Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 118. (Read 99514 times)
Wow. This demonstrates how little I still know about bitcoin. Pretty cool idea though.
This is really awesome! I should get this guy to make me a wallet I can hang in my office, in clear view of everyone! My bitcoins will be safe!!
I've been trying to figure it out all morning. No luck!
I've been trying to figure it out all morning. No luck!
Good luck guys, I couldn't get it. 
Don't give up.
That is why we share information here.
Good luck guys, I couldn't get it.
Crap, I have managed to extract 100+ private keys yet none of them is it 
What I've gathered so far, most points seem to have come up already:
- There are 124 characters in the picture. Amongst them, a bitcoin address 1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra.
- The address contains 1.41613221 BTC at the moment. At least two of the transactions seem to be outside contributions to the pot, with attached public notes containing advertising.
- The goal of the puzzle is to find the private key to the address. A private key is 51 characters, starting with "5". It must not contain characters O, 0, I, l.
- 21 characters before the address, 69 after it. Directly after the addres, there is a O or a 0, and a second one near the bottom, as well as an "I". Two "5"s can be found at different positions.
- Two figures in the picture are the developers of Dark Wallet, the logo of which is displayed also. I believe this to not be a direct part of the puzzle at this stage.
- The unoccupied cells have colored dots in them. Mostly green and red, although pale yellow and one blue dot can be found. These seem likely to be a part of the puzzle.
- I do not believe the color of the cells themselves to be a part of the puzzle, as there are many shades that could be hard to distinguish.
- Colors of the letters might have meaning. Although some of their shades are also a bit hard to discern.
- Position and spacing of letters seems likely to be meaningful. Although many cells are partly obstructed by the figures, wether they have a dot or not is always clearly indicated (even overlapping the guy's shirt).
- The final solution will be a probably 51-character private key, but as of now, we still have 90 characters and many other forms of information unaccounted for. It is unlikely that the riddler has included extraneous characters, thus I believe that there are multiple steps left until the private key. I wouldn't be surprised if decrypting some of the characters revealed a hint to a next step.
- It is not out of the question that hints exist outside what is displayed in the picture. I have checked the EXIF data of the image, but found nothing. The image was posted by OP at both twitter and imgur, both of which likely strip such metadata, as well as any pixel-level steganography.
- The transactions to the bitcoin address could easily contain hints, and some of the values are interesting, containing only ones and zeros.
Does anybody have a clue what the yellow dots and the blue one is?
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
I like puzzles but this one looks too technical for me. I don't even know what I am looking for??
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
Even though I have managed to extract several private keys and addresses I highly doubt that, that is what we are looking for.
We are more likely to find a clue to the next step.
And having more people on board is a great thing, so welcome aboard
BTW all the crap I have extracted came from my conversion of the dots.
Something tells me that we are missing something which is obvious.
And I now have a shitload of addresses on my wallet which I will never use
That's what I did, but I imported the keys on my wallet....
Hey, who knows it could have been it
I like puzzles but this one looks too technical for me. I don't even know what I am looking for??
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
Even though I have managed to extract several private keys and addresses I highly doubt that, that is what we are looking for.
We are more likely to find a clue to the next step.
And having more people on board is a great thing, so welcome aboard
BTW all the crap I have extracted came from my conversion of the dots.
Something tells me that we are missing something which is obvious.
And I now have a shitload of addresses on my wallet which I will never use
I like puzzles but this one looks too technical for me. I don't even know what I am looking for??
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
Even though I have managed to extract several private keys and addresses I highly doubt that, that is what we are looking for.
We are more likely to find a clue to the next step.
And having more people on board is a great thing, so welcome aboard
BTW all the crap I have extracted came from my conversion of the dots.
Something tells me that we are missing something which is obvious.
And I now have a shitload of addresses on my wallet which I will never use
EDIT: That being said, I like the eye (illuminati) staring at us right in the face....
I am sure it's a clue but haven't tied it to anything yet...
EDIT 2: Change your signature to: μέδουσα the way you have it now it's wrong
I like puzzles but this one looks too technical for me. I don't even know what I am looking for??
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
I will stare at it and if I have any ideas, I will post them here.
And this: KxqPaaEERJRNCfTFZXZCJTZsTUB78iLFPAxyCtQAgqz6ryVK7w8w
And this: KxqP7S6pRpp7sKjcAcmeJ6BGHGJHrU8i4dTJui1sa6wRJ6Mv4tij
And this: 5JBvS38gNjyBRgcKx69tNJQ5Lu9SE6pnkvuBbNgr4ZesPhBhy2w
And this: KxsCqW2gjVCLTq3AwWmzJu1g61h6T4zZTeZVVy6J5cVAUKotw8gU
And this: 1zjT5yvcLbDsPXPpKTc1maUmKeHF26mn
And this: 121rKKo6Qw8siuvyF5FL1g8AuFPk3WryM
And this: 142SmZ4KSh6ukcZhUxL7LByhQMvNav
And this: 121vvzaUR3BCNXDoSvr2yzp41f7ruPTJ6
And this: 1gkFfxHuiss2jfRmt4korjYwWgvW
And this: 19piArY5stiEMnGgFihXNgYyNbY
And this: 175Hk926jLiPYbe9Jac6maa
And this: 12M6KZcTQiDeAxMS9gjm36
This too: 1TovuQNX1rxGh5znF2kj6axa
And this: 1TGT26XM4SxWKfLjoCiFEHWT
EDIT: And this: KxsKrcLBQhhwHP1hdXfxGjyaJD7ohqeNDEvZJvYkXvfrnyVenFXX
KxqPaZqwvTQfXKvFmMHzWCLXjCfxpav5AihxqW9iQu7hVGAHu4Sd
5JBx2Gi4xBAusrRQB9LYDt9pr5jR2YSP86wpsndHB58UNPZD2b7
KxJHfrJiBoVzfrFFVbFubQfdJSEP99nggUG3GJZdi6BVakRgMkot
5J4TtPwvLkh6P3YhTnKseoUSz4gYJLq3say49e9RfkhiSvJkLWj
KxJHCcNKrGZUyTedbYyV9DTMnjgEFKJBCcECXcwdmaDNPXVL7UiA
5JBUtWGWQ8ozAi6Wt6mAW8aH2urLAC2RbrKEtyYykeuaXo5FLGD
13wCMKP8aeXjpWWANkCcpwQccyybx1Sv8n
15PpN93pUu3DSftfC9Sz2jMKAWRUotm11h
Yeah, nope.......
