What was my first approach to bitcoin?

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In the year 2011 i was following the news about bitcoin, but I didn't have enough technical knowledge about it, I remember to read the white paper (Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System) just understanding the basic ideas about it but without enough background to try to learn more. BIG MISTAKE.

My first bitcoin balance was only 0.02 btc that some web page was give it for free i was not greedy i just test one address and nothing more, today i think in that page and I guess that is was a mixer.

I was about to lose my small balance, in 2014 i was about to drop my old laptop to the garbage, in that laptop i have that wallet but luck of me I remember that amount of btc and just recover the disk just to extract my file wallet.

It was just up to October 2020 when i decide to try to crack some wallet at that moment i write the program crackBTCshell this was just a proof of concept program that try to break AES256, yes it look like a joke but I just tested the method with a test key and it works as I write before the program is a PROOF OF CONCEPT that program is only better if the Original passphrase is greater than 20 characters of length.

Anyway all of that just was the beginning, I write keyhunt with a lot of help from Iceland

I will keep writing more histories about the tools that i create for the bitcoin curve and more ideas of how to solve the puzzles...


 

 



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