Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

[Gianluca95]

I would absolutely like to understand who is the one behind this puzzle and why he should spend this huge sum only for prove that Bitcoin network is really resistant and hard to break. This absolutely make me crazy !

I will start to look with much interest to this thread and try also to find something, now find a piece of puzzle could be a life change chance !

[Lolo54]

I would absolutely like to understand who is the one behind this puzzle and why he should spend this huge sum only for prove that Bitcoin network is really resistant and hard to break. This absolutely make me crazy !

I will start to look with much interest to this thread and try also to find something, now find a piece of puzzle could be a life change chance !

It's superb it becomes really very motivating there will be people on it
#66 at 6.6 BTC is superb

the address that issued the transactions contained 872 btc the person behind is not out of BTC at all.....  I've been on this puzzle since the beginning and the day I saw the one and only intervention of the creator of this puzzle I said to myself it's satoshi himself who is behind (but I could be wrong) just a feeling

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg18765941#msg18765941    (message from creator saatoshi_rising)

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/BTC/bc1quksn4yxlxp80tn929gqnh8xpnngqj0fqr99q4z

[lordfrs]

Hello, I've been following this thread for a year. I stocked all of them, including many archives that were deleted from the internet, along with their source code.

I just came up with a new idea and I need a little help with it.

Do you have fast point extraction algorithm for python ?

Thanks..

Not: sorry for my bad english, i don't know english i use google translate

you mean point multiplication x,y for g in the elliptic curve?

you can DM me!

Yes...   publickey(x,y) - G(x,y)

     

[Evillo]

Congratulations, all puzzle prizes increased 10 folds.

Even puzzle #1 received 0.09 BTC but the bots stole them instantly.

[Lolo54]

I'm curious to see now if the X10 financial bounty can accelerate or not as saatoshi_rising said "of the cracking strength of the community." if the resistance is due to the bounty or the network strength .... anyway I highly doubt that beyond 135 bit nothing will be solved no matter the bounty it will take something other than brute force

[Amnuazka]

This puzzle is very strange. If it's for measuring the world's brute forcing capacity, 161-256 are just a waste (RIPEMD160 entropy is filled by 160, and by all of P2PKH Bitcoin). The puzzle creator could improve the puzzle's utility without bringing in any extra funds from outside - just spend 161-256 across to the unsolved portion 51-160, and roughly treble the puzzle's content density.

If on the other hand there's a pattern to find... well... that's awfully open-ended... can we have a hint or two?

I am the creator.

You are quite right, 161-256 are silly.  I honestly just did not think of this.  What is especially embarrassing, is this did not occur to me once, in two years.  By way of excuse, I was not really thinking much about the puzzle at all.

I will make up for two years of stupidity.  I will spend from 161-256 to the unsolved parts, as you suggest.  In addition, I intend to add further funds.  My aim is to boost the density by a factor of 10, from 0.001*length(key) to 0.01*length(key).  Probably in the next few weeks.  At any rate, when I next have an extended period of quiet and calm, to construct the new transaction carefully.

A few words about the puzzle.  There is no pattern.  It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty).  It is simply a crude measuring instrument, of the cracking strength of the community.

Finally, I wish to express appreciation of the efforts of all developers of new cracking tools and technology.  The "large bitcoin collider" is especially innovative and interesting!

The value of unsolving puzzles goes up 10X today😇

[Evillo]

This puzzle is very strange. If it's for measuring the world's brute forcing capacity, 161-256 are just a waste (RIPEMD160 entropy is filled by 160, and by all of P2PKH Bitcoin). The puzzle creator could improve the puzzle's utility without bringing in any extra funds from outside - just spend 161-256 across to the unsolved portion 51-160, and roughly treble the puzzle's content density.

If on the other hand there's a pattern to find... well... that's awfully open-ended... can we have a hint or two?

I am the creator.

You are quite right, 161-256 are silly.  I honestly just did not think of this.  What is especially embarrassing, is this did not occur to me once, in two years.  By way of excuse, I was not really thinking much about the puzzle at all.

