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Title: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 27, 2015, 08:10:50 PM
So just for the fun I created this bot that brute forces Bitcoin addresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua04HEx_zdk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua04HEx_zdk)

Of course its nearly impossible to crack any normal generated addresses but as I said, just doing it for the fun :))

Here is what i did:

1. Grabbed all unique public keys in the blockchain and placed them in a local Database

2. Coded an app to generate private keys from Bigints (Both compressed an uncompressed) with multiple RNG types

3. For each PVK generated the app checks the Database for a possible public address match

4. A txt file is created with the PVK and Public address in case of a match

5. I will run the app for the next 464656656565656566565646367618239128323718298319239129309 years to see if I get any good addresses :)))

I got dozens of used addresses but they were all empty already.

Also did with dictionary attack and got dozens of used addresses, all empty also.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: gbianchi on December 27, 2015, 08:29:24 PM
So just for the fun I created this bot that brute forces Bitcoin addresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua04HEx_zdk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua04HEx_zdk)

Of course its nearly impossible to crack any normal generated addresses but as I said, just doing it for the fun :))

Here is what i did:

1. Grabbed all unique public keys in the blockchain and placed them in a local Database

2. Coded an app to generate private keys from Bigints (Both compressed an uncompressed) with multiple RNG types

3. For each PVK generated the app checks the Database for a possible public address match

4. A txt file is created with the PVK and Public address in case of a match

5. I will run the app for the next 464656656565656566565646367618239128323718298319239129309 years to see if I get any good addresses :)))

I got dozens of used addresses but they were all empty already.

Also did with dictionary attack and got dozens of used addresses, all empty also.

If someone interested I can sell a copy of the app + the database (around 10 GB) for 1 BTC.

I have the same dababase of about 30 GB or 600.000.000 records.

interested ?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: tyz on December 27, 2015, 08:40:44 PM
Funny and a little creepy  ;D

You could try to use brute-force for brain wallets. You will find a bunch of used empty addresses, too.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Rols on December 28, 2015, 12:58:46 AM
You can spend your time and money but you will end up with no gains from it.  ;D


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: hedgy73 on December 28, 2015, 01:05:47 AM
So you're trying to steal other peoples bitcoins?

FYI its not fun its attempted theft.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: --Encrypted-- on December 28, 2015, 01:12:22 AM
5. I will run the app for the next 464656656565656566565646367618239128323718298319239129309 years to see if I get any good addresses :)))

lol. what are you, immortal?

you're wasting your time, mate. better to spend a year's salary on a few miners or something.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: LsHallo on December 28, 2015, 01:24:59 AM
It may be a nice piece of software, but are you sure this will have success?
1BTC price is a bit heavy for that many years of computing for a potential of a few bitcoins... I wouldn't even hold one in one address.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Blawpaw on December 28, 2015, 01:39:40 AM
lolol ... What?? Are you actually trying to sell a software bot that cracks empty bitcoin addresses??? Nah tx!


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: steeev on December 28, 2015, 02:21:41 AM
every time i click that link i get a google privacy policy agreement popup

if i go to you tube from a bookmark, it doesn't happen... dodgy link ?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Cyaren on December 28, 2015, 02:24:03 AM
It's going to take forever lol... No point.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: 1Referee on December 28, 2015, 02:52:11 AM
Good luck with your journey through infinity. It's basically a waste of time and resources to attempt a brute force attack in this case.

It won't happen, but let's pretend you gained access to an address of some one that has 10BTC in it, what will you then do? Steal the coins?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: helloeverybody on December 28, 2015, 02:56:52 AM
The chances of finding an address that has most in it is infinitely small,  I'm surprised you even found any that has had coin in it at some point.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: jbreher on December 28, 2015, 04:59:18 AM
I got dozens of used addresses but they were all empty already.

Bullshit. Proof, or GTFO.

Quote
Also did with dictionary attack and got dozens of used addresses, all empty also.

This I can believe. Just points out the folly of using anything but randomly generated addresses.

Quote
If someone interested I can sell a copy of the app + the database (around 10 GB) for 1 BTC.

Ahh. A motive for your outlandish claims.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: bitraine on December 28, 2015, 05:26:46 AM
i saw something same  like this crap  on google play. dont remerber the name,  you can only crack empty addresses with that. not worth to buy


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 07:43:15 AM
I got dozens of used addresses but they were all empty already.

