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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 05/07/2025, 13:39:42 UTC
My question is whether, using the method and specifications that I'll describe, it's possible to write Python code to apply the given filters and perform the search?


I have attempted a similar approach before and my understanding goes as follows:

1) While it's easy to mathematically count how many of those values we are filtering out, it's quite hard to filter out those values and only check keys that fall out of the rules you put in place efficiently, the scanning process overall could be faster as essentially you are skipping ECC on a ton of keys but having to perform a check on every single value sequentially to check if it should be filtered out is additional operations, the key space is still too big and the chances you have of finding the correct key for the puzzle are now lower as you are skipping keys

2) Looking at keys from previous puzzles may give a sentiment of "no 3 of the same consecutive hex characters appear often in the solved puzzles" that seems to be true for low bit entropy puzzles but it's meaningless, unless there was bias or a flawed way to randomize these keys when the puzzle was created, any value has the exact same chance of being the correct key even if it looks like 50000000000000000a

I have tried to scan the range and filter out keys that followed specific rules like "no 4 of the same consecutive hex characters (aaaa,bbbb,ffff etc...)" or "no 3+2 consecutive pairs (aaa00, fff22 etc...)" but with limited computing even performing this filtering would still take a huge amount of time, for reference I used an RTX 4090 and a Ryzen 9 9950x3d and it's just not enough for a range this big, it would still take years.

By no means I want to discredit your method, this is just my experience but I encourage you to experiment and who knows maybe you get lucky, but filtering out values in an efficient manner is quite the challenge especially when you want to optimize for parallelization  Smiley

In theory, everything is simple, yes and no. You just need to create your own random generator, with all these exceptions, then no additional verification is needed.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 19/06/2025, 18:03:41 UTC
For old wallets (2009-2017) there is not much to do beside having "performance counter data" which can lead to guessing private keys.

If you have this old perfdata you can generate old private keys and take the balance.

Seems like the only way to steal funds from these old addresses.
I considered this possibility, studied the source code of the original application, looked for generator errors.
But I got tired of it, but apparently it is worth delving into it.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 19/06/2025, 17:25:00 UTC

Okay, can you give an example?!
You can see these addresses from 2011, which were translated 13 years later.

1L8SXqb31Ry2dKPRaY19xddo9fcsvCKVYN
1EySSGtSVitbMZSQmhNobvTEPdmGSwpsjA

And these are wallets from the very beginning of 2009, when they were still giving 50 bitcoins for a block.

1CGT3Ywaa2upJfWtUtbXonDPNTfZPWqzmA
1MBBJBFEaYKHFZAeV7hQ7DWdu3aZktjzFH
13J8FkimCLQ2EnP1xRm7yHhpaZQa9H4p8E
18E5d2wQdAfutcXgziHZR71izLRyjSzGSX
1C4rE41Kox3jZbdJT9yatyh4H2fMxP8qmD

You can search more precisely and find even more addresses.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 19/06/2025, 14:49:24 UTC
While everyone is trying to brute force this puzzle. Some people have already hacked Bitcoin itself, or rather secp, otherwise some transactions cannot be explained. Of course, the one who hacks the system itself will not say anything about it, otherwise his life will be in danger, a lot of money is kept by influential people and also the black market.
One thing is certain, old addresses from 2009-2010 have been active for some time now. And transfers to exchanges and other addresses are made from them. It is logical that if you have found a vulnerability, it is better to use old wallets, because in this case, few will be able to confirm the legitimacy of these coins, because they have long lost the keys.
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Re: Keyhunt - development requests - bug reports
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FlleOWA
on 28/03/2024, 08:20:09 UTC
There are 2 processors installed on the motherboard. The program only works with one. I specify all cores, but only one processor is used. The program can't work with multiple processors?
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 12/01/2024, 12:11:46 UTC
By the way, I didn’t find any discussion of the public key, the owner of this puzzle, in the topic.

Do you mean to say this by chance?

