Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it

[Torin Keepler]

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Those verifications lasted 40 hours and were entirely at my expense, despite the administrator having assured me that the costs would be reimbursed.

In that private correspondence between you and the organizer, which you yourself provided, I read how the administrator offered to cover the verification cost at his own expense. However, you refused. Now you are claiming that you were not reimbursed for a verification that cost only a few dollars. At the very least, this is petty and unprofessional.

But the very fact that you received the full reward and chose to remain silent about it here until I pointed you directly to your own transaction says a lot to me.

Have a nice day.

[filo1992]

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Those verifications lasted 40 hours and were entirely at my expense, despite the administrator having assured me that the costs would be reimbursed.

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Perfect, then I will attach screenshots of the conversations. You are making yourself look ridiculous by stating falsehoods.

If tests are carried out on my data, I have every right to see and verify what kind of tests are being performed. If you have read the conversations, you know that I refused to shut down my server so that I could personally check the results of those tests.

The verification took 40 hours — that’s 12 + 4 dollars per day, for a total of 26 dollars. It could even be three cents, but if someone says they will reimburse the costs and claims to be honest, then they do it.

And to be fair, on the last day of testing, I personally asked to run some tests at my own expense under his supervision, so that I could understand everything myself as well.

But this is ridiculous: you are attaching the message in which I announced that I had received the reward in another channel (which says everything about my honesty). I also told you that I can only access this forum from my home computer, which is why I post here only when I have the time and am free from other commitments.

Obviously, the conversations are in Russian, and since I am not a native Russian speaker, I used a translator, so there may be translation errors.

PS: I had already stated within the group that I was using a translator.

https://ibb.co/cKMDzfVg
https://ibb.co/DDx9Qc13
https://ibb.co/pvTh5b95
https://ibb.co/1G8Gp9q6
https://ibb.co/sd5cNK2D
https://ibb.co/3mBsNCBH

[Torin Keepler]

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Those verifications lasted 40 hours and were entirely at my expense, despite the administrator having assured me that the costs would be reimbursed.

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Perfect, then I will attach screenshots of the conversations. You are making yourself look ridiculous by stating falsehoods.

If tests are carried out on my data, I have every right to see and verify what kind of tests are being performed. If you have read the conversations, you know that I refused to shut down my server so that I could personally check the results of those tests.

The verification took 40 hours — that’s 12 + 4 dollars per day, for a total of 26 dollars. It could even be three cents, but if someone says they will reimburse the costs and claims to be honest, then they do it.

And to be fair, on the last day of testing, I personally asked to run some tests at my own expense under his supervision, so that I could understand everything myself as well.

But this is ridiculous: you are attaching the message in which I announced that I had received the reward in another channel (which says everything about my honesty). I also told you that I can only access this forum from my home computer, which is why I post here only when I have the time and am free from other commitments.

Obviously, the conversations are in Russian, and since I am not a native Russian speaker, I used a translator, so there may be translation errors.

PS: I had already stated within the group that I was using a translator.

https://ibb.co/cKMDzfVg
https://ibb.co/DDx9Qc13
https://ibb.co/pvTh5b95
https://ibb.co/1G8Gp9q6
https://ibb.co/sd5cNK2D
https://ibb.co/3mBsNCBH

So, in the second-to-last screenshot you sent, it is clearly visible in Russian that you personally wrote that you would pay for this test yourself. Moreover, you sent this message after the person had offered to cover the server costs for you. In other words, you yourself stated that you would pay for it on your own.
https://ibb.co/sd5cNK2D

Here is a screenshot where the pool organizer offers to cover the test expenses at his own cost.
https://ibb.co/1G8Gp9q6

And here is the link to the transaction for your $200 prize payment.
https://mempool.space/tx/5b2ed31ba4585d40126a0b7b73063f628c5e75833698e984d4d65b70f54208e5?mode=details

I still cannot understand what exactly you are dissatisfied with. I did not see a single screenshot where the pool organizer said that he was not going to pay you the prize. He only said that he was suspending the payment because he wanted to run a test, and he immediately warned that this would take 1–2 days. You are behaving like a sensitive, little, offended girl.

