Quote from: fantom06 on Today at 09:36:26 AM

Quote from: MrBitcoin1997 on Today at 09:08:07 AM

We got robbed of Puzzle 69.

Hello, we are coming out to claim we are the group that solved puzzle 69.
We are a group consisting of 12 software developers in Asia with interest in cryptography. We have been scanning puzzle 66, 67, 68 and 69 since last year.

We have rented several GPUs online to use for the puzzles. Unfortunately, puzzle 66 was solved by

1Jvv4yWkE9MhbuwGUoqFYzDjRVQHaLWuJd (not us)

but got stolen using RBF. Puzzles 67 and 68 were solved by 1 person and then finally we were able to solve puzzle 69.

Code:

0x101d83275fb2bc762d
0x101d83275fb2bc7ba7
0x101d83275fb2bc7f4e
0x101d83275fb2bc7604
0x101d83275fb2bc7e0c
Match found!
Private Key: 0x101d83275fb2bc7e0c
Compressed Public Key: 024babadccc6cfd5f0e5e7fd2a50aa7d677ce0aa16fdce26a0d0882eed03e7ba53

We are using our custom software written using CUDA C++. Each member has several GPUs which will be given a range to scan. It was really a eureka moment when we were notified that a match was found by one of our members.

We are aware of RBF attack so we used a wallet software (we prefer not to say which one) which does not enable RBF by default, to transfer the coins. But when we checked the transaction, before it was confirmed, another transaction was created.

This is really heartbreaking for me and my group because we spent months scanning the range only for it to be stolen by others. We are contributing part of our savings to pay our GPU bills monthly. We might resort to contacting the wallet software provider but we know that our 6.9 BTC is long gone forever.

Now, our problem is how to pay our remaining GPU bill which amounts to $158,954.07. This is so frustrating! Why can't people play fair and square???

We are accepting donations to help us pay our remaining GPU bill in these addresses:

1BMWUDeiq15EDZETNG49YfdQvLoEzGBjxm
bc1q2pqem06ad053rnt656dta4nej6uqe9p786kjls

I built a script that scans for the last name of this guy using only the prefix. Look!

Scanning........

Hex: P | Last name:: No Match
Hex: Pa | Last name No match
Hex: Pat | Last name: No Match
Hex: Pate | Last name No Match
Hex: Patel | Last name Patel

Result:Match Found! Hex: Patel - Last name Patel