Considering that:
1. watashi-kokoto was the first one to reply to this thread:
Obviously she isn't him, but
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who do you all think is she anyways?
2. Blockladder has 2 deleted posts, both were in the threads created by guess who? Correct, watashi-kokoto.
3. Based on posts history both accounts were active at approximately the same time.
There is a very high probability that it's the same person.
That was my thought exactly. Watashi has a post about buying accounts as well. Can't help but wonder if blockladder is a bought account. Anywho, might as well try the anagram solution.
I'm offering to the community a full-blown Python 2.7 script to transform 32 character plain-text to priv/pub keys. The code is below:
import binascii, hashlib, base58
from bitcointools import *
from electrum import Network
def priv2addr(priv):
pub = privtopub(priv)
addr = pubtoaddr(pub)
return (addr)
# Step 1: here we have the private key
#private_key_static = "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000002"
private_key_static = binascii.hexlify("InsertPlainTextPhraseHere32Chara")
print (private_key_static)
#private_key_static = ("Because it was an educated guess")
# Step 2: let's add 80 in front of it
extended_key = "80"+private_key_static.strip()
# Step 3: first SHA-256
first_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(binascii.unhexlify(extended_key)).hexdigest()
# Step 4: second SHA-256
second_sha256 = hashlib.sha256(binascii.unhexlify(first_sha256)).hexdigest()
# Step 5-6: add checksum to end of extended key
final_key = extended_key+second_sha256[:8]
print (final_key)
# Step 7: finally the Wallet Import Format is the base 58 encode of final_key
WIF = base58.b58encode(binascii.unhexlify(final_key))
print (WIF)
print (priv2addr(WIF))