You are correct, I was under the impression that whoever designed this challenge was after finding weaknesses and would sponsor any study done to accelerate the process, hence the mention of _"funding". I just couldn't help it to neglect mentioning the BIG elephant in the room, when I said using current technologies are a waste of time. Thank you for pointing out some facts which I missed myself. I'm sure someone will be able to sneak a peek over the event horizon of elliptic curve sooner rather than later.

Your guides helped a lot, after doing some calculations I have to admit it's really hard when you reach the point of hash function, sadly I thought this could be done to extract each output value of each step, but the nature of one direction hash function does not allow that. I could only compare it to a black hole, we would need to move faster than speed of light to gaze at the event horizon, in terms of computer science, that speed could be achieved by a massive super computer, e.g. A quantum computer. I'm not going to give up on my journey into the unknown territories of computer based calculations. will delve into finding a weak point somewhere and surely will share my findings when I have the time to get back to this nearly impossible task.

Thank you for the help, I'm not a computer type of guy, I understand math and equations, hopefully will try to understand all of these programming terms and somehow figure out to write them down on paper in the form of numbers, as I have observed, all of the algorithms use the basic mathematics, so it should be possible to break them down into small pieces for a human mind to fathom the equations used behind them.

Can anyone provide some insight on this? I would like to be able to generate a valid bitcoin address using a pen and a paper, I know this could be done in milliseconds using a computer, But then I can't see the whole operations by my own eyes, of course I will use a computer to do the hard calculations but I will be able to see every and each of the steps and record them for my study. Imagine I'm a teacher trying to explain the procedures on a white board, how can I?

OP you need to understand chatGPT is not a computational operated model, it just generates answers based on a limited database, we don't know the source of it's outputs, they could be wrong in many cases. chatGPT is an experimental project, don't expect much from it.

Hi mysterious entity, I am here to express my thoughts , and I will base my assumptions on you being the coy and famous Satoshi, the one and only BTCitcoin inventor.
First things first, Thank you for the work and efforts on making this new open source technology regardless of it's flaws and limitations! it's benefits and utilities outweighs the minor flaws. The outcome of your invention is paramount and the mark you have left will remain recognized and relevant for thousands of years in the future, you will be remembered as the founding father of the decentralized digital technology.

This kind of behavior shows a little bit of your character, it seems that you are reckless (maybe very busy having too much on your mind?), apparent if one goes back in history reading your posts, seeing your first few years of Bitcoin development leaving the scene for others to take control> irresponsibility in regards to the community you were so fond of that made you come up with the Bitcoin solution.(perhaps there was no need to continue publicly working on Bitcoin since you left it in good hands?) (which so far has proven to work as you intended, at least that's what I think). The irresponsible part is about the fact that you never showed up from time to time to share your thoughts with us, that just hurts our feelings because we all love you and respect you as an esteemed founder of Bitcoin.

Please, you are anything but stupid, I do realize at current price or the price back when you created the puzzle the amounts were not much, but giving it a few more years, people would sell their houses to buy hardware in order to solve any of the remaining puzzles.

Currently I'm working on a few ideas trying to formulate a new algorithm focused on breaking the [1]ECDSA and [2]RIPEMD-160 into smaller pieces, reconstructing the [3]SHA-256 to make a new hash function that displays the entire hashing operations on the screen or saves it on a file. These are the small steps I'm working on when I have spare time. my issue is funding, third party sponsors would require information and collected results/data, my work can NOT be made public if I achieve what I'm looking for. unfortunately further explanation is not wise.
I have an old laptop and need a strong computer with decent GPUs, that would cost at least 20,000 USD, Ca not afford it. If you are intrigued to see some new attack vectors on Bitcoin(2 years at least is needed) I will send you a PM to convey my request.

##This puzzle at this time with these baby tools available is wasting time, first quantify the numbers you need to search through to find the remaining ones, then open the calculator to enter the values, decimal/speed/ s, /60 for one minute/60 for one hour, etc.

[1]= [2]= [3]= old, outdated.