garlonicon, thanks for engaging in the type of discussion that I’d hoped to incite when I made the puzzle:
I am curious. Would you please point me to the txids? I have not been running a testnet node (or for personal reasons, much of anything lately). I’d love to see this.
The thirty-six leading zero bits (nine zero nibbles) denote when I decided to stop grinding. On my ancient junk-heap hardware, it took me days of almost overheating my computer to get up to 36 zeroes. However I did it, I could have kept going to grind out more zeroes in the manner of any other POW. I will not comment on how (or even whether) that relates to the puzzle’s solution; it may lead the way to the solution, or it be a red herring. 😼
Someday, this “mining” of txids may make for an interesting thread in the development forum. Or here! I have many related ideas, which may be useful in various ways.
I’m not sure: Was that the first time anyone had ever done this? Need to scan the chain for analysis...
When I published the puzzle, I thought that either it would be solved very quickly, or it would never be solved. It did not seem to get much attention, at first—perhaps due to the low funding amount. Now that it seems to be getting more attention, I am deeply curious about whether anyone may crack it. If nobody does, then perhaps I may use a similar method to create and back up my personal wallet—lulz!
Could this be like the Beale ciphers?
I want to give it some time. Get more people curious. Difficult puzzles are more fun, but insoluble puzzles not so much—we’ll see.
Thanks for your interest here, and good luck with whatever attempts you may be making.
In memory of Kitty! 😺
I was, for over a year. I reluctantly “woke” my account on 29 June for the primary purpose of addressing some badness which came to my attention, which I could not in conscience ignore; that is not yet done, alas. By coincidence, some Lauda-related things arose. Well, when did I ever miss a chance to talk about Lauda? LOL.
There was also a rumour that theymos had an intimate relationship with Lauda. Lauda herself referenced this, in a joking kind of semi-sarcastic way. (Best link I found on a brief search; I recall some better ones.) So, take all these things with a grain of salt.
Lauda did seem to be everywhere at once, all the time. And I have never denied it. WHY DON’T I DENY IT? ;-)
If I created a txid that starts with 36 zero-bits, I obviously wrote some custom code for this.
Of course. The same did the guy in testnet3 that mined those transactions with nine leading zero bits. So now we know that people can mine transactions, but still, the whole solution is unknown.I am curious. Would you please point me to the txids? I have not been running a testnet node (or for personal reasons, much of anything lately). I’d love to see this.
The thirty-six leading zero bits (nine zero nibbles) denote when I decided to stop grinding. On my ancient junk-heap hardware, it took me days of almost overheating my computer to get up to 36 zeroes. However I did it, I could have kept going to grind out more zeroes in the manner of any other POW. I will not comment on how (or even whether) that relates to the puzzle’s solution; it may lead the way to the solution, or it be a red herring. 😼
Someday, this “mining” of txids may make for an interesting thread in the development forum. Or here! I have many related ideas, which may be useful in various ways.
I’m not sure: Was that the first time anyone had ever done this? Need to scan the chain for analysis...
I will not give an further hints.
Of course. Keep your secrets, that's the whole fun to guess all of that. Also I know that you wrote exactly that sentence before. So it is like OP_CODESEPARATOR: the secret part of the script is already hidden, only the remaining part is visible.When I published the puzzle, I thought that either it would be solved very quickly, or it would never be solved. It did not seem to get much attention, at first—perhaps due to the low funding amount. Now that it seems to be getting more attention, I am deeply curious about whether anyone may crack it. If nobody does, then perhaps I may use a similar method to create and back up my personal wallet—lulz!
Could this be like the Beale ciphers?
I want to give it some time. Get more people curious. Difficult puzzles are more fun, but insoluble puzzles not so much—we’ll see.
Thanks for your interest here, and good luck with whatever attempts you may be making.
In memory of Kitty! 😺
Ha ha!! I thought you were gone, nullius.
I was, for over a year. I reluctantly “woke” my account on 29 June for the primary purpose of addressing some badness which came to my attention, which I could not in conscience ignore; that is not yet done, alas. By coincidence, some Lauda-related things arose. Well, when did I ever miss a chance to talk about Lauda? LOL.
Theymos referred to Lauda as a "he" a while back, though damned if I could find a reference for that as it might have been via PM.
There was also a rumour that theymos had an intimate relationship with Lauda. Lauda herself referenced this, in a joking kind of semi-sarcastic way. (Best link I found on a brief search; I recall some better ones.) So, take all these things with a grain of salt.
I always thought nullius was Lauda's alt, but the sheer amount of writing that one person would have to do to pull that off would be astounding to say the least, so I gave up on that little theory.
Lauda did seem to be everywhere at once, all the time. And I have never denied it. WHY DON’T I DENY IT? ;-)