Topic: Bitcoin Puzzle ... Free money to the first to solve it. - page 2. (Read 4341 times)

you were close to what? because you knew the PK started with a K and you knew that the next letter was a y?

How would anyone would have been close? Even if you figured out in the video he was telling us which position in the unscrambled key the characters that needed to be unscrambled were you still would have to scramble those characters (which have 720 possible combonations) lol.

Oh shit i was that close goddamn it i knew it... i got the first 3 letters right i didn't knew the 33 in the cherry is a really a clue because you said it wasn't part of the clue so i disregard that part damn...

My first 3 letters was right KYM the obvious was k i got the y because was testing the random compress private keys from the bitaddress.org i noticed that the y was very frequent to appear than w x and z and also, i noticed too that in that i randomly generated private keys that letters is very frequent than numbers so i took out the 5. Anyway i wasn't finish yet on the puzzle but the video was taken down.

Okay so a complete newbie should have been able to decode the clues in the video, unscramble the first 2 characters, and still have to GUESS the order of the remaining 6??? That's not a solvable puzzle, you're just retarded. 720 possible solutions do not count as a puzzle. I have so many questions now and don't even know where to start ...

Where is the 45 in the video?
How were we supposed to know the order of the remaining 6? Just try all 720 possibilities??

That, in my opinion, is absolutely not a puzzle, it's a guessing game and thank god that the puzzle was taken down because I would have wasted so much time, on a puzzle that is totally unsolvable. Even if you figure out the characters that need to be unscrambled, I still am left with 720 combinations to try. Dumb.

Well I hope you all are happy now.

Well, you know that not everybody is nice over the internet and a few trolls are just enough to spoil any fun.
You can let them win or you can go on. I'd prefer the second option since although I was (very) far from the result, it was still fun.
Just.. yeah, I'm not a newbie and I'm the example that not only newbies will try to grab the prize.

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Throughout the video you heard and saw the scrambled characters. Quite a few people were on the right path. 1,2,3,10,33,45 and the last character.

The total scrambled characters for this puzzle was 8. Now before the wankers start to cry because it was like 40,320 different variations. It was also a little lesson in it. Our group conversation was the friend of the new user or anyone unfamiliar with compressed key formatting. Experienced user had a leg up on the first 2 characters.

The lesson here is, compressed keys currently start with K or L. Since this key did not have a L, we know it started with K. (now 7 scrambled characters) The following character would have to be an x, y or z (second lesson) and once you had the correct scrambled characters, process of elimination says its has to be y (an x or z was not scrambled) Now only 6 characters - 720 variations.

My issue is, user henkster has said he will be reporting my account to have it banned. Hes a true wankster. So, I guess I have to start from scratch. I will take this experience and grow from it. The unfortunate part is, new users will have no idea how to participate without instructional videos showing how to use bitcoin software. So, I guess Ill just be instructing them to find their own source on the internet. AND that was really the goal here. Showing new users Bitcoin isn't as hard as they heard it was. Yet, the lesson a few have commented to me is, I knew Bitcoin was a scam. Great job kid, great job :-)

To anyone who doesn't use or know how to use PGP, I recommend googling how to use it. Install it on your device. It is so handy for electronically securing everything text related.

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Thanks to everyone who showed support and words of encouragement. Sorry it ended this way. Ill let you when Im back
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think of this as a positive experience. next time you create a video you have this experience so you make videos that are more resilient to take downs by Youtube team.
additionally since the puzzle is over you should now explain how to solve the puzzle here so that people could see the level of it and whether it was designed well or not or even if it was solvable.

I’m not sure where the overthinking line is. The Op suggested going to bitcoin.org to learn about bitcoin.
He also showed how to create mnemonic seeds in his videos and how would you know what a compressed WIF is and that it must begin with a K or L. It’s not clear to me where to draw that line.

But you're over thinking it, as op said.  This puzzle was geared towards "newbs"     
i was on exact same thinking path as you. Which was "overthinking" it
So i guess someone not knowing anything about BTC woulda guessed it  per op

it said Video is unavailable

My thoughts were:
- First, second, third and last characters are the scrambled ones (may be also 33rd?)
- First one is K
- Second one is either x,y or z

Well i watched the video a couple of times already before it was taken down and i noticed this on his video and since OP said cherry and 33 has nothing to do about the puzzle i'll list the one i noticed:

1. His head was looking to right direction before he counts 1-3
2. When he was in number 2 i noticed that his right hand was moving right to left as he talking about sweeping the private key.
3. his eyes was looking down to the left as he say bitcoin.org.
4. His head was looking to the left direction before saying the fourth or last tip.
5. his clothes color change from sky blue to teal.

I don't know if the cornfield before he was on car was clue or not anyway, but i saw the comments section that someone also noticed the direction of his head in each cut and OP said he was right path so, i guess that the car part has some clues from it.

Too bad the video was down i hope OP can make more puzzles or repost the video so, that we can continue the puzzle or start another puzzle...

This copyright reporting stuff is getting stupid and silly!
And I also don't understand frustrated sick person who reported it...  

You can also reupload video on some blockchain based platforms like LBRY, Bittubers, Dtube...
Don't give up because of one lowlife

I think he should be given time to figure out what to do. He spent a lot of time putting this together so I would vote to be patient.

I'll share my ideas on this puzzle for what it is worth.

1. The OP kept conflating the raw 32 byte hex code with the WIF compressed format. His instructional videos showed said that the 32 byte private key contained the numbers 0-9 ans A-Z case insensitive.
This is not the case for the raw format 0-9a-f or the WIF base58 format with missing letters and number O,0,I,l.
In any case, I thought he might be using a mnemonic from the BIP39 wordlist. Here are some of the words that I found in the order presented in the video,
Episode, puzzle, (bright or sunny---from sunglasses), (party or festival), cherry(bomb), advice( from 33), little, corn, field, old, country, boy, travel, security, common, sense.
I found several valid private keys from this list but not the correct one. Maybe you can find it.

2. The OP said that all the characters were not scrambled. With that info, I looked for a way to slice the scrambled characters into blocks of characters. My first given is that the unscrambled compressed WIF key will start with a 'K' followed by either 'x', 'y' or 'z'. I would slice the scrambled key to expose those letters so they could pair with the 'K'. The way I determined how to slice was using the same words I used in the mnemonic approach-- slicing by the length of the word. I found several ways to slice this up, but nothing that would give me a valid key.

Edit : I forgot to mention that one block would have 33 characters unchanged from the scrambled key

Do these approaches look promising? I am curious too how this was to be solved:)

AndThen

I feel sad because the quiz video has been taken down by a jealous user here. I hope that you will create new quiz videos soon because it will make the whole forum hotter. And there are so many people here with me who always support you because of the challenge you create for everyone to join.

I also agree with this. Would love to see what was I missing.

im with O4karitO,
tell us about yours clues, that would have solved the scrambled PK,
im sure everybody that tried will remember seeing them,
then we can establish if you were legit or just after subs

The right thing to do would be to post the solution so that all people could see that it was legit.

SO it appears it is user henkster, here on BCT, that reported the puzzle.  He commented on this thread earlier. Syaing it was a sham and unsolvable and n\bla bla bla ... He just deleted the is comment. He's upset I have posted his email in this thread. Which I didnt intend to do, but I cant remove it now, Its been quoted. Its obviously a secondary account for someone here.

Anyways, thank this user for removing the puzzle.

Funs over for everyone. NOT my fault or strike IMO. Video down so is the prize. Hows that fair to new users if they cant view the puzzle to win?

Ill regroup and return :-)