[Bram24732]

Stuff got lost in Russian translation, get over it.
You’re filling pages fighting about 200$

[filo1992]

So, in the second-to-last screenshot you sent, it is clearly visible in Russian that you personally wrote that you would pay for this test yourself. Moreover, you sent this message after the person had offered to cover the server costs for you. In other words, you yourself stated that you would pay for it on your own.
https://ibb.co/sd5cNK2D

Here is a screenshot where the pool organizer offers to cover the test expenses at his own cost.
https://ibb.co/1G8Gp9q6

And here is the link to the transaction for your $200 prize payment.
https://mempool.space/tx/5b2ed31ba4585d40126a0b7b73063f628c5e75833698e984d4d65b70f54208e5?mode=details

I still cannot understand what exactly you are dissatisfied with. I did not see a single screenshot where the pool organizer said that he was not going to pay you the prize. He only said that he was suspending the payment because he wanted to run a test, and he immediately warned that this would take 1–2 days. You are behaving like a sensitive, little, offended girl.

Hi Bram,

you’re right, maybe I explained myself poorly, both with the administrator and on the forum.

The idea of the message was that the group administrator had carried out his tests, and I couldn’t understand what he was saying, so I politely asked for additional tests to be performed at my own expense, so that I could actually understand.

Honestly, I would never have wanted to continue this discussion, because for me everything was settled: I received the reward and announced the payment on Telegram. What was missing was an announcement on this forum, which unfortunately, due to work reasons, I hadn’t yet managed to access. (I would still like to apologize for being late in making that announcement.)

Until the user Torin Kepler added accusations, for me the matter had been over for a long time.

So as far as I’m concerned, you can absolutely delete my posts in order to clear the conversation.

[optioncmdPR]

The puzzles are solved first by application of logic on its respective bitspace boundaries,
yielding the first few bytes of the specifically designed key and substantially increasing
the viability of solving the remainder of the key using brute force.
Lets apply this claim to puzzle 64 as a real life example.
note: arbitrary calculation for full precision is necessary

        LOGIC
Divide upper boundary by lower boundary:
set decimal precision to twice the expected digit length of the private key , -1.
In this example, then, 38 digits for precision.

Upper boundary: 2^64 -1  18446744073709551615  
Lower boundary: 2^63      9223372036854775808

   18446744073709551615 ÷ 9223372036854775808
=  1.99999999999999999989157978275144955659

To quote the creator "the odds of guessing any private key with balance is like
winning powerball , 9 times in a row "

So we next take the first 20 least significant bits, reassign the decimal point,
and raise to the power of 9, divide the result by two.  The first 4 bytes( -1 at end byte ) are
the beginning of private key.  



take first 20 least significant bits    1.99999999999999999989157978275144955659
                                                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
              reassign decimal point      .89157978275144955659
                                                    ^    

                 raise to 9th power         .89157978275144955659^9
 
                                                    .355993368271774728639363164404970728311
          
                        divide by 2            .1779966841358873643196815822024853641555
                                                     ^^^^^^
                
                   first 4 bytes -1            17799667xxxxxxxxxxxx
                                                              ( trivial brute-force )
          brute force the remainder

         fun: should you increase the precision on calculations will notice familiar bytes for the # 65 key
                If you look at the key # 63 calculations will see bytes for # 64 etc..  In summary , with enough
                insight , the keys are absolutely 100% solve able by logic. There is more to be unearthed. Dont give up!    

You lied. I did the same calculations for 63 puzzle.

Puzzle 63

2^63 -1 9223372036854775807
2^62    4611686018427387904
9223372036854775807/4611686018427387904
1.99999999999999999978315956550289911319

take first 20 least significant bits 1.99999999999999999978315956550289911319
reassign decimal point .78315956550289911319
raise to 9th power  .78315956550289911319^9
0.1108287183312072818811178137109474634212
divide by 2 0.0554143591656036409405589068554737317106

first 4 bytes -1  55414359XXXXXXXXXXX
Real private key  8993229949524469768

But I did not lie.  There are 9 ever so slightly different variations of this formula. And those 9  types are used 28 times each throughout this puzzle. The above is but one of the 9. The puzzle keys are descending bits, left to right, with the most significant bit being puzzle 1, derived from a very large integer.  It is strategically sliced, some chunks discarded, other chunks used as keys and with every 4th key a prepended "1" in hex to give it modularity.  As a hint to this, here is the first part of formula 2:

multiply the puzzle key by its index>
for 66
46346217550346335726 x 66 = 305885035832285815791
                       do you see anything familiar here?
                       -2 more very basic steps in this formula will
                       yield the next 6  digits after 305:  the first bits of puzzle 65.  
  

