Introducing the 310 BTC Bitcoin Challenge

[drogasi]

Congrats to the winner!!!
Can someone give me Pip's email?

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[wangksn]

Congrats to the winner!!!
Can the winner share the decryption process? thanks

[kingjai]

Congratulations to the winner

Let us know the solution.

I think I had solved 60-70% of the puzzle.


Coral, Item, Half, Road, Cry, Gun, Dumb - I guess these were the 7 words of the BIP39 Mnemonic

Loop, man, foil, baby, bag, zero - of these 5 words could be the remaining



I hope the pip or the winner makes the final solution public (if not the method used).

Awaiting the next puzzle:)

[cashclash]

Congrats to the puzzler if this is real, though i find it pretty strange to have these small wallets solved, then the 0.31 skipped for the direct route to the 310 wallet, and shouldn't it be 310.61btc?

[timotron]

I am impressed!
bitcoin-challenge keep rolling!

[TavEra]

The winner (or team winner) is really smart! I'm happy for that and I hope he/she use the money to make good actions (not give).
I`m waiting the next puzzle!

[drogasi]

What's the mail of Pip?

[AGD]

What's the mail of Pip?

pip@mailinator.com

[TheBeardedBaby]

Not totally over yet, the site says > 0.31 BTC (unsolved)
But I guess the price is not that tempting as the 310 BTC...

BTW sent a request to the mods to be moved in games and rounds section because in Off-topic things get lost in the spam but..

[DeCoco]

if you look at adress its getting split in 25 btc seperates wallets. hmmmmmm

[monsanto]

How about this little theory:

A hacker has commited a grand bitcoin theft a while ago and is now trying to clear the trails to these Bitcoins through a puzzle. The one who will win the grand prize is the hacker himself, who can now hide behind the claim he has won the Bitcoins with his sheer knowledge.

Edit: Maybe the victims can ask for a subpoena to check a certain Binance account? Maybe there is another account at Polo, that might be interesting for LE.

A few addons to my theory:
(OP's wallet from 04-04-2018 until now)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3KCEGC4GaATQCnzogrpSDRJLKAjWvgudmW (OP's wallet from 04-04-2018 until now)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/13hLyfRHg7p9Zw7WHToRT67JR1HR92Mvxw (OP's wallet until 04-04-2018)

Just quoting myself. Well played, OP.

If your theory is right, making the 0.31 part unsolvable would be a nice touch 

[FilesFM_Announcements]

I found an interesting link to other bitcoin puzzles there must be too many bitcoin millionaires out there looking to just make some fun entertaining tasks for people...

https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/

[CristianOff]

I hope the winner makes a video on the solution. Would be glad to learn

[FilesFM_Announcements]

I hope the winner makes a video on the solution. Would be glad to learn

I guess for privacy and tax reasons.. we might never really hear of the winner....!

[Pribambas]

Happy for the winner.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nUAhlC_n21ZLZcRAHpLw9G--gpk4NUVIJqVp9F68qp4/edit

[pozmu]

How about this little theory:

A hacker has commited a grand bitcoin theft a while ago and is now trying to clear the trails to these Bitcoins through a puzzle. The one who will win the grand prize is the hacker himself, who can now hide behind the claim he has won the Bitcoins with his sheer knowledge.

Edit: Maybe the victims can ask for a subpoena to check a certain Binance account? Maybe there is another account at Polo, that might be interesting for LE.

A few addons to my theory:
(OP's wallet from 04-04-2018 until now)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3KCEGC4GaATQCnzogrpSDRJLKAjWvgudmW (OP's wallet from 04-04-2018 until now)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/13hLyfRHg7p9Zw7WHToRT67JR1HR92Mvxw (OP's wallet until 04-04-2018)

Just quoting myself. Well played, OP.

Ok, so you still think it was just money laundering?

I hope the winner makes a video on the solution. Would be glad to learn

I guess for privacy and tax reasons.. we might never really hear of the winner....!

