Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

[papiro08]

Hello everyone,
I'm ~ new to this thread and didn't have 59 sats to pay for the proxyban so I could post.
First things first, my skills on a scale of 1 to 10
Math 0
Code 0
Dumb luck 11
Yes, I'm here for the magical way to solve the puzzle.

So, what is the latest magical way to find the key?

Grab a keyboard you have lying around—if it's missing keys, it doesn't matter—and start typing on everything you can press. With a lot of luck, you'll have figured out all 17 digits of the key.

[Akito S. M. Hosana]

I don't know why but i also search 68 mostly in this range.. lol

  Puzzle started with "E0" two times  (8 and 44)
     

 

This fortune teller told me that puzzle 68 starts with E0. He also thinks the creator of the puzzle is Freemson and is probably Egyptian. Additionally, he mentioned something about having an illegitimate child with a neighbor

[nomachine]

the creator of the puzzle is Freemson and is probably Egyptian.

hahahahaha this one really make me laugh 

[brainless]

One more features should be inside cyclone
Example
./Cyclone -h 1234567890abcdef -p 68  - comb file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

-comb files are contain hex char and generate sequence combination for check
This feature will also make product more better

[Akito S. M. Hosana]

I do it manually.

cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt | sort -u > combined_unique.txt

[brainless]

I do it manually.

cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt | sort -u > combined_unique.txt

Your way for join files
Above mention me asking combination generate
Example
3 files each contain 10 lines
Will comb generate 1000 combination

[POD5]

One more features should be inside cyclone
Example
./Cyclone -h 1234567890abcdef -p 68  - comb file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt

-comb files are contain hex char and generate sequence combination for check
This feature will also make product more better

I#ve just found that Cyclone wrongly reads the ranges from file and/or changee them.
For example, I have small ranges with an amplitude of 0x1000000 and Cyclone changes the ranges to an amplitude of 0x10000000000

[teguh54321]

Hey Puzzler, I'm working on a lottery-style Puzzle 68. Got any good ideas for the first 4 digits?

I can hash the rest over the course of a week😅

which means I'm basically taking 1 in 32,768 lottery tickets every week 😅

[nomachine]

I#ve just found that Cyclone wrongly reads the ranges from file and/or changee them.
For example, I have small ranges with an amplitude of 0x1000000 and Cyclone changes the ranges to an amplitude of 0x10000000000

- Fixed range parsing in `readRangesFromFile`:
  - Normalized hex values to uppercase.
  - Removed whitespace from ranges.
  - Added hex character validation.
  - Resolved discrepancies between file and direct input.

./Cyclone -h e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc -f list.txt -t 1 -b 5 -S

================= WORK IN PROGRESS =================
Puzzle/Bits   : 29
Target Hash160: e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc
Prefix length : 5 bytes
Mode          : Sequential
CPU Threads   : 1
Mkeys/s       : 4.44
Total Checked : 88743936
Elapsed Time  : 00:00:20
Range         : af6e3791fc0000000:af6e3791fcfffffff
Progress      : 33.059692 %
Progress Save : 0
Stride        : 1
^C

https://github.com/NoMachine1/Cyclone/tree/main

[E36cat]

I#ve just found that Cyclone wrongly reads the ranges from file and/or changee them.
For example, I have small ranges with an amplitude of 0x1000000 and Cyclone changes the ranges to an amplitude of 0x10000000000

- Fixed range parsing in `readRangesFromFile`:
  - Normalized hex values to uppercase.
  - Removed whitespace from ranges.
  - Added hex character validation.
  - Resolved discrepancies between file and direct input.

./Cyclone -h e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc -f list.txt -t 1 -b 5 -S

================= WORK IN PROGRESS =================
Puzzle/Bits   : 29
Target Hash160: e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc
Prefix length : 5 bytes
Mode          : Sequential
CPU Threads   : 1
Mkeys/s       : 4.44
Total Checked : 88743936
Elapsed Time  : 00:00:20
Range         : af6e3791fc0000000:af6e3791fcfffffff
Progress      : 33.059692 %
Progress Save : 0
Stride        : 1
^C

https://github.com/NoMachine1/Cyclone/tree/main

First of all congratulations and thank you for the work put into Cyclone.

Illegal instruction (core dumped)
root@evelk-ThinkPad-T430s:~/.a/Cyclone# ./Cyclone -h e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc -r b07003137ec6788df:b0733313986012278 -b 6

I am getting this core dumped error only on some laptop models (could be that they have old processors?)
On others Cyclone starts without problems (same operating system ubuntu 18 on all of them)
Thanks in advance

[deep_seek]

I#ve just found that Cyclone wrongly reads the ranges from file and/or changee them.
For example, I have small ranges with an amplitude of 0x1000000 and Cyclone changes the ranges to an amplitude of 0x10000000000

- Fixed range parsing in `readRangesFromFile`:
  - Normalized hex values to uppercase.
  - Removed whitespace from ranges.
  - Added hex character validation.
  - Resolved discrepancies between file and direct input.

./Cyclone -h e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc -f list.txt -t 1 -b 5 -S

================= WORK IN PROGRESS =================
Puzzle/Bits   : 29
Target Hash160: e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc
Prefix length : 5 bytes
Mode          : Sequential
CPU Threads   : 1
Mkeys/s       : 4.44
Total Checked : 88743936
Elapsed Time  : 00:00:20
Range         : af6e3791fc0000000:af6e3791fcfffffff
Progress      : 33.059692 %
Progress Save : 0
Stride        : 1
^C

https://github.com/NoMachine1/Cyclone/tree/main

What do you mean by this stride? Is it working here? By default, it makes sense in a sequential search, but does the function still work if we increase it?