Bullshit. Proof, or GTFO.


Bullshit? Here, take some of them:

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreAvUcVfH
1LagHJk2FyCV2VzrNHVqg3gYG4TSYwDV4m
biginteger number: 2

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreB4AD8Yi
1MnyqgrXCmcWJHBYEsAWf7oMyqJAS81eC
biginteger number: 4

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU77MfhviY5
1EhqbyUMvvs7BfL8goY6qcPbD6YKfPqb7e
biginteger number: 8

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreCUtzTQw
18XrReT5ChW8qgXecNgKTU5T6MrMMLnV8H
biginteger number: 16

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreR42AY81
1EoXPE6MzT4EnHvk2Ldj64M2ks2EAcZyH4
biginteger number: 128

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrgA9tXshp
17imJe7o4mpq2MMfZ328evDJQfbt6ShvxA
biginteger number: 1024

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEstqeYvoUVo
1AH93tcUoyFtioff7U5aucuQLkFL2rnDpn
biginteger number: 65536

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5iqQ5LiPbANTmPT6qeM5
1JuzhXdvfwoFzKRAEPcuVLBkhCWseEcQWQ
biginteger number: 295147905179352825856

5HpHagTPJmwV3kz55wDUAqAMPn87RwPLDTPXSF9EHqBW6813PKj
18uWtZAB1NBGRqcTZiFX8hKeYYve1uAZMP
biginteger number: 26959946667150639794667015087019630673637144422540572481103610249216

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU74sHUHy8S
1CUNEBjYrCn2y1SdiUMohaKUi4wpP326Lb
biginteger number: 3

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreB1FQ8BZ
1NZUP3JAc9JkmbvmoTv7nVgZGtyJjirKV1
biginteger number: 3

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreB4AD8Yi
1MnyqgrXCmcWJHBYEsAWf7oMyqJAS81eC
biginteger number: 4

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreBKdE2NK
1UCZSVufT1PNimutbPdJUiEyCYSiZAD6n
biginteger number: 6

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU76rnZwVdz
19ZewH8Kk1PDbSNdJ97FP4EiCjTRaZMZQA
biginteger number: 7

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU77MfhviY5
1EhqbyUMvvs7BfL8goY6qcPbD6YKfPqb7e
biginteger number: 8

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreBoNWTw6
1GDWJm5dPj6JTxF68WEVhicAS4gS3pvjo7
biginteger number: 10

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreCHK2Zzv
1KgVr2GExouGLAeAt79KwxykCck4k9Cexk
biginteger number: 14

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreCUtzTQw
18XrReT5ChW8qgXecNgKTU5T6MrMMLnV8H
biginteger number: 16

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Dq8Au4Pv
1E6NuFjCi27W5zoXg8TRdcSRq84zJeBW3k
biginteger number: 21

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreD437Nay
19vxtDbLMNasSpbAEZd7va5Qge6d2zYWbp
biginteger number: 21

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreDEUj22G
1MNagJqYUsWBD47QbsebCT2Lt7GwZtjkg
biginteger number: 23

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7QHept7Wc
1EMxdcJsfN5jwtZRVRvztDns1LgquGUTwi
biginteger number: 42

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Tmu6qHxS
1PitScNLyp2HCygzadCh7FveTnfmpPbfp8
biginteger number: 49

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreJ58DM42
1QAALUJNskZWEbvwKXoTteowgs9xGGeAZR
biginteger number: 66

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreKA9Sz8L
1AdaHxALc5jknZVmNtcduvkD33WBv3sX6i
biginteger number: 75

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7hDgvu64y
1McVt1vMtCC7yn5b9wgX1833yCcLXzueeC
biginteger number: 76

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreKnSXYds
16Uhv71wNqMeaTW6YZQ8L3SaeVuomoD3dX
biginteger number: 81

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreLwB7DbW
1P1Dur122Pzey73fFyUgfSbcxDdedSSm4z
biginteger number: 91

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreMbi1WL5
1BiXAVzed7Ue5kG2ehnsWcfqQjdMcY2hqu
biginteger number: 97

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreNXqEJTk
1DerC5SzMPgBN4o6yaxcRZ7TMBCDus6nLT
biginteger number: 105

