And what language is the phrase? There are multiple languages used in the puzzle. Also, the website is now dead.
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Re: At least 14(!) unique public addresses from one single seed (0 derivation paths)
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runlola
on 07/10/2024, 20:49:32 UTC
Is there any wallet that can easily sweep 1-of-1 multisigs? Electrum doesn't, let alone taproot. If we need to use bitcoin core rpc calls, it would be nice if we could have a list of the required commands to make it scriptable.
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Re: At least 14(!) unique public addresses from one single seed (0 derivation paths)
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runlola
on 02/10/2024, 18:41:47 UTC
Can you link to or show how these addresses are constructed/derived?
The files haven't been updated in over a week, though the source files on blockchair are still updated. Don't seen any maintenance status mentioned on the download site or this topic.
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Re: Bitcoin Puzzle ... Free money to the first to solve it.
The account is still up and going, for now anyways. Im under the impression this going to continue by this user. He wants easy BTC prizes. If he cant win, report the video. Whats to stop him from reporting after he wins in the future. Im here to promote a fun environment and this wanker wants to take and take.
so i assume you took back the prize even though others have already spent many hours working on it. that's a major strike against your credibility. a sub-par puzzle on your first outing could be forgiven. if you're going to attempt another puzzle, please take a moment to check out previous successful puzzles.
I've PM the original creator of this thread because he seems to be active since his last activity was in June.
I told him to either lock the thread or just change the topic from Bitcoin puzzle to something along the lines of "Bitcoin Challenge" to combat the same question being asked over and over again whether this is a puzzle or not.
The thread you want everybody to continue on has the same issue, "Bitcoin "puzzle" transaction: ~100 BTC is still available!", so that's not a good argument to switch.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
There is no pattern. It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty)
IMHO I think it is. Even if the creator of the puzzle didn't do it purposly the software he used most probably was adjusted to generate the most complicated keys within the each given range.
Sorry, but I think your math is actually wrong. You are using the range 1..2^bit to calculate the occurrence in the range, but you should be using the range 1..(2^bit - 2^(bit-1)). That would explain why all your results are occurring at > 50% of the range.
Ok. For example #60 60 | 0xFC07A1825367BBE | 1Kn5h2qpgw9mWE5jKpk8PP4qvvJ1QVy8su | 1152921504606846975 | 98.5% | 1135041350219496382 1135041350219496382 is how many percents out of full range 1152921504606846975 under your calcs?
I was also wrong on part of my response. The range I stated (1..(2^bit - 2^(bit-1))) is the right cardinality (number of values), but the values given by that range are wrong. The range should be 2^(bit-1) .. 2^bit.
Not completely sure about the math, but I think the percentile for bit 60 using this range is
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(1135041350219496382 - 2^59) / 2^60 = .48 = 48%
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
There is no pattern. It is just consecutive keys from a deterministic wallet (masked with leading 000...0001 to set difficulty)
IMHO I think it is. Even if the creator of the puzzle didn't do it purposly the software he used most probably was adjusted to generate the most complicated keys within the each given range.
Sorry, but I think your math is actually wrong. You are using the range 1..2^bit to calculate the occurrence in the range, but you should be using the range 1..(2^bit - 2^(bit-1)). That would explain why all your results are occurring at > 50% of the range.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
If you do an analisys you will see that all found keys are over 50% of it's range (see here), hence I would say that you can skip the first half and search between 51%-99%.
Interesting observation. I wonder if it's related to the method the puzzle creator used to create the keys:
It's the lyrics,no one anywhere has not yet revealed how the program works Pollard on the computer and then it again only for the elite! All ,put out the light and disperse is not for us!
If you expect somebody to write the the code for you and give it away freely, you're demonstrating millenial entitlement syndrome. Everybody is free to learn the necessary computer science and programming skills necessary to translate the algorithm into useful code.
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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
@Bajula what would you do if you would find the 70-bit key? I tell you what I would do, I would change it to fiat and enjoy the money. But our winner of 70bit key moved the funds to other address and the satoshi are still there from 9 of June and is not the only one.
There's still a lot of people who believe that the price of BTC will skyrocket at some point in the future.
I don't see the word Comb connected to anything in crypto. Comb as in combing hair, but also maybe Honeycomb (but that has no teeth...)?
Comb is a well-known abbreviation for combinations. Look at how often that term is used in this thread. Also note another math term that is found in this thread that also has an abbreviation that is hair related: permutations (i.e. Perm).
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Re: Ok, here's a 1BTC puzzle.
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runlola
on 22/05/2019, 02:38:07 UTC
Assuming the answer is a grammatically correct sentence, you can greatly reduce the search space by only testing grammatically correct sentences:
Grab all unique eight word sentences from a large corpus (wikipedia, ebook collection, etc.)
For each tagset, iterate through all possible combinations of matching words for the parts of speech. Wordlists for parts of speech can be obtained from WordNet.
- The anagram NatashaOtomoski suggests to me that the name SatoshiNakamoto should be in the answer.
That would invalidate the hint: "8 camel case english words, no special symbols". "Satoshi" and "Nakamoto" are not english words, and if you do include them plus 8 additional english words, those words would have an average length of 2 characters/word. So very unlikely.
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- then there is the strange 'COMB'. I see no connection to Bitcoin there. (unless you comb the knots out of 'NatashaOtomoski' to get 'SatoshiNakamoto') ToGetOutSatoshiNakamotoInTheEnd
COMB is an abbreviation of combination(s). Seems very relevant here.
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Re: Find this bitcoin seed and get the funds
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runlola
on 10/04/2019, 23:27:23 UTC
how come each puzzle uses a different address index?
puzzle 1: 1436pPYRTYWszXVdQxLdcfNVpMEn3VsZQn mirror play excite proud danger galaxy negative wrong slender merit girl uses address index 0
puzzle 2: 198UdNZ3NF7gnDQesR2LkeqMVWqz6vqqdv hammer sheriff void deliver drum beef plate grape interest twin side concert uses address index 9
puzzle 3: 1551aFmwryENPgdFJEDRHurY3Urq1ErTYd roof body island hollow shove ignore crazy teach pigeon cover march ordinary uses address index 7
so not only do you have to guess the seed words, you have to guess the address index to verify the seed you're testing has a matching address.
My script has already processed 1/10 of the permutations based on BIP39 word list, nothing Another script has already processed 1/5 of the permutations based on the transcript of the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AABkJ55Zz3A page, nothing
considering there are 2048^8 permutations of the bip39 list, i doubt that. The number of valid possibilities using that list is ~2000x smaller (161,735,049,399,563,309,103,078 - see this post for how it was derived). my program can check 100K phrases/s and it would take ~5B years to check 10% of those.
If you look at it. He/She intentionally used this account to post about the puzzle and then just vanish.
That's standard operating procedure for puzzle creators. ytcoinartist used to disappear whenever she released a new puzzle. If they didn't, people would spend all their energy hounding them for clues, instead of actually trying to solve the puzzle.
using the bip39 wordlist, there are a total of 161,735,049,399,563,309,103,078 valid possibilities to try. this number was derived using the following algorithm:
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for each combination with repetition of the set 3..8 of length 8: skip if 32 != sum of set of current combination for each permutation without duplication: size += product(size(number of words of length x for each element of the current combination))