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[Adriandmen]

I got my programs finished and ran the private keys but no checksum matches.  I guess I was only expecting a match if we found the answer but wouldn't that have been disappointing to find we built a valid base58 private key that wasn't the answer?!  I'm going take a break from it for a while and come back fresh.   

Yeah, same thing happened to me. Ran it for 6 hours but no match. I think it's most likely to be a problem with the case-sensitivity.

Just wondering, how many keys did you check per second?

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[CryptoVzla]

Here is mine:

• 5
• Steve Jobs
• Kevlar
• Pi / 3.14
• Atari
• parachute
• jet
• wingtip
• Gutenberg
• Yo-Yo
• mc² = E
• iron --- tried with Clothes iron
• jigsaw puzzle piece --- it can also be just Puzzle
• 1836
• scissors
• X-ray
• Yale
• radar or sonar
• aspirine --- the compound Salicine was found on 1829
• Eiffel Tower or Paris
• Nobel
• skate or ice skate
• XX chromosome
• XY chromosome
• igloo
• filmstrip ---
• Galileo
• Xerox
• question mark
• Nakamoto
• e-cigarette or vaping device
• Satoshi
• gramophone or phonograph and possibly Victrola
• zipper
• X
• Viagra
• 1996
• b this is how "b" is represented in Braille
• wireless
• Windows
• Kripton (Element 36 of the period table)
• DNA
• ballon
• Einstein
• X
• Etch-a-Sketch or Telesketch
• Gameboy
• Xenon (element 54 of the period table)
• buLb
• Tesla
• mouse

This is what i got so far with my research and some of yours. No results yet

[krumblez]

The designer and compo instigator sent me this updated tiled image to further help with decoding:



 

[xhomerx10]

... list redacted for brevity

This is what i got so far with my research and some of yours. No results yet

@CryptoVzla - Thanks for the update and for sharing your ideas! Excellent idea using elements from the periodic table.
@krumblez - Thanks for sharing the updated image. It's much easier to use
@dalek - I will include a "2" as a possibility for the "braille" image.


 I hope to get some time to work on it today. 

[krumblez]

... list redacted for brevity

This is what i got so far with my research and some of yours. No results yet

@CryptoVzla - Thanks for the update and for sharing your ideas! Excellent idea using elements from the periodic table.
@krumblez - Thanks for sharing the updated image. It's much easier to use
@dalek - I will include a "2" as a possibility for the "braille" image.


 I hope to get some time to work on it today. 

You are very welcome 

[xhomerx10]

Damn!  I decided it would be prudent to test my program with known values before I discarded the previous results and it turns out that my program isn't properly hashing the private key.
I was converting from WIF into hex, chopping off the checksum and hashing the result twice.  Turns out that's not the right way to do it.  Apparently I need to convert to binary before doing the hashing.

Edit: okay, fixed it with pack

Code:

sha256_hex(pack("H*",$other))

back in business

[marketgold]

Anyone complete the puzzle? Damm , it is very hard to complete it.

[Adriandmen]

Anyone complete the puzzle? Damm , it is very hard to complete it.

No, I really think we need hints to complete it. Or brute force it.

Either way, solving the puzzle is near impossible since you don't know which character you did wrong.

[Antimon1]

Yes and as someone earlier posted here we can't even be sure that the private key belongs to the given address, can we?
The problem with whether a letter is capitalized or not makes things just worse..

However good luck all!!

[krumblez]

Yes and as someone earlier posted here we can't even be sure that the private key belongs to the given address, can we?
The problem with whether a letter is capitalized or not makes things just worse..

However good luck all!!

The address posted does belong the private key that needs decoding, this is the whole point

[BilalHIMITE]

Yes and as someone earlier posted here we can't even be sure that the private key belongs to the given address, can we?
The problem with whether a letter is capitalized or not makes things just worse..

However good luck all!!

It's not a problem, you can just use Python or something else to generate a list of private keys with different letter capitalization.

[Antimon1]

Yes and as someone earlier posted here we can't even be sure that the private key belongs to the given address, can we?
The problem with whether a letter is capitalized or not makes things just worse..

However good luck all!!

The address posted does belong the private key that needs decoding, this is the whole point

Ideally it does (if what the creator said is true) but theoretically it could be that the address belongs to another address, couldn't it? Since there's no guarantee that these keys belong together afaik..

That was my point - please correct me if I'm wrong 

[dalek]

Yes and as someone earlier posted here we can't even be sure that the private key belongs to the given address, can we?
The problem with whether a letter is capitalized or not makes things just worse..

However good luck all!!

The address posted does belong the private key that needs decoding, this is the whole point

Ideally it does (if what the creator said is true) but theoretically it could be that the address belongs to another address, couldn't it? Since there's no guarantee that these keys belong together afaik..

That was my point - please correct me if I'm wrong 

You are correct. The puzzle owner should sign a message to prove ownership of that address.

[marketgold]

Damm! The puzzle it hard to complete,the reward should be 1BTC 

[Nobitcoin]

Just found this great puzzle BTW I need a paracetemol now.

[7788bitcoin]

Just found this great puzzle BTW I need a paracetemol now.

Did you mean paracetamol is one of the answers? Most people use "acetominophen" in US and Canada...

[Nobitcoin]

Just found this great puzzle BTW I need a paracetemol now.

Did you mean paracetamol is one of the answers? Most people use "acetominophen" in US and Canada...

No I actually meant I've got a headache after attempting this puzzle 

[MyBTT]

How do you know what letter will be in the private key? For example:

Just found this great puzzle BTW I need a paracetemol now.

Did you mean paracetamol is one of the answers? Most people use "acetominophen" in US and Canada...

How was it "a" in "paracetamol"?

[Dark.Angel]

What is that puzzle with a Z in it? It looks like a country logo, but I don't know which one. Does anyone know about it? Please inform to me...hee.. heee..

[tobacco123]

Interesting puzzle. Is the author of the puzzle in this forum and what is his id? Perhaps he could let us know which are the correct ones and we can narrow down our search.