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreQuyVxqv
163bgHt747rfMKf7tM6XEoCzhKbvrYgZ6N
biginteger number: 126

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreQyNNN1W
1FB8cZijTpRQp3HX8AEkNuQJBqApqfTcX7
biginteger number: 127

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreR42AY81
1EoXPE6MzT4EnHvk2Ldj64M2ks2EAcZyH4
biginteger number: 128

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreaXSbUeR
1NcyZoVby5LbHXNVedcQpwtYj5TMGqGQzZ
biginteger number: 212

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreakL7yRD
1NvxH7VHMwVdwHCpwLLVhecieHZy3oVPoZ
biginteger number: 214

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU8xvGK1zpm
1M92tSqNmQLYw33fuBvjmeadirh1ysMBxK
biginteger number: 224

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrecTDy178
1EcDD3QLhSg9zmPnExs5etYaXP5o4yT8xM
biginteger number: 229

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrefTAtA4s
14FEwXgmVL37WvqVAucoijV1piKyzSCxzc
biginteger number: 255

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrehRFjJLe
1LDMZk7BE99i8PtUQrnE1jKgwyKipBX4yk
biginteger number: 273

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsreuznpXW7
1DvNQX45opAhUG7cwsFvsRUhj66CRMGbiQ
biginteger number: 384

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUB3vfDKcxZ
1CQFwcjw1dwhtkVWBttNLDtqL7ivBonGPV
biginteger number: 467

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUBTL67V6dE
1LeBZP5QCwwgXRtmVUvTVrraqPUokyLHqe
biginteger number: 514

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrfMmmfq9d
1FBY6EV1rTrnbQ56EszAUvELLXKNmT7cnq
biginteger number: 613

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrfTnEiT3P
178PowSuDGk6NTzgsoFbeXQH5w6Gn4d2Xm
biginteger number: 666

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUGxXgtm63M
1PgQVLmst3Z314JrQn5TNiys8Hc38TcXJu
biginteger number: 1155

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUMMzJXdRKc
1BTeQw63egu3r8ju2n85T1Uf6ifssWJxzk
biginteger number: 1668

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrhhbmNzJd
12rdjPMqAuLpqeuMfYPgYQyHFZbW45sbJP
biginteger number: 1817

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrhtFu1Xd4
1A4JKCgW9Uem8tcYYfDqmHKaizaeMKMjq8
biginteger number: 1911

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrhtjezna1
1DurkadVnKgU9ANtR1Fm5TtFHdNeoemdMq
biginteger number: 1915

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrieZCiCTp
14tAs3FL2WV1n7beBy1QvKCcigH4NsmpZc
biginteger number: 2304

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUW5RtS2JN1
1DBaumZxUkM4qMQRt2LVWyFJq5kDtSZQot
biginteger number: 2683

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUspniiQZds
1Pie8JkxBT6MGPz9Nvi3fsPkr2D8q3GBc1
biginteger number: 5216

5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5ip4nEB3kEsrruFWjbhK
19fZtCaTEioa48Trs3qHDjWFWMBawbz9tk
biginteger number: 6547

Compressed/uncompressed are mixed in the list


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 07:50:23 AM
Good luck with your journey through infinity. It's basically a waste of time and resources to attempt a brute force attack in this case.

It won't happen, but let's pretend you gained access to an address of some one that has 10BTC in it, what will you then do? Steal the coins?

Probably 10 BTC I wouldn't transfer, too low for the risk.

But imagine you get any address with thousands of them? Would you judge anyone who dares to transfer them?

As satoshi said, the ownership of bitcoin belongs to the one who has the private key, not to who thinks it "holds" them.

Nobody owns bitcoins, the only thing you own is a private key.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Kprawn on December 28, 2015, 07:58:46 AM
If for one reason this is worth the effort to show how Bruteforcing a Bitcoin Address would be impossible... some people will not believe this without practical proof. There are still people

out there who believe that Bitcoin can be hacked. When I started out with Bitcoin, it was one of my first concerns... until I understood the math behind it. Let's assume that there are

many people like myself out there, who needs to be educated. Just post this link in your comment section --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZloHVKk7DHk ... Just to show how

impossible it is.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: doof on December 28, 2015, 08:18:34 AM
<insert picture of the sun and energy>


