Hi!

I've discovered this "32 BTC" Puzzle nearly a year ago when i'd fallen into "desperacy trap" - that was really bad times for myself. I have tried a few simple things with this puzzle just trying to manage my own "pain" through working on some mind-taking task, and that worked - the hope to get a prize and the task taking my mind away from my real life problems softened my feelings. Later i'd backed to work on my PhD thesis and have not returned to this Puzzle since that. The last 4 months was even worse for myself: i've made a huge mistake on investing (had invested my savings into scam i am not even want to talked about it, very stupid - now i see) and the full war against my country started (live on the south of Ukraine). Now i am at nearly zero wallet and under occupation: have no internet for the last few weeks (they have returned us mobile network today - but who knows for how long), most of the time we have no GSM,radio,TV, lots of Russian propaganda calling us a nacists - we just peaceful Ukrainian people that just want to live in democratic country (so ridiculous, so stupid and so humiliating).

What i think of the puzzle - sure the 64\120 are next, sure the scenario where creator still has the private keys is very probable (he has made Kangaroo search path for 5th keys by those small transactions). Do i want, same as you, to get those funds (at least from 1 remained wallet  ~ 1 BTC)? SURE - in normal life where no war goes on my countries lands those ~40k$ could had dramatically (TREMENDOUSLY) change my life. I could actually bought a nice comfy flat for that BTC.

But anyway - taking out some BTC from "32 BTC puzzle" by author will ruin all the mood of this contest, so i hope he\she is not planning anything like that.

Time to time i will try to brute the keys with hope to change my life in easy way, will try to guess the hidden pattern on the private keys but not spending much time to not stimulate the schizophrenia like the "Mind Games" hero (yeah, i know that based on a real mathematician) - that what we could in our situation.

P.S. I am physicist not a mathematician, and so i really believe the "straight cryptographic problem" has its "inverse solution" - the inverse problem i assume has much easier solution than simple (or not so simple) brute.

(https://github.com/HomelessPhD/BTC32)