Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 119. (Read 99514 times)
This the most awesome thing I have ever seen. I hope someone finds out the secret.
Ok so I spent a while on this - this is the OP's first post. Could it be for real, or is it just art?
It's certainly a challenge!
It's certainly a challenge!
It's for real.
I have played games like this before.
Quite fun, but like one of the commandments say: Prepare for sleepless nights and unproductive days.....
Ok so I spent a while on this - this is the OP's first post. Could it be for real, or is it just art?
It's certainly a challenge!
It's certainly a challenge!
Forget the Btc, I'll take the guy on the left 
They look both cute
source: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/dark-wallet/
Well BTT:
A new TX appeared while I slept
https://blockchain.info/tx/e458b939817056c726744bd3e9b2668d1ae70bc51b097865ee857bdd2646d900
It has the same amount of BTC as the 2nd TX 0.1010101 BTC and its coming from 1AskcEemXLiwStjvHEXGkLSDEWK6CEx9sd
1AskcEem ? Maybe we ought to ask ceem?
But sadly this is all I found is a ucked up pdf that only shows ceem in googlescache.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KubJpzXplTAJ:http://www.bitcoin42.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/press-kit-english.pdf%2Bceem+bitcoin&hl=en-DE&gbv=1&&ct=clnk
The address might as well be random or 1Ask is the hint?
Anyway the pattern of the transaction is more important IMHO. It hints towards binary again. So the red and green dots are binary data and the yellow and blue dots represent some sort of operation. I went along that road yesterday but came up with nothing. The number of bits is strange for it to be a private key (256 bit length). Well I did some things anyway
I tried yellow = ADD, blue = MUL, BLU= DIV
I came up with these operations because yellow is between red and green on the RGB spectrum
results are in the middle, just because
This resulted in nothing btw, but something that might be another address. Its empty though.
Code:
101010000001 = 2689
+01001 = 9
+010101 = 21
+101010000101000100011111001 = 88246521
+0110101011111 = 3423
+11 = 3
+001 = 1
+10 = 2
+1 = 1
+101010000 = 336
++00001110111001000 = 7624
+1 = 1
+1100010101100010100111000011011001011001001101010101101 = 27779496739117741
+10111000 = 184
+1011 = 11
+0 = 0
+000 = 0
+100100 = 36
+11011010101110001000010101 = 57336341
+0001111 = 15
+10000110 = 134
+001 = 1
+0 = 0
+01010 = 10
+11100011101010000110000100001111001001 = 244445627337
=================================================================================
1100010101100011000011100001101111100101000001000101001 = 27779741330342441
MUL = 27779741330342441 * 976412029 = 27124473597454822081622789
= 1dQdPgy7t4BFZrcc9vo6L in base58check
= 6ZhXtndRJRsV1nL in base58
DIV = 27779741330342441 / 976412029 = 28450838.893078038
= 1EdYnSf96SxzWSjt2tJ9Dk65AbKxMd8 in base58check (valid address?)
= 35p4xA7JkAtLikBSwuKs32U2j in base58
11110 = 30
+110000 = 48
+0100000 = 32
+10001100011 = 1123
+++000 = 0
+00111100011000101 = 30917
+0111010001100001000101010000010 = 976259714
+0100010 = 34
+01 = 1
+11110100101010 = 15658
+00 = 0
+11110101110110 = 15734
+1100 = 12
+0001001 = 9
+0010101101010001101 = 88717
===============================================================================
= 976412029
btw 27779741330342441^976412029 takes at least several minutes on my calc, so I asked wolfram alpha
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=27779741330342441^976412029
and well the result is way to big as expected.
Wolfram alpha also confirmed that neither
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=976412029
nor
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=27779741330342441
are primes.
Forget the Btc, I'll take the guy on the left
Crap. I didn't find any prime numbers there.
Did anybody find prime numbers in the "riddle"?
Did anybody find prime numbers in the "riddle"?
So did anybody manage to get the Tor link yet?
?
Can I have it?
?Can I have it?
tor link?
Have you not played Cicada games before?
Trust me, the data will lead to a tor link which will guide you for the next step.
I could be wrong but I doubt it.....
Nope, first time and I am all out of ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301
This has roped me in today too, but I'm hitting a dead end. Clearly I'm no Hiro Protagonist. Here are some notes in case it helps someone.
Since the address was given in a fairly direct way (1HXU...), my first thought was that the private key is given in WIF/base58 format somehow using letters and numbers in the picture. However, there's evidence against this. There are characters O (capital o) and I (capital i) which do not belong in base58. A WIF private key would start with 5 and, if I'm not mistaken, would continue with H, J or K, and be 51 characters total. There are two fives in the picture but neither is near an H, J or K. One of the 5s is near a small h and a small k, so I considered reversing the capital and small letters (unless it leads to a letter which is not a base58 character). Doing this makes it possible to get started with something that might be a WIF private key (e.g., 5KAH...), but at that point it feels like I'm grasping at straws to force there to be a WIF there.
