Your wet bio brain as sole backup for your mnemonic recovery words or other secrets is plain irresponsible, period!

I'm an old fart and had my share of forgetting e.g. wallet encryption passphrases (fortunately so far only for value-less Testnet coins). But that taught me a lesson, even when I was almost 100% sure I knew how I "constructed" the encryption passphrase. After some time, I couldn't figure it out anymore and I was careless to not write it down properly or lost the note.

I was lucky, it didn't happen so far for me with precious real Mainnet bitcoins. Lesson learned, I document everything thoroughly (well, mostly, I hope, giggle).

Well, I didn't pull all strings to try to brute-force it by clues I know, but that's not guaranteed to succeed and not the point here.

You can forget everything, it's just a matter of time and little use or how hard your head gets hit or whatever may trigger severe amnesia (illness, drugs, ...).

This is not surely burning, because likely a private key exists, if Satoshi hasn't deleted all copies of his private keys. Nothing we can prove, nothing he can prove to us. All coins except the 50BTC from the coinbase tx are technically spendable for the owner of the private key which belongs to the public key I mentioned in my previous post.

Do I believe that at one day Satoshi will move the spendable coins of the Genesis block? No, I don't think so!

Are coins sent to the Genesis block practically immobilized? Very likely, yes!

Are those coins burned? Hm, technically not, practically very likely so!

Is this a waste of coins, a contribution to UTXO set bloat? In my opinion, yes, the latter: in consequence, yes!

"Nice" try, you moron! Don't pretend you didn't know that this would expose the public key of #71, but it very very likely doesn't matter anyway, because I'm pretty sure, he didn't solve #71. And we all know what it means to expose the public key of such low entropy ranges.

Well, I had you already on my ignore list, but when stupidity or malevolence shine brightly, I'll make exceptions and suffer to read and comment eventually.

Shame on you, shame!


The "correct" public proof of a solver would be to post the SHA256(public key of #71), while the redeem transaction is sitting in MARA's hidden Slipstream mempool to be confirmed.

Frankly, OP's actions could be worse, but not by much. Well, there's always a deeper hole to dig.

A lot has been enumerated already as very questionable or rather very bad practices. I might have overread something here and there.

Here my bits and pieces. Don't use your daily driver as device for your crypto wallet (reading and answering emails: not good any near your crypto wallets (on the same device)). Daily shit surfing isn't any better. Web browsers, fake links in emails, questionable executable/active downloads are commonly the main intrusion vectors, lets not talk about zero-days and other vulnerabilities in SaaS OS crap.

I'm not entirely sure if OP actually keeps his wallet's mnemonic recovery words only in memory, despite a few hints to words he carries with him (another terrible practice). If he does, close to worst practice. It's almost guaranteed that something will be forgotten, especially when he doesn't use the words for some time.

A healthy human brain can memorize 12 or 24 or more words with the proper technique. But to keep it in memory 100% correctly you have to regularly repeat and replay. To check if you're still 100% right, you should have a correct written copy (better multiple redundant copies). The need for a surely correct written copy makes memorization pointless, unless you need to cross borders "naked", but that's only temporary.

Your whole setup is a security gamble and your coins or wallet not yet being stolen doesn't prove anything about your wallet's future. You already announced to accumulate more coins. If I were a bad guy and had a foot in the door to your device, I'd wait until you stacked up more coins. LOL!

Get a decent hardware wallet, stay away from the Ledger and other closed-source crap, learn and practice to use it safely, don't use crypto wallets on Windows OS, due to dominent market share the most targeted OS by malware.

Keep calm and hodl...  

I have no idea why all the "donators" send their coins to the legacy public address representation of the Genesis block's coinbase. Satoshi used only public keys as "destinations" for coinbase subsidies of blocks he mined, but who cares for details anyway.  

Here's the current balance as of writing this post for the Genesis block represented by the descriptor
This descriptor covers all UTXOs sent to P2PK, P2PKH, P2WPKH and P2SH-P2WPKH derivatives of above public key 04678afd...6bf11d5f.



