154 BTC and change up for grabs, old paperwallet, partly obfuscated privkey

[Anonymous No.12840901]

Found this on old NAS. Privkey is obfuscated. I've given up. Could someone do something like this?

https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lets-enhance-how-we-found-rogerkver-s-1000-wallet-obfuscated-private-key-8514e74a5433

Link to BTC-address:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/173xV3oqdHjsqp6sMuurNqWXAL7AJSnXFG

He or she who breaks it is set for life. Show me your kung fu - empty it!

If someone actually pulls it off, I wouldn't mind a few ty doge to DKpRQB1NMG2CRsyzqmYLtULyjTURUmrpjd

Do it!

[Anonymous No.12840921]

holy fuck, I remember seeing a thread on how to unscramble nude pics in the same way as youd solve this. wish I payed more attention

[Anonymous No.12840927]

99.999% sure it's fake and the left half of the pic has nothing to do with the right half of the pic

[Anonymous No.12840936]

I wish I wasn't a brainlet

[Anonymous No.12841004]

i guess it can be done with "perfect" untwirling in photoshop, maybe you have to take out the pink stripes first? any case, lots of visible characters in the written privkey. i refuse to think this is impossible.

[Anonymous No.12841021]

>>12840901
Tig if brue

[Anonymous No.12841045]

>Found this on old NAS
explain

It'll possibly take months to bruteforce
odds are its fake though

[Anonymous No.12841053]

too large keyspace to bruteforce written address.... need a photoshop guru to attack the QR

[Anonymous No.12841068]

>>12841053
i could do it
but dont want to waste time if youre trolling

[Anonymous No.12841077]

>>12841068
no hes probably right

[Anonymous No.12841081]

>>12840901
what tool was used to blur/swirl/use pink lines?

[Anonymous No.12841139]

i have no idea, found this on old NAS...says file was saved in 2014.... expected the address to be abandoned, but on the contrary, several new incoming transactions during 2018

[Anonymous No.12841211]

>>12840901
Best I could do in 5 mins

[Anonymous No.12841235]

>>12841211
I was meant to work on the right side?

[Anonymous No.12841254]

>>12841211
the main complication with unswiraling is identifying the one pixel that is the center pixel that was used as a point to swirl in the first place. and then also using the same swirl tool to unswirl once we know which pixel is the right one. otherwise, we're just going to get blurry messes that are partially complete. the pink shit is actually not that hard to get rid of.

[Anonymous No.12841256]

>>12840901
I need a sector-by-sector backup image of the NAS

[Anonymous No.12841299]

>>12841235
>>12841211
>>12841254
ok I had a go doing the other side

[Anonymous No.12841309]

>>12841254

Wrong approach brainlets.

You don't need to find a single perfect unswirl, we know the original had right angles. We can break down the swirled QR code into blocks and slowly untwirl them until we get right angles, convert the portions into private key strings and cross examine with the exposed pkey on the bottom.

[Anonymous No.12841316]

>>12841299
ya I'm getting similar results like this. the issue is>>12841254

AND the size of the image needs to correspond to the sizing of the tool.

very complex, since you have (size of swirl*size of image*swirl degree or magnitude). but it can be done.

[Anonymous No.12841319]

Look at these desperate faggots oh my fuck
Best thread I’ve seen in 6 months.

[Anonymous No.12841323]

>>12841309
yep this could work. the pink shit will need to be cleaned up first ideally.

[Anonymous No.12841354]

Bump for science

[Anonymous No.12841384]

This is why we need smart contracts so we can fairly pay anons if we actually solve this thing.

>100 anons want to combine their research and all be rewarded for solving a problem
>all anons contribute but 1 solves the problem
>the reward is split between anons based on the amount of work they put in, thats decided by the linkies with their Oracles

We effectively created an autonomous organization.

[Anonymous No.12841394]

That's a nice QR code you got there.

It would be a shame if anything happened to it.

[Anonymous No.12841446]

>>12841384
>This is why we need smart contracts so we can fairly pay anons if we actually solve this thing.
154BTC
Are you retarded?

[Anonymous No.12841521]

>>12841446
>Are you retarded?
I feel I am for doing this. It is going to take all weekend to do this.

[Anonymous No.12841554]

>>12841521
are you using excel?

[Anonymous No.12841576]

>>12841554
I have gone far beyond mortal tools.

