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[Adriandmen]

since this was not yet redeemed i worked on some new theories that i share here

the following are the hex codes of the colors and addition of the background color with the image color:

index	|	backgroud color	|	image color	|	blend
0	|	b5dec9	|	ee437d	|	d291a3
1	|	d2e9d5	|	463562	|	8c8F9c
2	|	0d2630	|	9ad6dc	|	547e86
5	|	9ad6dc	|	0d242e	|	547D85
8	|	eb407c	|	f38b94	|	EF6688

it may be totally random but it also may give someone some cool idea!

i will update the Gist soon after this post.

Yeah, I think this is going a bit too far. I don't think there is any meaning behind the colors used in the images.

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[coindancer]

still nothing. this is harden then we thought. i gave up, are there any other similar puzzles?

[Adriandmen]

still nothing. this is harden then we thought. i gave up, are there any other similar puzzles?

There aren't a lot of puzzles right now (which have bitcoins as a prize) but I'm sure you can find one if you find long enough.

Another puzzle I've found was this: http://imgur.com/gallery/jKtDhrK, but it seems to be already solved.

[dalek]

still nothing. this is harden then we thought. i gave up, are there any other similar puzzles?

I gave up after checking 1.2 trillion keys.

coin_artist has a few open puzzles, but they're poorly designed and are rarely solveable.

[coindancer]

to bad. this was fun, but to hard i guess. to bad there are no extra clues.

[knightkon]

I have to ask who is providing the .5 prize if someone figures this puzzle out?  If you are the one offering the prize, may I suggest you put the prize into an escrow so you will have no one blasting you for trust issues or such.  I personally wish I knew enough about this to do this, so good luck to all of you who do.

[Nobitcoin]

I have to ask who is providing the .5 prize if someone figures this puzzle out?  If you are the one offering the prize, may I suggest you put the prize into an escrow so you will have no one blasting you for trust issues or such.  I personally wish I knew enough about this to do this, so good luck to all of you who do.

The prize is a private key ! Read the thread before you post

[xhomerx10]

I have to ask who is providing the .5 prize if someone figures this puzzle out?  If you are the one offering the prize, may I suggest you put the prize into an escrow so you will have no one blasting you for trust issues or such.  I personally wish I knew enough about this to do this, so good luck to all of you who do.

The prize is a private key ! Read the thread before you post

 In fairness, dude said he wished to know "enough about this to do this."

[krumblez]

This puzzle is totally legit.

[HCP]

Is anyone still actively working on this puzzle? I see the prize is still unclaimed... but it seems like the discussion here has slowed down. I have a couple of ideas that may or may not help for a couple of the clues...

Is there a list of the most recent "guesses" for each tile somewhere? I see a couple of lists in this thread, and the nicely annotated picture with the green/red dots etc... but they seem a little old and there has been discussion since then... I was hoping that I might be able to work on a code based solution that might be able to brute force the solution if we can narrow down some of the "unknown" ones.

[Coding Enthusiast]

Is anyone still actively working on this puzzle? I see the prize is still unclaimed... but it seems like the discussion here has slowed down. I have a couple of ideas that may or may not help for a couple of the clues...

Is there a list of the most recent "guesses" for each tile somewhere? I see a couple of lists in this thread, and the nicely annotated picture with the green/red dots etc... but they seem a little old and there has been discussion since then... I was hoping that I might be able to work on a code based solution that might be able to brute force the solution if we can narrow down some of the "unknown" ones.

that would be my picture
and here is the gist and to be honest i worked on it for a while and moved on to new projects like the wallet in my signature and This OHLC Chart one.
i am planning on doing a fresh run working from scratch though

i would love to hear any idea.

and as for brute force i made my own code and checked a couple of 10s of million private key variation and even found one but never the answer. you can see the build that use in the gist to get an idea about what i am doing.

[Patrick349]

Is anyone still actively working on this puzzle? I see the prize is still unclaimed... but it seems like the discussion here has slowed down. I have a couple of ideas that may or may not help for a couple of the clues...

Is there a list of the most recent "guesses" for each tile somewhere? I see a couple of lists in this thread, and the nicely annotated picture with the green/red dots etc... but they seem a little old and there has been discussion since then... I was hoping that I might be able to work on a code based solution that might be able to brute force the solution if we can narrow down some of the "unknown" ones.

that would be my picture
and here is the gist and to be honest i worked on it for a while and moved on to new projects like the wallet in my signature and This OHLC Chart one.
i am planning on doing a fresh run working from scratch though

i would love to hear any idea.

and as for brute force i made my own code and checked a couple of 10s of million private key variation and even found one but never the answer. you can see the build that use in the gist to get an idea about what i am doing.

How to use you gist in C# I haven't got much experience with coding.

[HCP]

that would be my picture
and here is the gist and to be honest i worked on it for a while and moved on to new projects like the wallet in my signature and This OHLC Chart one.
i am planning on doing a fresh run working from scratch though

i would love to hear any idea.

and as for brute force i made my own code and checked a couple of 10s of million private key variation and even found one but never the answer. you can see the build that use in the gist to get an idea about what i am doing.

Yeah... I saw that c# code and how you were building your char arrays... I've basically done the same thing, but with some slightly different assumptions for a couple of the clues... I've written it in Python (was fun learning the syntax and structure for python this afternoon) and it is currently grinding away testing my privkeys against the public address that was published.

