[GAME] - Find a loaded address, and it's yours!

[flatfly]

2^256 Deep Space Vagabond: A gentle, mostly theoretical* attack on Bitcoin...

Newbies wanting to get acquainted with some basic Bitcoin concepts in a fun and risk-free way, and take FREE chances in winning up to 105,611 BTC, can give the 2^256 Deep Space Vagabond a try

How it works

 The basic premise behind DSV is extremely simple:
 1. Generate Address
 2. Check Balance
 3. Grab the key and it's yours! (if you do manage to find a loaded address before the end of the universe)

 There is no actual help file at the moment but the app should be pretty self-explanatory.


How to get started

 Download and run the freeware application for Windows Vista/XP/7 32/64bit:

  Version 1.35c: http://dre.redmartian.org/dsv135c.exe  (stand-alone, 851K)

  SHA256 hash: 94b4164c87934525e702629b5bf5a4624ef4c3fb5b04c5b18df81852c398cd70

 Generate a new batch of addresses and pick some to examine their balance one by one.
 

A word of warning on downloading Windows executables

It's highly recommended not to blindly download random executables from this forum.
I do guarantee that this app does no malicious things, but I do always recommend to either run new executables in a sandbox (such as Sandboxie) or virtual machine or, for the technically-oriented, compile them from the source code when available.

As for DSV, after carefully considering whether to open source it or not, I decided to only make the source code to the initial Python-based (command-line) prototype freely available to all. The full source code to the current version will be made available on donation only (amount TBD).


Coming soon: Special modes!


Official thread

The official thread for this project can be found there


*due to the fact that 2^256 is so huge, this app will probably never
truly harm Bitcoin. And if it does, it will just mean that the basic
premises were flawed.

I hope this app will encourage good, constructive discussion of Bitcoin concepts
as a beneficial side-effect, but if it instead generates too much controversy, I will
consider withdrawing it.

[phantastisch]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

[flatfly]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

Lol - I think that's kind of the point

I will add some interesting reading on how big the keyspace actually is.

And in later releases, there will be additional rewards and quests, making it less boring/pointless...

[phantastisch]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

Lol - I think that's kind of the point

I will add some interesting reading on how big the keyspace actually is.

And in later releases, there will be additional rewards and quests, making it less boring/pointless...

 I just wanted to test the program I know its pretty unlikely to find a adress, but hey human life in the universe happened so  this may eventually happen , too.
(and i need an excuse for not learning for my exam tomorrow...)

Edit : Excuse found , i just generated and checked over 450000 empty private keys ;-)

[flatfly]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

Lol - I think that's kind of the point

I will add some interesting reading on how big the keyspace actually is.

And in later releases, there will be additional rewards and quests, making it less boring/pointless...

 I just wanted to test the program I know its pretty unlikely to find a adress, but hey human life in the universe happened so  this may eventually happen , too.
(and i need an excuse for not learning for my exam tomorrow...)

Edit : Excuse found , i just generated and checked over 450000 empty private keys ;-)

Really, 450000? How did you manage to check that many so fast?

BTW, I'm also real good at finding pointless stuff to do instead of studying for exams

[phantastisch]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

Lol - I think that's kind of the point

I will add some interesting reading on how big the keyspace actually is.

And in later releases, there will be additional rewards and quests, making it less boring/pointless...

 I just wanted to test the program I know its pretty unlikely to find a adress, but hey human life in the universe happened so  this may eventually happen , too.
(and i need an excuse for not learning for my exam tomorrow...)

Edit : Excuse found , i just generated and checked over 450000 empty private keys ;-)

Really, 450000? How did you manage to check that many so fast?

BTW, I'm also real good at finding pointless stuff to do instead of studying for exams

Vanitygen + Intel i5-2400 Quadcore + Armory + 2 hours , i am not really 100% sure if it checked them all but i checked the pastes (not in armory because scrolling was impossible). And i did a check with 5000 + 12000 first as a proof of concept. And i just tried to sweep them not to import them which is a option in armory. I would have refunded though, i am not that mean :-p
Generating Addresses was faster with the cpu than my gpu because i just used 1f and 1q as prefixes.

