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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Brute-forceable puzzle - free crypto for whoever manages to crack it
by
NotATether
on 02/08/2021, 09:25:12 UTC
Field day 2, so to get a list of addresses that could've been OP's challenge address, I went to the "outputs" database dumps of Blockchair and downloaded the spreadsheets for August 1 and July 31 (the former was not available until today hence the wait). It is a little slow, but the download speed is a manageable 10 minutes on a high-speed ethernet network.

The next step is to (1) filter out all the coinbase outputs, (2) filter all the non- pubkeyhash outputs and (3) filter out all outputs <= $10.

Then we filter outputs that are less than $100 because let's be honest, a challenge worth less than $100 are not worth solving Tongue when I applied this filter on the website it eliminated a surprisingly large number of transactions.

All spreadsheet software are either lagging or outright crash when I open the DB dump so I have to resort to dirty Python tricks to apply the above.



How do I explain to my mother to AES decrypt "71TjQQYPkadCq8qUA6Lqt7FhUBEjPSzgDSbBA6spbtD/j8v3JXp9Vpco0H8rS/TK2/IOMS0aHF5QIyLihGuP2dSgdoKdyDrb82O72tNPdT4=" and ensure to type it out correctly?

I'm sure even most developers have trouble doing that.