5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kw111111111n5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kwzzzzzzzzzn5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kw111111111h5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kwzzzzzzzzzh5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
Kw111111111G5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
KwzzzzzzzzzG5bCRZhiS5sEGMPmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
The same tracks were made with the prefixes L1 L2 L3 L4 L5 and Kx Ky Kz for compressed

In Uncompressed
5J11111111a5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5Jzzzzzzzza5bCRZhiS5sEGMPmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5J11111111c5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5Jzzzzzzzzc5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5J11111111e5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5Jzzzzzzzze5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5J11111111n5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5Jzzzzzzzzn5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5J11111111h5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5Jzzzzzzzzh5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5J11111111G5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
5JzzzzzzzzG5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob

To cover more it would be necessary to continue with 5K and 5H but hey I think like PawGo that it's one more fake and a waste of time, I just wanted to make sure :-)
Surely someone else had to do it before but I haven't seen anything these are my results after there is still a small chance with 5K and 5H or with another character than a c e n h G before 5 but I very much doubt it although it remains a possibility
The only serious addresses that deserve attention are those of Puzzle 1000 BTC, the rest for 99% is only fake or scam

Hi.

There can be a huge number of such private keys. You must specify the address to exclude false keys.

found: 1NHHXBd4TEciCEioM71pM48p9AHCcE4kTU
key  : 58087B91616FA8DEDB7FA0E9C9C4B4C48CF32CCC243383D79E3EA3584BA54F99
WIF  : KzAqRruKGzxe5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob

found: 19fKRSyPJFG8SsnwH9meLw6DC3y3tntcFB
key  : 5808A69DF6E8B4CA8F1E9C152B5402619BB9EA9EA365842C41A5313F842054F1
WIF  : KzAqWA3BNLxe5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob

found: 13ZcJFyKz3NE2NWZBgEm2xV1ABnn3D9xkg
key  : 5808B0CF288223EC7C3CD9CF79C90DB073C41F1DD345497C29678D61E889FF19
WIF  : KzAqXB2H2vxe5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
 
found: 1MKGBZTraWXtA1WYT6DU9wffzNFYKRgsop
key  : 5809758BB48FE6B28AADC240B79AC79BD6CE0B12CAB4868F47B86A05634E5219
WIF  : KzAqroanJaxe5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
 
found: 1H5eMgcsGvBewQsphbMQX6mZdw8H34NmTW
key  : 5809C5A41A05EA2BECB823C4382A758EE7739DEF696DFB0A02B7633DA713A3CD
WIF  : KzAqzo7YGjxe5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
 
found: 1MXqhUJTwwtm6qKqPUGePdP9SMsa4ZwnNS
key  : 580A29BADF3CA2CBADB4A2D3CFC8C25E7A46D38B4E0B8116286D6A9AC5295151
WIF  : KzArAnMMkxxe5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob

I did find a private key, but it isn't the right one.
WIF: KzEqRCHT8Yxe5bCRZhiS5sEGMpmcRZdpAhmWLRfMmutGmPHtjVob
BTC Address: 14BUHHGATLQYhsytu817cdW3EXfuWgnQtb

Maybe he also checks others, in the same block of 02 November 2017 there are other addresses that receive 500 BTC:


 

He will get 10% as agreed.

The owner (a former miner) doesn't even need these coins. He splitted a large account (147PsLmcSFhEUEjAerYY6VEH6Z6kCrDwyK) and transferred back in 2017 to three addresses 500 BTC each. Two of them he has access to:

1Ek93YBu22kMJ43GhbTy13dYnckcbZE4xu
1HtQwoguFkvMynK1NyDhh1weHjrMyDAKU

But for the address 1PfNh5fRcE9JKDmicD2Rh3pexGwce1LqyU he lost a part of the private key as you can see on the diary photo. And he agreed to make a challenge, where people can participate to find the WIF.

Typical Russian logic, everyone's else fault, not yours.
You are scammer and thief, you do not only copy-paste other source code, you wait for others to do the job for you, promising 10% 20% 50% of reward. Ridiculous. I am only surprised how many stupid people believe you - but that's how greed works, everyone wants to be rich for free (at other's cost).

You clearly said you do not want to return wif500 coins to owner, which makes you a thief!

Free Ukraine! Free Belarus!

Seems like I confused m for n.

If you want to work with that characters, check them again, they don't match the characters shown in the picture https://github.com/phrutis/wif500.

You are right. It does. I apologize.

It shows 40 characters:

In the photo of the diary, it only shows 38 characters. What happened to the other two characters?

Interesting remark #2
and then check the valid WIF's bitcoin address against this list: List of all Bitcoin addresses ever used https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-of-all-bitcoin-addresses-ever-used-currently-unavailable-on-temp-location-5265993

Interesting remark. It is possible to launch search without given target address, then program will output every WIF which fulfills criteria (produces the correct WIF having initial parameters). I think they do not use that approach. It would give many results, but as usually when we are in crypto world, chances it produces address with balance are almost 0.

The program is looking for exactly 1 address (in this challenge case for 1PfNh5fRcE9JKDmicD2Rh3pexGwce1LqyU) and if the calculated WIF leads to this BTC address then it stops and shows the WIF. And this BTC address balance is > 0 (https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1PfNh5fRcE9JKDmicD2Rh3pexGwce1LqyU).

I may ensure you there are thousands of valid WIFs with a given checksum. That's the way how my program WifSolverCuda works, it calculates checksum for private keys and if it covers the expected one (from original WIF), pubkey, address etc are checked. But as application verifies millions of keys every second, there are many, many hits of potential keys.

Soon we will know. The diagram https://github.com/phrutis/wif500 shows that they have completed 90% of the challenge.

1 out of 70 is really weak proof though. Even Electrum 4.3.0 Windows installer has 1/65 flag[1]. The actual concern of this project are,
1. Whether the author will give the reward if someone beat the challenge.
2. Whether valid WIF (leads to non-empty Bitcoin address) actually exist.
3. It's closed source.

It all comes down to whether you trust them or not. But personally i would use my money/resource for something else even if i own or rent high end GPU.

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8dff4ac0b8cf04226d9a67c695d7905c4c6c2400cc331e8883adea828cea0024

The organizer of the challenge is showing a picture of the damaged paper https://github.com/phrutis/wif500. How is it possible that they have a picture, if soferox is the owner and didn't ask the organizer to create a challenge?

@soferox
Can you give us an answer?

Users should never even download a .exe file from a source they don't know or fully trust. Verifying is not going to give you the required information specially using unreliable tools like VirusTotal with false positives and false negatives.
Specially if the project itself is closed source.

Well for starters, he wrote that his notebook with Bitcoin private key was damaged by a flood, and since I never saw him talk about any challenge like this, I'd say it's not likely for him to be the challenge organizer (unless he explicitly mentioned that in some post that has eluded my attention).