Möchte kurz in die Diskussion hüpfen mit einem Gedanken den auch Andreas Antonopoulos immer recht vehement vertreten hat: Es ist egal wer das Whitepaper tatsächlich verfasst hat.
Die Technologie ist da, sie ist einfach zu verifizieren, der Code ist Open-Source, da gibt es nichts was ein Staat kontrollieren könnte.
Es ist wissenschaftlich etwa so valide wie Micro-Chips die durch ne COVID-Impfung verteilt werden: Gar nicht. Unterm Mikroskop ist nichts in der Impfflüssigkeit zu erkennen, im Bitcoin-Code ist keine Backdoor zu finden. Fertig, da gibt es dann gar nichts mehr zu diskutieren.

Und selbst wenn es aufgrund der offenen Blockchain ursprünglich so angelegt war (was ich stark bezweifle) um der Bevölkerung eine transparente Zahlungsmethode "unterzujubeln", ist die Entwicklung dahingehend, dass mit Bitcoin Anonymität in einem Maße möglich ist, die von keinem kontrolle-ausübendem Staat gewollt sein kann.

tldr: Wer auch immer ursp. dahinter steckt und was auch immer die Intentionen waren, Bitcoin ist inzwischen ein Selbstläufer der nicht (mehr) im Interesse von Geheimdiensten und Staaten sein kann.


Good point btw!


@m1au Auch gut auf'n Punkt gebracht. Leider ist Bitcoin-Mainstream-News nach wie vor eins der extremsten Click-Bait-Feste im ganzen Mediensumpf.
Selbst die etablierteren Medien lassen sich ja meist nur dazu herab einen Artikel rauszubringen, wenn es irgendeine scheinbare "Extrem-News" gibt.

With such a valuable item it might be worthwile to connect with one of our trustworthy escrows in the US and consider to deliver in person.

Nice coin, maybe try posting some less blurry pictures, though. Peeling is a sin and as far as I know in conflict with the Geneva convention. Don't do it.  

Edit: MJ was quicker. I can recommend his escrow services.

I got a few of these and can confirm, they look fantastic if you want a red-gold tiger/Chinese style ballet wallet and should sell well to the right collector.

Regarding your unloaded wallets (Ballet etc) I'd also say that ebay (I know you didn't want to hear that) or other popular classified ad pages (if that's a thing in the UK) is probably the best option. Good luck.

Do you allow escrow?
As a newbie account with negative trust I'd strongly suggest you post some convincing images before trying to follow through on a 5-digit sale here on the forum.
Good luck.

Ah yes, indeed it's HEX numbers only, so this reduces computational time a ton. WOW! So it's just a question of how to program a nice script that will allow an easy brute-force and checking the derivated public address with the blockchain history to find the correct private key.
Happy news in this regard.
Guess the challenge is to find someone trustworthy to create some good code without a backdoor.

And, on a sidenode, usually the knowledge what you did with these missing ? digits is still somewhere in your head @OP. There is a good chance if you think about this on a regular basis and try to remember what you were up to back then an epiphany moment will occure and you know how to fill these blanks.

Ideally it would be fungible.
Right now some governments are trying their hardest to not have it that way. And are partly succeeding.

If your comment is meant in the way, that blockchain-analytics tools should not be shared, because it goes against the intention of Bitcoin, I have to disagree.
Why? Because any powerful instituation is already capable enough to do these analysis and has all the necessary tools at their disposal. Which means open tools that have similar capabilites will only empower "the people" - they can check any possible leaks / security concerns of their own transactions and take measurements accordingly.

I know you have strong opinions on the topic, but just claiming Bitcoin is fungible when it is clearly not (right now) is imho dangerous. It may lead to Bitcoin-users mistakenly assuming anonymity when it is not necessarily there.

Haha I agree.

This gibberish sounds indeed what I would expect our Elon-boy would maybe want to post.
With all I have read so far from the real Satoshi, I doubt he put out a cryptic message like this. I would expect a very clear statement, but even more likely: None at all.

Do you have any reference as to what the questionmark characters might be? Might be worth to try hypnotherapy, not sure if there is real science that this can work, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try.
A typical case of making it too secure for your own good. I have done similar things myself in the past, so not blaming you. It's human nature, expecially back in the day when there was not a bunch of publicly available resources regarding crypto floating around.
It's something I heard Andreas Antonopoulos warn about again and again. In the moment it seems like a cool and logical thing to somehow add some encryption to your written backup. - Personally I noticed that sometimes even within 1 year I have no clue what I was thinking back then.

I wish you the best of luck to successfully restore your wallet. Given the fact that it's "only" 14 characters missing there is a good chance at some point within the foreseeable future it will be crackable by a strong (cloud)-computing-network within a reasonable timeframe.
https://www.proxynova.com/tools/brute-force-calculator/ currently gives an estimate of ~1000 years, but I think that's based on the time it takes an average home computer to crack this. Meaning a powerful super-computer could quite likely already crack it within a few days or weeks.
With the current rate of Bitcoin this is most likely still not worth it, but if Bitcoin climbs up to $1M/BTC and computational power is getting cheaper and cheaper in the meantime, it will most likely be a profitable thing to crack.

Time flies, feels like yesterday I entered your previous raffle.

66 - Kryptowerk

Thanks again for yet another generous raffle. And congrats to owlcatz, our previous winner.
Good stuff!

Puh, das ist schon eine heftige Summe.
In gewisser Hinsicht ähnlich mit manchen Collectibles, zur falschen Zeit (BTC low) eingekauft bekommt man so manches Premium kaum je wieder rein.
Für mich brauchst Du Dir die Mühe das genau aufzulisten (und Dir den Tag zu versauen) nicht machen, so eine grobe Zahl ist ja schon aussagekräftig genug.

Lieber ein paar Winner-Statistiken rausrücken.

Thanks for your efforts.
Maybe this reference can be integrated here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2022902.0
There might be some overlapping info.

I'm gonna go ahead an post the inofficial Moonbits reference thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5114574.0

Thank you very much for that info. Agree with Fattcatt, MJ the all-knowing librarian.

I got a 1-digit serial of these, happy to hear it's kinda a rare thing.

Lot 1: 0.0151

Awesome piece in what seems to be prestine condition.
If I wouldn't have one already in my collection I'd insta-buy for your asking price. Forum sales are pretty low, hope you will find a collector for this historic Kialara piece soon.

Anyone got theirs already?
Would love to see some non-commercial photos of these and maybe a tiny review on quality and subjective looks.

Did they mention if any consecutive coin releases are planned? @Mopar

Oh no, who redeemed these historical pieces. There were only 100 minted of these or am I mistaken?
Also, first Bitcoin funded Crypto Imperator coins, correct?

Lot 1: 0.01
Lot 2, 3: 0.001 each

Oho, someone tapped into their fountain of creativity it seems. Cool work!
That's up with the number 138? Is it related to the crimson ghost?

Lot 2: 0.0018
Lot 4: 0.0018

Back to the forums and directly in for another Krogoth raffle. A good start to the weekend.

66 - Kryptowerk

Thanks again for your generosity.

Ahh, love to see original holos for this one. Haha, can't agree more with your statements - scamming the scam, ouhh yeahhh.
And indeed very suprised to see these surfacing. Quality holograms usually have certain security features that makers will try to protect at all costs.

Unfortunatelly I think doblezero already topped this bid:

I case it was a mis-bid, I'd go for
Lot 1: 0.003

In any case:
Lot 3: 0.021