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What does similar mean? Same random seed + "something"? Some algorithm?
I don't know exactly what it is. It could be something very simple, and I might be overcomplicating things with complex byte variants — for example, it could just be the Satoshipuzzle plus the puzzle number, or something like that. Anything.
That's why this is a brute-force puzzle 
How could this be reconstructed, if it is even possible? How would you create a puzzle if you were the creator?
Code:
import hashlib
import base58
for puzzle in range(1, 160):
lower = 2 ** (puzzle - 1)
upper = (2 ** puzzle) - 1
seed = "SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle" + str(puzzle)
random.seed(seed)
dec = random.randint(lower, upper)
private_key_hex = "%064x" % dec
private_key_bytes = bytes.fromhex(private_key_hex)
extended_key = b'\x80' + private_key_bytes
extended_key += b'\x01'
checksum = hashlib.sha256(hashlib.sha256(extended_key).digest()).digest()[:4]
wif_bytes = extended_key + checksum
wif_compressed = base58.b58encode(wif_bytes).decode()
print(f"Puzzle = {puzzle} seed = {seed} wif = {wif_compressed}")
I don't need anything else. Not even a deterministic wallet.
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What does similar mean? Same random seed + "something"? Some algorithm?
I don't know exactly what it is. It could be something very simple, and I might be overcomplicating things with complex byte variants — for example, it could just be the Satoshipuzzle plus the puzzle number, or something like that. Anything.
That's why this is a brute-force puzzle How could this be reconstructed, if it is even possible? How would you create a puzzle if you were the creator?
Code:
import random
import hashlib
import base58
for puzzle in range(1, 160):
lower = 2 ** (puzzle - 1)
upper = (2 ** puzzle) - 1
seed = "SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle" + str(puzzle)
random.seed(seed)
dec = random.randint(lower, upper)
private_key_hex = "%064x" % dec
private_key_bytes = bytes.fromhex(private_key_hex)
extended_key = b'\x80' + private_key_bytes
extended_key += b'\x01'
checksum = hashlib.sha256(hashlib.sha256(extended_key).digest()).digest()[:4]
wif_bytes = extended_key + checksum
wif_compressed = base58.b58encode(wif_bytes).decode()
print(f"Puzzle = {puzzle} seed = {seed} wif = {wif_compressed}")
I don't need anything else. Not even a deterministic wallet.