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101  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it on: October 11, 2022, 09:56:33 AM
I have searched a number of ranges I know the key is not in, If there was a place people were willing to collab I think it would be found quicker but I guess everyone just solo

http://www.ttdsales.com/66bit/login.php
This site was created to collectively solve bit 66 of the Bitcoin puzzle challenge.
102  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 12 years ago this man was accused to be Satoshi on: October 11, 2022, 09:42:43 AM
The New Yorker’s author Joshua Davis then asked Clear again whether he was Satoshi Nakamoto. “I’m not Satoshi,” Clear responded. “But even if I was I wouldn’t tell you.”

source:
https://news.bitcoin.com/pinning-the-tail-on-satoshi-nakamoto-how-journalists-erroneously-used-circumstantial-evidence-over-the-years-to-identify-bitcoins-creator/

When you want to understand this thread, I recommend you to read that article  Smiley
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/the-crypto-currency
10/Oct/2011
103  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: == Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~100 BTC total bounty to solvers! ==UPDATED== on: October 10, 2022, 06:56:18 PM
Hello friends;
I think I found a clue.
66. The probability that the wallet is in these ranges is over 90%

3B320044788A17DA0 - 3BC0ABFC3654BAE80
3475FBD690F7B3880 - 34B85C9495BA98840
30389466D233BCDE0 - 305E58789566D2EA0
2E1325EAAC24E8A40 - 2E6917C76BF8F5340

If the result is within these ranges, I will inform you partially about the tip.

Thank you...

It is very difficult to predict a range ... look here, someone did it with puzzle 64:


Hi friend,

There is a tip for 64 wallets,

The beginning starts with the letter B. The next most likely is the number 2.

The highly probable start starts with B2, possibly with B25 or B26.

... and as we know now it starts with F7  -> F7051F27B09112D4  Smiley
104  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: BitCrack - A tool for brute-forcing private keys on: October 10, 2022, 09:48:17 AM
I divided the total space of the possible keys into 1,844,674,408 sessions of 20 billion keys each, each session can be completed with a 7-year-old computer like mine in about 1 hour, in a few minutes with a newer computer.

~

I invite you to publish your tested sessions with a post, so they will not be repeated by others who want to try their hand at the challenge.

We would have on average 1 billion posts here before solving puzzle 66  Smiley
105  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 90% of bitcoin is owned by 2% of user base on: October 07, 2022, 05:56:45 PM
However, thou Bitcoin transaction is transparent and can be seen by anyone on its blockchain, I doubt if it is possible to see a hierarchy of users with the highest amount of Bitcoin, as a criterion for you to have come up with this statement of yours.



by bitinfocharts
106  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: == Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~100 BTC total bounty to solvers! ==UPDATED== on: October 04, 2022, 09:59:46 AM
if phrutis is not SCAM then I don't know what SCAM is.

Why?
107  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / US Senator Says 'I Love That Bitcoin Can't Be Stopped' on: October 04, 2022, 09:32:21 AM
US Senator Says 'I Love That Bitcoin Can't Be Stopped'
source: https://news.bitcoin.com/us-senator-says-i-love-that-bitcoin-cant-be-stopped-citing-concerns-about-national-debt-and-inflation/

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis says she loves that bitcoin cannot be stopped and that governments cannot just confiscate the cryptocurrency. “It’s actually comforting to know that bitcoin is there,” she said ...



... she said the truth  Smiley
108  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: == Bitcoin challenge transaction: ~100 BTC total bounty to solvers! ==UPDATED== on: October 03, 2022, 06:57:58 PM
https://github.com/phrutis
he removed his all tools inside his repo

One thing remained -> Lost Wallets

He is searching lost passwords for wallet.dat files and created a large group with fast GPUs.
109  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / SEC Charges 2 Firms and 4 Individuals in Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scheme on: October 02, 2022, 06:43:22 PM
SEC Charges 2 Firms and 4 Individuals in Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scheme
source: https://news.bitcoin.com/sec-charges-2-firms-and-4-individuals-in-crypto-pump-and-dump-scheme/

They falsely claimed that “the company intended to back each DIG token issued and sold to investors with $1.00 worth of this gold, and that independent accounting firms had performed an ‘audit’ of the gold and verified its existence.”

This allowed them to sell at least $36.8 million of the crypto token, including to U.S. investors, “at prices fraudulently inflated by the public misstatements about the supposed gold acquisition,” the SEC detailed.
110  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Bitcoin Wallet Recovery Services - for forgotten wallet password on: October 01, 2022, 06:22:46 PM
Hi
I have put together a service to help you recover your wallet password (for your encrypted bitcoin wallet) if you have forgotten it.
Refer to walletrecoveryservices.com
I hope this will be useful to someone.

(and before you ask, no, this isn't a scam to steal your bitcoins! Smiley)
Cheers
Dave


SCAM

Still thinking that it's scam? RichG, you wrote this ~10 years ago when Dave established his business. Now you can read many many reviews, articles, ... I couldn't find one bad review.

HONEST

Dave, thanks for your wonderful work!
111  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: 'rounds' or 'iterations' of wallet.dat on: September 30, 2022, 08:31:03 AM
But since you might be talking about old (for sale/leaked) wallet.dat files, here's from the old version:
Old version (2013): github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/16b3ff66e0137b68de0d08ad88ce9798bce2d68d/src/wallet.cpp#L258-L268
Do you know the lowest number for rounds(iteration) for the earliest Bitcoin Core versions? Or someone else?
Earlier than 2013?
The earliest possible date is Sep 2011 since wallet encryption was introduced in v0.4.0 which was released on that date.
Here's the code: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/b7bcaf940d27fa8cfe89422943fbeaab7a350930/src/wallet.cpp#L155-L158 (wallet encryption pt2)

TL;DR: It's the same.

