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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
mcdouglasx
on 05/10/2023, 13:08:19 UTC

What the creator should do is send 1 btc to me🤣...

Seriously speaking, the creator must reveal the solved puzzles that were emptied, because what do we know if, for example, the puzzles are not in the range we believe? If he had a mistake when creating 256 puzzles (he corrected it, years later), he could having made the mistake of putting some keys in other ranges, or worse still it could be a big joke and he himself has emptied the last unrevealed puzzles to buy a Ferrari🤪.

hahaha two bad jokes in a single post, bravo.



A few words about the puzzle.  There is no pattern.  It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty).

  • 1st method very close to creator hints -- probability of errors zero
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg61993228#msg61993228

  • 2nd method -- probability of errors zero
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306983.msg62163538#msg62163538

there are many more.. But still, I would like to request the creator to please reveal all the keys from puzzle 161 to puzzle 256, to make this challenge a bit more interesting.
I could create hundreds of scripts that match the puzzle, but the creator most likely edited the keys manually, otherwise random would be used instead of pre-generated HD wallets.