I will make up for two years of stupidity.  I will spend from 161-256 to the unsolved parts, as you suggest.  In addition, I intend to add further funds.  My aim is to boost the density by a factor of 10, from 0.001*length(key) to 0.01*length(key).  Probably in the next few weeks.  At any rate, when I next have an extended period of quiet and calm, to construct the new transaction carefully.

A few words about the puzzle.  There is no pattern.  It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty).  It is simply a crude measuring instrument, of the cracking strength of the community.

Finally, I wish to express appreciation of the efforts of all developers of new cracking tools and technology.  The "large bitcoin collider" is especially innovative and interesting!

The value of unsolving puzzles goes up 10X today😇

Now ppl can stop complaining about electricity cost, lack of intensive or lack of resources. No actually you can still complain about that last one. But the point is, the creator is opening up even more doors. Let's be grateful.

[Evillo]

00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000363d541eb611abee
Start key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002000000000000000
Stop key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003fffffffffffffff
2000000000000000...3fffffffffffffff (261...262)




EX 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000349b84b6431a6c4ef1
Start key 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200000000000000000
Stop key 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000003fffffffffffffffff




through the searching ive done this could mean nothing but  i think #66 has to start= with 35

theory:  #62 has a start stop with 2 and 3  #70 has a start stop of 2 and 3. both a little apart in think the middle filling one is #66. starting at 35.................

Nice, now we have 15 more unknown digits. What do we go from there? Nowhere!

I'm going back to random starting point generation. And i think I've got one more thing under my sleeve that i wanna share but I'll have to try first.

[Feron]

I wouldn't say that when 1000 people gather at a puzzle, unlike in the past, the chances of cracking the address beforehand skyrocket, the problem see is  the prize will take before you

[Evillo]

i litterly just copied and pasted a link from github also . i have no idea if it contains some type of malware use at your own risk as i said im a script kiddie to invested to give  up now. my last question is why has noone made a website holding a escrow account that the btc would go to if cracked and split evenly appon such individuals when foudnd. also has anyone thought of good old Darkweb?? maybe paying a person to hack it for you or use their computing skills to brute force it for a lump sum if not half of whats  recvovered

Collaborative work can get you so far. kangaroo or BSGS collab may get you to puzz 140. But it can't get you to puzz 160. Not even the entire planet collaboration would get you there. As for mere pvt key cracking with tools like bitcrack etc, collaborative work can get you far enough to make some winners happy. I would suggest the max reasonable collab would reach at 90 bits. As for darkweb, I don't like the idea, seems more like cheating and smells bad all over  

Bottom line, we need a new invention.

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Last time i praised the creator but forgot to give thanks to all those who contributed their time, knowledge and resources to help people learn and achieve things beyond belief:

Brichard19
WanderingPhilosopher
Albertobsd
JeanLuc

Amazing ppl you all are.

[Evillo]

i litterly just copied and pasted a link from github also . i have no idea if it contains some type of malware use at your own risk as i said im a script kiddie to invested to give  up now. my last question is why has noone made a website holding a escrow account that the btc would go to if cracked and split evenly appon such individuals when foudnd. also has anyone thought of good old Darkweb?? maybe paying a person to hack it for you or use their computing skills to brute force it for a lump sum if not half of whats  recvovered

Collaborative work can get you so far. In kangaroo or BDGS to say puzz 140. But it can't get you to puzz 160. Not even the entire planet collaboration would get you there. As for mere pvt key cracking with tools like bitcrack etc, collaborative work can get you far enough to make some winners happy. I would suggest the max collab would reach at is 90 bits. Bottom line, we need a new invention.

   say you even get to 90 bits with a collabed group with the m oney you make options are endless after tbh

Let's create a Large Bitcoin Collider then.

[Evillo]

i litterly just copied and pasted a link from github also . i have no idea if it contains some type of malware use at your own risk as i said im a script kiddie to invested to give  up now. my last question is why has noone made a website holding a escrow account that the btc would go to if cracked and split evenly appon such individuals when foudnd. also has anyone thought of good old Darkweb?? maybe paying a person to hack it for you or use their computing skills to brute force it for a lump sum if not half of whats  recvovered

Collaborative work can get you so far. In kangaroo or BDGS to say puzz 140. But it can't get you to puzz 160. Not even the entire planet collaboration would get you there. As for mere pvt key cracking with tools like bitcrack etc, collaborative work can get you far enough to make some winners happy. I would suggest the max collab would reach at is 90 bits. Bottom line, we need a new invention.

   say you even get to 90 bits with a collabed group with the m oney you make options are endless after tbh

Let's create a Large Bitcoin Collider then.