My spreadsheet tells me that with my assumptions (uppercase for Surname and company name clues etc) I have 1,811,939,328 keys to test... will be interesting to see how long it takes to complete the run...

[Coding Enthusiast]

Yeah... I saw that c# code and how you were building your char arrays... I've basically done the same thing, but with some slightly different assumptions for a couple of the clues... I've written it in Python (was fun learning the syntax and structure for python this afternoon) and it is currently grinding away testing my privkeys against the public address that was published.

how do you check it against public key? are you trying to generate the pubkey with different combinations using the code? i don't know how can that even work but i feel like you are taking the long route if my guess is right.

i used a simple Base58CheckSum on each combination which i think it is faster

My spreadsheet tells me that with my assumptions (uppercase for Surname and company name clues etc) I have 1,811,939,328 keys to test... will be interesting to see how long it takes to complete the run...

i would like to know about your CPU power and also the time it takes to complete it for science you can see mine here:

[Patrick349]

Yeah... I saw that c# code and how you were building your char arrays... I've basically done the same thing, but with some slightly different assumptions for a couple of the clues... I've written it in Python (was fun learning the syntax and structure for python this afternoon) and it is currently grinding away testing my privkeys against the public address that was published.

how do you check it against public key? are you trying to generate the pubkey with different combinations using the code? i don't know how can that even work but i feel like you are taking the long route if my guess is right.

i used a simple Base58CheckSum on each combination which i think it is faster

My spreadsheet tells me that with my assumptions (uppercase for Surname and company name clues etc) I have 1,811,939,328 keys to test... will be interesting to see how long it takes to complete the run...

i would like to know about your CPU power and also the time it takes to complete it for science you can see mine here:

Please check your PM.

[HCP]

I am using an old i5-3570k... 8 Gigs of RAM... Windows 10, Python 3.6... nothing really special... and it turns out I was waaaaaay off with my estimates... my code is still running after I got back home tonight from work... so it probably has another day or so to run

As for checking the privkey against the address... I'm using the privkey_to_addr() function from the pybitcointools python library... basically you pass in a privkey and it returns the address (or generates an exception for a 'bad' privkey)... I either catch the exception (and basically ignore it) or compare any returned address against "1qkCBiEjY4GAUFBcrsDXqyM6EPbZKTqCW" which is the published address.

I should probably do the Base58CheckSum thing, and looked into it briefly, but got confused by all the math and couldn't see any obvious "Base58Checksum()" type function, so I went with the first function I found that looked like it could tell me if the generated privkey matched the bitcoin address

[Adriandmen]

I am using an old i5-3570k... 8 Gigs of RAM... Windows 10, Python 3.6... nothing really special... and it turns out I was waaaaaay off with my estimates... my code is still running after I got back home tonight from work... so it probably has another day or so to run

As for checking the privkey against the address... I'm using the privkey_to_addr() function from the pybitcointools python library... basically you pass in a privkey and it returns the address (or generates an exception for a 'bad' privkey)... I either catch the exception (and basically ignore it) or compare any returned address against "1qkCBiEjY4GAUFBcrsDXqyM6EPbZKTqCW" which is the published address.

I should probably do the Base58CheckSum thing, and looked into it briefly, but got confused by all the math and couldn't see any obvious "Base58Checksum()" type function, so I went with the first function I found that looked like it could tell me if the generated privkey matched the bitcoin address

Base58check is a lot faster, since it doesn't need to use ECDSA. That can improve the speed by over a 1000x haha.

[Coding Enthusiast]

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Please check your PM.

replied!

I am using an old i5-3570k... 8 Gigs of RAM... Windows 10, Python 3.6... nothing really special... and it turns out I was waaaaaay off with my estimates... my code is still running after I got back home tonight from work... so it probably has another day or so to run

thanks, do you have any estimate of how many pk are you checking per second with that cpu?

As for checking the privkey against the address... I'm using the privkey_to_addr() function from the pybitcointools python library... basically you pass in a privkey and it returns the address (or generates an exception for a 'bad' privkey)... I either catch the exception (and basically ignore it) or compare any returned address against "1qkCBiEjY4GAUFBcrsDXqyM6EPbZKTqCW" which is the published address.

i say this from my own experience but i may be wrong: throwing exception and catching/handling it will slow down your loop drastically

I should probably do the Base58CheckSum thing, and looked into it briefly, but got confused by all the math and couldn't see any obvious "Base58Checksum()" type function, so I went with the first function I found that looked like it could tell me if the generated privkey matched the bitcoin address

that would be the best idea.
i have zero knowledge of python but check this out:
https://github.com/jgarzik/python-bitcoinlib/blob/master/bitcoin/base58.py
or
https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib/blob/master/bitcoin/base58.py

and whatever you do first check your code with some correct private keys to see if it works

[krumblez]

Gonna cross link another game here:

https://www.iontalk.net/t/100-ion-competition-find-the-missing-privkey-characters/218/

Hope the OP doesn't mind

[coindancer]

Gonna cross link another game here:

https://www.iontalk.net/t/100-ion-competition-find-the-missing-privkey-characters/218/

Hope the OP doesn't mind

don't get me wrong. i'm totally for more but what is ion? an altcoin? then it is maybe the wrong place. and for a new one i would suggest to open a new thread anyway.