Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 112. (Read 99503 times)

I put "Uc6VAnV" into the brainwallet converter. (http://brainwallet.org/#converter)
Came out as:
"bought pause shiver cry money illusion"

Its a little bit creepy. Do you guys think it is a message?

If you start from the blue dot from left to right and from top to bottom you will find the string:

SvjwoAUrk9FzRe7aeJ62YTo6ABDiFt

looks like a mini priv. key, maybe?

lets see

sha256(SvjwoAUrk9FzRe7aeJ62YTo6ABDiFt) = a290ae6e8c2705cf6380451886667d2d2d6a62dcbd8d838570083932ca723fe8

base58check(a290ae6e8c2705cf6380451886667d2d2d6a62dcbd8d838570083932ca723fe8) = 5K3t6CHLzMnjSLrfQRVzFqE2TLuLoCactcPxqabjS6BxeAAfaRJ

-> 17xYGiwa2bMX4L3qSMwy6qLCLfmMKLPw5H

empty address

edit: also some pictures for you:

everything below line 13 - seems relevant because of the recent TX's:



cut the two out to make it easier to search:

The first line of the image in notepad was:

It doesn't really have much in it but its the only English in the file.

edit: It does say BTRC but I doubt it refers to BTC but you never know.

One more thing before I leave:

The new transactions start from 0.023 and go down to 0.013

23 are the lines top to bottom, could be relevant.

Will do when I get back

Also, here is my conversions of just green and red dots:

0=green

0101 0 1111 110 1011 0 10101 0
010 1 0 111 1 01011 1 0 111000 001
10 10010 01011 111 1 1 001 1 0 1
01010 11 11 1 11100010 0 011011 1 0
00 111010110001 10 1100011110 01001
1 01 0 0 1101 10 01 0101 101 101
01 00 01 1 1 0 100 1 111 011 01
1 (0) 01 00 1 010100011101111 010 10
1110000 011 11001 11 0 1 10
101 0 00111 0 0010101 1
11 001111011 110 000 11
0110 0000 1 0011 11
1 01111 1 01 1 1001
1100 111 1100 0 0
111 00111010 100 010 11
1 00111 101 1 10101 0 1
111 1 01 10 111 0 1
10 000 0 1 01101
0101 1 1 00 0 0
10 100 01 01
0 011 11101
10 1 1 010 10
010101 110010


0=Red

1010 1 0000 001 0100 1 01010 1
101 0 1 000 0 10100 0 1 000111 110
01 01101 1010 000 0 0 110 1 0
10101 00 00 0 00011101 1 100100 0 1
11 000101001110 01 0011100001 10110
0 10 1 1 0010 01 10 1010 010 010
10 11 10 0 0 1 011 0 000 100 10
0 (1) 10 11 0 101011100010000 101 01
0001111 100 00110 00 1 0 01
010 1 11000 1 1101010 0
00 110000100 001 111 00
1001 1111 0 1100 00
0 10000 0 10 0 0110
0011 000 0011 1 1
000 11000101 011 101 00
0 11000 010 0 01010 1 0
000 0 10 01 000 1 0
01 111 1 0 10010
1010 0 0 11 1 1
01 011 10 110
1 100 00010
01 0 0 101 01
101010 001101

Notice the () is because I wasn't sure if the dot is green or blue (turquoise).
I have used it as green.

Have fun

 

Read my edit two posts up and see what you think.

Nope, we have converted the dots to 0s and 1s. Check my previous posts you will get it too

OK, I will not be able to add much today either (at least not until tonight), I have to visit the doctor coz my right hand has been numb for a few days now.

And apparently a lot has been going on since I last checked this thread, which is good 

That being said, I believe it is safe to assume that the transactions coming from: 1BoRHtJva2L9YyqB1aS1zqgFUjjftNuZtJ is from the OP (maybe in response to my request).
If it is, thanks OP

For those of you that got the 'source code' of the photo, is this how you did it?  Or did you run it through the link posted previously?

Strange thing I did with the photo.  Back in the day working cases with digital photos as evidence, I was taught to open the image with a text editor to reveal the funky code in it.  Somewhere in all that spaghetti was the make, model, and serial number of the device that snapped the photo.  While trolling through it for this info I came across the FBI acronym.  Thought this was strange, but completely innocuous.  

Edit: try opening the photo using notepad.  Copy the code and run all the code through the Brainwallet converter.  I can't do it from my toilet diving wet cellphone.  Lemme know what you find.

I am sure it has something to do with the bitcoin address or maybe the next step.

Thou shalt not seek what lies behind the curtain.



I dont know exactly how the code gets generated but if you post something you have no influence how the code looks unless you upload the same pic over and over again. So I think its safe to assume that it hold no meaning here.



Gotta go for a while, but Ill take a look at that later and post some strings starting from the blue dot. Maybe this gives you a clue.

I believe it is random.

So that is a link to the private key
Inside is 2.76 BTC
Seems like a fun puzzle I wonder if someone will be able to solve it and if the color of tiles provide a clue to it

Edit in: read through the thread so there was kind of reminds me of a notpron puzzle although I doubt changing the ending of the file will do anything here or morse code translations although the minesweeper idea might be related hmm enigma (enigma code)
A bit too tricky for me but if you feel like taking a break and at the same time thinking of different patterns that might help with this puzzle shares this
http://notpron.com/

i.imgur.com/Uc6VAnV

Could Uc6VAnV represent anything or is that just a random # assigned to the picture when it posts?
Part of Private code??

Man, I was wondering where the conversation went. I was on reddit.

I got some reading to do to catch up. Then I'll post over here if I think its relevant.

No need for convoluted theories. The triangle containing the blue eye is even pointing at the blue dot FFS.

I hope I didn't steer you down the wrong path! The OP's prior Lewis Carroll hints may simply have been generic puzzling turns of phrase. For example, today I read that ARG lingo often uses "rabbit hole" to mean the puzzler's invitation to lure people into participating.

I'm at complete loss today. The only thing I found that might mean something:  This morning there were 9 deposits from the same address to the wallet address for 0.001011 btc : https://blockchain.info/address/1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra?offset=0&filter=0  Why 9 deposits for the same amount?
I used the brainwallet link http://brainwallet.org/#converter and converted the binary 001011 via poetry, which rendered "eye." I have never played with binary conversions, so I may have done this wrong. If I did it right, then the eye in the painting may hold some significance. Someone posted earlier that the single blue dot is matched by the blue dot of the eye. Someone else proposed that if we are to decipher the pattern of green/red/yellow dots, then maybe we are supposed to start with the blue dot on the grid.

Guys and girls I apologize for not adding much today, sorry I had things to attend to.

That being said, I didn't let this out of my mind.

Also the OP is an artist (a good one too) and I also found this: Dodgson himself added 37 illustrations (in Alice in Wonderland).

I know I keep posting things regarding "Alice", but I got a feeling thanks to rock_collector that we should be looking into it....

Judging left & right by Amir's & Cody's perspective rather than ours is quite abstract.

I also meant to give the lisp code I'm using. Again, it's the bip0032 implementation available at github. (I gave the link earlier.) Then in lisp (sbcl) I do this: