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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 11/10/2024, 16:36:02 UTC
TTD #1 for 64, TTD #1 for 66, yet 'someone else' has found the key both times. Have you ever wondered why?
Fastest client? How?
Secure Server? Has it been audited?
Startup scripts. Nice!


But, either way you go, you need to plan ahead and think about items such as:
cracking program to use
server
client
how you will load the client and cracking program on all of those machines and hit "start"; will you have access to be able to SSH into each machine?

ttdpool and ttdclient already have this. Fastest client, secure server and startup scripts.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 21/09/2024, 00:25:54 UTC
Check again, the timestamps show the bc1 outgoing transaction was ~41 minutes AFTER the 5.9btc outgoing




  priv2addr.py 2832ed74f2b5e35ee
  Uncompressed Bitcoin Address: 138XxHZGcKM6WyWuYCijLsoCd8K3x4WYjs

     Compressed Bitcoin Address: 13zb1hQbWVsc2S7ZTZnP2G4undNNpdh5so

    Uncompressed P2SH Address: 3GsgtYu5N1zZUAvtwwnN1sf9tf7shrJrex

       Compressed P2SH Address: 3LPuXLDK7AGtmHLv5x1Aj7jSzKmD2Dj4Zr

 Uncompressed Bech32 Address: bc1qzawsqu2pgrm7tglggkywujgfgefa56nwnlj6z3

    Compressed Bech32 Address: bc1qyr2956nky56hqr8fuzepdccejse4mw994lyftn <-------

looks like someone done some transaction tests a day before moving the balance from 66.. Smiley
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 20/09/2024, 18:09:34 UTC
Totally agree with you Alberto.

Nobody can prove anything. But some statements are much more stupid and illogical than others.




Hello everyone! I found the key to puzzle 66, but now I have another problem: how to withdraw the funds so that no one can intercept them with a bot?


Clown music here

Do you really think that someone wealthy enough, who can afford not to touch the prize money from 120 and 125 bits, would bother solving the puzzle at all, let alone succeed twice?! It's nonsense to think otherwise in this case.

There is a lot of bitcoin holders that are just waiting to see their holdings increase the value..

showing an address is not evidence of anything.

I can't prove the the puzzle creator not move that balance.
You can't prova the puzzle creator move it...

anything that we write here is pure speculation, is just an opinion of what you or me personally believe.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 13/09/2024, 00:41:21 UTC
Yeah that's my bet too   Grin  but when was that?


Does anyone remember when we started 66? Wondering how long it took!

I bet it was immediately after solving puzzle 64
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 13/09/2024, 00:33:38 UTC
Does anyone remember when we started 66? Wondering how long it took!
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 13/09/2024, 00:32:32 UTC
Murphy is always working hard to defeat mankind.

 Cry


Key was 2832ed74f2b5e35ee.

Did the bots snatch it? Alberto??

No idea, the prize was send to two different addresses.

my bot was off this week sadly Murphy's law has been fulfilled
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 12/09/2024, 23:24:42 UTC
Did the bots snatch it? Alberto??


Gratz to the first that the puzzle  66 got confirmed  Wink

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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 01/08/2024, 01:44:20 UTC
I said rogue employee, so he could care less what corporate thinks. He won't care if executives don't want the publicity.
I also said he thinks he will outsmart everyone, so he's going to think they won't be able to find out its him. Reality may be different but if he thinks he'll get away with it, he do it.
And I said its still better than just sending out a tx from a wallet hoping it gets confirmed before the bots get it - so I'm not arguing with you, I'm just saying making an official agreement would still be better.
Don't need to be so defensive.


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It could happen with a rogue employee. Marathon is big enough there could be multiple people with access to this portal with one thinking they could outsmart everybody. I'd like to make a deal directly with a miner and have it documented on paper so there is proof. Still, its better than blindly trying to time the block before a bot gets it.
If "if" was a fifth, the whole world wold be drunk lol.

You can do it however suits you. I've done some research and testing and I am telling people one way to do it. To each their own.

But I do not think you understand Mara.

Even if they did have this rogue employee, it would be easy to investigate and find out who, what, where, when, why.

Mara is worth 5.76 Billion dollars, are publicly traded, just bought $100 million in bitcoin, and mine and average of 7 bitcoin blocks a day.

You think they would risk public scrutiny, investigation, etc. over 6.6 BTC, over $429,000? When they are worth billions and have a lot at stake, in the public's eye?

I don't. If it did happen, I am pretty sure they would figure out who did what, and settle the matter, quietly and fair versus risking millions of dollars over 6.6 BTC.

And you crack me up. You would make an agreement with just a run of the mill mining pool/miner? Ok, so you have it in writing. Now let's say the same thing happens in your scenario. The person/miner who you have whatever in writing with, slides that info over to another miner. Same thing could happen there, but people who are miners in that pool won't care. Why would they? That miner you signed whatever with probably isn't under rules and regulations. Then it's just he said, she said.

