0.1 BTC for python help!

[COBRAS]

still dont know what the author wants..

@Unplugged Taste
tell us, do you know the public key of the address containing 1 BTC or not ??

from your posts i believe you dont know which public key is the correct one....

i posted on the first page a script that converts all the public keys you have into addresses and compares them to the address containing your money.
it will return only the address and it's public key

IF you already know the public key of the address why would you need to check all the public keys at once??

I will write an example, we will take 125 original public key puzzles and generate 1 billion keys from them, then just crack one single public key out of billion public keys, you will get a private key in the form of numbers and according to it you can calculate the private key for 125

there is vinner of your 0.1 BTC ?

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[digaran]

And is it only me finding this suspicious? I wonder where is the address containing 1 btc? Because it has no out going tx, we can't find it's public key and steal the coin if that's what OP is afraid of. So where is the address in question?

[whanau]

By "it worked" I meant that the script worked. It says I have to wait 1.7 million year before it actually finds the key.

Then your range must have been quite large or you have input it incorrectly.

This is one occasion where I would suggest you DO NOT publish your public keys. Instead, for those who keep asking "where is the btc" use this

https://iancoleman.io/bitcoin-key-compression/
(note there are malicious versions of this site so make sure you use the legit one)

Input the public key. it will produce two addresses compressed and uncompressed.
These you can safely publish and if there is any btc in them people can look up with this
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer

or similar.

[larry_vw_1955]

And is it only me finding this suspicious?

maybe not suspicious but i find it strange why someone would need to generate 1 billion private keys if they are only going to use one of them. doesn't make any sense.

I wonder where is the address containing 1 btc? Because it has no out going tx, we can't find it's public key and steal the coin if that's what OP is afraid of. So where is the address in question?

good question.

[LoyceV]

And is it only me finding this suspicious? I wonder where is the address containing 1 btc? Because it has no out going tx, we can't find it's public key and steal the coin if that's what OP is afraid of. So where is the address in question?

The address is irrelevant, although if OP shares the address and signs a message from the address that funded it, there's no longer a reason to doubt his story.

maybe not suspicious but i find it strange why someone would need to generate 1 billion private keys if they are only going to use one of them. doesn't make any sense.

If it's true, OP made a very dumb mistake (but I'm sure he knows that already). Don't try to reinvent how to create private keys, it will increase the risk of losing your funds.

@Unplugged Taste: I get that you don't want to share the range, but can you at least share how large the range is? That should give a decent idea whether or not it's doable to reproduce one of the addresses.

[pooya87]

And is it only me finding this suspicious? I wonder where is the address containing 1 btc? Because it has no out going tx, we can't find it's public key and steal the coin if that's what OP is afraid of. So where is the address in question?

The address is irrelevant, although if OP shares the address and signs a message from the address that funded it, there's no longer a reason to doubt his story.

If OP could sign message from that address he wouldn't have been here since signing a message requires having the private key
Although if you want to not-doubt his story OP could share the public key + address. Considering that hashes inside addresses are not reversible to get the public key, the chances of it being a fake story diminishes significantly.
Although if you want the "reward" none of the above would help, you'd need to use an escrow

[LoyceV]

if OP shares the address and signs a message from the address that funded it, there's no longer a reason to doubt his story.

If OP could sign message from that address he wouldn't have been here since signing a message requires having the private key

Read it again

Although if you want to not-doubt his story OP could share the public key + address. Considering that hashes inside addresses are not reversible to get the public key, the chances of it being a fake story diminishes significantly.

That will work too, but I guess OP doesn't want to share the public key. Sharing the address reveals less.

Although if you want the "reward" none of the above would help, you'd need to use an escrow

I usually take rewards from Newbies with a grain of salt. Sometimes it's real, sometimes it isn't.

[pooya87]

Read it again

Oh. I always automatically assume that the coins someone has is received from a third party (no access to that address).

I usually take rewards from Newbies with a grain of salt. Sometimes it's real, sometimes it isn't.

Yeah, They receive the same level of help regardless of the "offer".

