Topic: Introducing the 310 BTC Bitcoin Challenge - page 2. (Read 19991 times)

Maybe it's time for a little hint?...

That's what this forum is all about.

Update from Pip
- Oct 14 2018: The website was getting more visitors on a daily basis. Exponentially. The server even had troubles serving all of them. Until the 310 BTC wallet got cracked. Now my daily visitors chart is very very bearish. I mean, very very very bearish. Down over 90%! If I were to chart the amount of emails on a daily basis it will most certainly look very similar. It feels like there is no interest anymore. I'm puzzled the 0.31 BTC wallet is still unsolved and the remaining coins in the 310 BTC wallet are not even moved days later.....

- Oct 14 2018: In the next weeks I will have someone build a new website and I will start one or a couple smaller challenges ( 0.X BTC ). Those I need to set a baseline in order to try and make sure the next challenge will last a little longer while not making it impossible to solved these tihngs within a reasonable time frame. Keep an eye on the website!

I look at the BTC address and there was no balance to it already 310 BTC were sent. I guess someone got it the first.  Can they show us here how they found it?

310 BTC is huge. You're one of those rich guys if you have that about of BTC these days. I can't imagine someone is giving that much. But yes must be richer than anyone else.

Hello ...


Yep .... but .... it's been found .... 

By now it's very likely, that either no solution exists or that the solution requires absurd leaps of logic, so that noone will find it.

I am more interested in knowing the conclusion of the 310 to learn.

SCAM !!!!

bitcoin-challenge (real)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bitcoin-challenge-2421043

bitcoin challenge Fake !
https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/bitcoin-challenge-2435243


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There are roughly ten red flags regarding this challenge. By now I would be very surprised if this wasn't a hoax.

The fact that there still is no solution even from op, is a red flag for me. Probably just some millionaire trying to launder his coin.

Be careful, this guy is not the original OP; Don't send anything!!

I made it a bit bigger

Can you remove the Bitcoin address from your quote? I've reported his begging for deletion, so please remove it too.

I'm pretty sure there is some story behind this particular wallet with 310 BTC. You don't just give away your money. Do you know a lot of people who give away money to strangers? I don't. Thinking of reasons why someone could do it:

1. He can't use it himself due to some legal issues (has access to internet but no access to banking, for example). I don't believe in this story that he "is at the point where he does not care about larger amounts of money anymore". It's not how it works. Whenever you have more money, you start making more plans to spend it, and you don't consider that lot "a lot" anymore, thus you always want more. Everyone who went, say, from broke to middle class can prove it.
2. He is terminally ill or crippled and does not care.
3. He is doing it to prove someone some point (e.g. I'll burn my money in a fireplace, but I won't pay for your new car)
4. Maybe he's trying to prove the point that money, in fact, ruins your life instead of changing it for the better? What is this reference to charity? Most millionaires actually DO charity. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, just to name the few. Are they idiots? I think not. )
5. The funds are somehow locked in this wallet and he does not know the solution in full himself
6. He is actually not allowed to touch the funds (as per suggestion in one of previous posts), so he needs someone else to move them
7. The 310 problem has no solution (and it's not even included in the picture), he just took it himself. Now that the 310 BTC is claimed, why is Mr. Pip not disclosing the solution to the 310 BTC wallet? Maybe because it does not exist?
8. Maybe this picture is only a key to a much larger amount of BTC, so he needs help solving the first picture, and he'll try to solve the 2nd picture himself. ))

Would it not make sense to create, say, 10 wallets 31 BTC worth each? To give someone an extra opportunity? Why is it 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 310?

I don't think this could be actually called a "challenge". RSA large number factoring was a real challenge. It provided an incentive to create new algorithms, hardware devices, it attracted people to the problem. But what's the practical use of this "challenge"? Other than guessing someone else's weird riddles? I personally find it humiliating and condescending. I am not a hell of a programmer, but I can easily create a twisted "challenge" most people won't be able to solve, yet with an existing solution. With the amount of computer science knowledge needed to solve this, I'd personally better work on my own miner to live off devfee. At least, I'd be doing something useful.

p.s. I agree with one of the previous posters that this person is probably American. The niceness is probably due to the fact he's not a young person, I think he's in his 60s.

The winner or pip need to give me atleast 0.1BTC for the time and effort i put into this It hurts.
Cheers to the winner tho.

Why does it matter to you, what a random internet user thinks? Would you try to convince me of your opinion, if I say yes?

Ok, so you still think it was just money laundering?


I think that someone who was able to solve the puzzle know how to hide his identity 
Oh man, any idea how many more words you needed?
Congrats on being so close 


Maybe a team solved the puzzle and they're splitting the reward.
Or the winner doesn't fell secure storing whole amount in one wallet.


Yeah, for sure, people will donate tens of bitcoins for puzzles, OK 

Guess for the 0.31 btc rewards, don't you find it weird that 0.1 and 0.2 was in full decimals while 0.31 is related to 310 btc?
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if it helps anyone, the winner if want can give me 0.1 btc? I will be happy about it.

Happy for the winner.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nUAhlC_n21ZLZcRAHpLw9G--gpk4NUVIJqVp9F68qp4/edit

I guess for privacy and tax reasons.. we might never really hear of the winner....!

I hope the winner makes a video on the solution. Would be glad to learn