Personally id love to but i am no good at coding gamming and shipping packs is my strongsuit. if you or anyone you know can make such website i would know how to set escrows up and or someone should contact the mod of this group or one of the others as a "middle man" like i said before though id be willing to run my pc 24\7 till it caught fire or we cracked  the puzzle
also idk if you guys know either  theres multipule other groups like us. kagroos group and 1000 btc puzzle group aloty of hidden info and new people in those too id take a lookk at some the links can be found on page 1 think or whatever the main page is explaining it all.

And i have the domain name and hosting ready. Domain is 21 years old so it's solid. SSL certificate already setup.

[Evillo]

i litterly just copied and pasted a link from github also . i have no idea if it contains some type of malware use at your own risk as i said im a script kiddie to invested to give  up now. my last question is why has noone made a website holding a escrow account that the btc would go to if cracked and split evenly appon such individuals when foudnd. also has anyone thought of good old Darkweb?? maybe paying a person to hack it for you or use their computing skills to brute force it for a lump sum if not half of whats  recvovered

Collaborative work can get you so far. In kangaroo or BDGS to say puzz 140. But it can't get you to puzz 160. Not even the entire planet collaboration would get you there. As for mere pvt key cracking with tools like bitcrack etc, collaborative work can get you far enough to make some winners happy. I would suggest the max collab would reach at is 90 bits. Bottom line, we need a new invention.

   say you even get to 90 bits with a collabed group with the m oney you make options are endless after tbh

Let's create a Large Bitcoin Collider then.

Personally id love to but i am no good at coding gamming and shipping packs is my strongsuit. if you or anyone you know can make such website i would know how to set escrows up and or someone should contact the mod of this group or one of the others as a "middle man" like i said before though id be willing to run my pc 24\7 till it caught fire or we cracked  the puzzle
also idk if you guys know either  theres multipule other groups like us. kagroos group and 1000 btc puzzle group aloty of hidden info and new people in those too id take a lookk at some the links can be found on page 1 think or whatever the main page is explaining it all.

And i have the domain name and hosting ready. Domain is 21 years old so it's solid. SSL certificate already setup.

that makes things a bit easier. let me do some more digging and ask some question to some fellow resources. i could possibly pay someone to sett it up if you have all that ready atm.

Yep it's ready. All it lacks is the application/content.

[WanderingPhilospher]

  And i have the domain name and hosting ready. Domain is 21 years old so it's solid. SSL certificate already setup

What domain do you own/have?

I had a pool running over 2 years ago, for #64. People say they will run their GPUs but we only had around 2-4 people running consistently.

What would be nice is to know everyone’s fire power, and then decide what tools to use, and best setup. But most get excited in the beginning and then fizzle out a week or so later when the key hasn’t been found lol.

[NotATether]

WOW!
Somebody (maybe the owner) increased the unsolved puzzles prizes again by x10 😱
Now the puzzle #66 prize is 6.6 BTC, #67 is 6.7 BTC... and so on .... puzzle # 160 prize is 16 BTC now
👍🏼🥳

Well, all the remaining addresses received a total of 872.2 BTC, so this challenge is getting damn huge. 

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/12f34b58b04dfb0233ce889f674781c0e0c7ba95482cca469125af41a78d13b3

I guess time to fire up the GPUs and make an AMD / Xilinx build of these solvers

[WanderingPhilospher]

i have no idea if this helps if it does contribute at all think of me when your doing a line off my mothers butt when ur sitting with 200k


Based on the information given, we can derive the starting point for Puzzle 49 and use it to calculate the starting point for Puzzle 66.

Puzzle 49 would be (1/16.532318326723157) times Puzzle 53, which gives us a factor of 0.06056415335786299. Multiplying this factor with the starting point for Puzzle 53 (0x9c8c956992e7aaf45d) gives us a starting point for Puzzle 49 of 0x5e2c3f6f1a2c80486f.

