As a cult sacrifice in memory of Lauda, I have irrevocably destroyed one satoshi. To keep the UTXO set tidy, I used
OP_RETURN with a 1 sat value and a message to be seen by all auditors of Bitcoin’s monetary supply. The transaction is also
a puzzle, with a prize of 0.001 BTC at the address
bc1qt2mdkehmphggajer3ur3g8l754scj4fdrmw3rn.
😼Cult of Lauda
Sacred Sacrificial txid:000000000fdf0c619cd8e0d512c7e2c0da5a5808e60f12f1e0d01522d2986a51 One zero nibble for each of Kitty’s nine lives!
It has been a wild forum life, - or perhaps, nine forum lives involving everything from the dark arts of moderation, to being burnt at the stake several times. (I got better.) Thanks to my forum friends, fans, and cult votaries.
Thank you everyone in advance, quite the 9 lives that some Kitty had here.
About the puzzle: Remember when Bitcoin was fun? It still is!Although the creation of this tx took my
Satoshi-era CPU way too long grinding, the puzzle does not require any heavy-duty compute power to solve. Because I am poor, and I have no GPUs (or even adequate CPUs), I would not want to create a puzzle that gives an edge to those who have better hardware.
Bitcoin is for everybody. Core keeps it so that you can run a full node on an inexpensive SOC board. I have made it so that the puzzle can be solved with any computer that could run Bitcoin Core. Yes, you could solve this on a Raspberry Pi. GPUs will not help you.
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This nonexistent cat wonders if you can find the private key.
Free images of Lauda! Rather, it is blockchain art—and it is a puzzle of psychology. To solve it, you need to think like nullius. It is essentially a Nullian brainwallet! Since
nobody thinks like nullius, I doubt that the puzzle will ever be solved. Of course, such statements are oftentimes the last words of
lusers with brainwallets—right before they lose their money. DO NOT USE BRAINWALLETS!
Always use
a secure wallet.
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This nonexistent cat laughs and hisses at brainwallets.
Free images of Lauda! All of the information required to reconstruct the private key is published on the blockchain. In one short paragraph, I could write natural-language instructions for using this information to reconstruct the private key with standard Bitcoin tools and libraries. By the standards of cryptographers, the process of creating the private key is quite insecure. However, there is neither any restriction on the keyspace, nor any computationally exploitable bias in its use; thus, the key itself is not susceptible to bruteforce.
It is a trick wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a
meow. For Kitty. Because I miss Kitty. 😿
It's sad to see you go. [...]
I will request that theymos ban the "Lauda" account (u=101872)
Done.
Lauda is banned in the same way as
satoshi, such that it isn't possible to even log into the account anymore.
If you solve the puzzle, I would appreciate if you would post here with appropriate proofs that you’re the one who got it, and contact me to let me know how you figured it out; but please keep the solution private. Be cruel. Leave everyone in suspense. It is a special way of hiding information in plain sight, for
those who love their
privacy. 😼
I will give no further hints. I
may give further disinformation to befuddle searchers with false leads. Lolz.
If the puzzle is unsolved for a
very long time, or if this causes idiot-spam on this thread (as I have seen on some other puzzle threads where drooling ignoramuses obsessively search for patterns in random numbers), I reserve the right to end this by sweeping away the prize. However, I do not want to do that. The search for the private key controlling this 0.001 BTC is good to keep Lauda’s memory alive. Naturally, this topic—Lauda’s final thread—is the primary and appropriate venue for discussion of this puzzle. As much is indicated in the accompanying
OP_RETURN.
I wish that I could give more than 0.001 BTC for this, but I cannot afford to.
I expect for that to be worth at least a thousand dollars someday, or perhaps much more! I hodl my BTC—every sat is precious—
dump, dump, DuPM your dollars.
Here’s to you, Kitty! 😺
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This nonexistent cat challenges you to take my 0.001 BTC—if you can.
Free images of Lauda!