But at least with slipstream, you have some comfort in knowing they are a legit, legal entity, publicly traded, have to answer to shareholders, officials, etc.

But again, everyone do what you think is best for you/what you can stomach.

People wanted a way to do this, and I have shown one option, a super great option IMO. That is all.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 01/08/2024, 00:15:16 UTC
It could happen with a rogue employee. Marathon is big enough there could be multiple people with access to this portal with one thinking they could outsmart everybody. I'd like to make a deal directly with a miner and have it documented on paper so there is proof. Better than blindly trying to time the block before a bot gets it.


Thoughts, comments, questions?

What if... someone inside Mara is aware of this challenge/addresses with weak privatekeys and had access to that private mempool?

Is hard to trust in this services.

So for all those users who said they've found the key this is the fire test to prove it.



I would say that the silver lining is, they are a publicly traded company...not a side street vendor. Meaning they have shareholders/stockholders, traded on an exchange. Very public. They are on the NASDAQ. They aren't just a simple mining pool.

If that happened, the coincidence would be too huge, and would be an easy investigation.

Would a company like that want that investigation and open up everything, and go through the public scrutiny. And possibly lose millions in stock value?

I dunno, but I doubt it.

You may never get those specific BTCs back, but I bet you would be compensated, somehow, someway.

True, it's hard to trust anything these days, but IMO, this seems to be one of the best, secure, safest ways to transfer 66's funds, if not the best. (Unless you run your own pool mining outfit and can include it in your owned mined block Smiley )
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 28/07/2024, 16:56:23 UTC
I want 24 hour live support   Grin    /s



and why not import it into bl.ckch..n.com so it's directly spendable, sendable, tradeable. guess should ask my percentage for this one,
or am i seeing this wrong, did many times,.

 guess the fork war also has bots for their blockchains,, a little one but has to be right.

Forget the old bot script. I'm making a new one that will work directly on node.
No API - no external domains. BTC network only.


So, full-node OS and tweaking directly on it? This is getting more and more complex to keep track of. Undecided
Are you going to make a tutorial for n00bs?   Grin

 Sure. And a telegram channel for support.   Grin  Grin
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 19/07/2024, 23:40:14 UTC
Whether this transaction gets replace or not is not going to prove definitively that puzzle 66 will or will not be hijacked when the solver tries to withdraw it (with a public transaction). There are miners that observe the RBF rule and miners that observe the Full RBF rule. So the miner actually produces the block will determine if it is going to get replaced or not.



Yes, as I said, it's just theory, I believe that ...
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faith belongs in the church. Even if you don't like to hear it, it doesn't matter what you or I think, feel, hope or believe. What counts are the facts, and these are implemented in the Bitcoin protocol, can be read and reproduced. It's a program, it has a way of working and it will stick to it Wink

This topic has already been dealt with many times on previous pages, including links to the technical explanations. It is completely irrelevant which software you use, whether you activate RBF or not. I would highly recommend that you read and study the technical documentation on this topic.

perfect, since you are the guy, tomorrow at 15:30 (UTC -3. Brasilia Time), the creator will do the transaction and expose the public key, put your knowledge into practice and prove what you are saying, otherwise , and if it is not hacked, it can be said that we still have hope.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 05/04/2024, 22:31:57 UTC
64 was solved before the 10x so the values of the fork coins were not as tempting as they are now.


Then I just got the fork coins (only BCH, BSV, eCash, BTG, BCD and CDY)  Wink

Good to know that even after 12 minutes the fork coins were intact. So probably the situation is not that bad as we are anticipating

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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 21/03/2024, 22:45:24 UTC
Well that answers it. Lol. At least we know he's alive.  Grin


jean luc kangaroo just added to his github's readme.


#130, 129bits private key [2<sup>119</sup>,2<sup>120</sup>-1], [1Fo65aKq8s8iquMt6weF1rku1moWVEd5Ua](https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1Fo65aKq8s8iquMt6weF1rku1moWVEd5Ua) **13.0BTC**

Expected time: several years on 256 Tesla V100 (Not possible with this program without modification)
damn
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Re: Pollard's kangaroo ECDLP solver
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Woz2000
on 21/03/2024, 13:32:09 UTC
Can you make public your modded version of JLP's kangaroo?


So I still believe it could solve 130 and then you would have to do some manual math (nothing hard) to get the actual private key. If the key starts with a 2, I think it would not require the manual math, but if it starts with a 3, then it will.
You can't because GPU uses only 128 bit variable to store distance on each kernel call, it means that when kangaroo jumps out of 128 bit space, all subsequent jumps are calculated incorrectly.

130 puzzle still can be solved with unmodified JLP's kangaroo if you divide 129 bit space into two 128 bits parts, but kangaroos still can jumps out, so you have to control the wrong DPs.


Are you sure? When I tested many moons ago, if I ran a higher range than 128 (b/c hash table only stores 32 hex characters for point and distance (32x4 = 128)), the distances and points were correct, but obviously the leading characters were left out/off because of the 128 bit max storage.

