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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
kTimesG
on 07/05/2024, 10:57:28 UTC
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1 3 7 8
15 31 4C E0
// rest of crap
Do you honestly want someone to waste their time explaining to you again how (hexa)decimal numbers work, and why they start with either a 1 2 3 6 7 .. E F (hint: the Nth left-most bit in any solution in range N is always 1, so the first digit in any base you'd use is biased)) and so on and why they magically get aligned in your horoscope circle (another hint: every solution is 1 bit longer than the previous one)

Send me 0.1 BTC and I will happily waste 6h explaining to you in detail (a 2nd time) why those arms get aligned in your circle and why you see those patterns. But you refuse to want to understand that there's nothing magical or unexpected in what you are doing there. You're the kid playing in the sand while the teenagers are trying to break down the building using resonance pulse generators. The adults are laughing their ass off watching us and don't even bother while waiting for the quantum bulldozer to arrive.

What kind of security are you talking about when we a brute-force  BTC here?
I want to crack the random number generator not to improve it !  Grin

We need to know
- what OS the creator was using in 2015 (break down kernel's code, emulate it)
- the code he used, search for vulnerabilities in it
- exact entropy state at the moment the presumed RNG was initialized and at every step of getting a next value

For example /dev/urandom reseeds itself from new entropy every now and then, that's yet another issue after potentially cracking its previous state somehow. I doubt the creator blindly used some simple deterministic 32-bit RNG such as the textbook merseinne twister one in the lowest level libc of the OS. Or that the higher level framework (deterministic wallet?) did such a nooby mistake as well.