Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

[dan.alex]

IS THIS SOLVED?>

Yes

Some VERY SMART people even show these pictures around to prove that they have been solved.

The reason he didn't transfer was because he was afraid of BOTS.
(BE CAREFUL about scammers!)

https://ibb.co/VW77RSBK
https://ibb.co/8ghhY5Nd

pathetic! what do you gain by faking this in photoshop? At least be smart enough and don't use a known private key next time...

[bibilgin]

Any semi-analphabet (or smarter) person can do a one-liner of Python and post the SHA-256 hash of the public key, this is the only necessary and required piece of evidence anyone needs to verify a statement that a private key of an address was found; not some blurry picture that has no actual relevance to anything.

And a smart person that knows about BOTS and that disabled RBF is totally futile and that any key below 100 bits can be cracked in less than 10 minutes, would not even bother trying to crack the private key. That is the smart way to handle the problem.

Why do you write such long things?
When I read your articles, the song bla bla comes to mind.
You should stop proving or presenting yourself about your knowledge. lol

pathetic! what do you gain by faking this in photoshop? At least be smart enough and don't use a known private key next time...

You too, without understanding or knowing. Don't speak by heart. (Read carefully first.)
I said someone else is sharing this around. Not me. In fact, those people are currently wandering around this forum.

[kTimesG]

Why do you write such long things?
When I read your articles, the song bla bla comes to mind.

Sry if 2 phrases is def not ur thing, do u have some tik tok tutorial for cracking 67 fast now? plz vid only and maybe what app do I download???!

[bibilgin]

Sry if 2 phrases is def not ur thing, do u have some tik tok tutorial for cracking 67 fast now? plz vid only and maybe what app do I download???!

I'm sending the link, definitely watch and listen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfJhMfOPWdE

[nomachine]

"New", lol. I written about these since last September, if not August, months before even RCKang was made public. How are these new? I even explained all the formulas for why they work.

New? Lol. I’ve been out fishing for months, unless the fish have WiFi, I missed the forum posts. Just reeling back in now! 

[Akito S. M. Hosana]

"New", lol. I written about these since last September, if not August, months before even RCKang was made public. How are these new? I even explained all the formulas for why they work.

New? Lol. I’ve been out fishing for months, unless the fish have WiFi, I missed the forum posts. Just reeling back in now! 

Ah yes, telepathic fishing. You get math formulas straight from the ether. No need to read, the equations just swim right into your brain!

[nomachine]

Ah yes, telepathic fishing. You get math formulas straight from the ether. No need to read, the equations just swim right into your brain!

Who cares how I got the formulas and whether they swam into my brain or rode in on a magic carpet? 

[iceland2k14]

This thread used to have so much of proper discussion, and now it's a pity to even look at this page.

[IxantuaX]

Cap , the puzlle 67 is not solved !

[Lord11]

If somebody solves a puzzle and has the private key, the authentic and safe way to prove it is signing a message with that private key. If somebody tries to prove it with pictures and videos, it is 100% fake.

[Jorge54PT]

Even if 67 is resolved, it will not go to the person who resolved it. It will go to the creator, to bots, etc. Forget about these wallets and start from 100, 120 and up.

[Cricktor]

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You could sign and publish a Bitcoin signed message when you've solved puzzle #135 where it won't matter because the public key is already public and competition can't quickly solve it. But if the solver of puzzle #67 does what you suggest, then #67's coins are gone.

You understand that you expose the public key with a signed Bitcoin message? Only a fool would do that for yet unsolved low range puzzles.

[deep_seek]

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!

Since then, there has been no further activity or updates from saatoshi_rising. The puzzle remains unsolved, and the community has continued to work on cracking it.

Request:

Dear saatoshi_rising,

To confirm your continued involvement and presence, I kindly request a Proof of Life (POL). If you are still active, could you please send a small amount of funds to the following address as a sign of confirmation?

1HPgraRAYLjP9b9QBRuNzEaKjCxbWGKyhm

Why you send your POL in Puzzle 58 and puzzle 66

https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/80283e8e4fbdcbb474b14b882707b432aca6eee20642cc8d32b08c3749146ac9
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/a8b21ceaf9335ef177fa044ac9a879402c24beeeec1364698b108d1187fbbc0a

Edit:
Yesterday you send 0.00189717 sats in puzzle 66
Today you send 0.00010392 sats in puzzle 58

Is that mean dec = 18971710392, hex = 46ACD53B8 = start point of puzzle 67 ??

Or will we have to wait for tomorrow and the day after for more dec values ?

[deep_seek]

While reading through this entire thread, I came across two intriguing individuals:

satoshi_rising – Everyone knows about him and how he tenfolded the puzzle prize in 2017.
retired_coder – He supposedly owns the private keys to three puzzle challenges.

This got me thinking—what if these two are actually the same person?

I carefully analyzed all of retired_coder’s posts and noticed something else interesting. There was a user, k3ntINA, who attempted to predict Puzzle 67’s private key using a so-called "magic trick" (which, from a cryptographic standpoint, makes no sense).

