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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
digaran
on 28/12/2023, 07:55:59 UTC
It seems as though nobody is knowledgeable enough to figure out as to why generator points of 2 curves secp and secq256k1 both when divided by 2 generate the same coordinates. Either the so called "experts" and "cryptographers" are clueless as well or they refuse to reveal the secret. Asking questions on other platforms seems to produce the same scripted answers.

It's just because both generators were created by doubling the same point.
Well, that was easy and embarrassing. 🙈 now I have some ideas on how to break it, note that most of the points on secq are invalid on secp, now all I need is to figure out a way to map a point from one curve to the other, the thing is, we'd need to know the distance between an unknown point and a known point to correctly do the mapping, and if we can accurately do that for unknown points then both curves will break easily.

I can't explain more, there is a mad scientist lurking around waiting for a hint to destroy the human race. Lol