I think you are lost in these woods, where do you wanna go? Lol. It's not 25 BTC AFAIK in OP there is a mention of 20BTC without any address/ public key to prove that such a balance truly exist.  If you read OP you will find a few links to whatever containing clues about this so called puzzle.😉

Late at night before going to bed, anyone can come up with such stories, so I don't think they need to pay for shills, they can do it themselves.
Another thing is, scams are not moderated to avoid biased decisions. What can we do? They are just asking for your private keys to all your coins, just like any other centralized exchanges out there, you can only tag them shills and get on with it.  Newbie or legendary, a shill is a shill, if you don't believe me go search for howey coin.🤣

I think you got it backwards, I'm trying to level the playing field for everyone to have equal opportunity/ time.
I'm the one trying to find the precise algorithm.

Lets correct the sentences above:
We are trying to level the playing field, and
We are trying to find the precise algorithm to solve this puzzle.

As long as everybody thinks like the first version of wording above, no results will be achieved, only by team work this can have a result in much less time than going solo.

I suggest you to watch Jigsaw movies once again, the key to the *victims success was always working as a team.

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In that topic, there is no mention of changing G to a smaller size G.
Let me spit explain what I'm hallucinating talking about :
Let's change p to this one :
Now what I'm having a problem to find, is to shrink down secp256k1's G to be the same size while acting as before, meaning if the size is changed, multiplying the new G by 10 should give me a point similar/distinguishable from secp256k1's 0xa public key. If that is even possible and how much more speed we could gain by having a smaller G?

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*OMG, are we really like the victims of jigsaw puzzle? Lol.

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So, @OP, in your opinion if for example people in my country start using only crypto, the government goes bankrupt? Then I can no longer buy coffee or people will continue their routines and trade as usual only by exchanging crypto?

You think a government will allow you to print money? A decentralized crypto like Bitcoin is the same as printing money, world "elites" are just too "stupid" to realize that.

All government officials worldwide, should go through a walk of shame and put behind bars for life. That's what they deserve.

All humans good, never talk bad about others OK?

Warning, random spits ahead, watch out!😉

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So, as I was spitting out some random thoughts coming to my mind and having fun with myself for no apparent reason, what if we reduce the size of our curve down to for example 2^130, then we would change G to something like e.g,  0x1, 0x2 of course with a much much smaller prime (P), would that somehow help us to compute much faster if the size of our points is considerably small?
There is one small problem, how can we map secp256k1 points to a small size curve???

Stay tuned for more spits, I'm dry right now.🤣

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I don't know what is the reason, at first I thought it might be related to java script being disabled, but I have no knowledge about these stuff, maybe we should summon the forum genie, *Swiss knife @PowerGlove ?

Have you tried with another account, or logging out and in again then trying this?

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*It feels good when you have someone who can fix a certain kind of problems, I guess that's the real contribution.

Essentially anything unrelated to transfer of bitcoins on Bitcoin's blockchain should be treated as parasite and we know parasites are not good for any system.
Using Bitcoin's popularity to line your pockets is just another form of scam, but hey why not having miners to somehow check every transaction for any alien data and if the fee was the same as native data's fee, they would simply reject it, drop it and only include native TXs?

At least miners can do that if there is a way to distinguish non-native from native data, right? And doing that would benefit miners as well as eradicating any spam/attack on the network.

This will ensure that not every person who has failed scamming people by ICO tactics can now attempt the same scam using Bitcoin.
Note that if you don't fight parasites, they will consume you entirely where at some point in time it would be impossible to tell the difference.

When I try quoting a post from ignored boards, I get this error  How come you can't see this error message?

Tomato to-ma-to, ordinal-atomical, garbage-trash-junk-spam-scam-monkeypics.
If we could find a way to increase the fee only for transactions including something other than bitcoin/sats, then we could see if people would still pay $50 as a fee to send out 1000 transactions or not, then we'd see if it's really a new innovation/ technology and if people really use them and find them useful.

Look doc, I know you were banned for a week or so, that should have some meaning, I also know anyone interacting with you will have the same opinion and that is, you are either insane, or just enjoy trolling.
More you continue like this the more isolated you will become. Few month ago I asked you to come and join us in solving 1000 BTC puzzle challenge, if you are really a scientist, but you refused or you might have participated with an alt account.