And yes, the 50BTC of the Genesis block's subsidy are unspendable by past and current software rules.


And here's a thread of mine where I post about large donations, cough..., waste of coins to the Genesis block: Large "donations" dumped to Genesis block

How much spoon-feeding do you need? 

See here for ranges...

How about more reading of relevant topics to the Bitcoin puzzle you're apparently interested in for obvious reasons. Oh, btw, if you don't have a massive farm with lots and lots of GPUs, you're wasting your time, energy and nerves. But miniscule odds don't prevent people from playing the lottery either.

Have fun...

Die Entwicklung vom weitgehend offenen "Secure Element" von Tropic Square verfolge ich schon seit Jahren, mehr oder weniger seit das Teil auch hier im Forum erwähnt wurde. Das war dann erstmal lange Zeit "Vaporware", aber schließlich materialisierte sich das Teil dann doch.

Ich bin jetzt auch kein Hardware-Experte, aber an Sicherheitsthemen doch nah genug dran, daß nicht alles, was ich darüber lese, wie Finnisch rückwärts klingt.    Einige Interna und Präsentationen, wie der TROPIC01 so arbeiten soll, habe ich mir schon angesehen und aufgesogen, viel ist nicht hängen geblieben, aber die Jungs und Mädels von Tropic Square haben sich schon gute Sachen einfallen lassen, das Ding ganz schön am Stand der aktuellen Sicherheitstechnik zu platzieren.

Schaun 'mer mal, welche anderen Hersteller es vielleicht auch noch aufgreifen, soll ja für alle zugänglich sein. Und ohne NDA-Gedöns kann man vielleicht auch mehr Transparenz von willigen Herstellern bekommen. Soll nicht zu unserem Schaden sein...

Yes, seek for medical or psychological help, you seem to need it.

Do you really think anybody believes you when you pretend you have the solution for puzzle #71 and are mentally limited to figure out how to submit the redeem transaction via https://slipstream.mara.com? Please, don't waste our time with your nonsense.

You can use https://ninjastic.space or https://beta.ninjastic.space to search for "slipstream" in text body of posts. I'm pretty sure, you will find one or more posts that explains well enough how to create a signed transaction, export it as hex string and broadcast it to slipstream.mara.com.

It's not exactly rocket science...

The mnemonic passphrase can be anything, words, numbers, symbols, it's not necessarily only one word, can be any string of symbols. IIRC, it will be UTF-8 NFKD normalized, not sure about the exact rules for normalization, e.g. are multiple consecutive space characters combined into a single one? How about spaces at the beginning and/or end...

Never forget: the smallest error in the additional mnemonic passphrase gives you a totally different and empty wallet.

Document it thoroughly and keep multiple redundant copies at safe places (never together with the mnemonic recovery words or you loose the additional security the mnemonic passphrase can provide).

Was soll denn "quantum ready" ausdrücken? Ich hab' da erstmal die Augen verdreht, weil das arg nach Marketing-BS klingt, aber ich habe auch noch nicht auf den Trezor-Seiten gesucht, was die damit meinen. Also mehr eine rhetorische Frage...

Was ich schonmal nicht gut finde:

• Funkprotokoll Bluetooth (vermutlich für die Fallobst-Liebhaber, weil das heilige Obst ja seinen USB-C Port für andere verrammelt)
• Aufladbare Batterie = geplante Obsoleszens, da sicherlich nicht einfach austauschbar, wenn das Teil wasser- und staubresistent nach IP54 ist
• ziemlich strammer Preis, wenn u.U. die Lebensdauer wg. des Akkus eingeschränkt ist

Wenn der Bildschirm klasse und die Haptik gut ist, relativiert sich der Preis vielleicht für den einen oder anderen durchaus, je nach Mehrnutzen, die dieses Modell ggü. z.B. dem Safe 5 bieten könnte (und sollte!).