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/11/18/bVWxa.jpeg

However, by sheer coincidence, he correctly predicted the first few hex digits (462, 463) of Puzzle 67.

This shocked retired_coder, who then reacted to it in a humorous way, as if trying to downplay the prediction. Here’s his post about k3ntINA:

You are my hero! We need more magic circles!

It seemed like he wanted to ensure that nobody took the prediction seriously.

This makes me wonder—could it be that he actually knows all the private keys to every puzzle?

My above post is also related to this prediction. The question is: does Puzzle 67 start with the hex '46' ?

[casperas20]

no way, with the first 2 digits known   it should had been resolved until now

[frozenen]

Deepseek how do you know bc1qgp48hjxp9uctzysq458dtlhk7ewtf9k4xpjpjj is the creator, their reason for sending 184USD TO #66 is not clear, but you are assuming it is a clue to #67?

Also if it was a clue why ignore the zeros, 0.00189717 = 0.007C553B1ADE27BE0A11   and 0.00010392  =  0.0006CF7D005BC5789A9B

I think you stretching cause as far as I know nobody ever correctly guessed #66 started with 283 , how could they guess #67 but not #66

[karrask]

no way, with the first 2 digits known   it should had been resolved until now

How do you know that?

While reading through this entire thread, I came across two intriguing individuals:

satoshi_rising – Everyone knows about him and how he tenfolded the puzzle prize in 2017.
retired_coder – He supposedly owns the private keys to three puzzle challenges.

This got me thinking—what if these two are actually the same person?

I carefully analyzed all of retired_coder’s posts and noticed something else interesting. There was a user, k3ntINA, who attempted to predict Puzzle 67’s private key using a so-called "magic trick" (which, from a cryptographic standpoint, makes no sense).

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2024/11/18/bVWxa.jpeg

However, by sheer coincidence, he correctly predicted the first few hex digits (462, 463) of Puzzle 67.

This shocked retired_coder, who then reacted to it in a humorous way, as if trying to downplay the prediction. Here’s his post about k3ntINA:

You are my hero! We need more magic circles!

It seemed like he wanted to ensure that nobody took the prediction seriously.

This makes me wonder—could it be that he actually knows all the private keys to every puzzle?

My above post is also related to this prediction. The question is: does Puzzle 67 start with the hex '46' ?

He was talking about the 66th puzzle. after it was solved.
(463)(462)17550346335726
and he missed 3 in his calculations. It should have been 466

[kTimesG]

However, by sheer coincidence, he correctly predicted the first few hex digits (462, 463) of Puzzle 67.

This shocked retired_coder

You are my hero! We need more magic circles!

He was talking about the 66th puzzle. after it was solved.
(463)(462)17550346335726
and he missed 3 in his calculations. It should have been 466

3 and 5 are not numbers, they are digits. Put there to deceive vigorous eyes. I hope @k3ntINA is doing well, after magic horoscope and magic rectangle I assume (and hope) we'll get either a magic tetrahedron or a magic Tesseract next. 2D is getting boring.

[karrask]

However, by sheer coincidence, he correctly predicted the first few hex digits (462, 463) of Puzzle 67.

This shocked retired_coder

You are my hero! We need more magic circles!

He was talking about the 66th puzzle. after it was solved.
(463)(462)17550346335726
and he missed 3 in his calculations. It should have been 466

3 and 5 are not numbers, they are digits. Put there to deceive vigorous eyes. I hope @k3ntINA is doing well, after magic horoscope and magic rectangle I assume (and hope) we'll get either a magic tetrahedron or a magic Tesseract next. 2D is getting boring.

He wasn't the only one guessing on the coffee grounds. almost every visitor to this topic, or anyone who came across puzzles, tried to find some kind of system in them.   I don't have a conspiracy theory, I have an idea.  the question arises - is it possible to change the bsgs keyhant, namely the random mode, to suit my mathematics? so that the values are not random, but are calculated using a formula.

[kTimesG]

I have an idea.  the question arises - is it possible to change the bsgs keyhant, namely the random mode, to suit my mathematics? so that the values are not random, but are calculated using a formula.

BSGS requires a public key (e.g. puzzles 135, 140, 145, 150, 155, 160, or a signed message or TX for all other puzzles).

IDK what you're doing but BSGS is fully deterministic, unless you run multiple smaller BSGS over (random) subintervals, or you tradeoff the 100% chances to find the key with a smaller memory footprint (potentially missing the solution). But before all, you should answer yourself why you want to use BSGS in the first place. For 135 there might not be enough storage on our planet to even finish off iterating through the baby steps, let alone enough fast RAM to store all of that, to run through the giant steps. At each giant step, a lookup must be performed in the table, but if you can't have the table (or it is not a fast table, which means that all and any of it needs to be directly accessible instantly, not using any network, cloud, cables, compression, etc.) you're at a dead end.