Ok, here's a 1BTC puzzle.

[fecell]

You can always validate your output on brain wallet : https://brainwalletx.github.io/

think it's wrong way.
wrote: 8 camel case 32 long plain-text (private key).
not a hash, not a WIF, not a BrainWallet, not a string for generating private key.
said exactly 'private key'.
so this string is a key, and must be used to generate 'public key' and WIF directly, without hashing it before.

is not it so?

[BrewMaster]

You can always validate your output on brain wallet : https://brainwalletx.github.io/

think it's wrong way.
wrote: 8 camel case 32 long plain-text (private key).
not a hash, not a WIF, not a BrainWallet, not a string for generating private key.
said exactly 'private key'.
so this string is a key, and must be used to generate 'public key' and WIF directly, without hashing it before.

is not it so?

it is impossible to say because the "hint" in OP is vague at best so there is a lot of ways that you can get a private key from the supposed set of words that are the answer to this question.

i think people should first focus on solving the "puzzle" and after that when they at least had part of the answer they should work on brute forcing it. in which case if you have a big chunk of the answer you can simply try all the possible ways like using it directly, using its hash, using it in a brainwallet,...

[troslky77]

Hi,

Actually I just registered but sometime I was here, it's a good place for me for looking of something about crypto etc.

This puzzle is pretty interesting because it's 1BTC only but a combinations of possible ways to decode these words  isn't too hard and not that easy as we tought...

I tried a huge numbers of words with a big wordlists, tried cracking with tesla p100 rig worth ~$20K, and BIG NOTHING...


One day I was angry for myself why I didn't tried any simple way, simple things, simple connections to a question and what?

I ask myself : DoesTheSatoshiNakamotoHasASister

Opened brainwallet, passpharse uncompressed and got this address : 179Hzd6SEsyfrji7vUQHZzmko8nqcpxpAm , interesting prefix right ?

Only 7 words but so close (:

I think it's easy for sure but we just think diffrent...

[seoincorporation]

I ask myself : DoesTheSatoshiNakamotoHasASister

Opened brainwallet, passpharse uncompressed and got this address : 179Hzd6SEsyfrji7vUQHZzmko8nqcpxpAm , interesting prefix right ?

Damn, that was really close! i think the chances are like 1 in 100,000,000. LoL.

By the way, with that tesla p100 rig you could offer bruteforce services, i didn't know that kind of rig exist and after some googling i see enormous hashing power that rig has, nice piece of technology!.

[fecell]

I ask myself : DoesTheSatoshiNakamotoHasASister
Opened brainwallet, passpharse uncompressed and got this address : 179Hzd6SEsyfrji7vUQHZzmko8nqcpxpAm , interesting prefix right ?

))))))) LOL
Key-string: SuppyIsBTCMillionsTotalTwentyOne (generated by permutation, wrong way, only 7 words!!!)
HEX-representation:  537570707949734254434d696c6c696f6e73546f74616c5477656e74794f6e65
Uncompressed WIF:  5JT3RVrP6YtDFETRPbpA3L3TpjX4JLfZADWCEH8VP31RcD7DEso
Uncompressed address:  179ALKnGW2drBiwDrkqpxexgt22ffUqmsb

So, this prefix often happens.

[kachev87]

Hello, I just registered here.
I`m trying to solve this puzzle from a week now and I tried
everything that came to my mind.
Tried to search for answen for:
Why Satoshi Nakamoto made bitcoin amount to be 21 million - no eight english words answer
Why combs have 21 teeth - no eight english words answer
What is the meaning of the number 21 - it is the sum of all first 6 natural numbers - matematics, Fibonacci,
spritual, what so ever involves the number 21, 21 century stuff, I tried and tried.... and no luck...

I don`t think that even Satoshi Nakamoto(or Natasha Otomoski) can answer that question.

I wish you people luck to crack that puzzle!

[Morarity]

Hello, I just registered here.
I`m trying to solve this puzzle from a week now and I tried
everything that came to my mind.
Tried to search for answen for:
Why Satoshi Nakamoto made bitcoin amount to be 21 million - no eight english words answer
Why combs have 21 teeth - no eight english words answer
What is the meaning of the number 21 - it is the sum of all first 6 natural numbers - matematics, Fibonacci,
spritual, what so ever involves the number 21, 21 century stuff, I tried and tried.... and no luck...