I'm using some lisp code to test whether something is a private key. It's my implementation of bip0032:
https://github.com/kronarev/bip0032sbcl
It doesn't actually have a function to check if a string is a proper WIF key, but this can be easily defined after loading the relevant files:
I also looked at the sources of the jpg itself and the file she linked to as being relevant. (It said view source on all files.) I didn't find anything though. No onion links and nothing that said "Hey, here's the private key." It's of course possible I missed something. I suspect there must be something in the source.
I haven't tried taking colors into account. Good luck everyone.
Since the address was given in a fairly direct way (1HXU...), my first thought was that the private key is given in WIF/base58 format somehow using letters and numbers in the picture. However, there's evidence against this. There are characters O (capital o) and I (capital i) which do not belong in base58. A WIF private key would start with 5 and, if I'm not mistaken, would continue with H, J or K, and be 51 characters total. There are two fives in the picture but neither is near an H, J or K. One of the 5s is near a small h and a small k, so I considered reversing the capital and small letters (unless it leads to a letter which is not a base58 character). Doing this makes it possible to get started with something that might be a WIF private key (e.g., 5KAH...), but at that point it feels like I'm grasping at straws to force there to be a WIF there.
I'm using some lisp code to test whether something is a private key. It's my implementation of bip0032:
https://github.com/kronarev/bip0032sbcl
It doesn't actually have a function to check if a string is a proper WIF key, but this can be easily defined after loading the relevant files:
Code:
(load "config")
(load "secp256k1")
(load "hdw")
(defun checkwif (w) (let ((x (frombase58 w))) (and (= (ash x -288) 128) (let* ((k1 (ash x -32)) (sh1 (sha256num k1 33)) (sh2 (sha256num sh1 32)) (sh24 (ash sh2 -224))) (= sh24 (logand x #xFFFFFFFF))))))
I also looked at the sources of the jpg itself and the file she linked to as being relevant. (It said view source on all files.) I didn't find anything though. No onion links and nothing that said "Hey, here's the private key." It's of course possible I missed something. I suspect there must be something in the source.
I haven't tried taking colors into account. Good luck everyone.
So did anybody manage to get the Tor link yet??
Can I have it?
?Can I have it?
tor link?
Have you not played Cicada games before?
Trust me, the data will lead to a tor link which will guide you for the next step.
I could be wrong but I doubt it.....
Nope, first time and I am all out of ideas.
So did anybody manage to get the Tor link yet??
Can I have it?
?Can I have it?
tor link?
Have you not played Cicada games before?
Trust me, the data will lead to a tor link which will guide you for the next step.
I could be wrong but I doubt it.....
So did anybody manage to get the Tor link yet??
Can I have it?
?Can I have it?
tor link?
So did anybody manage to get the Tor link yet??
Can I have it?
?Can I have it?
Guys, I think the dots is morse code.
Green for dash
Red for dot
EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?
Green for dash
Red for dot
EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?
I dont think so, the codes are to long (>5) and what would yellow and blue be?
The blue dot is on 12,6 btw
I think that's it.
We are looking for a key-word or phrase to outguess the data out of the image.
It could be chapter 12, verse 6?
?From where don't know yet.....
Guys, I think the dots is morse code.
Green for dash
Red for dot
EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?
Green for dash
Red for dot
EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?
I dont think so, the codes are to long (>5) and what would yellow and blue be?
The blue dot is on 12,6 btw
Guys, I think the dots is morse code.
Green for dash
Red for dot
EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?
Green for dash
Red for dot
EDIT: Anybody better than me on morse code that can confirm my suspicion?
@shorena I think we should be looking for a key-phrase to outguess the image
So far I have been unsuccessful
EDIT: Also the number of characters between one 5 and the other are exactly 51, but none of the combinations work as a private key
So far I have been unsuccessful
EDIT: Also the number of characters between one 5 and the other are exactly 51, but none of the combinations work as a private key
IMHO Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson along with the all seeing eye refer to the dark wallet.
I even found a 12 word seed in the code.
If you take the part of the code in front of the address
and convert it to poetry [1] you get
But the darkwallet that gets restored from that seed is empty.
I also tried several parts of the code and shortened them to get a 12 word seed. Ill just pasta the results here, none got me closer obviously
I think the important questions are:
- whats the meaning of the yellow dots
- whats the meaning of the blue dot
the green and red dots can be interpreted as binary data. But there are to many of them to make it a valid private key.
this is the data from the dots
yellow = linebreak, blue = #, green = 1, red = 0
here is the raw data ignoring yellow and blue dots:
Did an XOR because we cant know whether red is 1 or green.