[Unplugged Taste]

If someone has any doubt or suspicions about what I am saying, they can simply leave, no big deal. I am not here to somehow skim or exploit anyone's programming capabilities, don't judge me. I will explicitly appreciate anyone's genuine help & reward accordingly. Those who think I was dumb making 1 billion keys are also wrong. 1 billion is what is left in USB Drive, however originally they were 1trillion. The reason I am not exposing my scheme is that I am still working on this thing by putting another BTC and moving forward with my research. I don't have any GPU neither want one & I am also not interested in 125 BTC puzzle rest assured. I am simply a victim of untoward incident like a flood, a tornado, or lightening or house on fire or robbery etc we have little to no control over it. you can call it dumb or whatever you like.

[LoyceV]

Those who think I was dumb making 1 billion keys are also wrong. 1 billion is what is left in USB Drive, however originally they were 1trillion.

That's 66 TB. Must be a nice USB disk

I am still working on this thing by putting another BTC and moving forward with my research.

Lol. That's literally the best way to describe what you're doing.

I am simply a victim of untoward incident like a flood, a tornado, or lightening or house on fire or robbery etc we have little to no control over it.

It's more like you threw your money in the fire place yourself. All of this could have been prevented if you didn't try to invent your own private key creation, but it looks like you haven't learned from it. I suggest this title for your next topic: "I lost 1 BTC again".

[CryptoHFs]

years ago I believe that I saw NotATether helped someone to maintain something like this. I think that the best thing to do would be handling your files to someone here that is trusted and let him work on the recovery.

Other option you can try; https://www.walletrecoveryservices.com/

I don't know him, didn't try him but was mentioned through trusted member here that I don't remember who

[larry_vw_1955]

I am still working on this thing by putting another BTC and moving forward with my research.

what exactly is the purpose of the research? to figure out ways to generate a private key that is complicated? A private key is just a number. Whether you get it by doing a single operation or a million trillion operations doesn't make that number any more secure.

I am simply a victim of untoward incident like a flood, a tornado, or lightening or house on fire or robbery etc we have little to no control over it.

That's not how I see it but whatever.  If you have a funded address then that particular private key needs to be backed up.

[Unplugged Taste]

Great NEWS!!!!!
I found my rouge BTC. A simple list of collisions made things quite manageable, which was exactly I was looking for because BTC was placed on a strategic location. I thank all of you guys for your suggestions as well as criticism. All I say here is that, things won't always be the same! Elliptic Curve encryption system will soon be redundant! Enjoy your puzzle solving!

[larry_vw_1955]

Great NEWS!!!!!

you decided to start backing up your funded bitcoin addresses?

Elliptic Curve encryption system will soon be redundant! 

how did you figure that? 

[Kamoheapohea]

OP is full of shit. Wasting our time asking for help for his stupid elliptic curve fail and then proclaiming the end of elliptic curve.

[pooya87]

1 billion public key is a 130 GB text document, you just need a lot of RAM to load it all or split it into several txt documents

It depends on how you store it and how you use it.

For example it could be stored as binary (instead of hex in a text file) and in its compressed form. That is 33 byte per pubkey and a billion of them makes it a 33 GB file (65 GB for uncompressed).

As for usage of this data, you don't need to load it all in memory. You could use a database and/or sort the list in a way that would make it faster to search using methods such as binary search, etc.

[larry_vw_1955]

OP is full of shit. Wasting our time asking for help for his stupid elliptic curve fail and then proclaiming the end of elliptic curve.

he'll probably be posting about his new quantum computer soon. watch out  problem is, his quantum computer will probably not have any error correction so the results will be wildly off.

[algorithm32]

Great NEWS!!!!!
I found my rouge BTC. A simple list of collisions made things quite manageable, which was exactly I was looking for because BTC was placed on a strategic location. I thank all of you guys for your suggestions as well as criticism. All I say here is that, things won't always be the same! Elliptic Curve encryption system will soon be redundant! Enjoy your puzzle solving!

Congrats! but come on tell me the truth, you found it with the help of the forum and you regretted giving rewards, Lol.

[digaran]

I was looking for because BTC was placed on a strategic location. Enjoy your puzzle solving!

Strategic location was lost till yesterday! I mean you are a terrible strategist , lol.

Enjoy your puzzle solving!

We will because that's the idea!

To everyone here, when someone offers imaginary money, just control your drooling and demand evidence of funds, specially for strangers.