I don`t think that even Satoshi Nakamoto(or Natasha Otomoski) can answer that question.

I wish you people luck to crack that puzzle!

This puzzle I suppose requires some technical workaround in cryptography.
I've tried hashing the question into a sha256 and minus the transaction hash no eight english words there.

This riddle or puzzle is extremely difficult to solve, but I think it is only a matter of months anyone would solve this.

[pooya87]

Hello, I just registered here.
I`m trying to solve this puzzle from a week now and I tried
everything that came to my mind.
Tried to search for answen for:
Why Satoshi Nakamoto made bitcoin amount to be 21 million - no eight english words answer
Why combs have 21 teeth - no eight english words answer
What is the meaning of the number 21 - it is the sum of all first 6 natural numbers - matematics, Fibonacci,
spritual, what so ever involves the number 21, 21 century stuff, I tried and tried.... and no luck...

I don`t think that even Satoshi Nakamoto(or Natasha Otomoski) can answer that question.

I wish you people luck to crack that puzzle!

This puzzle I suppose requires some technical workaround in cryptography.
I've tried hashing the question into a sha256 and minus the transaction hash no eight english words there.

This riddle or puzzle is extremely difficult to solve, but I think it is only a matter of months anyone would solve this.

knowledge of cryptography is only a secondary requirement and it will only be needed in the last step, if at all. the first step is to understand the puzzle question and have a starting point instead of making guesses and/or brute forcing random words to get something out of it.

at this point i am convinced that this either was a trolling attempt considering overall activity of OP or if it is an actual puzzle, it was very poorly designed which makes it impossible to solve.

[netlakes]

Hello, I just registered here.
I`m trying to solve this puzzle from a week now and I tried
everything that came to my mind.
Tried to search for answen for:
Why Satoshi Nakamoto made bitcoin amount to be 21 million - no eight english words answer
Why combs have 21 teeth - no eight english words answer
What is the meaning of the number 21 - it is the sum of all first 6 natural numbers - matematics, Fibonacci,
spritual, what so ever involves the number 21, 21 century stuff, I tried and tried.... and no luck...

I don`t think that even Satoshi Nakamoto(or Natasha Otomoski) can answer that question.

I wish you people luck to crack that puzzle!

This puzzle I suppose requires some technical workaround in cryptography.
I've tried hashing the question into a sha256 and minus the transaction hash no eight english words there.

This riddle or puzzle is extremely difficult to solve, but I think it is only a matter of months anyone would solve this.

knowledge of cryptography is only a secondary requirement and it will only be needed in the last step, if at all. the first step is to understand the puzzle question and have a starting point instead of making guesses and/or brute forcing random words to get something out of it.

at this point i am convinced that this either was a trolling attempt considering overall activity of OP or if it is an actual puzzle, it was very poorly designed which makes it impossible to solve.

total waste of time.

it is clear that it is a troll.

[Cassius]

Still unsolved? I have a couple of ideas.

[KingZee]

Still unsolved? I have a couple of ideas.

Still there waiting : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/179sxfh6rw6bHSo5wVUhLP96k46QaEzVP

[Cassius]

Still unsolved? I have a couple of ideas.

Still there waiting : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/179sxfh6rw6bHSo5wVUhLP96k46QaEzVP

I feel close. I have a solution that matches the right criteria, with the double meaning implied by the question. Just need to figure out how to process it.

[netlakes]

https://brainwalletx.github.io/#generator

just insert your guesses into the passphrase field that it will convert to an address.

https://imgur.com/0zdYxFD

Still unsolved? I have a couple of ideas.

Still there waiting : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/179sxfh6rw6bHSo5wVUhLP96k46QaEzVP

I feel close. I have a solution that matches the right criteria, with the double meaning implied by the question. Just need to figure out how to process it.

[Cassius]

https://brainwalletx.github.io/#generator

just insert your guesses into the passphrase field that it will convert to an address.

