Bitcoin Forum
May 13, 2024, 10:24:37 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register More  
Pages: « 1 [2]  All
  Print  
Author Topic: Game 2: First person to crack this gets 5 BTC [SOLVED]  (Read 2417 times)
dani147624
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 22
Merit: 0


View Profile
January 14, 2012, 12:01:05 PM
 #21

Damn it!  Embarrassed

Doing the operations was my first idea... I managed to force pywallet to output something in hex, which I beleived, were the numbers:

33 + caea7cc3f8b198101e0f7ffb0eeb2e8c85ce9e72cc628990f30f41183aa6eba58761c239d03ded / 019385 (all in hex)

Doing these operations in gcalctool I ended up with this solution: 80BBC798A19A21A8BCEAA022375B1B73C73EF466CBE5B48D1DB1C195B26CC4603DDC2F897C

However, when this was imported into my wallet.dat, I didn't get the bitcoins (bitcoin was restarted with -rescan). What did I screw up?
1715639077
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1715639077

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1715639077
Reply with quote  #2

1715639077
Report to moderator
1715639077
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1715639077

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1715639077
Reply with quote  #2

1715639077
Report to moderator
Make sure you back up your wallet regularly! Unlike a bank account, nobody can help you if you lose access to your BTC.
Advertised sites are not endorsed by the Bitcoin Forum. They may be unsafe, untrustworthy, or illegal in your jurisdiction.
1715639077
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1715639077

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1715639077
Reply with quote  #2

1715639077
Report to moderator
1715639077
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1715639077

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1715639077
Reply with quote  #2

1715639077
Report to moderator
1715639077
Hero Member
*
Offline Offline

Posts: 1715639077

View Profile Personal Message (Offline)

Ignore
1715639077
Reply with quote  #2

1715639077
Report to moderator
Remember remember the 5th of November
Legendary
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 1862
Merit: 1011

Reverse engineer from time to time


View Profile
January 14, 2012, 07:08:37 PM
 #22

Dani, a private key begins with a 5. That is quite different from a privkey.

BTC:1AiCRMxgf1ptVQwx6hDuKMu4f7F27QmJC2
altuin
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 42
Merit: 0


View Profile
January 14, 2012, 07:11:21 PM
 #23

Congratz Melman
Ean (OP)
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Activity: 199
Merit: 100



View Profile
January 14, 2012, 07:19:24 PM
 #24

Damn it!  Embarrassed

Doing the operations was my first idea... I managed to force pywallet to output something in hex, which I beleived, were the numbers:

33 + caea7cc3f8b198101e0f7ffb0eeb2e8c85ce9e72cc628990f30f41183aa6eba58761c239d03ded / 019385 (all in hex)

Doing these operations in gcalctool I ended up with this solution: 80BBC798A19A21A8BCEAA022375B1B73C73EF466CBE5B48D1DB1C195B26CC4603DDC2F897C

However, when this was imported into my wallet.dat, I didn't get the bitcoins (bitcoin was restarted with -rescan). What did I screw up?

The base58-key kontains 5 additional bytes that the hex-version do not. The blue part is the actual key:
80BBC798A19A21A8BCEAA022375B1B73C73EF466CBE5B48D1DB1C195B26CC4603DDC2F897C

Quote from: Douglas Adams
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for
scintill
Sr. Member
****
Offline Offline

Activity: 448
Merit: 254


View Profile WWW
January 14, 2012, 08:49:40 PM
 #25

Damn it!  Embarrassed

Doing the operations was my first idea... I managed to force pywallet to output something in hex, which I beleived, were the numbers:

33 + caea7cc3f8b198101e0f7ffb0eeb2e8c85ce9e72cc628990f30f41183aa6eba58761c239d03ded / 019385 (all in hex)

Doing these operations in gcalctool I ended up with this solution: 80BBC798A19A21A8BCEAA022375B1B73C73EF466CBE5B48D1DB1C195B26CC4603DDC2F897C

However, when this was imported into my wallet.dat, I didn't get the bitcoins (bitcoin was restarted with -rescan). What did I screw up?

Ouch, bummer man. Sad

Dani, a private key begins with a 5. That is quite different from a privkey.

A Wallet Import Format key does, but what he posted does indeed contain the hex private key, as Ean explains.

1SCiN5kqkAbxxwesKMsH9GvyWnWP5YK2W | donations
dani147624
Newbie
*
Offline Offline

Activity: 22
Merit: 0


View Profile
January 14, 2012, 09:56:46 PM
 #26

Damn it!  Embarrassed

Doing the operations was my first idea... I managed to force pywallet to output something in hex, which I beleived, were the numbers:

33 + caea7cc3f8b198101e0f7ffb0eeb2e8c85ce9e72cc628990f30f41183aa6eba58761c239d03ded / 019385 (all in hex)

Doing these operations in gcalctool I ended up with this solution: 80BBC798A19A21A8BCEAA022375B1B73C73EF466CBE5B48D1DB1C195B26CC4603DDC2F897C

However, when this was imported into my wallet.dat, I didn't get the bitcoins (bitcoin was restarted with -rescan). What did I screw up?

The base58-key kontains 5 additional bytes that the hex-version do not. The blue part is the actual key:
80BBC798A19A21A8BCEAA022375B1B73C73EF466CBE5B48D1DB1C195B26CC4603DDC2F897C


Now that I think about it, pywallet probably didn't allow me to import the long key, so I deleted the last 5 bytes... Turns out I should have deleted the first byte and the last 4 bytes instead... Well, anyway, thanks for pointing that out.
Pages: « 1 [2]  All
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!