Thanks for your input guys,

it is my calculation that this would be near on impossible but I need to be sure as this is just a test, I will be putting a full bitcoin at risk in future

Hi All - thanks for all the great feedback

I have signed the wallet, here are the details:
Message:
Hello this is Dior
Address:
bc1qq2rnv02hjzv5h0lwa03um43afwcfcpf0qg56ca
Signature:
IBsoU2koKJvnjonXZ9O8/AIAAD5ZkgWgMmWOLwArXdV7eJxcKKn3DdDXO2j731mTy5W4vkSdDjyGudaQt7KS+e8=
Screenshot here: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1xg05QIzeXNj_1WeXg0uQLRO8qnYBMLjvjGngH8246k8/edit

Hopefully we can all relax and agree that this address belongs to me and only me, and yes I really want you to take them.  On that subject, please note that my use of the word "stealing" was only colourful hyperbole.  If you prefer a disclaimer I totally get that, we don't all live under the same legal system afterall, then here it is.  I guarantee I am the sole owner of the Bitcoin (BTC) recorded at the address stated and I am happy for anyone to move it to any other address and thereby take full and permanent ownership of it.  In fact I welcome it, I will consider it a success if achieved by any means necessary, mathematical or otherwise.

Lance V thanks for all your comments, I have edited the randomised key in the opening post, also to answer your point about the randomisation, the key has been heavily randomised.  I did initially start moving blocks of 2 or more characters around before it dawned on me that that was not the wisest method.  In the end I made a table, as eluded to earlier, and resorted an adjacent random number column multiple times.

So far, my money is quite literally on NotaTether  

I guess what this boils down to is how easy is it to rearrange the private key and successfully use it.  If we agree it is near impossible, great I will leave them there until quantum computing or BTC dollar appreciation changes that.  If someone takes them very easily, great but less so as I will need to rethink things.  If we think it is hard but not worth the effort then that's fine too, but can we quantify how hard that is, that would be useful information.

Thanks and good luck

Good luck NotATether, hope my error didn't cost you too much time.

I'll definitely share the reason for this experiment and I'll definitely do it here first, but not just yet.  I need this to run for a bit first to prove how secure or otherwise a completely exposed but randomised key is

Anyone saying it's easy and so redundant, great help yourself to the BTC and prove how easy this was all along.

I'm offline till the morning so I'm afraid I'll be quiet until then but happy to respond to any feedback when I get back

Guy's I'm so so sorry the "I" became capitilised it should be an i

I was horrified when I saw this and I have just retraced my steps as follows

In order to randomise the key I extracted it from Electrum (free clue)
I pasted in Excel
in order to transpose so that I could create an adjacent =rand() column, I had to use text to columns as otherwise the cell key is just a single cell
I had to delimit and the easiest way was to introduce a comma between each character
When I just repeated this I noticed that after I add a comma after the small case i, Excel changes it to I
i is included in Base 58, I is not

I'm totally devastated and sorry and I understand if that makes me look dishonest, I'm real sorry.

I have just rechecked each character one by one to make sure no other errors crept in and I confirm that 100% each character is correct with the correct capitalisation. The 50th character i was the only one affected so the correct randomised key is: LP5U3KWRLvPwDefz4FVMrAJVFtU4u8pj15w8VSpZF2aaPeY5Qix8

Once again I'm really really sorry

Don't worry everyone, the address is funded and it will remain funded forever, I'm not that sort of girl.  Besides all you have to do is keep an eye on my address.  Maybe one day it will be worth those permutations.

I may have made a mistake providing my public address as well as the randomised private key, that may have made this task simple enough for a knowledgeable person to quickly grab them, if so I hope that someone does take them, if not for the BTC then for the theoretical proof.

Good luck

P.S I know some of you have said I could be trolling and given an inaccurate key but that would ruin my experiment and my experiment is worth far more than an unfunny joke.

 

This is my public address: bc1qq2rnv02hjzv5h0lwa03um43afwcfcpf0qg56ca

This is my private key in a randomised order relating to this address: LP5U3KWRLvPwDefz4FVMrAJVFtU4u8pj15w8VSpZF2aaPeY5Qix8

Do your worst

Thanks