Can you show us what you mean by zero bit private key? If it has "zero" bits then how can you derive an address from it? But there is a solution for you, it's not related to zero or 256, you can find 2^96 different private keys for every single address out there, under one condition, you'd have to brute force 2^80 keys to find one collision.(in theory)
Without public key, only having the address and knowing the exact range, you can go ahead and try puzzle #66, even if you halve the range, you'd still need to grind 2^65 keys.😉

Hi, who are you talking to, do you need someone help you cross the street? 😂

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Since you cared enough to share your achievement verbally, could you be kind and tell us how did you managed  to reduce the range for an unknown key? You know sharing is caring right? But if you found a way to do range reduction for public keys, let us know about it, we might find some useful hints.😉

@shasan, are you a muslim?

It looks more like coinmarket computer traveled in time, since if you go back in time and buy/sell Bitcoins, everything would appear normal for the rest of the world.  But if you wanted to go back, you could go back to 2009 mine alongside Satoshi and hide some information from now inside a block like an encrypted message, then you could decrypt it in your own time to prove you time traveled. Time flows in one direction which means you can't physically move to the opposite direction unless you are in quantum realm.

But yes it's possible for electrons inside atoms to jump back and forth in time, not that computer that generated the chart though.

I'm still unable to understand the process, what does it mean selecting the fastest one? Ok, let me get this straight, you are generating what, private keys from a seed? I wanna know how is it possible to generate 1 key from 2 different seeds, this should be impossible unless you are not using random, or you have just changed the key generator, but still doesn't explain how these 2 seeds generated the same private key:

ELI5, please.

As far as I know, importing mining equipments without permit is illegal, if they catch you, they will confiscate the goods. Mining requires a permit to avoid exploitation of electricity consumption, and when you get a permit, you can use industrial electricity with export price, I haven't heard that you have to sell to the government, I mean why would you even want to mine if they force you to give up your coins?

Am I understanding this correctly that you have found seed collisions? Because I see different seeds with the same key as output, or is this something else?

Well, who should we meet/ talk to in order to get all these features on Bitcointalk.org without using a third party? Ok, let me talk another language, how much to have them on forum?😉

Yeah, when you spend something like 10 today, you will get back around the same amount at around the same time if that hasn't been changed. I guess you answered the question correctly. Thanks for your contribution as a source.😉

You can read everything about merits here, if I remember correctly whatever you send in a month you'd get back the same amount the next month, Maybe I'm wrong.

I know it was a "community challenge", I was wondering if it has any significance to nomachine's code when you said 1M address.
Also do you remember few month back when I could find public keys similar to #125 key? Well I will tell you this but it's not going to help you or anyone else.

Here is a new angle to work with subtraction only, try to subtract #130 from end range to get this :
Now if you just subtract 1 from it:
Now if you add it to #130, you will have :
Now if you subtract the above instead of 1, you get this:
Once again, if you add the above key to #130, you won't get 1,  instead you are actually adding -1 of #130 to #130, you can confirm that by subtracting it from #130.

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Ok, why did we get a different result in our first addition? Because we just subtracted 1 from our offset the first time, so no -n result, but when we subtracted a larger key than our offset, the second addition should have given us 1, but why it added -1 of #130 to #130? Because I knew which key was greater than the other, but if you subtract the larger key > 3fffff..... from our offset, the second addition would have resulted in G.

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I don't know why I'm explaining modular effect here, this is useless, unless you know a few tricks.😉

My ratings won't show, so it doesn't matter, but since you mentioned it, they were promoting a phishing/fake wallet/link, that's why the topic was removed by mods. About DaveF, you can read his original reason here, but recently he did it again, to defend "forum members", just a typical bully, you have to deal with bullies with brute force, just like what happened here, but even though I don't think OP's main concern is to punish a "cheater" or trust abuser, this is deeper and you have to find the root.

Otherwise why nobody else tagged Ratimov for trust abuse and plagiarizing on top? Why are most of the DT members refrain from tagging other DTs for reasons as trust abuse, "trolling" "harassing"? Because of the possibility of retaliation.

