I think 'a' is an arbitrary constant provided by Evil-Knievel
From the problem description "Being a some constant," I think is meant to be interpreted as


Here's my thinking on the question...


x_0 is always 9
a is an arbitrary constant
G is the end goal, also an arbitrary number chosen by Evil-Knievel
_i is the number of steps through the recursive function you must take to reach G

Evil-Knievel is looking for a way to solve '_i' provided any 'a' and any 'G'


EDIT: That's not just standard division, it's as he mentioned using inverse modular multiplication, but visually it's depicted as division.

Was just reading more on the Montgomery curve under the arithmetic section, I think we are safe to "ignore" z, him saying z=1 allows us to say X=x and that's all we need the z for.

I don't know what he is referring to by 'multiple chains'


Another user suggested 'z' might be Standard_Score/Standard_Deviation although I don't think that is correct

Would you mind sharing what those expectations/assumptions were?

Are you using standard division where the / is or are you using "multiplication by the modular inverse"
http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs007/modmult/node2.html


Should we be knowing what 'p' is or is this another arbitrary number like 'a'?

Thank god.

The mods will not remove it, however it shows under untrusted and people tend to ignore negative feedback left by scammers.

You still show as "Trust: 0: -0 / +0(0) " so don't worry too much about invalid feedback

After completing this trade for Dying Light I'll have 1st place again by a decent margin

Evil-Knievel is this algorithm related to your project over at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=929196.0 ?

I was looking at curve25519 and notice that it's starting parameter is x=9



That I cannot answer. I'm currently doing some reading on the curves and trying to see what I can get out of it. (so far not much )

2 posts below that I offer insight into how that happened: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=939215.msg10317539#msg10317539

Also, that transaction happened less than 24 hours ago during which time OP hasn't even logged into the forums yet.



Spam your signature somewhere else.

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Not quite the way he described it but a good app to track family on smartphones is Life360 (https://www.life360.com/)

There isn't a winner.

The funds from that address got used to fund another of his projects it seems, he likely just used Armory and it chose those coins to send because they are all in his wallet. I'd be willing to bet this bounty is still open as Evil-Knievel has much more in his wallet than just that.

1PayC5RCF2aXZ6Rjg2DpVM73gaQbndiZVX is the payout address for his "nxt-miner"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=929196.0

The fifth last option you are searching for is short a hex char (7 instead of


Should that be a trailing 0, leading 0, or did you goof in the copy/paste?

If you say this isn't your favorite topic, you are a liar.

Price quote for Dying Light on Steam? Looks like retail 60 $6

It's not really what you're looking for, but...

If they can read your plain text rpc password from the config file on the server, your bitcoins are already gone because they likely got the wallet.dat file. (Unless that's encrypted but seeing as how they are on the server now they should be able to lurk in the shadows until it's decrypted)

I'd assume that's the price per stick