Quote from: Carlton Banks on October 25, 2019, 03:00:56 PM

Quote from: hundredpercent on October 25, 2019, 01:58:24 PM

We think that the early mined coins of Satoshi are created as a prize competition (Re: Maybe Satoshi created the greatest prize competition https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5150688.0) and that Satoshi is waiting this coins to be moved. We also think that he will not respond when somebody moves the first coins but it will be a message to the Bitcoin community that the private keys are somehow on the blockchain. Satoshi could move the coins (2009/2010) to P2PKH addresses but did not.

and there is also zero evidence of any of that

not sure, but maybe:

Quote from: areyousatooshi on October 26, 2019, 01:23:07 PM

Quote from: MrFreeDragon on October 26, 2019, 11:27:48 AM

Look at these 19 public keys:

Code:

0434f3e8e75ec56591490b558a6f31211f0f5c92345addee268418af70e8c4b38e69843aa0139d3a393b7353388dcb3e809f28d2f61f998c0299abd5ed3eb3165b
041fb2bee6523163f21f6f7f2918b3c674f5ea1d68abb753537d1eb2d4256bfa632f175e47bf0cea7bc0ad9d4caf158ae7a8a82de70587535922ed7fe94f131459
048743aa38b310b19a9fb5066d82df970c1925503b9e0e8c71099c4a6ec95959de6edf701c94df1e92b04959426fd7b9e5f1875b574400a6778e898a4ae1e09e4d
045015405eb7650997d571ccdf5d9667b6452af2446aa6f39443d6631ccde8cf2f817d3e8713f22fa4f0c066275608db54e1ae2e4b85b9ce0e33fc7de72176d917
041c34b55dbe9793aa023733fddfb0caefbae5b0fdf44dfb28505794ee2e30640a880da077f97733a164ec248bffef94d2104579a989e64c4fa9962807fdf5013c
048583734a32ed0f19c8fb4ef1d53f907eae51b051c946d92160be837dcd8d33dccdbb5d25c9008b8244fc6031b28140520dcc6e34a0aacbd73ab89c38e8aa0c85
044ed97015499143d2945601dcb1539c00fd143c9880fd8086dd609f27d7e6ee720f5557eb1c1104b2d7cf6257221bd332f452a1874475946aaf22a860f1f90960
04cd0e16ec7aabea7c35bf230a59631e38a15c7a491c62f3d9e2d0398bbd48e13c1bfabe822458f8d45cc90c4e06b9c3f220f0c0744f25b81d213c1a28e6d42215
040d38158d879b1da30951cf39f2b31f105601a5c7fdf30442573e9a84b8c00c8ca95f712e76647b54a87db08489c7f76a958dc87278e8311f4c04ae0ac6613ca2
04b61c2d88ad4b579bb4b2193e0e6ec4b9c3b393a34545a0eb7686b02205385133f2179e450da372f9f810b6415835b5121a2ea822820c31ab1f5dc6655f1ae97a
0431ed84b6a2615c121eee1837da2353a4b39c7e176f32d2792d8384e0a7f658871d9d2c2e955b5f9f83d35ecac6c4bec52d02e76d14f85ad74536ac51e38df986
046a54d74528db63cd2164dc7483a7a479bb82dc62aa4e40cf5bcff7871ba839025a0476aa9a1258b657019a4f281a78eb56b6f841c6a363c98ac8713109bdcc7c
04b18527cf6f53ad751f90faad335b094fe5129ca6133a24b901af545bb1b067189574c52a5c8ce0be292e1304a96b77cde70ccf16324717c218c89ef7bc03e5c9
04ac115090af184a8463f16e09bb8225e8c5c9e420646aa3e5327c1bc44d325cd7d180157f02e9d50a056d2d2b84356f9cc7398f0c95e25b6ba68f04f0172166de
04ef7dfdb71a90cf896642c498a7fe702e3d87b3600b4b57c632d2d28cd0ae4b66ca668dc0eb8d1f66cb9ed56167d311953eefb5ed511bba78627eca697cb935ca
046ea9c3ad7b850b085f2c96b5fc8774086514dd297cf2765ad4930a63c0d860cd21302b93cf991d0b711435d0c6ec62ce863450abe6492ead7fd145045daf827f
049d6993e6a9a312f16db0f0b60781472ec5ff9e4a343e2a6a1b2008db9bb5aea018dd838ff572b0bcaf2ada7661b8172960b6846b1e366bb9e9a8f04614608be3
04e76b0e053769e7b213d067f3b5f82b428cec48d3a217a7623d56b69ad4428618185f2d59c3263a50a7887364dbc3dfc60b5f461cbeb57af3cd0121c0e59617da
048b74872254d33cf08cd695c29580b541c4732d30730fa541078ef2d9d0e542132ce0963cb765eb94320d2a2c704b52e41f65536ef53acd8e09c886fd808fd2f0

They correspond to uncompressed addresses with the first transactions in 2011 year, and fund release only in September 2019. The amounts for every address are 100-500BTC. For example the first 3 addresses (released 147BTC, 122BTC and 147BTC) are:
13GUJutC6GKgJQTcGzCtznDDYFQKVJFVwp
13Sa73PU9Ar5sE4SdFcBdbg9ntbNcMQhaA
14k4GhqA1svNZPbssdAjgdnfzWTpAigZVH

Is this Satoshi releasing his early mined funds? This could not be a luck, so huge luck.

I'm not the author of these pubkeys collection. I found it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg52879592#msg52879592

Quote from: saatoshi_rising on April 27, 2017, 06:41:08 AM

Quote from: sabbybibi on March 13, 2017, 04:17:30 PM

This puzzle is very strange. If it's for measuring the world's brute forcing capacity, 161-256 are just a waste (RIPEMD160 entropy is filled by 160, and by all of P2PKH Bitcoin). The puzzle creator could improve the puzzle's utility without bringing in any extra funds from outside - just spend 161-256 across to the unsolved portion 51-160, and roughly treble the puzzle's content density.

If on the other hand there's a pattern to find... well... that's awfully open-ended... can we have a hint or two? Cheesy

I am the creator.

You are quite right, 161-256 are silly. I honestly just did not think of this. What is especially embarrassing, is this did not occur to me once, in two years. By way of excuse, I was not really thinking much about the puzzle at all.

I will make up for two years of stupidity. I will spend from 161-256 to the unsolved parts, as you suggest. In addition, I intend to add further funds. My aim is to boost the density by a factor of 10, from 0.001*length(key) to 0.01*length(key). Probably in the next few weeks. At any rate, when I next have an extended period of quiet and calm, to construct the new transaction carefully.

A few words about the puzzle. There is no pattern. It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty). It is simply a crude measuring instrument, of the cracking strength of the community.

Finally, I wish to express appreciation of the efforts of all developers of new cracking tools and technology. The "large bitcoin collider" is especially innovative and interesting!

saatoshi_rising, are you satoshi? If you don't want to tell something, we respect your privacy! Maybe you could support us here:

Maybe Satoshi created the greatest prize competition https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5150688.0
Open letter/question to Satoshi https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5159185.0