024b0faa9624763002e963816b2f6774df0dedd770896a9511cb5c9d90f674ecda

It is clear that a letter is missing, but even such a combination is too much for an accident.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 11/01/2024, 09:53:58 UTC
So are you accusing the puzzle creator of theft? Meaning he will later empty other people's wallets?

Here is another embarrassment for all the so called educated people, my post above, if you can, go ahead and solve it. 😂
Because it would be better than having a selected group to have access to the whole thing, imagine if someone had a backdoor to Bitcoin, do you know what they could do to anyone with huge stakes?

So which scenario is better? To have access to all the coins secretly and doing whatever you want, or forcing the whole system to change algorithms to stop any unauthorized access?

Not to mention, there is no such a thing as "lost" Bitcoins, because once you lose access to your keys, there is no possible way to prove that you have lost the access to your keys, therefore, any perceived lost coins, could still have owners with access to the keys, they just are not interested to reveal it. Regardless, even if they are truly lost, they are not yours to take. Period.

Well, this is all clear))

I have this question for you.
Let's say I found a key that I use as point G.
Using this, I add 1 to my search key, and I also subtract 1 to my search key. As a result, I get the same public key, one is 03 and the other is 02.

Is it possible in this case to calculate the private key I am looking for?

As far as I remember, by changing point G, as a result, we no longer add and subtract, but divide and multiply our public key? Or I was mistaken. Just knowing this, it seems to me that you can calculate the difference.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 11/01/2024, 09:12:09 UTC
So are you accusing the puzzle creator of theft? Meaning he will later empty other people's wallets?

Here is another embarrassment for all the so called educated people, my post above, if you can, go ahead and solve it. 😂

Not necessary. He can then empty dead wallets from which there will be no demand. And as far as we know, there are a lot of lost wallets, especially wallets that did not have outgoing transactions after 2012. And this will not be theft, since even the real owner will not be able to confirm his right to this wallet. And you can easily, having a private key, say that it was yours, you just recently managed to find the key.

We all know that there is no system created by people that does not have vulnerabilities. Everything breaks. And Bitcoin too. It may even already be hacked, just why talk about it, withdraw your money and live happily.
Every year billions are stolen from the Visa and Maestro systems, but they don’t talk about it so you don’t panic. Even the Apple system is not secure as advertised.

Just if I could find a vulnerability that allows me to get any private key. I would quietly and calmly rummage through dead small wallets and cash out through exchangers. Why would I leak such information and put my life in danger? Such news will reset the price and many will simply lose billions, and many will want to take revenge on me for this.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 11/01/2024, 04:27:34 UTC

I think that if the creator was to come here and give us hints, this would defeat the purpose of his creation which is to measure our cracking capabilities.

Can't really be giving out hints in an experiment like this one, we must check our own leads and see what comes out of it.
He succeeded in his idea. He showed our cracking capabilities  are poor.

Prize: 988.498 BTC (total), 31.998 BTC (won), 956.5 BTC (remaining)

His 956 BTC is relatively safe even the whole world knows the ranges where the private keys are. Grin

I sometimes think that the creator has been withdrawing the BTC from the undisclosed wallets in recent years, I see no reason why someone who unlocks the puzzle should not share their keys anonymously once the wallet is emptied, either that or there is a possible sequence that we are not seeing.

Behind the creation of this puzzle is a 100% mathematician scientist. And it was not created to test the security of Bitcoin. But for your own purposes. 1000 coins is the minimum deposit to get more. As a rule, there is no point in testing brute force and this is understandable. But it makes sense to look for vulnerabilities in the curve. And even a person without education can stumble upon a vulnerability and not understand what it is, but write about it in the topic. And the creator, for example, will be able to understand what to do with it and calmly gain access to wallets with a huge balance, recouping their costs.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 09/01/2024, 14:56:17 UTC
Using division and other manipulations of the public key of puzzle 130, we managed to obtain the key 02000000000000000000000003b78ce563f89a0ed9414f5aa28ad0d96d6795f9c63
Someone tell me what sense does this make? For now I’m just researching what kind of public key this is.
I apologize if for my stupidity. It’s just that the specialists here are on topic, unlike me.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 07/01/2024, 07:53:18 UTC
I uploaded the subtraction program to GitHub. If anyone needs it, you can use it, there is a compiled version for Windows.
https://github.com/Flleowa/ecctools-Subtraction

What is 68719476736 , why this number and how you calculated it?

