Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
i have a simple alghoritm with cpu in python , you can test it
Code:
import bitcoin
import ecdsa
def private_key_to_public_key(private_key):
sk = ecdsa.SigningKey.from_string(bytes.fromhex(private_key), curve=ecdsa.SECP256k1)
vk = sk.get_verifying_key()
compressed_public_key = vk.to_string("compressed").hex()
return compressed_public_key
bitcoin_address = bitcoin.pubtoaddr(public_key)
Why do you use bitcoin and ecdsa imports ?
It's a waste of time how slow they are.
Use ice (import secp256k1 as ice) for this function and that bitcoin_address line
def private_key_to_public_key(private_key):
priv_int = int(private_key, 16)
pub = ice.scalar_multiplication(priv_int)
return ice.point_to_cpub(pub)
and
bitcoin_address = ice.pubkey_to_address(0, True, public_key)
Some 10 times faster than ecdsa.
The more you know Python, the more you know that it is pointless to search for Puzzle 66 through it.
Or someone knowingly sells the fog by selling python scripts as a final solution.
