Topic: Please take this $16,600,522 before the government gets it... - page 2. (Read 7141 times)
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I'm not a computer wizzard but I read somewhere it would take between 1 and 10 billion years for a normal computer to hack a private key, how can anybody take those bitcoins?
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Teamwork!
Hack a private key = brute force
How many private keys can a normal computer try each second? Feel free to be generous. A trillion you say? Whoa, but ok. 2^40. How many computers on your team? Be generous. A trillion you say? Whoa, another 2^40. Wow, every second the team is trying 2^80 private keys. There are about 2^25 seconds in a year. So, that first year the team knocks down 2^105 private keys, nice. So, in the first trillion years the team (we'll call them a dedicated bunch) will get 2^145 private keys done. Oh, darn the end of the universe is coming up and we are still short by a factor of 2^256/2^145=2^111. Oh, we're gonna need faster than normal computers and a really big team.
This is our way in...These paid fools let to much info out.
I'm not a computer wizzard but I read somewhere it would take between 1 and 10 billion years for a normal computer to hack a private key, how can anybody take those bitcoins?
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Teamwork!
Please take this $16,600,522 before the government gets it...
https://blockchain.info/address/1933phfhK3ZgFQNLGSDXvqCn32k2buXY8a
https://blockchain.info/address/1933phfhK3ZgFQNLGSDXvqCn32k2buXY8a
if the government are able to do so there will be no price on it anymore
i wonder if that guy have forgot his wallet pass or detail , god thats a lot $$
Well i would take it, ONLY IF I KNEW HOWto escape FBI,CIA,NSA,NASA and the whole US army who wants me to give their coins back
Seriously is it even possible to take thoose coins
Seriously is it even possible to take thoose coins
If it is, Bitcoin is finished.
True dat.
It really is funny how these crazy types are so scared of the "guvernmint" that they are wiling to destroy themselves just to spite them.
Well i would take it, ONLY IF I KNEW HOWto escape FBI,CIA,NSA,NASA and the whole US army who wants me to give their coins back
Seriously is it even possible to take thoose coins
Seriously is it even possible to take thoose coins
If it is, Bitcoin is finished.
Well i would take it, ONLY IF I KNEW HOWto escape FBI,CIA,NSA,NASA and the whole US army who wants me to give their coins back
Seriously is it even possible to take thoose coins
Seriously is it even possible to take thoose coins
wow .. thats a lot of money and it just gone like that?
So... either you are hoping to be stealing from him (or someone else), or you are doing a favor for him (and aiding and abetting an alleged criminal), or stealing from a government?
would it be stealing if someone would own the private key in your opinion?
Sorry for this but I might not be understanding the question. If you are asking:
"Is it stealing if you crack a wallet that does not belong to you without permission of the rightful owner of the (private key of the) wallet."
Yes, I think that is stealing.
I don't think anyone is really arguing that it isn't stealing, (or plunder, if it is indeed pirate booty). Instead I think that they feel that it is justified because of their belief about who might own it and the circumstances around that.
First was about stealing the fbi bitcoins or prevent them from using it (mining cartel) , now steal from an unidentified person...
Glad to see the bitcoin community is going homer simpson
Glad to see the bitcoin community is going homer simpson
lol , people are taking the add to do advertise !
So... either you are hoping to be stealing from him (or someone else), or you are doing a favor for him (and aiding and abetting an alleged criminal), or stealing from a government?
I look at it this way...
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Please take this $16,600,522 before the government gets it...
If no one opens it, it just reduces the total bitcoin in circulation which improves the value of all bitcoin now by 1% (and later by .5%), yes? That seems OK to me too.
Theoretically, it seems like this would not raise the value of bitcoin by 1%. For example, if you eliminate 50% of all the bitcoins, it would double the value of each existing bitcoin (+100%), since half the coins are seeking the same amount of goods.
I'm not sure what the equation is for the theoretical rise in value given X% amount of coins removed from circulation, but it's not (2X). It seems exponential in my head, but maybe an economist could chime in.
So... either you are hoping to be stealing from him (or someone else), or you are doing a favor for him (and aiding and abetting an alleged criminal), or stealing from a government?
would it be stealing if someone would own the private key in your opinion?
It may not be DPR's. If it is, why do you feel entitled to hack at it?
See the thread title.
They have his computer, and will analyze every sector and cluster on it, erased or not.
Yes, though I suspect that will not provide much more than what they have already in this regard.
So... either you are hoping to be stealing from him (or someone else), or you are doing a favor for him (and aiding and abetting an alleged criminal), or stealing from a government?
Please don't misunderstand, I am not judging you, I am just curious. I don't know whose wallet it is (despite circumstantial evidence), or what your thinking is on the matter. As a puzzle to be solved, it promises to be a fun one...to think about. Codebreaking is great fun. It just "feels" wrong to me, personally, to act on it. Like trespassing in a landmine sort of wrong. But then, as much as I am not anonymous, I deeply respect the anonymity and privacy of others, as well as the boundaries of mine/not-mine. Further, I am not at war with *anything* so I have no extra justifications for challenging my own ethical boundaries.
I do heartily wish you every good fortune, and safe travels on your adventure with this.
If no one opens it, it just reduces the total bitcoin in circulation which improves the value of all bitcoin now by 1% (and later by .5%), yes? That seems OK to me too.
It may not be DPR's. If it is, why do you feel entitled to hack at it?
See the thread title.
They have his computer, and will analyze every sector and cluster on it, erased or not.
Brute force won't work.
His roommates reported...
Ulbricht was more often seen curled up in a living roof sofa reading—possibly sci-fi novels from the local library–when not at his computer.
and he was arrested in the tiny science fiction section of the Glen Park (SF) library.
private key is based on text from
http://www.freewebs.com/yotopia2/Heinlein-Stranger-In-A-Strange-Land.pdf
His roommates reported...
Ulbricht was more often seen curled up in a living roof sofa reading—possibly sci-fi novels from the local library–when not at his computer.
and he was arrested in the tiny science fiction section of the Glen Park (SF) library.
private key is based on text from
http://www.freewebs.com/yotopia2/Heinlein-Stranger-In-A-Strange-Land.pdf
alright, let's assume this is correct and he did in fact use a brainwallet:
address is: 1933...
so I tried page 19 paragraph 33 - nothing
I went to page 9, that's the start of chapter III
but nothing :<
1933 could be a year... something happen in 1933 in the book?
Hunting a wild goose is sort of fun, but I am reticent on the matter. This really looks like a cloud-sourced theft attempt, and so not meriting my code-breaking chops.
That aside, I'd doubt the address is a firstbits address.
1933 was the year that Heinlein contracted Tubercluosis, causing him to retire from the Navy.
It isn't really a significant year in his novels, I've read most:
But if I were looking for a code for it, and was assuming it to be DPR's, June and July 2011 would be the time to think about, not the time near the arrest.
It may not be DPR's. If it is, why do you feel entitled to hack at it?
Freeing the bitcoins from this wallet may cause you more harm than enrichment.
Oh ye with breath within yer chest. Touch not, the cursed coins!
I'll get right on to that.
EDIT: The password is "swordfish"
EDIT: The password is "swordfish"
password = PrInCeSs BuTtErCuP5.0
Hey it's easy. The password is 1933phfhK3ZgFQNLGSDXvqCn32k2buXY8a too. 
Hint:
The password starts with the number 5
5wordfish
Told you so.
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