This is Hex 1000000000 in decimal
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 06/01/2024, 12:54:46 UTC
I uploaded the subtraction program to GitHub. If anyone needs it, you can use it, there is a compiled version for Windows.
https://github.com/Flleowa/ecctools-Subtraction
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 06/01/2024, 08:20:22 UTC


And leave it like that until January 1, 2025   Roll Eyes

I have ~90 Ekeys/s in BSGS/keyhunt


I have less. Only 5 Ekeys/s, which is very little.
He should be taught not to slow down if there are a lot of keys.
By the way, I modified the divider from Alberto ecctools.
I made a subtractor out of it, and it saves everything into a text file. It can also take keys line by line from a file and take them away in order and write them either to a given file, or it creates a file with the name of who it subtractor it from and writes the keys.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 04/01/2024, 11:46:37 UTC
Here are the numbers I found out of boredom.
This is the minimum number
16492674416640
And this is the Maximum
115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584006813618012160
With these numbers, nothing is possible on the curve. Subtraction, multiplication, addition does not work with them. Perhaps they are simply 0 on the curve. If you change the number at the end to +, you get one.

The curve does not accept these numbers at all.
789842187514178900234385207627528242391713215504118334407332331520
394921093757089450117192603813764121195856607752059167203666165760
197460546878544725058596301906882060597928303876029583601833082880
I couldn’t find this information about these numbers at all on the forum. Maybe someone will find this information useful. I have already done everything that came into my head with these numbers.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 03/01/2024, 16:19:07 UTC
Hey Guys i have a question.. well lets say we subtract a target public key puzzle (130) using key subtractor with 1000000000000000000000000000 continuously at some point it movies from the additive inverse to the negative inverse right? are there any ways we could possible know at what point the reset point happened ?

You can reduce each range 16 times, and then reduce all the results obtained by 16. And so you can go all the way to 0. But the lower you decrease, the more your number of public keys will grow. But 100% them will have 1 working key.
There is another option, a little simpler. Make the G point the 130 range key. Then generate new keys in the 130 range. And then simply subtract 1 from all these keys. If successful, you will get a key in the lower range, and then it’s a matter of little things.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 31/12/2023, 19:53:11 UTC
Somehow aggressive in your topic here. Or many people simply don’t want someone else to try to hack it. Or, they're just people like that. In general, I understand that the puzzle was created not to try brute force, but to test the elliptic curve itself. In order for you to try to hack it, the public keys were revealed to you.
One could calmly answer that there are a lot of numbers on the curve that it accepts as 0. That there are also numbers that it does not accept at all. I’m not good at it myself, but now I’m reading the documentation and studying it. And one thing I see is that there cannot be a number that she will not accept. But such numbers exist precisely in 256k1; in others I checked there are no such numbers. This means that this error was inherent from the very beginning.
Well, I won’t post the numbers themselves just yet, since there will be a smarter person than me who will just quickly hack everything himself. And if this really poses a threat to the curve, then the disclosure of this information will collapse the entire crypt to 0. But I don’t want to just invest effort, I want to save a little money before that.

New Year's dreams of a rich life.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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FlleOWA
on 31/12/2023, 13:20:23 UTC
Happy New Year everyone. I only read here but didn’t write anything.

What did I find? I found a number that, if subtracted or added to the public key. Returns the same public key, regardless of whether the private key is large or small. A number was also found that, if subtracted or added to the public key, produces a key that is not on the curve.

I don't know to be honest. Has anyone found this already or not? But I’m still deciding what to do with it next. Because, in my opinion, this is the vulnerability of the curve. I've been working on the puzzle for 2 weeks. So far I've only found this. Sorry for broken English. I wrote through a translator.