Have you considered how permutations work on rmd160 hashes?

Changing the 6th character from right end of checksum  changed the address entirely, it even forced 1Bitcoin into 1Bitcoim.

Now what you need to do is to calculate permutations correctly and the tool should skip invalid ranges by itself.

How exactly skipping a simple base58 encoding could double the speed? Is base58 encoding heavier than hashing? If that's the case then it could change a lot of other things, I just need to think what those things could be.

Would you like to put your money on it? Go ahead and send a few bucks to it, and watch how I spend from it. You don't get it yet do ya? !!!

Come on now😉

You can keep your bitcoins, of course above the range no value could be considered a valid key, but here is your address 13wLt3CDiHDiiNKtmj5pH6LGJM9JZGcEXZ

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Guys please refrain from consecutive posts, it's not cool.
Just get back at skipping pages one by one, you could search at least 20 million pages by the end of the year! 😉

So it was pussy that got him caught after all? Never underestimate the pussy!
The funny irony is the fact that a thief was caught by king of thieves aka government, you know what they say, when you steal from a thief, you are the king of thieves.🤣

Guys how do I store a few GB of public keys/data in compressed format and when I have done it, do I need a tool to be able to read such data?

Because notepad becomes unresponsive when we load it with even less than a GB.
I'd appreciate if anyone can help.
Regards ~ dig.

I was wondering, isn't counter productive even if all miners and nodes decide to comply to all the regulations imposed even by every single country?
Meaning, whatever that is against the principles of bitcoin, if applied to bitcoin, then it is no longer bitcoin and the reason for such current adoption is because it hasn't gone against said principles yet.

As an example, if the whole world says that we can't use end to end messaging apps, then such apps will cease to exist given if all host providers follow the rules of the entire world, but what will really happen? Well, those in need of such apps will use dark versions and such apps simply transit to the underground section, though people will keep using "end-to-end" apps no matter what governments demand.

That's the bitcoin principle, no central authority, whether it be one country or the whole world.

There is no such a thing as invalid private or public key, whatever private key you think is invalid or outside the range, I will prove you wrong if you just show it to me.

About the keys above, here are 2 private keys, one will open one of the above, I just changed the X on the original one it converted to it's mirror version.


If you have seen the start range, end range for bitcoin keys, the above is the middle range.😉

The strange public key which I'm sure has a solution to it, when I try to convert from compressed to uncompressed I get an error.

Problem is not with full addresses, the problem is with vanity engine searching for prefixes, when we input 7-10 characters to find a match, it has to perform a double hash which according to Evillo's benchmarking, a double hash takes around 5% of the whole speed, while 5% might be a fraction of hundreds of MK/s for some, but imagine those running with 1MK/s, your tiny 5% is equal to 50 people with 1MK/s, given you only have one card with a speed of 1000MK/s.

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However those discussions are irrelevant now because brute force is not the answer, what we need to focus on is finding mathematical shortcuts which I believe already exist, we haven't looked hard enough yet.

One possible method I can think of is multiplying public keys, I don't know how is it possible to multiply a key with another key while their combined values goes beyond the range if EC.

My guess is that, they go round the curve circling around forever, which brings me to using a tool like keyhunt, something to use very large strides searching for collisions.

I don't know if you guys are aware of this, almost 50% of public keys share the same X, with a reversed Y value, but the counterpart resides on the other side of the curve, and I think I have found a public key which in uncompressed mode works fine but converting the compressed key to uncompressed key does not work. There are some strange public keys starting with 30 up to 40 zeros, which again baffles my mind about the possibility of such keys existing. Lol

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Example of a strange public key:



Find their difference, also after that check 69 and 96 as hex, convert them to decimal and compare their values and difference in values, as I have said before this is an ocean, and somehow the designers of EC and the math involved either used magic to come up with these equations, or I am still unable to fathom  the infrastructure underneath them all, yet.  Do not rely on existing tools, if you can come up with new solutions, share them if they can not be used to endanger coins other than puzzle coins. Otherwise you should not reveal anything if it can be exploited to steal coins from people.

That's why it's called a centralized garbage! The lack of an open source easy to use wallet is another indicator.

Is the admin active here? I need to talk, please pm, there is at least 0.5 BTC in it for you!

I'd like some virgins as topping on the cake as well! Lol. People and their expectations, I forgot to ask satoshi to pass the salt over!🤣
These puzzles are not to solve  and collect the prize, they exist so that we don't go wandering around emptying people's addresses! But seriously ever since the increase, I have stopped looking for lost wallets, but that's temporary as soon as AWD team cracks all the puzzles, we will continue our effort, which is taking names kicking ass.😂

What happens if the number of dead kangaroos exceed the total kangaroo count?
And why do I see average as a few minutes sometimes and as million years other times? Is it a good sign if the average time is low?

Strategic location was lost till yesterday! I mean you are a terrible strategist , lol.

We will because that's the idea!

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To everyone here, when someone offers imaginary money, just control your drooling and demand evidence of funds, specially for strangers.

If you have a keyhunt cuda that could be used for 125+ ranges and on windows, I could join, but I don't think you have that, so while you are doing your work, I'm using  mouse and keyboard instead of software! Lol twice.

Ok, here you go, start grinding away!
For keys starting with 5J:

For keys starting with 5K:

For compressed ones if you needed help let me know.😅

So you are saying solving 125 is almost the same as solving 64? While 125 is 32 times bigger than 120, are you saying if we use kangaroo we could reduce the range to equivalent of brute forcing 63.55? Your math is confusing, unless kangaroo operations is different than brute force ops.

Is there gonna be an updated topic saying 900 bitcoin puzzle or what?

Lol, honestly he did over and beyond my expectations, this is good though, as it will attract more serious people, however I was thinking about moving 1000 BTC to a high bit range key, and I'd imagine the actual scientists would be interested to solve a problem in order to get at least $30M.

Though that would be counter intuitive right?😉

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I can not imagine the face of the #120 solver when he realized prizes were ten folded,  Satoshi could have been waiting for it to be solved to increase the amount for the rest of the keys though.🤣

I'm sure if this key was real, the owner would have already found the key by now,  there is no evidence suggesting this address corresponds to that WIF.

And I believe there is much more to improve on this tool, as I believe there is a way to up the speed by ten folds.

So I was thinking, puzzle keys are not sequentially generated and masked with 0s, what if for example, for a range which is supposed to start with 1like 0x10000:0xfffff , the key generated randomly had 0x2 or 0x3 at 5th character from the right? Then Satoshi would have needed to use another key.

Example:
ae65342fff1ec7f98cade1a14fe45d0ec1778a5102b9d56cbbaa8c67f6466fda

Note, the 6 in bold, since I need my key to start with 1, I can't mask this key with leading zeros, so I would discard it and would use another one.

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So don't waste your time by looking for deterministic wallet patterns, or comparing the solved keys with unsolved keys as I said and Satoshi himself said it, there is no pattern, not because we don't want people to solve them, but because we don't want them to waste their time.

What we all should focus on is the puzzles with known public keys, I'd suggest everyone to dive into the vast ocean of public keys, while we all will drown and die eventually, it will be a hell of a swim! Lol.

After seeing ten folding of the pot, I have lost my focus, I can't think throughly because now the competition has more incentive!🤣