[Anonymous No.12841589]

>>12841521
this looks dumb, put me in the smart contract

[Anonymous No.12841600]

>>12841521
Based and autismpilled

[Anonymous No.12841613]

This is quite relaxing, im going to sleep now. good luck my autistic frens

[Anonymous No.12841624]

>>12841613
Oh I see. Putting false blocks in some places. Just enough to slow them down...lol

[Anonymous No.12841664]

Someone prob just shopped a different private key QR that doesn’t even match with the public code. So even if you do unscramble it, it will go to a wallet with no bitcoin

[Anonymous No.12841669]

>>12841624
heres my works out, highlight whats wrong if you want to. I just like coloring in.

[Anonymous No.12841676]

>>12841613
wrong
>>12841624
this

[Anonymous No.12841680]

>>12840901
why is there always some faggot on here posting these fake "crack my wallet" posts?

[Anonymous No.12841690]

>>12840901
Just looked at the address history - imagine seeing that you have 3 mil worth of bitcorns and only cashing out $60k, what a madlad. Probably mined thousands on other addresses and just forgot about this one.

[Anonymous No.12841709]

>>12841669
this guy knows what he's doing. Having decrypted a partially damaged QR code in the past, all the actual info is on the right hand side of the QR code.

[Anonymous No.12841726]

>>12841709
>right hand side of the QR code.
But he did most of the work on the left!

[Anonymous No.12841743]

>>12841726
yes but all the mistakes are on the right

[Anonymous No.12841876]

>>12841743
My shitass attempt. I'm using gimp so I don't know if it's different in photoshop. It seems to be several stages of swirling, of reducing radius. Maybe that's just because gimp does it differently.

[Anonymous No.12841906]

>>12840927
this. same bait thread has been posted a while before with a blockchain paper wallet partially obscured. same bullshit different pic. if you go through the hours of autism to actually crack the private key you'll see its associated with an empty address

[Anonymous No.12841920]

>>12841613
>>12841669
There is no block in the bottom right hand corner.

>>12841906
Yes, but not like I have anything really to do but my taxes.

[Anonymous No.12841931]

>>12840901
>>12841139
2 posts, for someone with 154 BTC up for grabs you'd think OP would show a bit more interest.

[Anonymous No.12841955]

Since when is that "set for life"? Even $1,000,000 doesn't mean you're set for life.

[Anonymous No.12841979]

>>12841955
BTC is going to be $1MM sooner or later

[Anonymous No.12842001]

>>12841955
>Even $1,000,000 doesn't mean you're set for life.
Only if you are dumb fuck. Like a person worth half a billion dollars buying a billion dollar cruise ship.

[Anonymous No.12842013]

>>12842001
Please explain where you would invest this money and what kind of returns you'd get.

[Anonymous No.12842053]

>>12842013
Easy. I only need 50k a year.

10% speculative stocks
70% S&P 500
20% dividend stocks

[Anonymous No.12842068]

>>12842053
>I only need 50k a year.
So you're going to live like a middle class midwesterner for the rest of your life? Also, keep in mind that inflation is 2% a year.

[Anonymous No.12842142]

i think its possible that this thing was swirled twice

[Anonymous No.12842145]

>>12842068
>So you're going to live like a middle class midwesterner for the rest of your life?

Yeah man. Honestly money can buy happiness, but spending it doesn't equal dollar for dollar.

I don't like to travel. My hobbies are cheap.

[Anonymous No.12842176]

>>12840901
He is clearly larping since the last outgoing transaction from this address has been in 2018.
So fuck your old NAS kek

[Anonymous No.12842200]

>>12842176
Yeah probably.

I'm done anyway. Here is mine. I have a different bottom left then others.

[Anonymous No.12842472]

>>12842053
>S&P 500
Oh? Really? I'm willing to bet you a grand DIA, NAS, S&P, are gonna take a hit right at 8am eastern time. An hour right before market open.
Wanna bet?

[Anonymous No.12843019]

>>12840901
is the way to do it to split it up into rings and then twirl and sharpen those rings? then bruteforce the center parts? can't really do this right now but if anyone else wants to do that go for it.

[Anonymous No.12843322]

I'm busy until march.
might try again if still up for grabs then.

[Anonymous No.12843390]

>>12843322
lol its a troll
the address was first used on 2013-10-23 21:11:51 yet bitaddress didnt have that layout until 2015

[Anonymous No.12843562]

>>12842472
>are gonna take a hit right at 8am eastern time. An hour right before market open.
Market opens at 9:30, not 9. So I don't believe you know it is going down monday.