                   FORMULA #7

example at puzzle 63 ( 8993229949524469768 )


Start with the indice number and subtract 9.
repeat 4 times to render 4 bytes:

63 -9
54 -9
45 -9
36 stop

contatenate in reverse, then prepend with .0

   36455463  >> .036455463

subtract this fractional number from the indice, creating the exponent
 to be used from 2

so 63 - .036455463 = 62.963544537
                
and now we just go                                
 
2^62.963544537
 
of which calculates to

8993226653946843177.829727352049762802450447162651262607232831090899596
12936832496363880100057168015790931910107039070023603332681051914937610
74694686863494065185878738669258455342749956654862596302126

look closely enough at the complete precision printed
here and doors will open.

[nikolayspb]

                   FORMULA #7

example at puzzle 63 ( 8993229949524469768 )


Start with the indice number and subtract 9.
repeat 4 times to render 4 bytes:

63 -9
54 -9
45 -9
36 stop

contatenate in reverse, then prepend with .0

   36455463  >> .036455463

subtract this fractional number from the indice, creating the exponent
 to be used from 2

so 63 - .036455463 = 62.963544537
               
and now we just go                               
 
2^62.963544537
 
of which calculates to

8993226653946843177.829727352049762802450447162651262607232831090899596
12936832496363880100057168015790931910107039070023603332681051914937610
74694686863494065185878738669258455342749956654862596302126

look closely enough at the complete precision printed
here and doors will open.

Texas sharpshooter fallacy
What you doing is calling Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Draw a target where the bullet hit.

[optioncmdPR]

   Stumbled across these hidden sub-domains during index crawling of a suspected scammer, containing info to the puzzle regarding keys solved and unsolved
http://latoon.ir/data.html
http://latoon.ir/data2.html
http://latoon.ir/data3.html
http://latoon.ir/datal.html
http://latoon.ir/datap.html
http://latoon.ir/datat.html
http://latoon.ir/data%.html

[nikolayspb]

  Stumbled across these hidden sub-domains during index crawling of a suspected scammer, containing info to the puzzle regarding keys solved and unsolved
http://latoon.ir/data.html
http://latoon.ir/data2.html
http://latoon.ir/data3.html
http://latoon.ir/datal.html
http://latoon.ir/datap.html
http://latoon.ir/datat.html
http://latoon.ir/data%.html

(1HT7xU2Ngenf7D4yocz2SAcnNLW7rK8d4E) is a known unspendable Bitcoin address associated with an invalid public key (all zeros, which cannot be generated from any valid private key on the secp256k1 curve

[nomachine]

Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Draw a target where the bullet hit.

Honestly, about 95% of the posts here are just pattern-hunting where no structure exists.

People are drawing magic circles around random numbers, doing what amounts to voodoo math, and then declaring they’re “close” to cracking a BTC puzzle.
That’s not cryptanalysis....it’s numerology with extra steps.

What we keep seeing over and over:

Texas sharpshooter fallacy in full effect
Formulas built after the answer is already known
Arbitrary constants, decimal slicing, exponent nudging
“Look closely at the precision” mysticism
And occasionally, outright alien-technology-level fantasy explanations
At some point this stops being math and turns into crystal ball divination.

Bitcoin puzzles are not riddles.
They are not ARGs.
They are not Easter eggs hidden by poetic engineers.

They are deliberately constructed to be boring, uniform, and structureless. That’s the entire point of cryptography. 

[Bram24732]

They are deliberately constructed to be boring, uniform, and structureless. That’s the entire point of cryptography.

Amen

[Garys27]

Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Draw a target where the bullet hit.

Honestly, about 95% of the posts here are just pattern-hunting where no structure exists.

People are drawing magic circles around random numbers, doing what amounts to voodoo math, and then declaring they’re “close” to cracking a BTC puzzle.
That’s not cryptanalysis....it’s numerology with extra steps.

What we keep seeing over and over:

Texas sharpshooter fallacy in full effect
Formulas built after the answer is already known
Arbitrary constants, decimal slicing, exponent nudging
“Look closely at the precision” mysticism
And occasionally, outright alien-technology-level fantasy explanations
At some point this stops being math and turns into crystal ball divination.

Bitcoin puzzles are not riddles.
They are not ARGs.
They are not Easter eggs hidden by poetic engineers.

They are deliberately constructed to be boring, uniform, and structureless. That’s the entire point of cryptography. 

stop killing the fun for those with imagination lol, let them draw magic circles and preform their voodoo math.

[JackMazzoni]

Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Draw a target where the bullet hit.

Honestly, about 95% of the posts here are just pattern-hunting where no structure exists.