[flatfly]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

Lol - I think that's kind of the point

I will add some interesting reading on how big the keyspace actually is.

And in later releases, there will be additional rewards and quests, making it less boring/pointless...

 I just wanted to test the program I know its pretty unlikely to find a adress, but hey human life in the universe happened so  this may eventually happen , too.
(and i need an excuse for not learning for my exam tomorrow...)

Edit : Excuse found , i just generated and checked over 450000 empty private keys ;-)

Really, 450000? How did you manage to check that many so fast?

BTW, I'm also real good at finding pointless stuff to do instead of studying for exams

Vanitygen + Intel i5-2400 Quadcore + Armory + 2 hours , i am not really 100% sure if it checked them all but i checked the pastes (not in armory because scrolling was impossible). And i did a check with 5000 + 12000 first as a proof of concept. And i just tried to sweep them not to import them which is a option in armory. I would have refunded though, i am not that mean :-p
Generating Addresses was faster with the cpu than my gpu because i just used 1f and 1q as prefixes.

Interesting! I didn't know Armory was so fast at checking a large number of addresses.

[phantastisch]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

Lol - I think that's kind of the point

I will add some interesting reading on how big the keyspace actually is.

And in later releases, there will be additional rewards and quests, making it less boring/pointless...

 I just wanted to test the program I know its pretty unlikely to find a adress, but hey human life in the universe happened so  this may eventually happen , too.
(and i need an excuse for not learning for my exam tomorrow...)

Edit : Excuse found , i just generated and checked over 450000 empty private keys ;-)

Really, 450000? How did you manage to check that many so fast?

BTW, I'm also real good at finding pointless stuff to do instead of studying for exams

Vanitygen + Intel i5-2400 Quadcore + Armory + 2 hours , i am not really 100% sure if it checked them all but i checked the pastes (not in armory because scrolling was impossible). And i did a check with 5000 + 12000 first as a proof of concept. And i just tried to sweep them not to import them which is a option in armory. I would have refunded though, i am not that mean :-p
Generating Addresses was faster with the cpu than my gpu because i just used 1f and 1q as prefixes.

Interesting! I didn't know Armory was so fast at checking a large number of addresses.

Well i counted them and the exact number is 485797.

[flatfly]

After 448 Keys ... i must say it's tiring.

Lol - I think that's kind of the point

I will add some interesting reading on how big the keyspace actually is.

And in later releases, there will be additional rewards and quests, making it less boring/pointless...

 I just wanted to test the program I know its pretty unlikely to find a adress, but hey human life in the universe happened so  this may eventually happen , too.
(and i need an excuse for not learning for my exam tomorrow...)

Edit : Excuse found , i just generated and checked over 450000 empty private keys ;-)

Really, 450000? How did you manage to check that many so fast?

BTW, I'm also real good at finding pointless stuff to do instead of studying for exams

Vanitygen + Intel i5-2400 Quadcore + Armory + 2 hours , i am not really 100% sure if it checked them all but i checked the pastes (not in armory because scrolling was impossible). And i did a check with 5000 + 12000 first as a proof of concept. And i just tried to sweep them not to import them which is a option in armory. I would have refunded though, i am not that mean :-p
Generating Addresses was faster with the cpu than my gpu because i just used 1f and 1q as prefixes.

Interesting! I didn't know Armory was so fast at checking a large number of addresses.

Well i counted them and the exact number is 485797.

To be sure that it's really checking them, you could insert a known non-empty address in the middle of the list - but I shouldn't be distracting you too much, don't forget your exam

[odolvlobo]

It has been said before ... It is more profitable to mine bitcoins than it is to try to find a valid private key.