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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
arg
on 06/07/2014, 17:45:22 UTC


5KZnsvrXDcP7JFD7GCuZvifrbcBtK4kAe8nHx6ibktgvPJxs4Lp  should be a valid private key. It doesn't include a zero, capital o, capital I or lowercase l.
it is the key for 1nchRAYGJofxyrkuhbL1CGYtD5x8Lowi5 according to blockchain

The checksum doesn't verify though.

blockchain seems to think it does
https://blockchain.info/address/1nchRAYGJofxyrkuhbL1CGYtD5x8Lowi5

The private keys people came up with are wrong. The chance of typing in random characters starting with 5 and getting a valid key are one in 2^32. It's not going to happen to anybody ever. Blockchain.info's wallet is just shit and ignores the checksum by the looks of things.

Prediction:

Code:
016982cea2101f1126034ecb8572e949604054bbb571d4e1b736b10ccee9c9ea