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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
arulbero
on 11/11/2018, 06:44:00 UTC
⭐ Merited by GoldTiger69 (1)
If I get this correctly, you need the Raw Public Key to recover the private key.

But it is not possible to get the Raw Public Key  from a Bitcoin Address unless some transaction is done by whoever cracked the private key first, right?

Right!

which program you use to generate a large number of address and keys?

You have to use a library tailored to elliptic computations.

The most famous is the libsecp256k1 written by Pieter Wuille (it is in Bitcoin Core).

These programs https://gist.github.com/jhoenicke/2e39b3c6c49b1d7b216b8626197e4b89 and https://github.com/klynastor/supervanitygen use this library.

My code instead uses a different library written by myself for the LBC project.