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: mexxer-2 on December 28, 2015, 08:51:06 AM
<insert picture of the sun and energy>
https://i.imgur.com/fYFBsqp.jpg


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 08:54:03 AM
Oh boy the keys you found:

Code:
5HpHagTPJmwV3kz55wDUAqAMPn87RwPLDTPXSF9EHqBW6813PKj
18uWtZAB1NBGRqcTZiFX8hKeYYve1uAZMP
biginteger number: 26959946667150639794667015087019630673637144422540572481103610249216

Private Key Hexadecimal Format (64 characters [0-9A-F]):
0000000100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Code:
5HpHagT65TZzG1PH3CSu63k8DbpvD8s5iqQ5LiPbANTmPT6qeM5
1JuzhXdvfwoFzKRAEPcuVLBkhCWseEcQWQ
biginteger number: 295147905179352825856

Private Key Hexadecimal Format (64 characters [0-9A-F]):
0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000

Im pretty sure they have been generated randomly.

Also isnt this the video that evil knievel used?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 09:00:23 AM
<insert picture of the sun and energy>

Do you see how big this number is?

I got dozens of used addresses but they were all empty already.

Bullshit. Proof, or GTFO.


Bullshit? Here, take some of them:

...

5HpHagTPJmwV3kz55wDUAqAMPn87RwPLDTPXSF9EHqBW6813PKj
18uWtZAB1NBGRqcTZiFX8hKeYYve1uAZMP
biginteger number: 26959946667150639794667015087019630673637144422540572481103610249216

...


Quote
biginteger number: 26959946667150639794667015087019630673637144422540572481103610249216

This number is as big as the sun, yet it was cracked.

It has no BTC value inside, but it actually already had bitcoins.

Now whats the chances of that? of finding a used address?

The sun can be big, but the luck factor can sometimes overcome all those improbable probabilities.

Remember, almost every day somewhere in the world there is someone winning the lottery.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: msc on December 28, 2015, 09:30:14 AM
Quote
biginteger number: 26959946667150639794667015087019630673637144422540572481103610249216

This number is as big as the sun, yet it was cracked.
Actually, that number is equal to 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 hex.  It's not exactly random.  I'm not sure what's going on here, but it's very fishy.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: jbreher on December 28, 2015, 09:34:27 AM
Now whats the chances of that? of finding a used address?

1/(2^160). IOW, Bullshit.

Posting a handful of addresses anyone can find for themselves by trawling through a block explorer is in no way proof that you generated a random number, hashed it, and ended up with a bitcoin address that had been previously used.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 09:58:02 AM
Isn't this attempted theft ?

If you would randomly find an address is 5 BTC in it, your saying you won't take it ???

Its an attempted scam to sell you the database.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: redsn0w on December 28, 2015, 10:01:29 AM
It's math. .. come on guys I don't believe you can trust him  ::).


You can't 'hack' the math ....


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 02:08:55 PM
ok guys let's do some math.

Look at this transaction here:

https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

those 32.896 BTC were sent to multiple addresses, all the private keys of those addresses seem to be generated by some kind of formula.

For example:

Address 2:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU74sHUHy8S
1CUNEBjYrCn2y1SdiUMohaKUi4wpP326Lb
Biginteger PVK value: 3
Hex PVK value: 3

Address 3:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU76rnZwVdz
19ZewH8Kk1PDbSNdJ97FP4EiCjTRaZMZQA
Biginteger PVK value: 7
Hex PVK value: 7

Address 4:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU77MfhviY5
1EhqbyUMvvs7BfL8goY6qcPbD6YKfPqb7e
Biginteger PVK value: 8
Hex PVK value: 8

Address 5:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Dq8Au4Pv
1E6NuFjCi27W5zoXg8TRdcSRq84zJeBW3k
Biginteger PVK value: 21
Hex PVK value: 15

Address 6:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Tmu6qHxS
1PitScNLyp2HCygzadCh7FveTnfmpPbfp8
Biginteger PVK value: 49
Hex PVK value: 31

Address 7:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7hDgvu64y
1McVt1vMtCC7yn5b9wgX1833yCcLXzueeC
Biginteger PVK value: 76
Hex PVK value: 4C

Address 8:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU8xvGK1zpm
1M92tSqNmQLYw33fuBvjmeadirh1ysMBxK
Biginteger PVK value: 224
Hex PVK value: E0