[kTimesG]

Hey Puzzler, I'm working on a lottery-style Puzzle 68. Got any good ideas for the first 4 digits?

I can hash the rest over the course of a week😅

which means I'm basically taking 1 in 32,768 lottery tickets every week 😅

Or less than 12 hours with a 8x RTX 4090 rig.

Your lottery ticket costs 35 $, and anyone can buy it. Or are you looking for someone to give you as a clue a range they already scanned?

[nomachine]

Illegal instruction (core dumped)
root@evelk-ThinkPad-T430s:~/.a/Cyclone# ./Cyclone -h e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc -r b07003137ec6788df:b0733313986012278 -b 6

I am getting this core dumped error only on some laptop models (could be that they have old processors?)
On others Cyclone starts without problems (same operating system ubuntu 18 on all of them)
Thanks in advance

If you have a processor that does not support AVX2, it will not work.

What do you mean by this stride? Is it working here? By default, it makes sense in a sequential search, but does the function still work if we increase it?

This means that the default stride is 1. It can be increased, I think, to 2000000000. It doesn't work beyond that value.

[Akito S. M. Hosana]

This means that the default stride is 1. It can be increased, I think, to 2000000000. It doesn't work beyond that value.

Why ? 

[nomachine]

This means that the default stride is 1. It can be increased, I think, to 2000000000. It doesn't work beyond that value.

Why ? 

Because the type used for Int is uint32_t, you can use a larger data type, such as int64_t:

Int step;
step.SetInt64(stride);
privateKey.Add(&step);

However, I’m not responsible for what happens after that.

The script processes keys in batches (e.g., POINTS_BATCH_SIZE). A large stride might cause the batch size to be exceeded, leading to incomplete or incorrect processing, progress calculation or even crashing the entire program.

That’s why I don’t like to mess with other people’s scripts. It’s easier for me to rebuild a new one from scratch than to try to support someone else’s script that works in a way they think is well-designed.

[POD5]

- Fixed range parsing in `readRangesFromFile`:
  - Normalized hex values to uppercase.
  - Removed whitespace from ranges.
  - Added hex character validation.
  - Resolved discrepancies between file and direct input.

Thanks! Was using some .SH instead...   

Code:

dos2unix unscanned.txt

or

sed -i 's/\r$//' unscanned.txt

[singlethread1]

However, I’m not responsible for what happens after that.

The script processes keys in batches (e.g., POINTS_BATCH_SIZE). A large stride might cause the batch size to be exceeded, leading to incomplete or incorrect processing, progress calculation or even crashing the entire program.

That’s why I don’t like to mess with other people’s scripts. It’s easier for me to rebuild a new one from scratch than to try to support someone else’s script that works in a way they think is well-designed.

Hey nomachine, maybe you already mentioned this in an earlier message, and if so I apologize. Why am I getting almost twice the MKeys/s with your program than I get with the original Cyclone program? Have you optimized for this much of a speed increase, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

[nomachine]

However, I’m not responsible for what happens after that.

The script processes keys in batches (e.g., POINTS_BATCH_SIZE). A large stride might cause the batch size to be exceeded, leading to incomplete or incorrect processing, progress calculation or even crashing the entire program.

That’s why I don’t like to mess with other people’s scripts. It’s easier for me to rebuild a new one from scratch than to try to support someone else’s script that works in a way they think is well-designed.

Hey nomachine, maybe you already mentioned this in an earlier message, and if so I apologize. Why am I getting almost twice the MKeys/s with your program than I get with the original Cyclone program? Have you optimized for this much of a speed increase, or am I doing something wrong? Thanks!

Which version and from where? Use the latest version from GitHub. It doesn’t go beyond 4.80 Mkeys/s  per core, which is the same as in the original version.

================= WORK IN PROGRESS =================
Puzzle/Bits   : 68
Target Hash160: e0b8a2baee1b77fc703455f39d51477451fc8cfc
Prefix length : 5 bytes
Mode          : Random
CPU Threads   : 1
Mkeys/s       : 4.80
Total Checked : 110313472
Elapsed Time  : ∞
Range         : 80000000000000000:fffffffffffffffff
Progress      : ∞
Progress Save : 0
Stride        : 1

[Akito S. M. Hosana]

Which version and from where? Use the latest version from GitHub. It doesn’t go beyond 4.80 Mkeys/s  per core, which is the same as in the original version.

I am getting 4.61 Mkeys/s on Linux and 4.70 Mkeys/s (CPU Threads: 1) on Windows on the same machine with the latest version. 

[nomachine]

Which version and from where? Use the latest version from GitHub. It doesn’t go beyond 4.80 Mkeys/s  per core, which is the same as in the original version.

I am getting 4.61 Mkeys/s on Linux and 4.70 Mkeys/s (CPU Threads: 1) on Windows on the same machine with the latest version.  

The compiler used on Windows might be different from the one used on Linux. Different compilers can produce code with varying levels of optimization, which can impact performance.

I am achieving 6 Mkeys/s per core with /opt/AMD/aocc-compiler-5.0.0/bin/clang++.

AOCC is specifically optimized for AMD hardware and can leverage AMD-specific features and instructions to deliver better performance.

The actual (EC) throughput with AOCC (clang) is between 10 Mkeys/s and 12 Mkeys/s per core, using the raw Bitcoin Core secp256k1 library without any hashing. You can't go faster than that on a CPU.