Still unsolved? I have a couple of ideas.

Still there waiting : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/179sxfh6rw6bHSo5wVUhLP96k46QaEzVP

I feel close. I have a solution that matches the right criteria, with the double meaning implied by the question. Just need to figure out how to process it.

Thanks - BitAddress does the same if you enter a non-valid private key. I've been using that.
It's not clear from the question whether the solution to the riddle is the private key itself, or whether it points to the private key. I don't think it will make too much difference either way but would help - knowing if the answer is 32 letters or not would be useful.

[netlakes]

I made a javascript script to test multiple combinations with 8 words that add 32 characters and did not succeed, several people tried it, this tool is very good for testing https://github.com/dan-v/bruteforce-bitcoin-brainwallet
I came to the conclusion that this is some troll, the tips are very bad, it is easier to find out other puzzles type this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.640

sorry for my bad english

https://brainwalletx.github.io/#generator

just insert your guesses into the passphrase field that it will convert to an address.

https://imgur.com/0zdYxFD

Still unsolved? I have a couple of ideas.

Still there waiting : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/179sxfh6rw6bHSo5wVUhLP96k46QaEzVP

I feel close. I have a solution that matches the right criteria, with the double meaning implied by the question. Just need to figure out how to process it.

Thanks - BitAddress does the same if you enter a non-valid private key. I've been using that.
It's not clear from the question whether the solution to the riddle is the private key itself, or whether it points to the private key. I don't think it will make too much difference either way but would help - knowing if the answer is 32 letters or not would be useful.

[Cassius]

I made a javascript script to test multiple combinations with 8 words that add 32 characters and did not succeed, several people tried it, this tool is very good for testing https://github.com/dan-v/bruteforce-bitcoin-brainwallet

I don't think it's a troll - I'll give it a little bit more time and then, if I can't solve it, drop my thoughts here.
When you have enough letters to play with, you can make it fit (almost) anything. But the answer I've got so nearly fits the criteria, and reflects the principle hidden between the lines of the question very neatly (I can't say more without giving it away).
But I cannot figure out how it's slimmed down to 32 letters. I am missing something.
Thank you for the tool.

[netlakes]

from what I understood, the 8 words in camelcase form 32 characters and then sha256 (8words) forms the private key

I made a javascript script to test multiple combinations with 8 words that add 32 characters and did not succeed, several people tried it, this tool is very good for testing https://github.com/dan-v/bruteforce-bitcoin-brainwallet

I don't think it's a troll - I'll give it a little bit more time and then, if I can't solve it, drop my thoughts here.
When you have enough letters to play with, you can make it fit (almost) anything. But the answer I've got so nearly fits the criteria, and reflects the principle hidden between the lines of the question very neatly (I can't say more without giving it away).
But I cannot figure out how it's slimmed down to 32 letters. I am missing something.
Thank you for the tool.

[Cassius]

from what I understood, the 8 words in camelcase form 32 characters and then sha256 (8words) forms the private key

I made a javascript script to test multiple combinations with 8 words that add 32 characters and did not succeed, several people tried it, this tool is very good for testing https://github.com/dan-v/bruteforce-bitcoin-brainwallet

I don't think it's a troll - I'll give it a little bit more time and then, if I can't solve it, drop my thoughts here.
When you have enough letters to play with, you can make it fit (almost) anything. But the answer I've got so nearly fits the criteria, and reflects the principle hidden between the lines of the question very neatly (I can't say more without giving it away).
But I cannot figure out how it's slimmed down to 32 letters. I am missing something.
Thank you for the tool.

Right. Either the 8 words are the privkey (which is possible if OP did some brute forcing - I've done something similar myself, several years ago now, for a puzzle), or it's a hash.
Either way, it's finding the right 32 chars. I have been assuming that they are from the question itself, like others have been.

[Hueristic]

Rooting for you guys, I hope its for real and someone here solves it.

[Cassius]

Rooting for you guys, I hope its for real and someone here solves it.

Annoyingly, I've hit a dead end.
I'll give it a while longer, then post my thoughts here in case they're of use to anyone else.