Well, the vulnerabilities already exist, we don't know about them yet, this puzzle needs to go on for ever, and it should remain filled with hundreds of bitcoins, just imagine if someone had access to a backdoor or some sort, they could at least take the puzzle prizes because it wouldn't be theft, but if there is no puzzle prize, the exploiter could be tempted to go after people's coins.😉

Before I lose my mind, can someone please tell me, why is generating public keys and comparing them with target can reach Tk/s, but adding just a sha256 and a rmd160 could reduce the speed to Mk/s? I thought EC calculation was the hardest part of key generation process, is it not?

If I could reach Tk/s speed, it would be a giant leap for my research, is there any windows version?

So it's around 5% improvement give or take? Well that shows that double sha256 only takes 5% of our performance, so why is it that keyhunt can reach Tk/s speed on CPU? It just skips one sha256 and one rmd160,  or am I missing something here?

The range is already known, well at least I know the range, it only takes a few days with 40 strong GPUs to solve that key, but that key has an owner, taking that money will buy you fire in life and afterlife, besides there are so many thieves around these woods, if it was real they would have already taken it.😉

If you are interested to test your rigs, just take a known WIF, and remove a few characters to see how it works, this tool is the kangaroo for keys without known public keys but with known partial private keys!

So what was the cost of sequential search for #66?, was it more than 6.6 BTC? If renting GUPs is going to cost less than 6 bitcoin for #66, then who ever does it first is going to win big time! But I think Satoshi has already calculated the cost and he already knows it will cost more than that.

Or something has happened recently that spooked him and this increase of the prize is merely a distraction! Lol.

I'm only good at making up conspiracy theories. Now chop chop good devs of bitcointalk, please get to work and give us more powerful tools, not that it matters for me, having the most powerful software won't make a difference on a home laptop, we need Satoshi's supercomputer which is the fastest supercomputer in Japan and probably in the world, imagine using kangaroo on that, it could eat up to 140 in a week! 😉

Using tools will take much more time, this needs to be solved by math and by hands.😉

And is it only me finding this suspicious? I wonder where is the address containing 1 btc? Because it has no out going tx, we can't find it's public key and steal the coin if that's what OP is afraid of. So where is the address in question?

Finally someone understands me! Now about how we could skip searching such keys? Isn't it obvious? We need to invent our own hexadecimal only key range. Honestly when I theorize such ideas, I don't really formulate them, because doing that takes a lot of time, I'd just introduce them to see if anyone is already versed in that area to see if they can formulate it faster.

Such a cool story, have you found a randomly generated private key having such hex representation as the above you posted, though? I don't think you could find a site that could explain what I am suggesting!.


Have you found any other similar addresses with private keys starting with 0x345CCB?

Hash alone is not enough, if he finds a valid private key that has a public key with the same hash as the hash of that address's public key then he can spend them and no one can stop him.

Prove me wrong! While you don't even know what I'm saying,  just show me a private key generated by a wallet from an integer which has a hex representation consisting of only the 0-9 numbers with no A-F characters.

Deep down every thing is 0 and 1, but on the surface things are different, and yet I'm waiting to see that wallet though.

Again excluding only numeral private keys from a bit range has a potential of at least 60% less bit space to search since there are more numeral only private keys than hex only and mixed hexadecimal keys combined. What I haven't figured out yet is how to actually erase such keys completely from the search table in a way that as if they were never existed so the CPU could process the numbers without any hiccups. Maybe working on a code that doesn't allow integers which would result in all numeral private keys, this could significantly reduce the entire bit range of all elliptic curves narrowing down the search space.!😉

Thanks, now I understand how it works, my question is why haven't you guys looted all the puzzles already then? Well I guess you haven't yet figured out the secret ratio between public keys, whilst everybody thinks dividing public keys doesn't work, it could work and already has a solution we just haven't done enough diving into this amazing vast ocean of hidden mathematics!

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Ps, when you develop and release software, always expect noobs come asking questions, I just learned about +- pub keys 2 days ago. I know in the past I asked around these woods, but since I couldn't comprehend the notion of sub/add, I didn't pay much attention.

Now I was thinking, if we divide a range by 1 billion tiny ranges and then collect 1 public key from each of them, for our future reference, then we start subtracting our target public key or adding, either going up or down the bit range, and whenever we hit one of our reference public keys, we just start counting points taken from our starting range to reach the checkpoint, and then since we know the private key of our checkpoint public key, we will add  the number of steps taken by the tool to the private key of our check point pub key and reach our loot.

A note to the world!

Now, now. Don't start panicking just yet, we are good treasure hunters, we will first drain the puzzle pot and then we will go after the long lost treasures, now is the the time to panic, because when we spend all those coins, we will come for your coins, and there is no coin safe from us, so where ever you go we will follow, this is the official manifesto of the "AWD" short for Alberto, Wandering, Digaran. The triple team that killed crypto currency, remember our names! Lol.😅

I was referring to the fact that an example string like "0xd56ff80b2c5aa58670bf455a" is being generated as a private key, and I haven't seen a wallet to generate a key like this "0x350090156477349068832154" have you? There is always  a-f  somewhere between the numbers, I am well aware of the inner workings of computers somehow, I was trying to say what if we could remove all private keys with only 0-9 numbers and somehow search the keys with hexadecimal mixed values?  

Here is how it could be, not sure how we could translate such complex algorithm for the CPU, since excluding some integers from the math equation could potentially break the function of the CPU. however here it is, if we convert the following hex representations into their decimal values we will see now let me give you a larger hex, you treat the following as hex, convert them to decimal and then treat the result again as hex to then converting them to decimal, do that until you see a-f mixed with 0-9,
what if we could skip searching such private keys? That would decrease the search range by what factor exactly?😉

To know if it can function without any developing, of course it can, but just imagine if the world had left developing internet protocols 20 years ago, we'd be using dial up connections if they didn't keep improving the network. I can't find any better example than this.

I was wondering, have you guys ever seen a wallet to generate a private key consisting of only decimal numbers without a single hex character? Well I haven't, and it is the case with only hex chars as well, so is there any way (possible way) to skip brute forcing all hex, all decimal keys and just search through the mixed keys? And what would happen to our search range if we could eliminate such keys, as in how many keys could we skip brute forcing? Isn't that an idea worth exploring?

"Step brother woke me up in the middle of the night" saga directed by the Onlyfan of such genre!🤣

So they first fuck their users and then they expect people to go back using their services as if nothing happened? That category of swallowing these non senses is blocked in the crypto community.😉 

My advice is that you should not post addresses and ask for donation because that according to forum/community rules is considered as begging and moderators will remove such posts.
Here is how this ecosystem works, here people are looking to get money and not give, though giving depends on circumstances, a newbie asking for it is not gonna work, you should visit bounty section and services to see if there might be some opportunities to earn on your own, asking for cash doesn't cut it around these woods.😉
Good luck and hope you get better financially.
~dig.

Show me the public key of that address, I will use Satoshi's super computer to crack it. I'd say that the hacker knows that mixers are rigged and using them would endanger him, however I don't think it's fair to steal from others, that's what coward pussies do, I'm sure the real owners are willing to happily pay 20% as a reward, that 20% would be legit, but no matter what, he has to answer for what he has done some day.

Here you could stay ahead of your investment by 20 weeks since you only get $2 per week. You could include your bitcoin address in your signature space, I might as well save your plans a few month further when I get my hands on some BTC. Good luck and remember to use offline wallets for cold storage.😉