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Re: base58encode_check to a string
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shinohai
on 21/07/2025, 01:22:23 UTC
Perhaps something like

Code:
from sys import stdin
from pybitcointools import privkey_to_pubkey, pubkey_to_address
from hashlib import sha256

print pubkey_to_address(privkey_to_pubkey(sha256(stdin.read()).hexdigest()))

Hash yer string with sha256, this is the private key which then spits out a public key you can send dust to, etc.
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Re: [MOON] Mooncoin 🌙 built in 2013 with the future in mind
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shinohai
on 12/06/2025, 19:37:06 UTC

Hi Moon Bro, we hope to find a good dev for Mooncoin in 2025 (suggestions are welcome)

Hi, I recently rediscovered a <i>ten year old</i> mooncoin wallet I had lying around, I mined them with a friend way back in the day.

I tried compiling the most recent mooncoin core release, and after some fighting *did* get the cli parts to build on modern linux. The QT is in very rough shape however and needs a total overhaul. Am willing to dedicate some time to this if you guys are hiring a developer. Tongue
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Re: Why is it empty when sending rpc via curl?
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shinohai
on 10/10/2022, 15:49:18 UTC
Why is it empty when sending rpc via curl?
Code:
curl --user x:x --data-binary '{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":"curltest","method":"getrpcinfo","params":[]}' -H 'content-type:text/plain;' http://95.216.35.227:8332/

Either 1) The listed IP does not have the RPC port exposed, or 2) You are trying to do this to your own node from within NAT.
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Re: [ANN] [BSV] [Bitcoin SV] Original Satoshi Vision
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shinohai
on 29/10/2021, 15:29:40 UTC
To be honest, I don't see future for BSV - positions are getting lower and lower, capitalization is not growing, and it is not visible, due to which progress can be made
We are very sorry for that. We can't hide it anymore, things really went wrong.

We thank everyone who supported us. We tried our best to develop an unique project, but global crypto-community was not on our side

Please forgive us if you can





How about No. Get rekt.
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Re: Looking for Raspberry pi developers. Blockchain custom kernal developers WANTED
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shinohai
on 04/06/2021, 15:40:57 UTC
This sounds interesting, I like building custom linux kernels and hardware engineering in general. Do you have a Telegram ID?

The project your skills would be used for is Bitcoin Eco. We have a Discord. Very new.. Announced yesterday. The official ANN is in my signature . Looking forward to seeing your skill set.

Oh I see this is a Proof-Of-Stake "Bitcoin killer" project, so actually don't think I'm interested.  Cheesy

Nope not a Bitcoin Killer. Evolve Bitcoin. You really don't have to like the project to work on its tools. its a paying gig. No worries. The pay is in BTC if you are worried  Cheesy Wink

BTC always best for things of this nature, even as is.

Why PoS? Sure I'll build ya some custom arm kernels, and love running small boards via solar. But consensus algorithm change is hefty.
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Re: Looking for Raspberry pi developers. Blockchain custom kernal developers WANTED
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shinohai
on 04/06/2021, 12:35:19 UTC
This sounds interesting, I like building custom linux kernels and hardware engineering in general. Do you have a Telegram ID?

The project your skills would be used for is Bitcoin Eco. We have a Discord. Very new.. Announced yesterday. The official ANN is in my signature . Looking forward to seeing your skill set.

Oh I see this is a Proof-Of-Stake "Bitcoin killer" project, so actually don't think I'm interested.  Cheesy
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Re: Looking for Raspberry pi developers. Blockchain custom kernal developers WANTED
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shinohai
on 03/06/2021, 23:32:09 UTC
This sounds interesting, I like building custom linux kernels and hardware engineering in general. Do you have a Telegram ID?
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Re: I made a calculator that can calculate the public key.
by
shinohai
on 03/05/2021, 14:48:58 UTC
Quote from: lostbitcoin
I just have this technology, so the purpose is to ask the person who lost the bitcoin to find it to me.

How many of these "I have a secret method to recover lost coins, send me yer privkeys!" schemes have been showcased here over the years?  Roll Eyes
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Re: 🔺💊💰👽🔫💀 GET RIGHT w/(BOB) OFFICIAL SubGenius CryptoCurrency
by
shinohai
on 26/04/2021, 14:54:39 UTC
Praise "BOB" ... XBLOCK mined successfully. Anyone having issues welcome to contact me on Telegram or irc.

