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Actually, the hashes matched too. Just a heads-up that a hidden space in your text might mess with browser searches.

What’s stopping you? Go for it! Pay close attention to those sentences and let’s see if you can solve this for the cash. 😉

Honestly, the creator should just step forward and solve it publically. The prize doesn’t seem worth the hassle and the image quality isn’t helping at all.

The only way to have a different receiving address is when canceling a transaction. If your seed generated change addresses, that could be what you’re seeing. But sounds like you're a bit confused about what happened.

You say it’s just for fun, but what’s the fun in mining 24/7 and not hitting anything? Any chance of giving estimates on how long it takes to find a block?

Hash algorithms aren't reversible, so you can't nail down the public key from a hash directly.

Let’s look at this recent transaction: Check the sigscript: the last 130 chars didn’t start with '04', so it’s not uncompressed. Surprising, considering how recent it is. Then we check the last 66 chars which started…

RIP, but I thought his laws stopped matching our current tech trends... I could be wrong on that. 🤔

Bitcoin will endure, even if the whole chain gets rewritten. It’s decentralized, and people will fight to keep it alive regardless of the chaos.

That article's author clearly doesn’t get Bitcoin. Mixing up private addresses with private keys is basic stuff. No way someone could mine 2016 blocks in a minute and not cause chaos.

Haha, you really think everyone can just attack SHA-256 like that? If OP could do that, they wouldn't be asking about wallets here.

Just because they mined an empty block doesn’t mean it’s a conspiracy. They just happened to find it right after the last one.

Just came across this challenge and thought some of you might find it interesting. Apparently, there's a bounty for anyone who can crack the seeds behind the NIST elliptic curves. Check it out here.

And yes, Taproot addresses use Schnorr signatures too. Most people don’t share Bitcoin public keys, so you usually just take the Nostr public key and use it to create a BTC address.

Yeah, so I looked it up, and it seems you can’t get a regular Bitcoin address from just the npub. It’s basically the compressed public key without the prefix to indicate the y coordinate. You’d have to guess that.

Nah, it’s not a shitcoin, just a public protocol for communications. You can sign messages similar to how you’d use a hardware wallet for Bitcoin.

Nostr? Is that some kinda joke coin? Look, as long as the keys are on the same curve parameters like secp256k1, they can work interchangeably. The address generation differs though, like ETH uses uncompressed keys.…

Remember, storing keys sequentially can mess up efficiency. Just saying.

I remember a mining pool did add a non-standard transaction a while ago, like a year after it was sent out. I can't recall all the details though. Anyone else remember?

Yeah, the analogy doesn’t fit. But if you did use it, it still wouldn’t matter how many cards you have. The receiver only sees your bank info.