I think that someone who was able to solve the puzzle know how to hide his identity 

Congratulations to the winner

Let us know the solution.

I think I had solved 60-70% of the puzzle.


Coral, Item, Half, Road, Cry, Gun, Dumb - I guess these were the 7 words of the BIP39 Mnemonic

Loop, man, foil, baby, bag, zero - of these 5 words could be the remaining



I hope the pip or the winner makes the final solution public (if not the method used).

Awaiting the next puzzle:)

Oh man, any idea how many more words you needed?
Congrats on being so close 

if you look at adress its getting split in 25 btc seperates wallets. hmmmmmm

Maybe a team solved the puzzle and they're splitting the reward.
Or the winner doesn't fell secure storing whole amount in one wallet.

I see that people are enthusiastic about donating. I can suggest that in the future you leave a btc address for donations from people. Then when it's full enough, put together another puzzle to solve. So it helps keep the community entertained by solving puzzles, so I see this keeps everyone at ease. Thank you very much

Yeah, for sure, people will donate tens of bitcoins for puzzles, OK 

[AGD]

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Ok, so you still think it was just money laundering?

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Why does it matter to you, what a random internet user thinks? Would you try to convince me of your opinion, if I say yes?

[Elange]

I'm pretty sure there is some story behind this particular wallet with 310 BTC. You don't just give away your money. Do you know a lot of people who give away money to strangers? I don't. Thinking of reasons why someone could do it:

1. He can't use it himself due to some legal issues (has access to internet but no access to banking, for example). I don't believe in this story that he "is at the point where he does not care about larger amounts of money anymore". It's not how it works. Whenever you have more money, you start making more plans to spend it, and you don't consider that lot "a lot" anymore, thus you always want more. Everyone who went, say, from broke to middle class can prove it.
2. He is terminally ill or crippled and does not care.
3. He is doing it to prove someone some point (e.g. I'll burn my money in a fireplace, but I won't pay for your new car)
4. Maybe he's trying to prove the point that money, in fact, ruins your life instead of changing it for the better? What is this reference to charity? Most millionaires actually DO charity. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, just to name the few. Are they idiots? I think not. )
5. The funds are somehow locked in this wallet and he does not know the solution in full himself
6. He is actually not allowed to touch the funds (as per suggestion in one of previous posts), so he needs someone else to move them
7. The 310 problem has no solution (and it's not even included in the picture), he just took it himself. Now that the 310 BTC is claimed, why is Mr. Pip not disclosing the solution to the 310 BTC wallet? Maybe because it does not exist?
8. Maybe this picture is only a key to a much larger amount of BTC, so he needs help solving the first picture, and he'll try to solve the 2nd picture himself. ))

Would it not make sense to create, say, 10 wallets 31 BTC worth each? To give someone an extra opportunity? Why is it 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 310?

I don't think this could be actually called a "challenge". RSA large number factoring was a real challenge. It provided an incentive to create new algorithms, hardware devices, it attracted people to the problem. But what's the practical use of this "challenge"? Other than guessing someone else's weird riddles? I personally find it humiliating and condescending. I am not a hell of a programmer, but I can easily create a twisted "challenge" most people won't be able to solve, yet with an existing solution. With the amount of computer science knowledge needed to solve this, I'd personally better work on my own miner to live off devfee. At least, I'd be doing something useful.

p.s. I agree with one of the previous posters that this person is probably American. The niceness is probably due to the fact he's not a young person, I think he's in his 60s.

[LoyceV]

Task: Send any quantity BTC to xxxxxxxx

Be careful, this guy is not the original OP; Don't send anything!!

I made it a bit bigger

Can you remove the Bitcoin address from your quote? I've reported his begging for deletion, so please remove it too.

[goldkingcoiner]

The fact that there still is no solution even from op, is a red flag for me. Probably just some millionaire trying to launder his coin.