Topic: [ANN][Main] Bitcore- BTX - Datacarriersize up to 220 bytes - page 214. (Read 729898 times)

Agree  200X would still be less than BTC prices range  
Go for it...  

I submitted my vote, but I don't think this is an honest vote. I suspect that someone could write a script that would create as many emails as required and vote an arbitrary number of times. Therefore, the first 3 winners are likely already known (and were known at the very outset of this vote), so all our efforts may be in vain.

I don't have a lot of faith in such things.

done!
Bitcore community, let us do this


https://twitter.com/c_news_c/status/992432535304097792

I submitted my vote, but I don't think this is an honest vote. I suspect that someone could write a script that would create as many emails as required and vote an arbitrary number of times. Therefore, the first 3 winners are likely already known (and were known at the very outset of this vote), so all our efforts may be in vain.

I don't have a lot of faith in such things.

ME, My Father and brother all voted... We need another thousand votes for 3rd place.. 🤹‍♂️🤹‍♂️🤹‍♂️

Come on folks,, spend a moment and give your precious votes show the sprit...

Perhaps you are right (I didn't check because I found no indications wrt looking at files with particular tools),
but I gave my reasoning why I believe it's not the case.


Afaics you are focused only on .mp3 for now?
And yet you struggle which tools to use, and can't make nothing of it.
IMO then there should be clues about which tools to use. Try looking for that.

Now if you are indeed correct, you would also need to do something similar to the image.
And why then would this be a basic puzzle?
How many people have skill to do it?

Hint is "dont forget the Music !" which implies that something else is also a clue.

Can PeakValue and other strings also be found in other mp3 files?
Did you try downloading original mp3 (or just take first 18 seconds from the youtube video, and save it as mp3) and compare to lto.mp3?


EDIT:
https://twitter.com/Bitcore_BTX/status/992312346734247937
> We didn’t expect that this could be a challenge too.

IMO messing with files like that without clues about which tools to use is challenging.
So it has to be something simpler than that.

Some of my versions of the private key:

 

I am afraid the puzzle is much more crypto cipher than logically looking for the path like you do.

Don't forget that when you use binary view and load up the lto.mp3 file, looking on hexa decimal values translated to ASCII, you see at the beginning ID3.....vPRIV....PeakValue....PRIV.... That seems more like crypto cipher clue, right? I was thinking more like looking for some peak values of that .mp3 peak frequency spectogram or something like that... or maybe there is some tool to see some peak values of colours in the image? Just a thought...

My try, hopefully helps someone to get better ideas:

Clues:

Audio
Image
Colors

_Audio_ is looney tunes soundtrack (my guess LTO in lto.mp3 means Looney Tunes Opening)

reverse _Image_ search gives "mess with your brain"
http://cdn.emgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Pictures-That-will-mess-with-your-brain-4.jpg

The Brain is Looney tunes character.

Bitcore _Color_ is pink.

Pinky and the Brain are looney tunes characters

Additional points:
If original image is Brain, and bitcore is Pinky, then given image on the puzzle site indeed represent Pinky and the Brain.
Also the original illusion image somewhat resembles looney tunes theme (circles around big circle in the middle):
http://www.belcourt.org/sm_files/LooneyTunesweb.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIRDJLOJyw
Channel logo and name have "CC" - bitcore is on "cc" domain.

So I was thinking that private key would be found on secret url such as https://bitcore.cc/pinky-and-the-brain (or whatever is the password we have to find before private key),
however there are no indicators what url should look like, or even where to input password in case we find one (note I'm not talking about private key here).

(but since I'm stuck, I believe I'm on the wrong path, thus interpreted the clues wrong)

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If Jon created the puzzle, assuming he is core dev then I presume he wasn't paying much attention to the image size, just get the puzzle done.
Thus huge image size is probably not a clue.
As well as other numbers such as mp3 length because they seem to lead nowhere.


Afair they claim puzzle difficulty is "medium",
thus I believe password (or private key) is not hidden in the file because not many people know how to use particular softwares for decrypting such clues.
After all we have audio file AND image file, thus much more work required (seeing that noone cracked it yet, I guess I'm correct about this).

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Possible clues that lead me nowhere:

25BTX_ori.png - trippy image, what does "ori" mean?
res: 1000x1000
size: 2,2 MB (2156118 bytes)

audio length is 18 seconds

Javascript:
var colors = ["red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "indigo", "violet", "gray", "black"];
window.setInterval([...], 2000);  
 
css:
transition: background-color 2.1s; //2.1 second transition

Porky is a pig, and pigs are pink.