Quote from: btc-room101 on Today at 01:10:12 PM

Quote from: GiladLeef on November 28, 2022, 06:40:10 AM

So, the only way to get the private key of a public key, is simple guessing it/brute forcing it - Which can take forever to compute at some key ranges.
But What if we could reduce the key range? For example, if a public key is even, you can multiply it by 57896044618658097711785492504343953926418782139537452191302581570759080747169
And get a new public key, which is in the original range -1-bit range, which its private key is / 2 the value of the original private key.
And you can also use other methods to reduce the public key ranges even more, using only pure math.
I'd like this topic to be a home for new math tricks for making secp256k1 easier to brute force, mainly for the bitcoin puzzle transaction.

Thanks! Gilad.

There are three ways to hack BTC

The worse way is your 'brute force' recall that 2**256 is bigger number than the number of electrons in the known universe, so if your looking for that lost pin in a haystack that you'll never find, try finding a lost electron in the unbounded unknown universe.

Now how to hack btc

1.) The EC256kp1 algo is NSA they don't do algos that don't have backdoors, study the discrete math lit on the subject and you will see the path, a hint the subject is called enomorphisms

2.) Like the GU-Hacker here https://github.com/room101-dev/Grand-Ultimate-BTC-Hacker/projects?query=is%3Aopen&type=classic, where instead of doing one at a tme 'brute force' your randomly hopping baby-step, giant-step all over the place inteliligently, but also on each hit comparing all known btc addresses with value on each cycle, so your scope of search falls to 2**40 from 2**256, like we say easy-peasy

3.) The third way is to use modern prime number factoring tools to crack an explicity virgin high value address and gets its private-key, these problems are doable, but you need heavy computation power and a firm understanding of the state of the art tools, see 'sage math' discrete inverse log problem tools there are lots of PHD's works on this subject

So in summary the worst of the worst is this abby-normal bullcrap of brute force that you see 99% of the tools posted, and note anybody that talks real on this subject on this forum has their post deleted asap, as only blind fools leading blind fools are tolerated on bitcoin-con talk dot orgy

Some total crap. Was any of those true there would be no more btc to hack.