Quote from: almightyruler on November 27, 2018, 02:41:47 AM

Quote from: timisis on November 26, 2018, 09:04:09 PM

Quote from: Stryfe on November 26, 2018, 03:14:50 PM

Quote from: almightyruler on November 26, 2018, 07:19:33 AM

One advantage of focusing on puzzle transactions is that finding (and taking) those funds presents no moral dilemma. It's meant to be a reward.

please clarify - how is finding/taking funds (essentially stealing) found to have no moral dilemma? and why would stealing be a reward?

or am I misunderstanding and there is no stealing being done and these are just free funds floating out there?

Why is solving cryptographic problems as a miner not stealing, while it is stealing as a key cracker exactly? Because you say so?

Mining a block is essentially the same as solving a puzzle challenge: the winner is expected to claim the funds.

Cracking arbitrary addresses - funds that belong to other people - is completely different. IMHO.

Well its a HOBBY,

You can photograph stars, but so long as you don't travel there and steal the star its ok right?

How about photo-graphing a lion at the zoo? That's ok, so long as you don't just the fence and go into the den?

For many of us we do this because they said "IT CANT BE DONE", that is a mission for many people,

With regards to what do you do with an address/private-key combo once its found? I would say nothing really, when I find BTC addresses and match their physical key, I used to sweep, but that was years ago, but I don't even own an exchange account, I know it would be silly to even buy/sell BTC, as its all tracked.

Most of what we call BTC is BIG-LIE, that its secure, that its safe, that its private, ... its all a lie, the only thing real is the MATH, the SHA (NSA), the ECDSA (NSA) that is all real, so cracking the GOV's code is what makes this cool, but actually 'spending' btc would be like jumping the fence and going into the lions den.

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For anybody here that wants to learn how to crack bitcoin, lets talk the talk, and I'll share the code.