Thanks.

We are discussing 'wallet.dat files for sale' in other groups (telegram) and want to find fake wallets. I had the idea to check the rounds (iteration) of these wallets as I saw some with values < 25000 and now we can say that these wallets are fake. The producers of such wallets didn't know that wallets with iteration < 25000 can't be generated with Bitcoin Core Smiley
112  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: 'rounds' or 'iterations' of wallet.dat on: September 29, 2022, 06:26:56 PM
Does someone know, if all numbers (example: 10000, 10001, 10002, ..) can become 'rounds' or is there an algo in the core file that allows only certain numbers? exampe: 10000, 10100,  10200, ..
It can't be a number lower than 25,000, but it can be any higher depending on the machine that encrypted the wallet or updated the passphrase.
Reference: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/100949af0e2551f22c02a73355f2c64710b68ef1/src/wallet/wallet.cpp#L710-L720

But since you might be talking about old (for sale/leaked) wallet.dat files, here's from the old version:
Old version (2013): github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/16b3ff66e0137b68de0d08ad88ce9798bce2d68d/src/wallet.cpp#L258-L268

Do you know the lowest number for rounds(iteration) for the earliest Bitcoin Core versions? Or someone else?
113  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: My own Bitcoin WIF Missing Characters Help on: September 26, 2022, 11:48:46 PM
i have both uncompressed and compressed

Your BTC address, was it created as compressed or uncompressed?
114  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: My own Bitcoin WIF Missing Characters Help on: September 26, 2022, 05:33:48 PM
In your case it depends on the public key  Smiley

Why public key?

public key -> address -> amount of BTC

- if the bitcoin address contains 0.054 BTC , ~

if it contains 0.054 BTC --> not doable  Smiley
if it contains 5.4 BTC --> doable

|MC|bits|ETA|$|
|14|82|00:11:17|2|
|15|88|01:25:53|18|
|16|94|10:54:07|133|
|17|100|3d 11:01:37|1,016|
|18|105|26d 08:18:52|7,740|
|19|111|200 days|58,942|
115  Other / Archival / Re: Bitcoin or Netcoin ? on: September 24, 2022, 05:29:12 PM
Bitcoin.org, the website domain linked to the original Bitcoin, was created on Aug. 18, 2008, under AnonymousSpeech, a service in Japan that allowed users to buy domain names anonymously. Domain purchases under AnonymousSpeech around similar timelines revealed the creation of Netcoin.org on Aug. 17, 2008 — just a day prior to the creation of Bitcoin.org.

source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-was-almost-named-netcoin-by-satoshi-nakamoto-hints-domain-data

日本国  Roll Eyes
116  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / Re: 'rounds' or 'iterations' of wallet.dat on: September 23, 2022, 06:17:02 PM
~

Thanks.

I'm pretty sure that there's a timer in the software that increments rounds until one second has passed, ..

Yes, there is. Now, maybe someone can say if all numbers >25000 (25001, 25002, ..) are possible or not  Smiley
117  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Collection of 18.509 found and used Brainwallets on: September 23, 2022, 06:01:23 PM
Interesting update...
Address 1HZwkjkeaoZfTSaJxDw6aKkxp45agDiEzN is derived from hashed empty string "". Two moths ago (!) someone sent almost 1BTC to this address. I guess by mistake. It took as mush as 10 minutes to drain this address.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/37e166a1e52e96bcfe535738082e328ef8db56aafd6945d9cad6f2afdb34b4a4

Maybe the miner inserted both transactions into the block and we never saw them in the mempool before being in the block.
118  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Are new bitcoin users early or late to the party? on: September 22, 2022, 09:37:14 PM
I feel like I'm too late ...

Bitcoin has a special rule:

Yes, you are late to the party ... to the previous party.
But you are early to the party ... to the next party ... that will come, for sure.


 Smiley
119  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Russia Approves The Use Of #Bitcoin And Crypto Cross-Border Payments on: September 22, 2022, 05:09:10 PM
Russian officials approve use of crypto for cross-border payments: Report
https://cointelegraph.com/news/russian-officials-approve-use-of-crypto-for-cross-border-payments-report

According to a Thursday report from the Russia-based publication Kommersant, Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev said the government department has agreed “on the whole” with the central bank over a rule that would let residents send cross-border payments using cryptocurrencies.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5572328

Not only cross-border-payments ... mining will be allowed too (with some districtions because of power/electricity):

Bank of Russia, Finance Ministry Agree on Crypto Mining Regulation, Law Expected Soon
https://news.bitcoin.com/bank-of-russia-finance-ministry-agree-on-crypto-mining-regulation-law-expected-soon/
120  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Technical Support / 'rounds' or 'iterations' of wallet.dat on: September 22, 2022, 09:46:21 AM
I checked wallet.dat files' hashes and some have the same 'rounds' or 'iteration':

How will the number of rounds (iteration) for the wallet.dat hash be generated?

I am asking, because lots of different wallet.dat hashes have the same rounds (iteration):

$bitcoin$64$9de529051d808b5d34c679c43020a233e6b5161de2e85070127009d61e4c24c8$16$09792b4786f368cb$49019$2$00$2$00


EDIT: I found this:
.. a dynamic number of rounds determined by the speed of the machine which does the initial encryption (and is updated based on the speed of a computer which does a subsequent passphrase change)

source: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/6b8a5ab622e5c9386c872036646bf94da983b190/doc/README

Still not knowing why so much wallet.dat files that are being sold have the same 'rounds'.


Does someone know, if all numbers (example: 10000, 10001, 10002, ..) can become 'rounds' or is there an algo in the core file that allows only certain numbers? exampe: 10000, 10100,  10200, ..
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