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 0.002
BTC 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.
Don't worry everyone, the address is funded and it will remain funded forever, I'm not that sort of girl.
I realize my proposal means you'll have to break this promise. It's up to you
If my math is right then we have 2*(51!) ~ 3*10^66 combinations. That's quite a big number.
And for each of those combinations the key has to be converter to address and checked.
Maybe somebody can further (greatly) reduce the numbers, but I don't know how.
If you account for duplicate characters, the number of possibilities drops significantly:
3 V
3 P
3 F
3 8
3 5
2 w
2 p
2 e
2 a
2 U
2 L
2 4
1 z
1 x
1 v
1 u
1 t
1 r
1 j
1 i
1 f
1 Z
1 Y
1 W
1 S
1 R
1 Q
1 M
1 K
1 J
1 D
1 A
1 3
1 2
1 1
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.
This is my public address: bc1qq2rnv02hjzv5h0lwa03um43afwcfcpf0qg56ca
the correct randomised key is: LP5U3KWRLvPwDefz4FVMrAJVFtU4u8pj15w8VSpZF2aaPeY5Qix8
Quoting for future reference
You should probably update the incorrect randomised key at the start of the topic.
many probably feel bad about the word 'stealing' and doing anything related to it.
It's like saying: "my Bitcoin is in
this list. Good luck stealing it".
If there were any way to confirm that the private key thing is legit and solvable (by referring to a trusted forum member to confirm this, for instance), it could make the whole thing pretty popular here on Bitcointalk.
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.