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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
Tepan
on 19/08/2023, 11:14:41 UTC
Hey guys, instead of wasting your eye sight on long and useless base58 WIFs which literally represent 0s in hexadecimal, let me share a little secret regarding public keys.

Here is how you can find half of your public key, it's not straight forward method but I bet many of you didn't know about it.

First we need to extract 1 and half of our public key then we can subtract our p which is 1 from it's 1.5 to get it's 0.5 half. Though we could just divide it by 2 without all this trouble, this is a hint to make you dive deeper in to this vast ocean of numbers and equations.

Target  pub:
Code:
03219b4f9cef6c60007659c79c45b0533b3cc9d916ce29dbff133b40caa2e96db8

Target priv:
Code:
0x800000000000

Our multiplier inverse or not doesn't matter, +n will give you +n result and vice versa.

Scalar : aka n/2+1 half n +1 or 1 and half of n.
Code:
7fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff5d576e7357a4501ddfe92f46681b20a2

If you multiply our target pub with scalar above, you will get this :
Pub2 :
Code:
02161c6cbee1483deaf6f9b395c817eb019228cda5afac5857295ba10959dffc96

Priv :
Code:
0xc00000000000

Now if we subtract target from pub2, we will get :

Pub3, half of target :
Code:
0313d1ffc481509beee68f17d8ff41c2590f4c85f15268605087eda8bab4e218da

Priv :
Code:
0x400000000000

We didn't even use division, *chop chop and good luck diving.😅


* = hurry! Get to work.


Now, if it were possible to calculate an even target pub or an odd one, then 130 puzzle could be solved in a few hours.

Yeah absolutely 1 hours 4 minutes, but he's doin nothing with random speculation ahaha, see.
just computing use 50% brain and computing power, not 100% brain enough.