I may have to run again and retest, and extract the hash table....I will check it now.

Update:

It is as how I remembered it. I just ran a super quick test for the 130 bit range. As you know, the program subtracts starting range so we are working with 0 thru 1ffffff.....(129 bit range)
Here is extracted DP, DP of 20:

178559a1004e94449e90d76ca10b3600 26311140a6e43a1530526461aed458e4

On the surface, if you just plugged in 26311140a6e43a1530526461aed458e4, it seems false, but we know that the only other possible number that could be added in front is a 1, so add a 1 to 26311140a6e43a1530526461aed458e4 and you get 126311140a6e43a1530526461aed458e4, now cross reference that distance and you get this point:
0300000B71D19F5FCD4AC6184EDE7C000C178559A1004E94449E90D76CA10B3600
which matches up to:
178559a1004e94449e90d76ca10b3600
178559A1004E94449E90D76CA10B3600

So that is what I mean by doing some manual work if you use JLPs unmodded version and find a collision in the 130 bit range. But if you go up to 135, it gets a little more tricky/complicated.

But you could be correct! Maybe I didn't let the program run long enough to see how any subsequent keys would be handled.

Honestly, I wouldn't use the unmodded version, nor the 256 bit one on github (doesn't work).

To be safe, use Etayson's Kangaroo on github or mod your own version. That's the safer bet.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 19/03/2024, 19:02:38 UTC
Opt-in RBF is still default on the current version, so there is still hope lol!   Grin  Cry


So this is a new feature - Full RBF <> RBF. Are all the miners now set up for Full RBF instead of BIP125?

Well not all the miners but some of them yes that depend of the version and custom configuration, the exact number is unknown


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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 19/03/2024, 18:44:08 UTC
So this is a new feature - Full RBF <> RBF. Are all the miners now set up for Full RBF instead of BIP125?


Can you explain why you feel that the miners will completely ignore the RBF flag if it is set to disable? I know it is up to the miners but wouldn't they mostly stick to the intent of the feature? I know the incentive would be to earn more money but there are many cases where the miner returned excess fee as well.

It is a Node configuration and it may vary depending of the Bitcoin Core Version.

The full name is Full RBF

Check this link:

Replace-by-fee (RBF)

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Replace-By-Fee (RBF) is a node policy that allows an unconfirmed transaction in a mempool to be replaced with a different transaction that spends at least one of the same inputs and which pays a higher transaction fee.

Different node software can use different RBF rules, so there have been several variations. The most widely-used form of RBF today is BIP125 opt-in RBF as implemented in Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 and subsequent versions; this allows the creator of a transaction to signal that they’re willing to allow it to be replaced by a higher-paying version. An alternative form of RBF is full-RBF that allows any transaction to be replaced whether or not it signals BIP125 replaceability.

Also this link:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_replacement
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 19/03/2024, 18:17:59 UTC
Can you explain why you feel that the miners will completely ignore the RBF flag if it is set to disable? I know it is up to the miners but wouldn't they mostly stick to the intent of the feature? I know the incentive would be to earn more money but there are many cases where the miner returned excess fee as well.


Just to mention that when the nodes have many FullRBF transacions not always win that one with more fee, here some examples, Dot with Green margin was mined, some are Testnet and other are mainnet


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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 19/03/2024, 04:29:46 UTC

I am re-visiting JLP's Kangaroo program and have a few questions.

The docs mention that the work files should be merged for server/client mode when there are multiple (disconnected) servers. If I am running only 1 server with 2 clients, I do not need to merge the 2 client work files, is that correct (the server will collect the work from both clients and check for collisions)?

The docs also mention the following "To build such an architecture, the total number of kangaroo running in parallel must be know at the starting time to estimate the DP overhead. It is not recommended to add or remove clients during running time, the number of kangaroo must be constant.". How important is this and how does it apply (adding clients to server or adding GPU to client)? Simply - do I need to wait until all equipment is ready or can I add GPUs slowly over time?
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
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Woz2000
on 14/02/2024, 18:58:32 UTC
I think he's at 101%   Cry


In summary, my search is 70%

Is somehow now near of 100%?
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Re: Beware all Crypto Owners. Privatekey of Bitcoins & Altcoins Are Compromised.
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Woz2000
on 30/01/2024, 23:38:04 UTC
100% OP is looking for clicks. And I'll just put him on ignore.

This was all I needed to know that you’re full of shit.





You really got m laughing when you brought in the 1FE for London and  1LD for England, you could have said something more reasonable than coming up with something a toddler wouldn’t even say because of how stupid it sounds.
I haven't bothered to read the article because it seems OP is also looking for clicks (based on his username @seoexpert555), but can someone tell me why he does not deserve a red tag and flag. From what I can deduce from the post and comments, he is misinforming people and perhaps even scam them in the name of securing their private keys.