tom2017

Tried the brain wallet, no outputs. don't believe that's the end of my story. I realise the complexity of the process, I was really hoping that an old miner would put up his hand and admit to doing this in 2010. Whilst…

.... totally in agreement.... for what its worth, KISS! (keep it simple stupid), sorry yes 32 character hex!

Turns out that this is 98% of my challenge thanks but now to figure out which policy needs to be applied. In other words very close but no cigar!.

...sure and I would agree with you now, however, back in 2010 I was trading stocks, bitcoin was little more than an idealistic story. I spoke with a guy in the UK who sounded extremely knowledgeable, a cryptographer, a…

We took the .swf apart and nothing to say about it. But would be very interested in any standard tools which may have been around in 2010?? tools to translate an imagefile and a 32bit hex word into a privkey

... this flash file was the interface to obtain the "files" from which I understood that I should have been able to obtain private keys. Researching this more I am certain that image24.png is used as a hex checksum or…

...Appreciate that, will certainly take a deeper dive for the magic bytes, but feel we are looking for hidden private keys..

Thx ... we are on it like white on rice!

... a valid point, but I have reason to believe this wasn't the intention of the seller/ miner and evidence on the blockchain points me to a software issue in 2011 which caused the loss of access for the developer to a…

...Totally agree but this was May 2010 when lots of experimentation was taking place ...

Anyone here dealt with wallets sent to customers as part of swf game files? So, I bought some btc from a miner back in May 2010, and he gave me a login for an online game to access the wallet/s. Instead of just getting…

Thx so very much , sorry not to read your comment three months ago. Will come back with an update.

l have to delve deeper into the Bitcoin protocol documentation and the X.690 standard to understand the intricacies of Bitcoin's encoding schemes further. I did know about DER encoding but even with this I haven't yet…

I've been digging into the history of Bitcoin's creation, especially the encoding techniques used in those early .dat files by Satoshi Nakamoto. I'm trying to get a grip on the specific patterns and encoding methods…

Thx for replying, sorry I missed your reply as I have been away. I have mastered VARINT now and get it , but there was in the past more to this, especially a printed ASCII variant translation of Blockchain data. I am…

some merit there, did that already but I have DM 'ed the string to test, see if you can work it out?

Hey there, I need my transformation to be exactly reversible. I’m using Satoshi's compact CVarint (not Varint) for this. I’ve got a Python version of it, but it looks like it’s generating some characters that aren’t in…