No worries though, I have no official complaints, God willing sooner or later their wealth will hang on my reputation, how they say it? If you spit upwards, it lands back on your face, or something like that.😉

What is the use of saving a million "addresses" to a file? Can we not see any more base58 encoded addresses mentioned ever again when we are talking about brute forcing puzzles? Base58 used anywhere, whether to generate vanity or find a puzzle will slow down the speed by at least 5%.  Now imagine if we could instead increase the speed 5% more, difference would be like saving $100k from $1M.  Or for example if you could spend $50k to solve a key in 6 month, with 10% more speed you can save $5k.

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These small numbers/percentages might sound insignificant for most people, you can only appreciate them when even 1% means millions to be saved.

Why only 1 hash? 1 hash can not determine the overall speed, if you want to see the actual speed rate, you'd have to benchmark your code by going in a loop, set a range and generate 1 billion rmd160, then check the time, after all you are going to generate trillions of them when brute forcing. Base your upgrades on bulk generation of hashes, if your speed is 100M/s, 2M more or less is not significant. 5M, 10M? That's something.

There is one legit/solvable puzzle which actually has a purpose and that is the 1000BTC challenge, solving that has some meaning  behind it, The rest are just distractions, useless because they don't contribute to advancing the science.
So far all the evidence suggests that we are dependent on very old algorithms to solve DLP, and the 1000BTC challenge will hopefully contribute in achieving new algorithms/formulas to solve DLP faster. This will of course help to keep decentralization of money strong so it could last for many generations after we are gone.
-dig p.h.D 😂

You don't necessarily need to brute force all the possible values of n, you could figure things out another way, but the complexity could be much more, because when we are dealing with unknown numbers, we have to guess and try almost all the keys.

However sometimes there are some relations where we can use to our advantage, this is just an example:
I used 20 decimal precision for the following :

No fraction, if you want to know more about the possibilities, you have to do experiments with numbers. If you can do the same with other numbers, finding how many times you have to multiply n/x to reach the fraction for other numbers being divided, and if you can create a table of say 1 billion keys, then you could in theory divide many different keys by different numbers and start subtracting from them and you might find of the 1 billion keys while doing your subtraction like 4828055413.7234042553 if you have 0.7234042553 saved among the 1 billion keys, subtracting the bold part could solve a key when you land on 1/47 * 34, though this is just a demonstration.

Who says BTC keys are 10^77? Secp256k1 elliptic curve group order is :
If you add this to N
You will reach 2^256, and nobody can count the atoms in the universe, even that estimation is around 863 times greater that 2^256, but that's not the point, also pandora box only brings misery and despair if you open it, not luck.
The only physically possible way to find a private key( other than taking it by force ), is through working on public keys, and guess what? Public key cryptography is counting on the difficulty of doing that, it says "here I'm open in the public, throw your best at me" and it is safe because throwing the best is proven to be difficult to do, SO far.

Ok, for clarification, I never contacted you, one day I received a PM from you asking me to join telegram and whatnot, I said share whatever you have here, then you sent another PM with your email address asking me to email you, which I did, then after a week and after a few email exchanging, you asked what type of file is more convenient for me, THEN I said if you want to send any file, upload it on a file sharing service on the cloud.
After that you said some bs about my email address, which is totally irrelevant because you don't even know me and I never gave you my  name etc, so accusing me of impersonation and theft is a shame on you not mine.
Now if you have nothing to hide, why don't you share your findings here for all to see?
Remember what I said about whacking anyone touching people's coins? Now thread your needle carefully.😉

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@WP, lets not give "Diagran" a chance, after all people in here should know a few things about modular operations to know that won't work, at least not that simply.

To anyone doing research, working to find solutions etc, please remember not to open any file sent over email, always use precautions to avoid getting infected. I'm not insinuating anything here, this should apply to all matters. As this is a safety precaution. Anyways, good luck.

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Good luck everyone with your spam free, troll free thread.😉

The system you are referring to actually has the ability to generate almost all the possible addresses, I'm just not sure exactly how many addresses a master private key can generate, but deterministic wallets which everyone is using nowadays are useful for that they can regenerate all your addresses by feeding them with the correct seed phrase.

And even if you could generate 100,000 trillion trillion addresses per second, it'd be possible to see the end of the universe than generating the same private key twice.

But theoretically you could generate 2 different private keys unlocking the same address after generating 2^80 keys.