"BOB" Bless Shinoa-Fores : AN UPDATE IS UPON US

v10.2.0 Hardfork @ block 951753
Currently: 951386

Shit, I can't recall what the fuck its doing..
I think we're switching from HALVING every 4 years
to just making 2.5 BOB per block FOREVER

Just *nix Wallets right now,
but he's almost ready with the Windows and Android wallets.

HARD FORK, means your existing wallet will no longer be compatible.. so you'll have to back up the wallets.dat and drop it over the fresh install if you want to move your Slack. Feel free to drop by http://subgenius.finance for assistance. Lotta crypto shit goin on over there.




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Re: [UNO] Unobtanium Info & Discussion - Merge Mine w/BTC! - Update NOW to qt 0.11.5
by
shinohai
on 04/04/2021, 16:02:12 UTC
New mining pool active Smiley First block has been found Smiley

cryptohamstr.com

1% pool fee
stratum: -a sha256 -o stratum+tcp://stratum.cryptohamstr.com:3333 -u ADDR -p c=UNO

You can use c=UNO,d=X in order to change your miners difficulty.

Have fun mining.

Very nice! Will mine a few test blocks, though I have not enough hash to compete.  Cheesy

Nice work!
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Re: Prime number Bitcoin keypairs - How and why
by
shinohai
on 20/03/2021, 02:30:04 UTC
Wow someone figured out how rsa worx.  Roll Eyes
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Re: [UNO] Unobtanium Info & Discussion - Merge Mine w/BTC! - Update NOW to qt 0.11.5
by
shinohai
on 07/03/2021, 04:45:10 UTC
⭐ Merited by FallingKnife (5)
I can not believe this coin has been able to remain the hidden gem it is.   

It's going straight past Proxima Centauri, just a matter of time.  Once crypto education is added to school curriculums the crypto illiterate will find it.

It's one of the few coins that has a shot at overtaking Btc in price per unit IMO

Just wanted to thank the devs for staying true to it's original vision.

We try to have users be appreciative of the rare asset they hold and share curriculum on blog, like http://unobtanium.uno/blog/bash-unobtanium-tools-generating-an-uno-address-offline-with-diceware.html
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Re: Brute-forcing Bitcoin private keys
by
shinohai
on 03/03/2021, 16:28:32 UTC
never heard of this website, but it's proof of exactly what i said which is they found 19321 private keys in 50771 Bitcoin addresses with transactions. just for bitcoin addresses so to people who say it's not possible here is a good proof that it is possible and can be done with a large enough of group with good machines with some luck

It's proof that brainwallet and private key chosen by human/generated with weak RNG are vulnerable towards brute-force attack and few other attack (such as dictionary attack for brainwallet).

Precisely this. OP may find http://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html interesting if he wishes to see just how bad humans are at entropy.
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Re: [UNO] Unobtanium Info & Discussion - Merge Mine w/BTC! - Update NOW to qt 0.11.5
by
shinohai
on 03/03/2021, 16:22:31 UTC
Well I don't want to really impose on another person(s) project. If you have any advertising materials on it we could set some stuff up for that, as far as miners there are lots of them on discord with pools etc etc.. also the costs or what is needed would be and could be figured out by you, if your or someone else is still interested. If you could come up with a comprehensive list of what is needed and post it here I'm sure we would appreciate it so maybe we can have a better understanding of what we need to start it up.

I'd suggest to make a Prototanium revival thread for this then, as this is the Unobtanium thread and discussion is quickly becoming off-topic.

As far as "imposing" on someone else's project, it's ded for all intents and purposes, but still remains an open-source project, so anyone can do as they wish with it. I maintained my own UNO client for years before joining up as a project developer.

As a freelance developer, I welcome PM's from folks interested in my paid[/b] services for select projects. As I recall, you had no funding for the project and I simply cannot do any unpaid work at this time. I wish you well on the project if you do decide to organize a revival.
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Re: [UNO] Unobtanium Info & Discussion - Merge Mine w/BTC! - Update NOW to qt 0.11.5
by
shinohai
on 03/03/2021, 14:46:06 UTC
Well if you guys are in discord you can come and join and chat in here https://discord.gg/JjuRJPn I don't know about telegram all too much but you can find people interested in projects and some miners on there.