And this: KxqP7S6pRpp7sKjcAcmeJ6BGHGJHrU8i4dTJui1sa6wRJ6Mv4tij
And this: 5JBvS38gNjyBRgcKx69tNJQ5Lu9SE6pnkvuBbNgr4ZesPhBhy2w
And this: KxsCqW2gjVCLTq3AwWmzJu1g61h6T4zZTeZVVy6J5cVAUKotw8gU
And this: 1zjT5yvcLbDsPXPpKTc1maUmKeHF26mn
And this: 121rKKo6Qw8siuvyF5FL1g8AuFPk3WryM
And this: 142SmZ4KSh6ukcZhUxL7LByhQMvNav
And this: 121vvzaUR3BCNXDoSvr2yzp41f7ruPTJ6
And this: 1gkFfxHuiss2jfRmt4korjYwWgvW
And this: 19piArY5stiEMnGgFihXNgYyNbY
And this: 175Hk926jLiPYbe9Jac6maa
And this: 12M6KZcTQiDeAxMS9gjm36
This too: 1TovuQNX1rxGh5znF2kj6axa
And this: 1TGT26XM4SxWKfLjoCiFEHWT
EDIT: And this: KxsKrcLBQhhwHP1hdXfxGjyaJD7ohqeNDEvZJvYkXvfrnyVenFXX
KxqPaZqwvTQfXKvFmMHzWCLXjCfxpav5AihxqW9iQu7hVGAHu4Sd
5JBx2Gi4xBAusrRQB9LYDt9pr5jR2YSP86wpsndHB58UNPZD2b7
KxJHfrJiBoVzfrFFVbFubQfdJSEP99nggUG3GJZdi6BVakRgMkot
5J4TtPwvLkh6P3YhTnKseoUSz4gYJLq3say49e9RfkhiSvJkLWj
KxJHCcNKrGZUyTedbYyV9DTMnjgEFKJBCcECXcwdmaDNPXVL7UiA
5JBUtWGWQ8ozAi6Wt6mAW8aH2urLAC2RbrKEtyYykeuaXo5FLGD
13wCMKP8aeXjpWWANkCcpwQccyybx1Sv8n
15PpN93pUu3DSftfC9Sz2jMKAWRUotm11h
Yeah, nope.......
Is it possible to generate a public key from a ECDSA coordinates pair?
As there is only one blue dot, it could be a separator...
As there is only one blue dot, it could be a separator...
Yet another: 5JBx2Gi4tWuzZAVw9FpKzWyeJfPSJBf95EJAbfgfHgUL4RQJ6GB
Got another: KxqPaZqwuKHprZVkzZvfdn4wf9dXMYf6NrcTHZGYp3NymoFZ8uRo
Also empty
Also empty
I have managed to extract the following key: 5JBWatUuGLcKwTkhG2ejXmdPoV9idq2XqztCRQGi6y5cqEHoTeh
which corresponds to the following address: 1N5BmwhL8o9GVXtZXqZEUST7N5UMpJKrFn
which is 0 balance
The following address also popped up: 15PpMsJnw7eNznH7wH1H2oSi6Sj9Wq1hyB
Also 0 balance but interesting hash
which corresponds to the following address: 1N5BmwhL8o9GVXtZXqZEUST7N5UMpJKrFn
which is 0 balance
The following address also popped up: 15PpMsJnw7eNznH7wH1H2oSi6Sj9Wq1hyB
Also 0 balance but interesting hash
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
The same as above broken in lines as they appear.
Notice the () on line 8 it's because I am unable to determine if it's green or not.
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
The same as above broken in lines as they appear.
Notice the () on line 8 it's because I am unable to determine if it's green or not.
0101011111101011010101001010111101011101110000011010010010111111100110101010111 1111100010001101110001110101100011011001111001001101001101100101011011010100011 1010011110110110010010101000111011110101011100000111100111011010100011100010101 1110011110111100001101100000100111110111110111001110011111000011100111010100010 1110011110111010101111101101110110000010110101011100001010001010011111011011010 10010101110010
The green and red dots.
Green = 0
Red = 1
I made green 0 because the transaction starts with 0 and it's the first dot.
The green and red dots.
Green = 0
Red = 1
I made green 0 because the transaction starts with 0 and it's the first dot.
Guys, line 8,3 I think that is a blue (turquoise) dot not green.
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