I also tried to generated several private keys from various 32 byte sections of these. Nope none are the solution.
Also this representation:
1 = green, 2 = red, 3 = yellow, 4 = blue linebreak = linebreak
I assume the key is somewhere in the binary data OR there is a 12 word code in there somewhere that will restore a darkwallet with the private key.
Maybe yellow is red + green? idk.
One more dump of data
LX refers to line X. After -> is the "text" of that line, below are the colors coded with:
the spaces represent a break between the colored dots.
Row 11 from the left has only red dots. Maybe thats a hint?
[1] http://brainwallet.org/#converter
[ ] link to the address because some are lazy:
https://blockchain.info/address/1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra
I need to eat I am at this since I woke up.
I even found a 12 word seed in the code.
If you take the part of the code in front of the address
Code:
S7ovY8tcakz3CmiuN2rh5
Code:
curl poetry crystal war bus possibly carve meant soar okay emotion joy
But the darkwallet that gets restored from that seed is empty.
I also tried several parts of the code and shortened them to get a 12 word seed. Ill just pasta the results here, none got me closer obviously
Code:
S7ovY8tcakz3CmiuN2rh5
curl poetry crystal war bus possibly carve meant soar okay emotion joy
OP4iDcIxbMy2nLi3
driver reach crowd vast tender flow seven stone breast math planet pass
1nmtHdEhirLbwb
praise throughout throughout bee daddy language coat keep grew dinner yeah sting
I think the important questions are:
- whats the meaning of the yellow dots
- whats the meaning of the blue dot
the green and red dots can be interpreted as binary data. But there are to many of them to make it a valid private key.
this is the data from the dots
Code:
101010000001
01001
010101
101010000101000100011111001
0110101011111
11
001
10
1
101010000
00001110111001000
1
110001010110001010011100001101100101100100110101010101
10111000
1011
0
000
100100
11011010101110001000010101
0001111
10000110
001
0
01010
11100011101010000110000100001111001001#11110
110000
0100000
10001100011
000
00111100011000101
0111010001100001000101010000010
0100010
01
11110100101010
00
1111
0101110110
1100
0001001
0010101101010001101
yellow = linebreak, blue = #, green = 1, red = 0
here is the raw data ignoring yellow and blue dots:
Code:
101010000001010010101011010100001010001000111110010110101011111110011011010100000000111011100100011100010101100010100111000011011001011001001101010101011011100010110000100100110110101011100010000101010001111100001100010010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110001010111010001100001000101010000010010001001111101001010100011110101110110110000010010010101101010001101
XOR
010101111110101101010100101011110101110111000001101001010100000001100100101011111111000100011011100011101010011101011000111100100110100110110010101010100100011101001111011011001001010100011101111010101110000011110011101101010001110001010111100111101111000011011000001001111101111101110011100111110000111001110101000101110011110111010101111101101110110000010110101011100001010001001001111101101101010010101110010
Did an XOR because we cant know whether red is 1 or green.
I also tried to generated several private keys from various 32 byte sections of these. Nope none are the solution.
Code:
last 32
5KKGuwcNtAYYPEYnZHi1yugSLpfLMp8UvUAs1N82ARHfJNWWpPJ
1PFRPPr7ZGPFmz4c7ecpDEVwMZiHqyYiqF
1st y:
010010101011010100001010001000111110010110101011111110011011010100000000111011100100011100010101100010100111000011011001011001001101010101011011100010110000100100110110101011100010000101010001111100001100010010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110001010111010001100001000101010000010010001001111101001010100011110101110110110000010010010101101010001101
5JPBsn9k8rate2qUFCaWBHe5jPMik52qF9MiT9r3yaaEzRjKv2Y
1NSF2A4N9ngmaT9tNyfUxp6v5RU6zMUQo7
XOR:
101101010100101011110101110111000001101001010100000001100100101011111111000100011011100011101010011101011000111100100110100110110010101010100100011101001111011011001001010100011101111010101110000011110011101101010001110001010111100111101111000011011000001001111101111101110011100111110000111001110101000101110011110111010101111101101110110000010110101011100001010001001001111101101101010010101110010
5KC8TpCTsVEK1oWnjmwHx8SwcvuqKuYCz7qxFLwLVq9RqNqhfkR