[Anonymous No.12843635]

>>12841906
Youre not tricking me and giving yourself time to crack the code are you anon?

[Anonymous No.12843647]

>>12843635
Another anon here. I can confirm I've seem this happen once

[Anonymous No.12843672]

here you go boys.

i took my cut.

[Anonymous No.12843674]

>>12843672
oops. forgot the image.

*ahem*

HERE YA GO BOYS

I TOOK MY CUT.

[Anonymous No.12843683]

>>12843674
Very funny.

[Anonymous No.12843905]

>>12840901
photopea.com
You're welcome

[Anonymous No.12843976]

>>12843905
What I have so far

[Anonymous No.12844012]

>>12841876

[Anonymous No.12844359]

Guys I think I did it wrong

[Anonymous No.12844373]

>>12844359
upvoted

[Anonymous No.12844443]

I just did it, fake

[Anonymous No.12844503]

>>12840901
is there any reason why someone would go through such pains to obscure their key, instead of just blocking it out all together?
What the fuck.

[Anonymous No.12844832]

My best effort so far. -467 degree twirl, a few pixels off center. QR code is a Version 6 (41x41px), High error correction, mask 7. This is as far as I got.

[Anonymous No.12844839]

kek at anyone believing someone would keep a 154 BTC key stored somewhere on a NAS.

[Anonymous No.12844862]

>>12844832
bravo

[Anonymous No.12845245]

>>12844832
Managed to scan it in the end, she's empty (or I assume...?). Public key is 173xV3oqdHjsqp6sMuurNqWXAL7AJSnXFG

Thanks for the Photoshop workout, OP.

[Anonymous No.12845251]

Ah, pasted the wrong pubkey. I meant 1FpU7EfyQkjHDDmdBmQ7XXr5Vr81xhaRCZ.

[Anonymous No.12845268]

>>12845245
>>12845251
>>12844832

No way that was scannable
You just want us all to stop so u can keeps the bitcoins all for yourself

[Anonymous No.12845304]

>>12845245
>>12845251
post private too or it's a larp

[Anonymous No.12845372]

>>12845268
>>12845304

L3NtP3xenKtKsQC4LfWAaRcR9aYPK6dd6Ni9zc6ewTTVcPtz7wbe

[Anonymous No.12845386]

>>12845372

Damn son, you're a pro. Tip my hat to you.

[Anonymous No.12845392]

>>12845372

I filled out a few pixels randomly until I got bored, then slapped a Threshold layer on the remaining pixels, and dragged the Level slider up and down while waving my phone around. Just imagine my surprise when my phone actually buzzed.

Note: The QR code in the image is probably not what I was actually able to scan - have no idea what the value was.

[Anonymous No.12845462]

>>12845386

The pre-threshold image and the actual one as generated by bitaddress.org, plus a diff, for comparison

[Anonymous No.12845496]

>>12845392
Damn can you make a video or instructional of this? Shouldn't take long now that you know what to do.

[Anonymous No.12845515]

>>12845462
I assume QR codes have checksums/ error correction which allowed your phone to figure out what it was supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.12845553]

>>12845496
I dunno if I could write up my hacky workflow would be helpful at all, but rather key was seeing where the first distorted pixels were at the edge of the twirl effect. Luckily these overlapped nicely with the three corner markers.

This allowed me to figure out that the twirl effect was slightly off center and larger than the code itself, and position the counter-twirl relatively accurately, give or take a few pixels.

>>12845515
Yes, you certainly don't need all of a QR code in order to scan it.

[Anonymous No.12845567]

Why the fuck arent we working on this together in http://pixelzone.io/

[Anonymous No.12845582]

>>12840901
>https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/173xV3oqdHjsqp6sMuurNqWXAL7AJSnXFG
>share QR differs from OP QR
I think we are being rused, guys.

[Anonymous No.12845588]

>>12845567
read up, it's been solved already and it's empty

[Anonymous No.12845655]

>>12844359
Keep swirling it faster, it makes the balance go up.

[Anonymous No.12846064]

>>12843647
This
I member spending a few hrs restoring a qr code posted here that was like half covered by a napkin or smt.
I stopped trying, when a guy showed his solution where he just brute forced all the possible combinations.
I was trying to be smart and actually build a qr decoder that would let me read only the visible part, and then continue from there. Took too long to actual;ly learn the format.