Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

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Bulista:
Hi guys,

In continuation to this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1305887.0

While playing around with my bot, I found out this mysterious transaction:

https://blockchain.info/tx/08389f34c98c606322740c0be6a7125d9860bb8d5cb182c02f98461e5fa6cd15

those 32.896 BTC were sent to multiple addresses, all the private keys of those addresses seem to be generated by some kind of formula.

For example:

Address 2:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU74sHUHy8S
1CUNEBjYrCn2y1SdiUMohaKUi4wpP326Lb
Biginteger PVK value: 3
Hex PVK value: 3

Address 3:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU76rnZwVdz
19ZewH8Kk1PDbSNdJ97FP4EiCjTRaZMZQA
Biginteger PVK value: 7
Hex PVK value: 7

Address 4:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU77MfhviY5
1EhqbyUMvvs7BfL8goY6qcPbD6YKfPqb7e
Biginteger PVK value: 8
Hex PVK value: 8

Address 5:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Dq8Au4Pv
1E6NuFjCi27W5zoXg8TRdcSRq84zJeBW3k
Biginteger PVK value: 21
Hex PVK value: 15

Address 6:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7Tmu6qHxS
1PitScNLyp2HCygzadCh7FveTnfmpPbfp8
Biginteger PVK value: 49
Hex PVK value: 31

Address 7:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU7hDgvu64y
1McVt1vMtCC7yn5b9wgX1833yCcLXzueeC
Biginteger PVK value: 76
Hex PVK value: 4C

Address 8:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFU8xvGK1zpm
1M92tSqNmQLYw33fuBvjmeadirh1ysMBxK
Biginteger PVK value: 224
Hex PVK value: E0

Address 9:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUB3vfDKcxZ
1CQFwcjw1dwhtkVWBttNLDtqL7ivBonGPV
Biginteger PVK value: 467
Hex PVK value: 1d3

Address 10:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUBTL67V6dE
1LeBZP5QCwwgXRtmVUvTVrraqPUokyLHqe
Biginteger PVK value: 514
Hex PVK value: 202

Address 11:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUGxXgtm63M
1PgQVLmst3Z314JrQn5TNiys8Hc38TcXJu
Biginteger PVK value: 1155
Hex PVK value: 483

Address 12:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUW5RtS2JN1
1DBaumZxUkM4qMQRt2LVWyFJq5kDtSZQot
Biginteger PVK value: 2683
Hex PVK value: a7b

Address 13:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFUspniiQZds
1Pie8JkxBT6MGPz9Nvi3fsPkr2D8q3GBc1
Biginteger PVK value: 5216
Hex PVK value: 1460

Address 14:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFVfZyiN5iEG
1ErZWg5cFCe4Vw5BzgfzB74VNLaXEiEkhk
Biginteger PVK value: 10544
Hex PVK value: 2930

and so on...

until the addresses 50 (1MEzite4ReNuWaL5Ds17ePKt2dCxWEofwk) it was already cracked by someone.

Any ideas what's the formula behind the generation of these addresses?

Address 2, pvk decimal value: 3
Address 3, pvk decimal value: 7
Address 4, pvk decimal value: 8
Address 5, pvk decimal value: 21
Address 6, pvk decimal value: 49
Address 7, pvk decimal value: 76
Address 8, pvk decimal value: 224
Address 9, pvk decimal value: 467
Address 10, pvk decimal value: 514
Address 11, pvk decimal value: 1155
Address 12, pvk decimal value: 2683
Address 13, pvk decimal value: 5216
Address 14, pvk decimal value: 10544
Address 15 and after, pvk decimal value: ?

The prize would be ~32 BTC :)

EDIT: If you find the solution feel free to leave a tip :) 1DPUhjHvd2K4ZkycVHEJiN6wba79j5V1u3

Bulista:
As BurtW also pointed out the transaction values increase from from 0.001 to 0.256, according to the address position.

Quote from: BurtW on December 28, 2015, 03:59:08 PM

Lets start by what we know:

The BTC values of the outputs (0.001 through 0.256) are obviously the sequence numbers and the private keys are the sequence values.

How many of the sequence values do we already know (have been found by brute force)?

Is the list in this thread the entire list of known values from the sequence?

here are the other pvk decimal values I was able to find:

Address 15: 26867
Address 16: 51510
Address 17: 95823
Address 18: 198669
Address 19: 357535
Address 20: ?

Erkallys:
I don't know why but I'm smelling a big scam. Because a newbie that offer more than 12 000€ to solve a following of numbers this is strange...

unamis76:
Any info on who published this puzzle and what's their goal? Also, how would one go on about calculating those pvk decimal values and covert them to the private keys?

Quote from: Erkallys on December 28, 2015, 06:12:52 PM

I don't know why but I'm smelling a big scam. Because a newbie that offer more than 12 000€ to solve a following of numbers this is strange...

The OP is not offering anything

Bulista:
More details of the new values, including pvks and publics

Address 15:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFY5iMZbuRxj
1QCbW9HWnwQWiQqVo5exhAnmfqKRrCRsvW
pvk decimal value: 26867
pvk hex value: 68F3

Address 16:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFbjHrFMWzJp
1BDyrQ6WoF8VN3g9SAS1iKZcPzFfnDVieY
pvk decimal value: 51510
pvk hex value: C936

Address 17:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFiHkRsp99uC
1HduPEXZRdG26SUT5Yk83mLkPyjnZuJ7Bm
pvk decimal value: 95823
pvk hex value: 1764F

Address 18:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rFyWkjT5fywW
1GnNTmTVLZiqQfLbAdp9DVdicEnB5GoERE
pvk decimal value: 198669
pvk hex value: 3080D

Address 19:

KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYjgd9M7rGP2jMrxCfX3
1NWmZRpHH4XSPwsW6dsS3nrNWfL1yrJj4w
pvk decimal value: 357535
pvk hex value: 5749F

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