14GcpVs6pjAqhPBAjaLLzWVD3ekrF7tf9x
1010100000010100101010110101000010100010001111100101101010111111100110110101000000001110111001000111000101011000101001110000110110010110010011010101010110111000101100001001001101101010111000100001010100011111000011000100101011100011101010000110000100001111
5K6JyhbJ6LvLySS8CUKLdDJ8RP8e3sPp36idK73x8eHf8oJmuvu
13yyQ6mFSn59JgDQozD6FkitjT3dR7cgtk
after 32. y:
0010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110001010111010001100001000101010000010010001001111101001010100011110101110110110000010010010101101010001101
SeavBbLkcdTfA1hxN5rZk7NSB2H1vwvWDU7eXphc5
5chpXe7UDWvwv1H2BSN7kZr5Nxh1AfTdckLbBvaeS
no valid key :(
after addr:
0110101011111110011011010100000000111011100100011100010101100010100111000011011001011001001101010101011011100010110000100100110110101011100010000101010001111100001100010010101110001110101000011000010000111100100111110110000010000010001100011000001111000110
5JdQbWwGxKHQCpX1J6ZdDJ4bmacgoc1UnadcV5HLVfUMT45eZZk
1ECayjnPSe9Qf5Ps1xtMaBzTaNmqWoUaci
0000010100101010110101000010100010001111100101101010111111100110110101000000001110111001000111000101011000101001110000110110010110010011010101010110111000101100001001001101101010111000100001010100011111000011000100101011100011101010000110000100001111001001
5HrZaCf1GFdLKC7uCN37R7spkoWvgVNzrLrRRUPDcPBRU2qBGoM
164dNuibfyJmiM4Cu4ZeXEGBtDm6wgF87T
Also this representation:
Code:
1212122222213212213212121
31212122221212221222111112
21321121212111113113221312313
121212222332222111211122122231
311222121211222121221112222112112
212112212211212121211213
1211122231211323222312212
23112112121211122212222121213
2221111312222112322132321
2123111222111212122
2211222212222111122
122141111231122223
212222231222112
22113332223221111
22211222121321112122
21122221222121212
222212321222123
2131111212212
121232231111
21211121123
1122322212
2132212121
121212221121
1 = green, 2 = red, 3 = yellow, 4 = blue linebreak = linebreak
I assume the key is somewhere in the binary data OR there is a 12 word code in there somewhere that will restore a darkwallet with the private key.
Maybe yellow is red + green? idk.
One more dump of data
Code:
L1:
-> S7ovY8tcakz
1212 1 2222 221 3 2122 13 21212 1
L2:
-> 3CmiuN2rh5
3 121 2 1 222 2 12122 2 1 222111 112
L3:
-> 1HXUobw
21 3 21121 21211 11131 13221 31 2313
L4:
-> cB1qcG
12121 22 22332 22211121 1 122122 231
L5:
-> Drgh
311 2221212112221 21 2211122221 12112
L6:
-> uh42HDdJdJvr
2 12 1 1 2212 21 12 1212 121 1213
L7:
-> JUEraOP4iDc
12 11 12 2 2 31 211 32 3 222 3122 12
L8:
-> IxbMy2n
231 12 11 2 121211122212222 121 21 3
L9:
-> Li31
22211113 122 22112 322 1323 21
L10:
-> nmtH
21231 11222 1 1121212 2
L11:
-> dEh
22 112222122221 111 22
L12:
-> irLb
122141111 23 1122 223
L13:
-> wb5yufe
2 12222 23 12 2 2112
L14:
-> 3TCSv
2211 3 33222 3 2211 1 1
L15:
-> jwo
222 11222121 3211 121 22
L16:
-> AUrk9
2 11222 212 2 21212 1 2
L17:
-> FzRe7a
222 2 123 21 222 1 23
L18:
-> eJ6
21 3111 1 2 12212
L19:
-> 2YT
12123 2 2311 1 1
L20:
-> O6A
21 211 12 1123
L21:
-> BDi
1 122 322212
L22:
-> Ft
2132 2 121 21
L23:
->
121212 221121
LX refers to line X. After -> is the "text" of that line, below are the colors coded with:
Code:
green = 1
red = 2
yellow = 3
blue = 4
the spaces represent a break between the colored dots.
Row 11 from the left has only red dots. Maybe thats a hint?
[1] http://brainwallet.org/#converter
[ ] link to the address because some are lazy:
https://blockchain.info/address/1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra
I need to eat I am at this since I woke up.
Who are they "Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson"
Google is your friend. And that picture is kinda freaky. Who drew it?
coin_artist maybe?
Can someone write the 10 commandments of ..... clearly?
(I couldn't even make out the title)
-Think around corners
-Don't brute force
-Become accustomed to sleepless nights and unproductive days
-Learn the rudiments of cryptology
-Don't feed the trolls
-Assist in-game characters when required
-Don't seek what lies behind the Curtain
-Don't hoard Solves [information wants to be free]
-Assist the uninitiated [as I'm doing now]
Thanks bro,
The 10 commandments of?
ARGs - got it
Who are they "Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson"
Google is your friend. And that picture is kinda freaky. Who drew it?
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