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Oh shit i was that close goddamn it i knew it... i got the first 3 letters right i didn't knew the 33 in the cherry is a really a clue because you said it wasn't part of the clue so i disregard that part damn...
you were close to what? because you knew the PK started with a K and you knew that the next letter was a y?
How would anyone would have been close? Even if you figured out in the video he was telling us which position in the unscrambled key the characters that needed to be unscrambled were you still would have to scramble those characters (which have 720 possible combonations) lol.
If I was clever enough to get to that point it would only take 0.1ms to find the answer.
SO it appears it is user henkster, here on BCT, that reported the puzzle. He commented on this thread earlier. Syaing it was a sham and unsolvable and n\bla bla bla ... He just deleted the is comment. He's upset I have posted his email in this thread. Which I didnt intend to do, but I cant remove it now, Its been quoted. Its obviously a secondary account for someone here.
Anyways, thank this user for removing the puzzle.
Anyways, thank this user for removing the puzzle.
The right thing to do would be to post the solution so that all people could see that it was legit.
im with O4karitO,
tell us about yours clues, that would have solved the scrambled PK,
im sure everybody that tried will remember seeing them,
then we can establish if you were legit or just after subs
I think he should be given time to figure out what to do. He spent a lot of time putting this together so I would vote to be patient.
I'll share my ideas on this puzzle for what it is worth.
1. The OP kept conflating the raw 32 byte hex code with the WIF compressed format. His instructional videos showed said that the 32 byte private key contained the numbers 0-9 ans A-Z case insensitive.
This is not the case for the raw format 0-9a-f or the WIF base58 format with missing letters and number O,0,I,l.
In any case, I thought he might be using a mnemonic from the BIP39 wordlist. Here are some of the words that I found in the order presented in the video,
Episode, puzzle, (bright or sunny---from sunglasses), (party or festival), cherry(bomb), advice( from 33), little, corn, field, old, country, boy, travel, security, common, sense.
I found several valid private keys from this list but not the correct one. Maybe you can find it.
2. The OP said that all the characters were not scrambled. With that info, I looked for a way to slice the scrambled characters into blocks of characters. My first given is that the unscrambled compressed WIF key will start with a 'K' followed by either 'x', 'y' or 'z'. I would slice the scrambled key to expose those letters so they could pair with the 'K'. The way I determined how to slice was using the same words I used in the mnemonic approach-- slicing by the length of the word. I found several ways to slice this up, but nothing that would give me a valid key.
Edit : I forgot to mention that one block would have 33 characters unchanged from the scrambled key
Do these approaches look promising? I am curious too how this was to be solved:)
AndThen
But you're over thinking it, as op said. This puzzle was geared towards "newbs"
i was on exact same thinking path as you. Which was "overthinking" it
So i guess someone not knowing anything about BTC woulda guessed it
per opIm not sure where the overthinking line is. The Op suggested going to bitcoin.org to learn about bitcoin.
He also showed how to create mnemonic seeds in his videos and how would you know what a compressed WIF is and that it must begin with a K or L. Its not clear to me where to draw that line.
SO it appears it is user henkster, here on BCT, that reported the puzzle. He commented on this thread earlier. Syaing it was a sham and unsolvable and n\bla bla bla ... He just deleted the is comment. He's upset I have posted his email in this thread. Which I didnt intend to do, but I cant remove it now, Its been quoted. Its obviously a secondary account for someone here.
Anyways, thank this user for removing the puzzle.
Anyways, thank this user for removing the puzzle.
The right thing to do would be to post the solution so that all people could see that it was legit.
im with O4karitO,
tell us about yours clues, that would have solved the scrambled PK,
im sure everybody that tried will remember seeing them,
then we can establish if you were legit or just after subs
I think he should be given time to figure out what to do. He spent a lot of time putting this together so I would vote to be patient.
I'll share my ideas on this puzzle for what it is worth.
1. The OP kept conflating the raw 32 byte hex code with the WIF compressed format. His instructional videos showed said that the 32 byte private key contained the numbers 0-9 ans A-Z case insensitive.
This is not the case for the raw format 0-9a-f or the WIF base58 format with missing letters and number O,0,I,l.
In any case, I thought he might be using a mnemonic from the BIP39 wordlist. Here are some of the words that I found in the order presented in the video,
Episode, puzzle, (bright or sunny---from sunglasses), (party or festival), cherry(bomb), advice( from 33), little, corn, field, old, country, boy, travel, security, common, sense.
I found several valid private keys from this list but not the correct one. Maybe you can find it.
2. The OP said that all the characters were not scrambled. With that info, I looked for a way to slice the scrambled characters into blocks of characters. My first given is that the unscrambled compressed WIF key will start with a 'K' followed by either 'x', 'y' or 'z'. I would slice the scrambled key to expose those letters so they could pair with the 'K'. The way I determined how to slice was using the same words I used in the mnemonic approach-- slicing by the length of the word. I found several ways to slice this up, but nothing that would give me a valid key.
Edit : I forgot to mention that one block would have 33 characters unchanged from the scrambled key
Do these approaches look promising? I am curious too how this was to be solved:)
AndThen
henkster91@gmail.com was the reporter? Im not going to keep making videos if a wanker wants to report them cause he cant solve the puzzle. What a sore loser. AND the guy Whos name is Henk Holveck had been commenting on the video being unsolvable. AND now 2 days later the video is taken down? AND now this Henk guy claims its not him ... LOL ... OKAY dude whatever.
Im waiting to hear what youtube has to say about this. I didnt use any thing from mycelium in the video, Thats why Im confused why youtube would even take it down.
Im waiting to hear what youtube has to say about this. I didnt use any thing from mycelium in the video, Thats why Im confused why youtube would even take it down.
Your other videos had mycelium logos etc. Maybe they shut the whole thing down because of those?
And they said MY cellium.....
LOL ... So I cant say mycelium?
Anyone know who/how to contact someone on youtube to make sure I do not make a copyright mistake again?
What a waste :-(
YouTube copyright infringement.......sorry I cannot help. I only work on 64 bit keyed puzzles or less:)
I'm thinking about it from the creator's point of view. I would not put out another puzzle that follows the same rules. I would want the new challenge to be fresh and have new twists and turns.
So I don't think it is reasonable to expect the creator to fulfill your expectation anytime soon. We will never know.
AndThen
We all be waiting for new puzzle, sure. If creator will not create the puzzle, I will decide myself to publish the solution or not depending of situation. At this time puzzle is solved, solution is known and nothing points that detailed solution is required for community.So I don't think it is reasonable to expect the creator to fulfill your expectation anytime soon. We will never know.
AndThen
Fair enough😀. Congratulations on your solve!
Andthen
Why would the creator put up another puzzle with the same rules if you know how to solve it?
Andthen
1. To proove that I am not the TC.Andthen
2. To know how to solve it
3. To let everyone to win with knowing the metod.
Yes, I am have more chance to win, but it is probabilistic method, so everyone can win, the more peoples will participate, the more chances to get answer.
4. To make more puzzles for fun.
I'm thinking about it from the creator's point of view. I would not put out another puzzle that follows the same rules. I would want the new challenge to be fresh and have new twists and turns.
So I don't think it is reasonable to expect the creator to fulfill your expectation anytime soon. We will never know.
AndThen
By the way, it would be nice if he could give us the method he uses to find the right answer. Congrats again and enjoy those $10k
As I said, I will publish the method of solving when the creator of puzzle creates another puzzle with same rules.Andthen