if he used a seed-approach which contains methods like sha2, then there is truely no pattern, as the creator stated.
But in my opinion, if he used a seed approach then the seed is anywhere public or accessable.
I dont think its truely random, because of the fact, that the creator remembered the private keys after 2 years
Here is example:
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}")
Puzzle = 60 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle60 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYkwi7gQXBe3k1QZLZ3Z
Puzzle = 61 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle61 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYn9rYCpH1xFmXKYze83
Puzzle = 62 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle62 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYnqQxQ9uyUTp8A7vUwi
Puzzle = 63 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle63 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qYstQ4L2v4VZxu6s83mL
Puzzle = 64 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle64 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qZ6CF5Nc1QqBfAA1Ynme
Puzzle = 65 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle65 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qZCe9JmRWhdKweDYrcZo
Puzzle = 66 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle66 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qZWCKpZnZsCqVzc1f9vt
Puzzle = 67 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle67 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qbeiYkkDLY2iKmA6JS3q
Puzzle = 68 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle68 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qcopt3giY39KjX9pfekV
Puzzle = 69 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle69 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qkTtFZibZ9tNE96yFsjS
Puzzle = 70 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle70 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3qqDJuNu7s3FZKtsk9Pn7
Puzzle = 71 seed = SatoshiNakamotoPuzzle71 wif = KwDiBf89QgGbjEhKnhXJuH7LrciVrZi3rBGXpLd8yP9kGu7rqRvw
You don’t need anything else, not even a deterministic wallet.
Just a Google Doc to save the code, and you’ll have all the WIFs.