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Topic: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over - page 8. (Read 99512 times)

newbie
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Edit: What would you do when you had won the price? I would pay my tuition fee and the rest would go to the others Smiley

Arg and myself would have split the coins. 1.75BTC each. My load would have gone into a new graphics card and the leftovers (considering it's not that much anyway) would have been split between a few of the solves. Without them, I'd have probably been many days behind. I'm interested in hearing what everyone else would do with the BTC.
member
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from OP

the prize awaits you
the final palindrome is key
once small is now tall

so change lowercase to uppercase?
only palindrome i can think of is WOW , is there any others?

There you go haploid23

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legendary
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Can someone tell me the thread page of the the clue right before this got solved? This thread progresses way too fast, and I do check up on it but I don't fully read all 114 pages.
legendary
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#Free market
Congratulations to  Gatekeeper   Grin Grin
sr. member
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Gatekeeper or not, if the winner shared his/her prize, then it's a proof of respect and humblity. I take off my hat to him/her...
Agreed. I have talked with him and I understand and agree with his actions. I apologize if I acted impolite or rude.

Wow thats really nice from Gatekeeper. I hope everyone who helped hard (including me? Smiley )get a share of the pie for having sleepless nights =)
I haven't received anything, just to be clear, and I don't mind, at all. I was useless at the end and other people have helped a lot more then I did, so they deserve it more then I do.

Theres no need to stress him Tongue

Edit: What would you do when you had won the price? I would pay my tuition fee and the rest would go to the others Smiley


maybe i would have taken the half and put the other half in a new wallet, giving the private key in pices to all other players (everyone gets another pice of the pkey)... and let them solve and share it by them selfes Wink

...and the show goes on one extra round Wink
sr. member
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Well that was fun, well done to everyone that solved stuff and of course congrats to the winner!
Although I didn't really solve anything, I was very close at the end and learnt a lot - I'll be looking out for more puzzles like this (might even make one myself, gonna need to find something else to do with my spare time now anyway  Grin)

Thanks for a devilish puzzle OP!

someone how is good in doing puzzles, some empty wallet and everyone how whant to play pay
to that wallet, at the end "the winner(s) takes it all" Wink
legendary
Activity: 1188
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Well that was fun, well done to everyone that solved stuff and of course congrats to the winner!
Although I didn't really solve anything, I was very close at the end and learnt a lot - I'll be looking out for more puzzles like this (might even make one myself, gonna need to find something else to do with my spare time now anyway  Grin)

Thanks for a devilish puzzle OP!
copper member
Activity: 3948
Merit: 2201
Verified awesomeness ✔
Theres no need to stress him Tongue
That wasn't my intention... I am sorry if it seemed that way.
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
Gatekeeper or not, if the winner shared his/her prize, then it's a proof of respect and humblity. I take off my hat to him/her...
Agreed. I have talked with him and I understand and agree with his actions. I apologize if I acted impolite or rude.

Wow thats really nice from Gatekeeper. I hope everyone who helped hard (including me? Smiley )get a share of the pie for having sleepless nights =)
I haven't received anything, just to be clear, and I don't mind, at all. I was useless at the end and other people have helped a lot more then I did, so they deserve it more then I do.

Theres no need to stress him Tongue

Edit: What would you do when you had won the price? I would pay my tuition fee and the rest would go to the others Smiley
copper member
Activity: 3948
Merit: 2201
Verified awesomeness ✔
Gatekeeper or not, if the winner shared his/her prize, then it's a proof of respect and humblity. I take off my hat to him/her...
Agreed. I have talked with him and I understand and agree with his actions. I apologize if I acted impolite or rude.

Wow thats really nice from Gatekeeper. I hope everyone who helped hard (including me? Smiley )get a share of the pie for having sleepless nights =)
I haven't received anything, just to be clear, and I don't mind, at all. I was useless at the end and other people have helped a lot more then I did, so they deserve it more then I do.
member
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
Gatekeeper or not, if the winner shared his/her prize, then it's a proof of respect and humblity. I take off my hat to him/her...
Agreed. I have talked with him and I understand and agree with his actions. I apologize if I acted impolite or rude.

