Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

[GR Sasa]

Has anyone ever found a key matching: 13zb1hQbWVsc ? just would be interesting to see!

what for ? why should anyone be interested in finding a partly matching string of a puzzle BTC address ? it's completely useless

for the first time in my life i agree with citb0in

[frozenen]

Very boring comments, please DM to me only if anyone has one! thanks

[citb0in]

for the first time in my life i agree with citb0in

cauz' you didn't like or understand that reply?  love it or hate it - off-topic enough.

Very boring

indeed, such requests (asking for partial matched strings) are boring even if reoccurring from time to time

[digaran]

If anyone is interested in comparing base58 character match, rmd160 character match etc, I have an idea and if you are a coder you might be able to pull it off.

Basically what you need is a color encoding  tool to create colors from base58 or rmd160 hash characters, once you have your algorithm ready, you just need encode addresses or hashes with this new algo, then you should take a look at the color spectrum of the addresses you find in a certain range and compare it for example with #66 address and it's color composition, if the found similar matches were of the same colors, you might have a chance to determine whether you are close to puzzle address or not.

First thing you should do is converting adds/hashes into color bars something like this:

1111111111111111111114oLvT2

Rmd160 :

0000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Add:
11111111111111111111BZbvjr
Rmd160:
0000000000000000000000000000000000000001
Add:
11111111111111111C3CPpNyMcq
Rmd160:
0000000000000000000000000000000001234567

Or you could base the colors on a certain range, like  the above hexadecimal rmd160 converted to decimal is :
19088743, then you could mix color hues together like 1908, 1+9+8= 18, so you'd set a color for any sum of 4 digits less than 20 to red, if the sum of next 4 digits are 8+7+4+3= 22 between 22 and 25 you'd set a different color, if the sum of 4 digits is between 25 and 30, another color and so on.

Then you won't need to look at the hex/decimal values anymore, just pure color compositions of certain hashes in different bit ranges. And then check to see if you can find any pattern.

[citb0in]

And then check to see if you can find any pattern.

would you expect one ?

[GR Sasa]

And then check to see if you can find any pattern.

would you expect one ?

Lol. We've gone way off topic damn the son of the sun...

I think Satoshi should recharge our batteries and boost our motivation by skyrocketing the puzzles again by 10x.

Would you agree guys?

[citb0in]

I think Satoshi should recharge our batteries and boost our motivation by skyrocketing the puzzles again by 10x.

Would you agree guys?

Well, I don't think anyone would mind if the prize money was increased tenfold again. But I don't think that would increase the chances of our potential success. It is difficult, we know that. Instead of increasing the prize money, I would appreciate more hints from the puzzle creator 

[GR Sasa]

I think Satoshi should recharge our batteries and boost our motivation by skyrocketing the puzzles again by 10x.

Would you agree guys?

Well, I don't think anyone would mind if the prize money was increased tenfold again. But I don't think that would increase the chances of our potential success. It is difficult, we know that. Instead of increasing the prize money, I would appreciate more hints from the puzzle creator 

Yes, if the puzzle prize has increased it doesn't mean that it would increase the chances of success, but it give us more motivation espeically for developers to develop new ideas.

@citb0in: How are you online here in the forum when you have work to do? I thought you work from 9 to 17 like all other people that are stuck in the matrix inside the planet..?   

[citb0in]

@citb0in: How are you online here in the forum when you have work to do? I thought you work from 9 to 17 like all other people that are stuck in the matrix inside the planet..?   

One does not exclude the other. I am not in the matrix. I created the matrix. 

[digaran]

would you expect one ?

Yes, I expect to see  dozens of colorful pages and long quotes, it's time for a change of scenery.😅
Seems like you had a good sleep last night, you are not whining.😂

would appreciate more hints from the puzzle creator 

Hints in order to make it easy for people to grab the prize? Why would he do that? Instead there is this DLEQ method he could use to create a new puzzle and joins us to find the key, it would be a good experience to taste his own medicine for once. Lol.

I think Satoshi should recharge our batteries and boost our motivation by skyrocketing the puzzles again by 10x.

Would you agree guys?

The last increase of the prize was a bait, to lure more wanderers into the cave of the "gold hoarding dragon", so any golden coins out side the reach of the dragon would mean these wanderers could grab the coins quickly and run, that would be counterintuitive to the concept of baiting.

[mcdouglasx]

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

[sussybaka]

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

Given that keys for ranges 1 to 65 and 70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110,115 were found in the intended ranges, the chances of any error on behalf of the creator are nearly zero. Now coming to puzzle 120, we see that the coins associated with BCH and BTG have not been moved yet (since 8 months) which makes it a bit suspicious. Whoever found keys 120 and 125 is either too rich to bother about the other coins or intentionally left the coins for others to keep working.

[mcdouglasx]

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

Given that keys for ranges 1 to 65 and 70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110,115 were found in the intended ranges, the chances of any error on behalf of the creator are nearly zero. Now coming to puzzle 120, we see that the coins associated with BCH and BTG have not been moved yet (since 8 months) which makes it a bit suspicious. Whoever found keys 120 and 125 is either too rich to bother about the other coins or intentionally left the coins for others to keep working.