People are drawing magic circles around random numbers, doing what amounts to voodoo math, and then declaring they’re “close” to cracking a BTC puzzle.
That’s not cryptanalysis....it’s numerology with extra steps.

What we keep seeing over and over:

Texas sharpshooter fallacy in full effect
Formulas built after the answer is already known
Arbitrary constants, decimal slicing, exponent nudging
“Look closely at the precision” mysticism
And occasionally, outright alien-technology-level fantasy explanations
At some point this stops being math and turns into crystal ball divination.

Bitcoin puzzles are not riddles.
They are not ARGs.
They are not Easter eggs hidden by poetic engineers.

They are deliberately constructed to be boring, uniform, and structureless. That’s the entire point of cryptography.  

Bitcoin does not use “true randomness.” It relies on pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs), which are deterministic algorithms seeded with entropy. Many random generators have been broken in the past. A good example of what can go wrong is MT19937. A very fast and popular PRNG that was once widely used, but is not cryptographically secure. Its internal state can be reconstructed after observing enough output, making future values predictable.

[kTimesG]

Bitcoin does not use “true randomness.” It relies on pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs), which are deterministic algorithms seeded with entropy.

Where exactly is the connection between Bitcoin and randomness, I don't see it.

PRNGs are not (supposed to be) used in cryptography, because they are stateful, thus breakable by definition. They have an use when a large amount of values are needed (for example, simulations, games, neural networks, AI training, etc.), but not for cryptographic usage. That would be dumb, and it's why people did it, the exploits were inevitable.

[Bram24732]

Texas sharpshooter fallacy. Draw a target where the bullet hit.

Honestly, about 95% of the posts here are just pattern-hunting where no structure exists.

People are drawing magic circles around random numbers, doing what amounts to voodoo math, and then declaring they’re “close” to cracking a BTC puzzle.
That’s not cryptanalysis....it’s numerology with extra steps.

What we keep seeing over and over:

Texas sharpshooter fallacy in full effect
Formulas built after the answer is already known
Arbitrary constants, decimal slicing, exponent nudging
“Look closely at the precision” mysticism
And occasionally, outright alien-technology-level fantasy explanations
At some point this stops being math and turns into crystal ball divination.

Bitcoin puzzles are not riddles.
They are not ARGs.
They are not Easter eggs hidden by poetic engineers.

They are deliberately constructed to be boring, uniform, and structureless. That’s the entire point of cryptography.  

Bitcoin does not use “true randomness.” It relies on pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs), which are deterministic algorithms seeded with entropy. Many random generators have been broken in the past. A good example of what can go wrong is MT19937. A very fast and popular PRNG that was once widely used, but is not cryptographically secure. Its internal state can be reconstructed after observing enough output, making future values predictable.

Bitcoin does not use randomness at all, what are you on about.
This puzzle might, but it’s unconfirmed

[optioncmdPR]

[/quote]

Honestly, about 95% of the posts here are just pattern-hunting where no structure exists.

People are drawing magic circles around random numbers, doing what amounts to voodoo math, and then declaring they’re “close” to cracking a BTC puzzle.
That’s not cryptanalysis....it’s numerology with extra steps.

What we keep seeing over and over:

Texas sharpshooter fallacy in full effect
Formulas built after the answer is already known
Arbitrary constants, decimal slicing, exponent nudging
“Look closely at the precision” mysticism
And occasionally, outright alien-technology-level fantasy explanations
At some point this stops being math and turns into crystal ball divination.

Bitcoin puzzles are not riddles.
They are not ARGs.
They are not Easter eggs hidden by poetic engineers.

They are deliberately constructed to be boring, uniform, and structureless. That’s the entire point of cryptography.  
[/quote]

...I am perfectly ok with exploring what I feel to be a viable path toward a reduced brute force space. I am a little annoyed, however, at the white and black ignorance portayed in what is clearly an AI response. Its not really fair.
   Indeed, I choose not to dwell in the stark bleakness that dictates bruteforcing almost impossibly large ranges as being the only solution. There is a hybrid way to get there sooner, I feel it in my gut. I always have and I will always suspect, and always pry, even if its never discovered. Interestingly enough, I don't place full faith in this nor do I think I will actually succeed. I hope I will, of course, but I I'm not neglecting the fact that it is mostly a pipedream and keep it as a mildly invasive weekend obsession. I am reasonable enough to not let it ruin my life and will know when to throw in the towel, of that I am certain. In the interim, I simply enjoy sharing some interesting findings every now and then to perhaps spark others who have gone stale in their individual quests. I don't share everything though, lol.