Address 9:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUB3vfDKcxZ
1CQFwcjw1dwhtkVWBttNLDtqL7ivBonGPV
Biginteger PVK value: 467
Hex PVK value: 1d3

Address 10:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUBTL67V6dE
1LeBZP5QCwwgXRtmVUvTVrraqPUokyLHqe
Biginteger PVK value: 514
Hex PVK value: 202

Address 11:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUGxXgtm63M
1PgQVLmst3Z314JrQn5TNiys8Hc38TcXJu
Biginteger PVK value: 1155
Hex PVK value: 483

Address 12:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUW5RtS2JN1
1DBaumZxUkM4qMQRt2LVWyFJq5kDtSZQot
Biginteger PVK value: 2683
Hex PVK value: a7b

Address 13:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUspniiQZds
1Pie8JkxBT6MGPz9Nvi3fsPkr2D8q3GBc1
Biginteger PVK value: 5216
Hex PVK value: 1460

Address 14:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFVfZyiN5iEG
1ErZWg5cFCe4Vw5BzgfzB74VNLaXEiEkhk
Biginteger PVK value: 10544
Hex PVK value: 2930

and so on...

until the addresses 50 (1MEzite4ReNuWaL5Ds17ePKt2dCxWEofwk) it was already cracked by someone.

Any ideas what's the formula behind the generation of these addresses?

The prize would be ~32 BTC :)


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 02:16:46 PM
-snip-
until the addresses 50 (1MEzite4ReNuWaL5Ds17ePKt2dCxWEofwk) it was already cracked by someone.

Any ideas what's the formula behind the generation of these addresses?

The prize would be ~32 BTC :)


The first 32 bit are known to be vulnerable, due to bad RNG. Someone wrote a paper about it. AFAIK No founds have been stolen. What you found is nothing special, you are no the first and you will not be the last. The first 100 (in decimal) private keys are known "brain wallets".


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 02:27:17 PM
-snip-
until the addresses 50 (1MEzite4ReNuWaL5Ds17ePKt2dCxWEofwk) it was already cracked by someone.

Any ideas what's the formula behind the generation of these addresses?

The prize would be ~32 BTC :)


The first 32 bit are known to be vulnerable, due to bad RNG. Someone wrote a paper about it. AFAIK No founds have been stolen. What you found is nothing special, you are no the first and you will not be the last. The first 100 (in decimal) private keys are known "brain wallets".

Don't come here mocking my comment just because you are a Hero Member.

Read again my comment and check the facts.

The first 100 private keys on that sequence are not known as you say, otherwise the addresses until the address 100 would be spent already.

I know there is a formula behind those addresses, someone just needs to find out.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 02:37:21 PM
-snip-
until the addresses 50 (1MEzite4ReNuWaL5Ds17ePKt2dCxWEofwk) it was already cracked by someone.

Any ideas what's the formula behind the generation of these addresses?

The prize would be ~32 BTC :)


The first 32 bit are known to be vulnerable, due to bad RNG. Someone wrote a paper about it. AFAIK No founds have been stolen. What you found is nothing special, you are no the first and you will not be the last. The first 100 (in decimal) private keys are known "brain wallets".

Don't come here mocking my comment just because you are a Hero Member.

You know so little about this I wonder if you actually managed to write the code for this. Trying to attack me personally (or rather the account Im posting from) will only make you more silly.

Your outputs clearly states

Biginteger PVK value: 3, 7, 8, 21, 49, 76, 224, 467, 514, 1155, 2683, 5216, 10544

Read again my comment and check the facts.

Fact, the numbers above are within 10544/2160*100 = 7.21*10-43 percent of all possible version 1 addresses. They are the first few pages on directory.io.

The first 100 private keys on that sequence are not known as you say, otherwise the addresses until the address 100 would be spent already.

I know there is a formula behind those addresses, someone just needs to find out.

I did not talk about a sequence. I talked about the integers from 0 to 99 converted used as private keys as well as the integers from 0 to 232-1 used as private keys.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 02:41:57 PM
In other words: In your attempt to search the ocean for treasure you checked the first few molecules and found traces of loot. You now think these traces mean you are close to the big thing, while in reality you only found the traces of idiots from the past that though it was a good idea to put their treasure at the edge of the ocean. They are wiser now and use randomly generated spots for their loot.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: helloeverybody on December 28, 2015, 02:44:59 PM
In other words: In your attempt to search the ocean for treasure you checked the first few molecules and found traces of loot. You now think these traces mean you are close to the big thing, while in reality you only found the traces of idiots from the past that though it was a good idea to put their treasure at the edge of the ocean. They are wiser now and use randomly generated spots for their loot.