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What I'm trying to say, you should accept your fate, the coin you developed didn't work the way you intended, get over it and try to do something different, join me in breaking elliptic curve cryptography and receive a prize worth more than a nobel prize.
So what do you say? Are you really a scientist/mathematician or just a meth-matician?
Visit this link and prove your self not to this community, but to the world.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.0
Enough of your empty words about intelligence, time to prove yourself with actions.

At least give us one project you were inspired by, then we will continue from there. I'm curious to know what exactly is  promoting gender anarchy you are referring to? What is the correlation of gender "diversity" and Bitcoin?

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Just give me one good example of "outside the box" project other than Bitcoin, though Bitcoin isn't just outside the box, it actually torn the box to pieces, so there is no box anymore to think outside of.

I knew this would happen, time to say our good byes to theymos before they take him away. Good thing we have each other's back in this community, so if they take him away, we will wave our hands and immediately appoint his second as the head admin, that means if you cut one head, more will grow. This is our slogan at "decentralized revolution"

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I miss the old days of "China fud" era, when they were the topic subject and were revered, now we consider them (manipulative politicians) nothing but a scarecrow.😉

I don't know if I have discussed this before or not, here it goes anyways :

Having 42 characters out of 51 WIF chars including checksum, means we have to brute force 9 missing chars, correct? What if I tell you by knowing the checksum, there is a way to find the key much faster than brute forcing 9 missing characters?
@OP, if you are interested to learn about the secrets of WIF/hex keys, try finding keys with identical last 8 characters in hex (checksum) in different ranges, you will find that some base58 characters only appear in certain ranges as checksum while their checksum in hex is identical.

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Anyways, since you are trying to code things, just try iterating through hexadecimal keys without even involving EC operations, you just need to pause and convert the WIF to address if you find a checksum match.

Example :
You already have checksum, so you don't touch that, instead you increment the private key and only do base58 encode and whenever you see "4FYxLG" at the end of your WIF, you would then convert it to address to check for match with target, if no match just drop it and keep iterating.

Using permutation you can skip at least 50% of possible keys and only look for right candidates instead of looking at all the keys one by one.

Where do you keep your python scripts? For example, desktop "python scripts" folder (directory), after you downloaded secp256k1 ice files, paste them in the same folder(directory) you keep and run your scripts from. Then you can easily import it as ice.

Ps, care to share what you are trying to achieve using WIFs?

Alrighty then, to be exact, when it comes to slapping me suddenly the secure random generator gives us 199,999? And when we are working with 6 digits then as an example use 14, 15 etc, suddenly we go high as 2^130 and compare the numbers?
So why not scaling up all the values and use actual 2^130 range/keys? Though you forgot that I was asking if the stride idea could be tweaked to find a perfect stride or not.

Even if the key is e.g, 189776, we could still divide the end range and subtract from our target by different subranges, like 200,000 - 189776 = 10224, we could then try subtracting the result from endrange/4, er/6, er/8 etc.

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Nvm that, I don't know anything about math, I'm not even working actively on 130, my target is much bigger.

Btw, Legends_Never_Die is my alter ego account, time for a paint job on trust wall.😉

Just download everything manually from this link  https://github.com/iceland2k14/secp256k1?search=1 and place them in the same folder. Btw your other script calculating time differences, didn't work, pycoin libraries were all broken. Now I have to rewrite everything. (My assistant will do the rewriting).

I'd like to suggest not to waste your time with WIFs, but for education, you should also try    WIFsolverCuda.

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I have noticed when I ask for code help, only 1 or 2 reply, but for "strangers" everyone becomes a home school teacher. (It was sarcasm)

We keep looking until we find one, if there was an easy to spot solution then we wouldn't be here at all, and my solution is not based on subtraction, it also includes division, however I'm working on a new method to multiply and divide 2 points, I know something impossible, right? At least I'm delusional by relying on mathematics, whilst you and a few others are delusional relying on "random" search without even realizing the probabilities of successfully landing on a target in a big range like 130 is beyond your comprehension.  You insist on a "luck" which doesn't exist, if you input 1 address and generate a random key and land on that 1 address, it's not called luck, God wanted it.

Yet I haven't seen you slapping me with these stupid calculations, proving me wrong and embarrassing me for everyone to see. ( wait there is a unicorn asking for directions for Champs-Élysées, let me give him an equation to solve for the address.) 😉🤣

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Please learn how to quote and trim the unnecessary previous quotes, @everyone. Thanks