To calculate the starting point for Puzzle 66, we need to multiply the starting point for Puzzle 65 times 40, which gives us 0x4248dbb048e3e05018. We can then use the starting point for Puzzle 49 and the factor between Puzzles 49 and 65 to calculate the starting point for Puzzle 66:

Puzzle 65 is 21.439643985050658 times Puzzle 61.
Puzzle 61 is 10.313427000231762 times Puzzle 57.
Puzzle 57 is 20.439417260448156 times Puzzle 53.
Puzzle 53 is 16.532318326723157 times Puzzle 49.
Puzzle 49 is 0.06056415335786299 times Puzzle 66.

Therefore, the starting point for Puzzle 66 would be (0x4248dbb048e3e05018)/(21.43964398505065810.31342700023176220.4394172604481560.06056415335786299)(0x5e2c3f6f1a2c80486f) which evaluates to 0x1a274a956a7d53d977. edit--- with a ending point of 0x3500000000000000000 "based off my guess" or logically 0x3600000000000000000

I do not understand your logic (not knocking it, I just don't get it)
#66 should have a starting range of 20000000000000000 and an ending range of 3ffffffffffffffff; that's the way every puzzle/challenge bit has worked up to this point.

[WanderingPhilospher]

Yeah your math is way off.

We already knew/know the starting point of 61 and 65 and their applicable ranges and private keys.

61 is in the 61 bit range.
A 1 followed by 15 zeros thru a 1 followed by 15 f’s
65 is in the 65 bit range.
A 1 followed by 16 zeros thru a 1 followed by 16 f’s.

For 66:
The starting range is a 2 followed by 16 zeros
The ending range is a 3 followed by 16 f’s
20000000000000000-3ffffffffffffffff

[WanderingPhilospher]

Yeah your math is way off.

We already knew/know the starting point of 61 and 65 and their applicable ranges and private keys.

61 is in the 61 bit range.
A 1 followed by 15 zeros thru a 1 followed by 15 f’s
65 is in the 65 bit range.
A 1 followed by 16 zeros thru a 1 followed by 16 f’s.

For 66:
The starting range is a 2 followed by 16 zeros
The ending range is a 3 followed by 16 f’s
20000000000000000-3ffffffffffffffff

ive also seen alot of your work sir you sir are a legend  indeed. im going based off things ive done myself as long with the math and ideas throught the thousands of posts ive read through multiple threads. if you do think anything is off please let me know i get what you mean about my first part im too braindead to explain all of it rn that i put into it. id love to hear any output that you or anyone else has to say. please stay open minded in the factt that everyone is still learning something at this point its about brining all of our knowlge together and seeing what we get like the other guy said i think its time for something new we cannot let history repeat itself.

Well now you have changed your range starts LOL...these make more sense:

Code:

#66 ranges between
3b320044788A17DA0 - 3BC0ABFC3654BAE80
3475FBD690F7B3880 - 34B85C9495BA98840
30389466D233BCDE0 - 305E58789566D2EA0
2E1325EAAC24E8A40 - 2E6917C76BF8F5340

#67 would be
76650288f113CE0C0 - 778157F86CA914280
67EBF7AD21EF67100 - 69cb0874000C96B00
60020C853D2F282C0 - 60BCB0F12ACD13580
5C264BD668493ECC0 - 455DB0955BB3E3100

[Evillo]

  And i have the domain name and hosting ready. Domain is 21 years old so it's solid. SSL certificate already setup

What domain do you own/have?

I had a pool running over 2 years ago, for #64. People say they will run their GPUs but we only had around 2-4 people running consistently.

What would be nice is to know everyone’s fire power, and then decide what tools to use, and best setup. But most get excited in the beginning and then fizzle out a week or so later when the key hasn’t been found lol.

I own cesr.net

Let's do it one more time. With that much money at stake, we should grow a huge community.

[Lolo54]

Let's do it one more time. With that much money at stake, we should grow a huge community.

Everyone thinks he will be the lucky one and prefers to avoid having to share the X10 is made to encourage people to pool their power to demonstrate that even with a collective effort the 66 67 68 and 69 will be difficult to obtain otherwise it won't find away
Also give a good boost to this puzzle which is now 8 years old