Im glad you translated this because i had totally lost what was going on in the posts previous to this one. now i have a rough idea what your talking about ;)

So bitcoin is still safe :)


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 02:54:13 PM
In other words: In your attempt to search the ocean for treasure you checked the first few molecules and found traces of loot. You now think these traces mean you are close to the big thing, while in reality you only found the traces of idiots from the past that though it was a good idea to put their treasure at the edge of the ocean. They are wiser now and use randomly generated spots for their loot.

Ok let's try again.

I'm not looking for any treasure, I'm just playing around with PVKs, you have a problem with that?

And to be honest with you I don't really care about the 32 BTC, I'm just in for the challenge.

Look, if you look at that transaction and at those addresses, you will see there is a sequence.

The addresses from 0 to 99 are the least of them.

Look at the numbers!

Address 2, pvk decimal value: 3
Address 3, pvk decimal value: 7
Address 4, pvk decimal value: 8
Address 5, pvk decimal value: 21
Address 6, pvk decimal value: 49
Address 7, pvk decimal value: 76
Address 8, pvk decimal value: 224
Address 9, pvk decimal value: 467
Address 10, pvk decimal value: 514
Address 11, pvk decimal value: 1155
Address 12, pvk decimal value: 2683
Address 13, pvk decimal value: 5216
Address 14, pvk decimal value: 10544
Address 15, pvk decimal value: ?

Until addresses 50 they were cracked already.

Is it so difficult to see that there is a sequence here?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: maku on December 28, 2015, 02:55:09 PM
In other words: In your attempt to search the ocean for treasure you checked the first few molecules and found traces of loot. You now think these traces mean you are close to the big thing, while in reality you only found the traces of idiots from the past that though it was a good idea to put their treasure at the edge of the ocean. They are wiser now and use randomly generated spots for their loot.

Im glad you translated this because i had totally lost what was going on in the posts previous to this one. now i have a rough idea what your talking about ;)

So bitcoin is still safe :)
I think is is a good explanation for non technical bitcoin users like me. But how previously generated keys are potentially vulnerable and the one we had now are safe?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 03:03:22 PM
In other words: In your attempt to search the ocean for treasure you checked the first few molecules and found traces of loot. You now think these traces mean you are close to the big thing, while in reality you only found the traces of idiots from the past that though it was a good idea to put their treasure at the edge of the ocean. They are wiser now and use randomly generated spots for their loot.

Im glad you translated this because i had totally lost what was going on in the posts previous to this one. now i have a rough idea what your talking about ;)

So bitcoin is still safe :)

bitcoin is safe, and this thread is not to prove it otherwise.

it actually shows how safe bitcoin is.

shorena didn't translate anything, he is just throwing dust to your face.

if you guys calm down and look at the sequence you will understand what I'm trying to say.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: AtheistAKASaneBrain on December 28, 2015, 03:04:30 PM
So you're trying to steal other peoples bitcoins?

FYI its not fun its attempted theft.


This is not really correct. You could say that testing the network to see how it handles higher amount of transactions is an attack on Bitcoin, but doing this is actually useful to know the system's limits, and they are pretty good since no matter how much he brute forces he isn't going to get much out of it except a warm computer which may be useful in winter.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: BurtW on December 28, 2015, 03:28:19 PM
https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

Does look like someone placed an interesting puzzle in the blockchain for us.

It appears to me to be a game of some sort:  if you crack the sequence you can get the BTC.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 03:37:51 PM
https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

Does look like someone placed an interesting puzzle in the blockchain for us.

It appears to me to be a game of some sort:  if you crack the sequence you can get the BTC.

Exactly.

Finally someone that listened to my words.

So, how to crack it?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: BurtW on December 28, 2015, 03:44:29 PM
https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

Does look like someone placed an interesting puzzle in the blockchain for us.

It appears to me to be a game of some sort:  if you crack the sequence you can get the BTC.

Exactly.

Finally someone that listened to my words.