I recall joining this channel the last time there was interest in reviving Prototanium, but you were uninterested in funding the development of the project. If you have miners available in that chan then they are welcome to try and restart the Pr chain from the Github linked above. But as it stands now, I will be resetting testnet3 with the next release of UNO and cut off the dead weight.
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Re: Brute-forcing Bitcoin private keys
by
shinohai
on 02/03/2021, 14:42:36 UTC
Since 2^256 is likely a number larger than the number an atoms in the known universe, better get to crackin' with that abacus or wait for the advent of quantum computers if/when machines capable of doing this come to exist in our lifetimes.
2256 is not the number of the addresses. Even if you brute force private keys, that are around 2256, you want to find a collision, not necessarily someone's private key. A RIPEMD-160 hash (which is the address decoded) is 160-bits long, which means 2160. So you're brute forcing this number:

1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976

Since private keys are ~2256 and all possible combinations of addresses 2160, then you're trying to find one of the ~296 private keys that collide with the same address. So next time you create an address, keep in mind that besides your private key, there are around 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335 more.


I never said this was number of addresses. Plenty of tools exist to find collisions, though OP strikes me as the type that would be more interesting in playing the lottery and bashing up something to search https://allprivatekeys.com/ or something.

never heard of this website, but it's proof of exactly what i said which is they found 19321 private keys in 50771 Bitcoin addresses with transactions. just for bitcoin addresses so to people who say it's not possible here is a good proof that it is possible and can be done with a large enough of group with good machines with some luck

The addresses on that site *could* be - as has already been mentioned in this thread - collisions and NOT keys that were simply cracked by brute force ya know.  Cheesy
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Re: Brute-forcing Bitcoin private keys
by
shinohai
on 02/03/2021, 14:00:19 UTC
Since 2^256 is likely a number larger than the number an atoms in the known universe, better get to crackin' with that abacus or wait for the advent of quantum computers if/when machines capable of doing this come to exist in our lifetimes.
2256 is not the number of the addresses. Even if you brute force private keys, that are around 2256, you want to find a collision, not necessarily someone's private key. A RIPEMD-160 hash (which is the address decoded) is 160-bits long, which means 2160. So you're brute forcing this number:

1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976

Since private keys are ~2256 and all possible combinations of addresses 2160, then you're trying to find one of the ~296 private keys that collide with the same address. So next time you create an address, keep in mind that besides your private key, there are around 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,335 more.


I never said this was number of addresses. Plenty of tools exist to find collisions, though OP strikes me as the type that would be more interesting in playing the lottery and bashing up something to search https://allprivatekeys.com/ or something.
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Re: Brute-forcing Bitcoin private keys
by
shinohai
on 01/03/2021, 23:03:52 UTC
>would love to hear what you think other than no it's impossible

Translation: Because math is too hard, tell me some lies to make me feel better about being stupid.  Roll Eyes

Since 2^256 is likely a number larger than the number an atoms in the known universe, better get to crackin' with that abacus or wait for the advent of quantum computers if/when machines capable of doing this come to exist in our lifetimes.
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Re: [UNO] Unobtanium Info & Discussion - Merge Mine w/BTC! - Update NOW to qt 0.11.5
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shinohai
on 01/03/2021, 21:07:09 UTC
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Re: [ANN] ROGUE :: A Crytocurrency for Minimalists
by
shinohai
on 01/03/2021, 20:46:46 UTC
And one more thing! You were right about having issues compiling with QT being by design.  The plan is to remove it entirely in the short term in favor of a text-user interface wallet and/or having RogueSpace be the default with more lightweight, open source options.

When I first discovered this thread, "minimalist cryptocurrency" was what caught my eye. QT is a giant, unnecessary clusterfuck if you only need to make calls to the daemon to operate within the game. I'm still interested in this project if plans are to ditch the gui of the cryptocurrency, as what I see currently on Github is just LTC clone.



Thanks and I couldn't agree more.  You are correct in that currently, ROGUE is a just slightly modified clone of Litecoin and the one-pager admits this.  I wanted to focus on something that already worked and did less out of the gate first, while gradually cutting out the fat from even that. My enthusiasm is in where the project will be in just a few months. And where it is now is nothing to write off either.  The RogueSpace wallet is 6 years in the making and is set to do quite a bit with the downside being its centralized specs.  But there are solutions in mind (like secured balances etc) to help mitigate any issues that might arise because of this.  And of course, there will be nothing stopping people from running their own wallets. Things like social media linkups and SMS wallets are just a couple examples of what I have planned for future accessibility as well. Definitely keep up with it! 

Right now I'm working on outbound transactions done on @Space. More news coming soon.

Does ROGUE require any frills like multisig and segwit style addresses? If not, I'm pretty sure that getting a VERY stripped down version of litecoin working would be quite easy. (I'm already doing this with my Bitcoin client, as I only need legacy style addresses, etc.)