Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 116. (Read 99503 times)

Or in other words: waste hours and hours of your life for nothing?

In chapter 2, "The Pool of Tears", Alice tries to perform multiplication but produces some odd results: "Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!" This explores the representation of numbers using different bases and positional numeral systems: 4 × 5 = 12 in base 18 notation, 4 × 6 = 13 in base 21 notation, and 4 × 7 could be 14 in base 24 notation. Continuing this sequence, going up three bases each time, the result will continue to be less than 20 in the corresponding base notation. (After 4 x 12 = 19 in Base 39, the product would be 4 x 13 = 1A in Base 42, then 1B, 1C, 1D, and so on.)


And I really should get back to work now......

Right below it the letters w o r k appear

EDIT: And I shouldn't be doing this today. I have a huge leaflet with 200+ products to design....

6. Thou shalt not feed the trolls.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1egi51/there_is_currently_over_10000_unconfirmed/
http://xkcd.com/936/

Starring at the picture for hours. Write stuff from it down and stare at that for hours. Copy some of the stuff into about 500 different "cover X to Y" pages on the internet.[1] Mostly starring at stuff and pondering

Also on a totally unrealated note:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I6y5-GuLPM

Just had this in my head and had to share it.



[1] http://brainwallet.org/#converter





Wow!


https://blockchain.info/de/tx/b05f4616bd91ac6be896abc7102598498695376f129ccbcc04d3449537b1c997


Apparently we can ask for hints on the blockchain.

How does this even work?

Hmm I noticed these "snakes" of symbols. One even has 16 chars, but I had no time to look further into it. This
https://67ak9osvfebhh1nc.tor2web.org/
from the right is no valid tor address though.
I spend most of the time yesterday on this with a friend while we should have worked on a homework paper. "unproductive days" indeed.

Some things that stood out:

Just the chars:


We took the address out:


let our fantasy ride a bit and got:


those are no wallet if used within the darkwallet though.

Also there is which might hint towards a youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06ABDiFt
but it does not.

It would also totally ignore the dots and IMHO the dots are the next step.

7. from left 1 line is a 7
42 start on 6,7 and 6*7 = 42
bottom right is a 6 on the 6. row from the bottom there also is a 7 close on the 7. row from the bottom.
Maybe we ought to flip the picture upside down. This would also "correct" the pyramid.

The pyramid has some colors in it from outside to inside (the iluminati eye thus the ilumination and the solution? or maybe its the other way around because it iluminati not sure)
RED -> YELLOW -> GREEN/BLUE* -> BLUE

* I had a lengthy argument yesterday whether its green or blue, I watched the picture on at least 4 different screens now and to me its blue.




Had the same idea, but I had a typo on the E.


Also: the number of dots (from left to right, top to bottom)


I dont have much time today, but I will see what I can do.

Also: new transactions coming in:


Not sure if clue or troll.

2 coming from these 1BoRHtJva2L9YyqB1aS1zqgFUjjftNuZtJ

One of the inputs is from
1CJVmcgoxiTApQxWoADGEFJ2Q73sgpGdyJ

hmmm, gotta go.

A row of transactions to the address spell out an interesting ascii message:

0.01010011 BTC
0.01001111 BTC
0.01000011 BTC
0.01001100 BTC
0.01001111 BTC
0.01010011 BTC
0.00100010 BTC
0.01000101 BTC

If you ignore the one for 0.00100010, it spells "SOCLOSE"

0.00100010 is the smallest of the bunch, and the most likely to be an outside prankster sending confusing messages perhaps. It is a double quatation in ascii

In column 28 - 30 you can see the letters like this:

28 29 30 - columns
     
          E
L
     U
C

= CLUE

Just a coincidence?

Edit: Also, the red and green dots remind me of minesweeper. And maybe if you worked out the positioning of the bombs, it could form a picture.

Green - 1
Red    - 2
Orange - 3

Just a thought.

Greetings, I'm crashing the party too! A few data points:

1) Is this the character string everyone else is using? I'm a little dubious about some of the m's, w's, 9's, g's, and other things:

2) I've taken a stab at a few plaintext segments to see if I can find a ToR address, but nothing's worked. That was a long shot since everything's mixed-case.

3) The obvious bitcoin address is before a 'O'. 'I' is the only other non-base58 character in the puzzle so perhaps something right before/after it is also important.

4) The last 30 digits are not a valid private minikey, nor are any other 22 or 30 character string following any 'S' in the puzzle.

5) Currently working on various approaches to interpreting the dots.

Cheers!

Only because I follow her on Twitter and she's well-known in the bitcoin community. Hope you will wake up with new insights!

F### it, I am going to sleep.

Shorena it's up to you girl/man.

PS: "Alice", some more clues would be useful......  

EDIT: Follow the white rabbit 

Just found the key to an address that starts 123 

Proof: 5Hw3Dbp5nEbcpSawS1nNkSRm7AFhjnQTBcjh9yfQTvosmUcqtNf

Seriously what the fuck???

I have added yet the new transaction to my list and I come up with this key: KwjWncep6f1o6PvoFQTGzjEHgBqtoqQWZrjSEcmvuYVcfkHX8cDD

Which I already found since this morning.

Now what the fuck?

EDIT: OP, are you enjoying this? I bet you are 

TX amounts after . filled with 0 to 8 digits converted to ASCII

You seem to know a lot about her.....

Glad you found Coin_artist's (dormant) twitter account link. She tweeted about this puzzle quite a bit yesterday, simultaneously posting on reddit and here. I wish I had screenshot her tweets--they held many clues, I assume, arggh. At some point last night, after she made some cryptic comments referencing Alice in Wonderland, I went on Twitter to ask her a question and couldn't find her account. Another Twitter user informed me that she had tweeted that she was silencing her account until the puzzle is solved. Like Alice, she disappeared down the rabbit hole. She is otherwise quite active on Twitter. A talented artist and stunning woman, super generous and kind.
 

I have added the new transaction to my list and came up with this key: KwjWncep6f1o6PvoFQTGzjEHgBqtoqQWZrjSEcmvuYVcfjsU3uDZ
Which is a key I have already found before ?  WTF?

Guys you are looking for a key-word or key-phrase: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=There%20is%20more%20than%20meets%20the%20eye

EDIT: You need to outguess the data out of the image to proceed to the next step

Got it: https://twitter.com/search?q=coin_artist