So, how to crack it?
Easy, figure out the sequence, follow it, take the BTC off the generated addresses as you go along.

OK, so figuring out the sequence may actually be hard, but then if it wasn't hard it would not be worth doing, right?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 03:49:26 PM
https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

Does look like someone placed an interesting puzzle in the blockchain for us.

It appears to me to be a game of some sort:  if you crack the sequence you can get the BTC.

Exactly.

Finally someone that listened to my words.

So, how to crack it?
Easy, figure out the sequence, follow it, take the BTC off the generated addresses as you go along.

OK, so figuring out the sequence may actually be hard, but then if it wasn't hard it would not be worth doing, right?

:)

I already tried everything I could, no success.

I give up on it, but I'm curious if someone else can break it.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 03:51:39 PM
You could have started with.

https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

Does look like someone placed an interesting puzzle in the blockchain for us.

It appears to me to be a game of some sort:  if you crack the sequence you can get the BTC.

instead of.

So just for the fun I created this bot that brute forces Bitcoin addresses.
-snip-



Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: BurtW on December 28, 2015, 03:52:39 PM
You could have started with.

https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

Does look like someone placed an interesting puzzle in the blockchain for us.

It appears to me to be a game of some sort:  if you crack the sequence you can get the BTC.

instead of.

So just for the fun I created this bot that brute forces Bitcoin addresses.
-snip-


I think the bot found the puzzle.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 03:55:31 PM
You could have started with.

https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

Does look like someone placed an interesting puzzle in the blockchain for us.

It appears to me to be a game of some sort:  if you crack the sequence you can get the BTC.

instead of.

So just for the fun I created this bot that brute forces Bitcoin addresses.
-snip-


I think the bot found the puzzle.

Probably missed that between the "I hacked bitcoin claims". My bad. Enjoy the puzzle.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: BurtW on December 28, 2015, 03:59:08 PM
Lets start by what we know:

The BTC values of the outputs (0.001 through 0.256) are obviously the sequence numbers and the private keys are the sequence values.

How many of the sequence values do we already know (have been found by brute force)?  

Is the list in this thread the entire list of known values from the sequence?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: BurtW on December 28, 2015, 04:04:40 PM
Looks like you have lots of free time, don't you?

But, rather than doing that without any leads, i think you better try to brute-force bitcoin address which created using brain wallet.
In past some people collected some dust at brainwallet.org, they just use common words to did it.

Would be great to see someone can steal someone bitcoin in this way ::)
Since most people, especially those with paid signatures, don't read entire or even part of a thread before they blurt out a comment or opinion maybe we move the puzzle to a new thread?


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: helloeverybody on December 28, 2015, 04:06:22 PM
If the sequence is the same for the private key excluding the last 8 characters then why cant you just brute force the last 8? That would only take a few days/weeks for each unspent address assuming that the start of the private key remained the same for all of them.

Edit:- never mind i see the last ones you posted are up to 10 digits.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 04:19:49 PM
Looks like you have lots of free time, don't you?

But, rather than doing that without any leads, i think you better try to brute-force bitcoin address which created using brain wallet.
In past some people collected some dust at brainwallet.org, they just use common words to did it.

Would be great to see someone can steal someone bitcoin in this way ::)
Since most people, especially those with paid signatures, don't read entire or even part of a thread before they blurt out a comment or opinion maybe we move the puzzle to a new thread?

New thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983

Btw, I have more values of the sequence, but not at the moment.

I will post them in the new thread soon


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Videodrome on December 28, 2015, 04:28:49 PM
So just for the fun I created this bot that brute forces Bitcoin addresses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua04HEx_zdk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua04HEx_zdk)

Of course its nearly impossible to crack any normal generated addresses but as I said, just doing it for the fun :))

Here is what i did:

1. Grabbed all unique public keys in the blockchain and placed them in a local Database

2. Coded an app to generate private keys from Bigints (Both compressed an uncompressed) with multiple RNG types

3. For each PVK generated the app checks the Database for a possible public address match

4. A txt file is created with the PVK and Public address in case of a match

5. I will run the app for the next 464656656565656566565646367618239128323718298319239129309 years to see if I get any good addresses :)))

I got dozens of used addresses but they were all empty already.

Also did with dictionary attack and got dozens of used addresses, all empty also.

If someone interested I can sell a copy of the app + the database (around 10 GB) for 1 BTC.

You are rich, you can claim CLAM.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: foxkyu on December 28, 2015, 04:52:12 PM
You are rich, you can claim CLAM.
Yeah, that's true. You can claim your address with clam coin.

Maybe you can get more than 1 btc if address is really old.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: marcous on December 28, 2015, 05:30:58 PM
You are rich, you can claim CLAM.
Yeah, that's true. You can claim your address with clam coin.

Maybe you can get more than 1 btc if address is really old.

well speak my friend..  ;D


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: jbreher on December 28, 2015, 06:15:19 PM
I'm not looking for any treasure, I'm just playing around with PVKs, you have a problem with that?

A little. I mean, it's kind of an ethical quandary. If you run across a wallet lying in someone's driveway, do you scoop it up and continue on your way? Or do you consider it the rightful property of the homeowner? That's pretty clearly analogous to running across someone's poorly-constructed brainwallet address with funds in it.

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And to be honest with you I don't really care about the 32 BTC, I'm just in for the challenge.

And to be honest with you, I don't believe you. I believe you're just in to dupe those that know less than you into buying your 'app + database' for 1 BTC each.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Bulista on December 28, 2015, 06:34:41 PM
I'm not looking for any treasure, I'm just playing around with PVKs, you have a problem with that?

A little. I mean, it's kind of an ethical quandary. If you run across a wallet lying in someone's driveway, do you scoop it up and continue on your way? Or do you consider it the rightful property of the homeowner? That's pretty clearly analogous to running across someone's poorly-constructed brainwallet address with funds in it.

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And to be honest with you I don't really care about the 32 BTC, I'm just in for the challenge.

And to be honest with you, I don't believe you. I believe you're just in to dupe those that know less than you into buying your 'app + database' for 1 BTC each.

Oh man, I don't really care about that. Look, I will edit the post and remove that line.

Fortunately enough, 1 BTC is irrelevant in my total net worth.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: jbreher on December 28, 2015, 07:14:02 PM
And to be honest with you, I don't believe you. I believe you're just in to dupe those that know less than you into buying your 'app + database' for 1 BTC each.

Oh man, I don't really care about that. Look, I will edit the post and remove that line.

...and you did. I henceforth apologize for what seems to be my incorrect assumption regarding your motivation.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: shorena on December 28, 2015, 07:16:08 PM
And to be honest with you, I don't believe you. I believe you're just in to dupe those that know less than you into buying your 'app + database' for 1 BTC each.

Oh man, I don't really care about that. Look, I will edit the post and remove that line.

...and you did. I henceforth apologize for what seems to be my incorrect assumption regarding your motivation.

At least Im not the only one. See the other thread for more.

-> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: tss on December 29, 2015, 06:14:54 AM
Looks like you have lots of free time, don't you?

But, rather than doing that without any leads, i think you better try to brute-force bitcoin address which created using brain wallet.
In past some people collected some dust at brainwallet.org, they just use common words to did it.

Would be great to see someone can steal someone bitcoin in this way ::)
Since most people, especially those with paid signatures, don't read entire or even part of a thread before they blurt out a comment or opinion maybe we move the puzzle to a new thread?

concentrate your time to work on the puzzle.  i'm sure someone else can help open another thread soon.  i will make sure to post your puzzle there for all, to help you solve it.  i will start sending a list of big addresses.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: Rols on December 30, 2015, 05:19:47 PM
Lets start by what we know:

The BTC values of the outputs (0.001 through 0.256) are obviously the sequence numbers and the private keys are the sequence values.

How many of the sequence values do we already know (have been found by brute force)?  

Is the list in this thread the entire list of known values from the sequence?

You dont seem to be a very honest person. Brute forcing and stealing is a crime.


Title: Re: brute force on Bitcoin Addresses - Video of the action
Post by: BurtW on December 30, 2015, 05:29:03 PM
Lets start by what we know:

The BTC values of the outputs (0.001 through 0.256) are obviously the sequence numbers and the private keys are the sequence values.

How many of the sequence values do we already know (have been found by brute force)?  

Is the list in this thread the entire list of known values from the sequence?

You dont seem to be a very honest person. Brute forcing and stealing is a crime.
It is a mathematical puzzle with a BTC reward.  So, it is not stealing.  See the other thread.