Wow thats really nice from Gatekeeper. I hope everyone who helped hard (including me? Smiley )get a share of the pie for having sleepless nights =)
hero member
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Nope..
Strange what I notice now.  The forum topic listing for this thread shows 112 pages, yet we're on 113.  The awakening!!!!
hero member
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Nope..
I have a new, profound respect for art.  And  coin_artist is hot!  If only I were a young man again...  (My mind would be sharper).
hero member
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Gatekeeper be like:
copper member
Activity: 3948
Merit: 2201
Verified awesomeness ✔
Gatekeeper or not, if the winner shared his/her prize, then it's a proof of respect and humblity. I take off my hat to him/her...
Agreed. I have talked with him and I understand and agree with his actions. I apologize if I acted impolite or rude.
sr. member
Activity: 345
Merit: 500
Just to confirm that I've received the 0.1 BTC tip. So much about all those who talked dirty about the solver, I would like to see if they would share the part of the winnings with others.

Thanks, Gatekeeper.
That is pretty honorable, I totally agree. However, I find it odd that he hasn't posted anything on here yet. So many people helped him out, but he hasn't thanked anyone yet.
Gatekeeper or not, if the winner shared his/her prize, then it's a proof of respect and humblity. I take off my hat to him/her...
newbie
Activity: 22
Merit: 0
Did I hear tips going around?

If anyone found my posts helpful, any of these addresses I used to beg for hints would do...

1P1easednix73qDimELQFPWwXg6NrDv3Yz
1GiveRqozxuYDhfSkyd71TvGehoZVw4tQd
1hintKVc56csvsngEY1Qz1sgJeuspQC3o

1whatXcQA34sEVhfvJsrncVHnWrHhnEQA
1meanPuUfQACE6vLpLPheNPF5ttJMpemo
1redCUdsjuY8wFkzWRS2yBW6GYB4bY7sE
1andLjDxqPmwNcCVNz9aC3tGL9Rfg5vVp
1grnVQA6GeiSSKHYzpBuXUug1p4XEfDAb

Ps. To be honest, I probably would not have shared the prize with anyone, as the rules in original post were "winner keeps all", so whoever got the coins rightfully deserve them.

I would love to see more of these puzzles by OP, or by anyone else! I would love to design one, but I'm afraid I would leave behind too many careless mistakes and there's no way I could come up with such a exuberant prize.
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
That is pretty honorable, I totally agree. However, I find it odd that he hasn't posted anything on here yet. So many people helped him out, but he hasn't thanked anyone yet.

He faced quite a lot of backlash in this thread. I couldn't say I would post after all that. Would everyone have flipped out if it was just some empty wallet? Everyone here could be BTC millionaires or dirt broke, is it possible that GK earned that money through hard work? We all played the same game. It could have easily been someone who's never posted on the forum and just swooped in at the last second with a solve.

Basically, all I'm saying is someone won. We all knew that was going to happen. We all wanted it to be ourselves, who wouldn't? Instead of grumbling, lets go do something productive (finally!).

-----

So, I was clearing up after this project and found I had 40 docs open with snippets of info, pieces decoded, 237 browser tabs, two collab conversations and way too many pieces of paper with notes and possible solves. I even dedicated one of my whiteboards to shifting XOR references. And that's after clearing up.

Aren't you glad I didn't just flood this thread with my brain dump?

http://i.imgur.com/uEKrkp7.png

http://i.imgur.com/ggjkjIa.jpg

Time to archive all that (yep, I'm that type of person) and see what else I can do to avoid working for actual money.
newbie
Activity: 14
Merit: 0
Just to confirm that I've received the 0.1 BTC tip. So much about all those who talked dirty about the solver, I would like to see if they would share the part of the winnings with others.

Thanks, Gatekeeper.
That is pretty honorable, I totally agree. However, I find it odd that he hasn't posted anything on here yet. So many people helped him out, but he hasn't thanked anyone yet.
I can understand why he wouldn't want to post anything here with the hostility that has already been displayed in this thread.

Overall with this entire adventure I'm satisfied with the experience. After brushing off yesterday's disappointment I can now enjoy the better moments that I had throughout this entire thing. I haven't done anything like this before but it was quite fun and exciting collaborating and sharing information with everyone to work towards our common goal. There was also nothing better than solving a stage and finally getting the damn passwords right for the next layer .7z. The minecraft part was pretty fun as well and it's too bad those that didn't have the game couldn't partake.
copper member
Activity: 3948
Merit: 2201
Verified awesomeness ✔
Just to confirm that I've received the 0.1 BTC tip. So much about all those who talked dirty about the solver, I would like to see if they would share the part of the winnings with others.

Thanks, Gatekeeper.
That is pretty honorable, I totally agree. However, I find it odd that he hasn't posted anything on here yet. So many people helped him out, but he hasn't thanked anyone yet.
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