Topic: Please steal my bitcoins (Read 870 times)

Thanks for your input guys,

it is my calculation that this would be near on impossible but I need to be sure as this is just a test, I will be putting a full bitcoin at risk in future

I'll give you 0.002Btc close the topic. more valuable time people spend on this topic

What is the probability that this is the private key, from another address?
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If anyone cracks the Pvkey it will be obvious if it is the key to the posted public address.  Also the OP already posted a sig.
   I did a few calculations earlier and figure with my hardware it would take a few hundred years to go through all the permutations...  

What is the probability that this is the private key, from another address?

Damn this is much harder to win than LOTTO Combination ..


Book marking this thread and will check every now and then just to check if there is a winner.

GoodLuck everyone..

Why would Electrum be a clue... ?

If the concern was completely random. So it is extremely difficult to find the right combination..
We are talking about millions of possibilities. It is not impossible, but it takes a very high processing capacity to be able to do this in a timely manner.

If it was done using logic, then it might be easier. Even so, it would be necessary to first discover this logic, which will be equally difficult.

It is still an interesting challenge.

Hi All - thanks for all the great feedback

I have signed the wallet, here are the details:
Message:
Hello this is Dior
Address:
bc1qq2rnv02hjzv5h0lwa03um43afwcfcpf0qg56ca
Signature:
IBsoU2koKJvnjonXZ9O8/AIAAD5ZkgWgMmWOLwArXdV7eJxcKKn3DdDXO2j731mTy5W4vkSdDjyGudaQt7KS+e8=
Screenshot here: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1xg05QIzeXNj_1WeXg0uQLRO8qnYBMLjvjGngH8246k8/edit

Hopefully we can all relax and agree that this address belongs to me and only me, and yes I really want you to take them.  On that subject, please note that my use of the word "stealing" was only colourful hyperbole.  If you prefer a disclaimer I totally get that, we don't all live under the same legal system afterall, then here it is.  I guarantee I am the sole owner of the Bitcoin (BTC) recorded at the address stated and I am happy for anyone to move it to any other address and thereby take full and permanent ownership of it.  In fact I welcome it, I will consider it a success if achieved by any means necessary, mathematical or otherwise.

Lance V thanks for all your comments, I have edited the randomised key in the opening post, also to answer your point about the randomisation, the key has been heavily randomised.  I did initially start moving blocks of 2 or more characters around before it dawned on me that that was not the wisest method.  In the end I made a table, as eluded to earlier, and resorted an adjacent random number column multiple times.

So far, my money is quite literally on NotaTether  

I guess what this boils down to is how easy is it to rearrange the private key and successfully use it.  If we agree it is near impossible, great I will leave them there until quantum computing or BTC dollar appreciation changes that.  If someone takes them very easily, great but less so as I will need to rethink things.  If we think it is hard but not worth the effort then that's fine too, but can we quantify how hard that is, that would be useful information.

Thanks and good luck

There are lots of doubt and negative comment. If you will check the address which sent money to the address mentioned @op, you'll notice that it has big balance on it. So it probably was sent to create this "game" for fun, or maybe for some security purposes
If you don't want to play in on it, then don't haha. Not all people does something like this for money or any reward.

No it can't: 52!/2^52=17909712639806203109773682781470098163210004180908203.125

The coins were moved to that address 50 minutes before OP's topic was made. So my guns are likely on that she owns them.


Not really. A single GPU can go through 2^52 combinations of stuff quite quickly so it's not unreasonable to assume that it can also cycle through 52! permutations as well.

When people go through all the combinations, 0.002 BTC will be worth more than all the gold in the universe.

I like what you're doing But as you can see, many people are sceptical, and we've seen many Newbies over the years who waste people's time. Some, however, are honest. So I have a proposal to prove you're honest at this moment: can you move the 0.002BTC to another address, wait for it to confirm, and post the private key to the current address? If you do: don't overpay on transaction fees (your last transaction could have been a lot cheaper).
After that, you can continue your quest by randomizing the new private key and posting it.

It's a bit of a hassle, but I'd really appreciate you doing this. If you do, I believe your post is worth reading so I'll Merit it.

I realize my proposal means you'll have to break this promise. It's up to you

If you account for duplicate characters, the number of possibilities drops significantly:
It may even be "easier" to brute-force a random funded address. So indeed OP makes a good point with this topic.

@OP: did you really use a random order, or did you manually shuffle some (blocks of) characters? The latter would greatly increase the chance of ever finding this key.

Quoting for future reference You should probably update the incorrect randomised key at the start of the topic.

It's like saying: "my Bitcoin is in this list. Good luck stealing it".

I thought of that, but decided it's better if OP proves once that he's currently honest, without trusting anyone else with the funded private key. Trusting someone else with the private key kinda goes against what Bitcoin stands for.

Read carefully, the OP wants you to to take away his bitcoins. Thats the sole reason of private key to be there.

The idea of trying to trace the wallet balance and then cracking the private key is the last thing that should come to someone's mind. Imagine the complexity that is in the occassion of validating a transaction and then you want to try out in scrambling the alphanumeric combination to get a private key to unlock the wallet, it will be possible but not in the ner future as you will so get frustrated.

This is my opinion:

WE the members here should not attempt to do this UNLESS the OP will here and now "sign" the address in the original post.  This and this ALONE proves that the address is owned/controlled by them.

OP ---- why would you be unwilling to sign this address if in fact it is in your control?

This is an interesting thing for me, because as long as I am active in this forum most people are looking for a safe way so that their Bitcoin is not stolen.
But the opening post did the unexpected by inviting people to steal his Bitcoin. I don't know what the real purpose the opening post is doing this,
but it would be very interesting if there were members of this forum who managed to crack the private key. I agree that people who have
programming skills want to solve this puzzle not because of the reward, because the number of Bitcoins contained at the address is not large.
But maybe he want to test its ability to hack the wallet. Hopefully someone will succeed, I will continue to monitor this topic.

I don't think much has to be dealt with for 0.002 btc. When I look at the alphabetic and numerical numbers, I don't think it's worth the trouble at all. It is worth the effort if there is a large amount in it, but I do not recommend anyone to bother.

It is really strange and not popular to think that someone is barely giving out his information and telling everybody to steal whatever amount is contained by that account. At first look, it seems like I got to think the account is not yours because you are daring everybody to try stealing it if they can and that might be a crime to commit for it might belong to some innocent individual and have just stored that amount for better use in future. If that will be really yours giving out a randomized private key even after knowing the amount of Bitcoin you have in your account will still not push people in here to hack such because it will just be a hassle to be done so barely better keep that as long as you can or better leave it forgotten if you are really a hopeless one.