1- the keys belong to an HD wallet.
2- to put the hd in required ranges for each one, manual edits were made.
3- hexes can lead to errors if you modify them manually, deleting or changing a single letter of the hex can reduce 1 bit or increase 1 bit if you make a mistake.
4- there were initially 256 keys, therefore, if we assume that he edited from 1 to 256.
As it progresses it becomes repetitive and the probability of an error increases.

How can you say that the chances are nearly zero?

[albert0bsd]

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

hahaha two bad jokes in a single post, bravo.

How can you say that the chances are nearly zero?

This process can be automatized and the probabilities of error are zero after some tests.

[mcdouglasx]

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

hahaha two bad jokes in a single post, bravo.

How can you say that the chances are nearly zero?

This process can be automatized and the probabilities of error are zero after some tests.

The logical thing is that he did it manually, because it would not make sense to create an HD wallet, take the pk and then pass them through a 256-step script to obtain the desired ranges. If a script were made, an HD wallet would simply not be chosen, it would be generated the pk randomly to avoid the task of taking the pk from the wallet and modifying them as desired.
Or would you as a programmer not do it like that?

[digaran]

It's been months since 125 was solved and they didn't bother to post the private key, we even asked the author to reveal the key after 1 month giving them time to sweep those garbage coins, but still no news, no keys revealed, does that mean this community is only good to contribute but not good enough to fulfill their request?

Not only 125 but 120 is also missing, if we want to solve this "puzzle" we need to have all the pieces which includes 120 and 125 keys, since the author listened to our call and added extra funds to the puzzles, why not do us another favour and reveal 120, 125 keys? It could be sent via PM to a trusted person so they can cash forked coins and give it to someone who really needs it and then they can reveal the emptied keys for us to have a look. 

Maybe I'm expecting too much? Just open your laptop and copy paste the keys in someone's inbox with instructions on what to do. Lol
How much money is in the forked coins anyways, anyone knows?

[nomachine]

Maybe I'm expecting too much? Just open your laptop....

Imagine yourself living in Dubai as a btc millionaire and some bro from the internet asks you to open your laptop?

World class dining and drinking?

Tons of things to do?

Lol

[sussybaka]

Maybe I'm expecting too much? Just open your laptop and copy paste the keys in someone's inbox with instructions on what to do. Lol
How much money is in the forked coins anyways, anyone knows?

Key #120 has 1.2 BTG and 1.2 BCH which is nearly a total of $291*.
Key #125 has 1.25 BTG and 1.25 BCH which is nearly a total of $302*.

*According to current price of 1BTG = $13.4 and 1BCH = $229.8.

[bestie1549]

It's been months since 125 was solved and they didn't bother to post the private key, we even asked the author to reveal the key after 1 month giving them time to sweep those garbage coins, but still no news, no keys revealed, does that mean this community is only good to contribute but not good enough to fulfill their request?

Not only 125 but 120 is also missing, if we want to solve this "puzzle" we need to have all the pieces which includes 120 and 125 keys, since the author listened to our call and added extra funds to the puzzles, why not do us another favour and reveal 120, 125 keys? It could be sent via PM to a trusted person so they can cash forked coins and give it to someone who really needs it and then they can reveal the emptied keys for us to have a look.  

Maybe I'm expecting too much? Just open your laptop and copy paste the keys in someone's inbox with instructions on what to do. Lol
How much money is in the forked coins anyways, anyone knows?

@digaran we all know you are the mathematics guru in the community, you should have found a way to reduce puzzle 130 to as low as 100 bit range without ending up with so many public keys. hint us through some real work to do as so many of us are no longer willing to keep dying on the puzzle 66. we need a headstart on getting towards puzzle 130 and we got to know for sure what we are doing instead of just trying to bruteforce the whole keys like I am currently doing with puzzle 66 and my electricity bills killing. let's dabble into 130 and turn off these machines. I have so many paper and biro to make some calculations with. NB: I don't mind sharing. if we need to create a pool too but not for 66, as there are so many pools already and all they're scanning is the first 26 bit range which consists of 33554432 possible guesses to find the key.

Let's be creative since the puzzle creator has already boosted our morale with the 10x increment. creativity is the key to success
Let's think out of the box. I saw someone trying to paint a picture with the RMD160 too, these are creative ideas. puzzle 125 and 120 pks have nothing to do with puzzle 130 just as puzzle 1 to 65 has nothing to do with puzzle 66. we just have to start coming to the realization that these thing called RANDOM is not a joke, the bit range is also not a thing to play with. and with the exposed pubkeys we have an upper edge to calculate something rather than just bruteforcing throughout

[zahid888]

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

hahaha two bad jokes in a single post, bravo.

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).

• 1st method very close to creator hints -- probability of errors zero

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg61993228#msg61993228

• 2nd method -- probability of errors zero

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg62163538#msg62163538

there are many more.. But still, I would like to request the creator to please reveal all the keys from puzzle 161 to puzzle 256, to make this challenge a bit more interesting.