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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
benjaniah
on 17/04/2025, 23:12:53 UTC
The pubkey is there so the private key can be found in a few seconds.

How?


000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000017724AFA4320DAF4A7

He assumed the address was within 69.

Good morning, but how did you get the private key for address 19vkiEajfhnHnZjGpogP6Rv8sUQFvF7PiS, having only the public key?

Correct, I made the assumption that the private key for that wallet was in range 69. Since that address has 1 outgoing transaction, it's public key is shown. I ran RCKangaroo with the public key and got the hex private key under 5 seconds, with an RTX4070.

Code:
$ time ./run69.sh
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*                    RCKangaroo v3.0  (c) 2024 RetiredCoder                    *
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This software is free and open-source: https://github.com/RetiredC
It demonstrates fast GPU implementation of SOTA Kangaroo method for solving ECDLP
Linux version
CUDA devices: 1, CUDA driver/runtime: 12.7/12.8
GPU 0: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070, 11.99 GB, 46 CUs, cap 8.9, PCI 1, L2 size: 36864 KB
Total GPUs for work: 1

MAIN MODE

Solving public key
X: F5C18F93F837065C3673B64F0426D08283D5097C54C465AF92A399A017DDEBC7
Y: 0C5EBEFBB70A7D8F266754279ECF093963B644D47C49B09B9D4107A051660F27
Offset: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000100000000000000000

Solving point: Range 68 bits, DP 14, start...
SOTA method, estimated ops: 2^34.202, RAM for DPs: 0.232 GB. DP and GPU overheads not included!
Estimated DPs per kangaroo: 4.267. DP overhead is big, use less DP value if possible!
GPU 0: allocated 868 MB, 282624 kangaroos. OldGpuMode: No
GPUs started...
Stopping work ...
Point solved, K: 0.757 (with DP and GPU overheads)


PRIVATE KEY: 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000017724AFA4320DAF4A7


real    0m4.444s
user    0m2.720s
sys     0m1.805s