Topic: 1BTC - Bitcoin Treasure Hunt - Can you crack the code? [competition now closed] - page 12. (Read 25362 times)

So...

Password is 9 characters
Letter and numbers

Darkened letters ;

Image 100 = CA
Image 001 = TA
Image 000 = BC

Charles Babbage, Image 000, made the difference engine and the analytical engine, that was considered as a computer.
Alonzo Church, Image 100,  inventor of the Lambda Calculus, which is in a way the first programming language ever

So far we have, the first computer, the first programming language.

As for Alan Turing, Image 001, he was also a mathematician, cryptalanist. He has created the cryptography and calculability. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence.[He made the turing test and ;

In computability theory, the Church–Turing thesis (also known as the Turing–Church thesis,[1] the Church–Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture, and Turing's thesis) is a hypothesis ("thesis") about the nature of computable functions. In simple terms, the Church–Turing thesis states that a function on the natural numbers is computable in an informal sense (i.e., computable by a human being using a pencil-and-paper method, ignoring resource limitations) if and only if it is computable by a Turing machine. The thesis is named after American mathematician Alonzo Church and his Ph.D. student, the British mathematician Alan Turing.

Church [2] and Turing [3] proved that these three formally defined classes of computable functions coincide: a function is λ-computable if and only if it is Turing computable if and only if it is general recursive. This has led mathematicians and computer scientists to believe that the concept of computability is accurately characterized by these three equivalent processes.


Turing adds another definition, Rosser equates all three: Within just a short time, Turing's 1936–37 paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem"[18] appeared. In it he stated another notion of "effective computability" with the introduction of his a-machines (now known as the Turing machine abstract computational model). And in a proof-sketch added as an "Appendix" to his 1936–37 paper, Turing showed that the classes of functions defined by λ-calculus and Turing machines coincided.[23] Church was quick to recognise how compelling Turing's analysis was. In his review of Turing's paper[24] he made clear that Turing's notion made "the identification with effectiveness in the ordinary (not explicitly defined) sense evident immediately".

In a few years (1939) Turing would propose, like Church and Kleene before him, that his formal definition of mechanical computing agent was the correct one.[25] Thus, by 1939, both Church (1934) and Turing (1939) had individually proposed that their "formal systems" should be definitions of "effective calculability";[26] neither framed their statements as theses.

Rosser (1939) formally identified the three notions-as-definitions:

"All three definitions are equivalent, so it does not matter which one is used."[27]
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So they have a link...All mathematicians, thats why the op want us to calculate the answer. Seem that when we have the calculated answer, we would have to throw it in the bin. I would expect Binary in that situation.

OP said that if they work together, they would have found the solution.




soooo....

A computer, A cryptography and programming...

We have to Program a Cryptography on the computer ?

I think OP want us to resolve a block by adding each letter and numbers that are hint on the picture using a program that resolve a crypto equation then put it in the bin to get the 9 letters code.

You really need to read all the previous clues, there is a post like 2 pages ago with all of them

Just noticed the 2-A as well..

 

The darkened letters are AC CB and AT

Alonzo church

Charles babbage

Alan turing

guessing won't work, most of those guesses have been tried

BTC001100
001100BTC

ah gosh...lol

The password is just 9 characters mate 

At first I was thinking that if the password has some letters in it, it could have been some hexadecimals, but when I saw the darkened T in 2nd image, I had to think bout something else.

My try ;

I analysed the 3 images well and found my first conclusion, there is some letters that are a little more darker than other... We will divide Image 1-2-3 by their Binary value at the top right

100
C ( Darkened letter )

001
T ( Darkened letter )

000
CB ( Darkened letterS )

At first I was wondering if the last C was really there, since when we read backward from image 3 to 1, we can clearly see the BTC if we substract the last C.

Now the Binary at the top right...I think we have 2 choices, either we calc 100001000, or if we follow BTC path, 000001100.

1000001000 = 520
000001100 = 12
100 = 4
001 = 1
000 = 0

I think that the password is in the following ;

BTC410
BTC014
410BTC
014BTC

BTC520
BTC12
BTC1000001000
BTC000001100

520BTC
12BTC
1000001000BTC
000001100BTC

BTBC520
BTBC12
BTBC1000001000
BTBC000001100

520BTBC
12BTBC
1000001000BTBC
000001100BTBC

BTCB520
BTCB12
BTCB1000001000
BTCB000001100

520BTCB
12BTCB
1000001000BTCB
000001100BTCB

it is not random no.

Steve, the password has a meaning? Im certainly sure it does, like its not random letters and characters

it took almost two weeks to put together and test (without giving away the answer)

Solving this is going to take a while 

I am already in a position to do that, changing the answer is impossible due to the clues already given, I thought of this, so have made provision in case someone can't get the answer and starts with the scam acusuations (for example, the 3 virtual coins was uploaded to tinypic in sequence in advance, in case someone thought I would change out the coins).

{glad to see the you have managed to get alan turing, charles babbage and alonzo church working together on this}

The machine Turingery

111899795

001100000

A mix of years and coin numbers

Bombe programme 336 bomes one for each wheel

C O A S T L I N E
2 7 1 8 9 5 4 6 3