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Topic: DECRED New and Amazing Puzzle by @coin_artist et al. (Read 916 times)

hero member
Activity: 994
Merit: 513
Well, as long as the Decred is still in the wallet, it's still running Smiley

The way I took it, the solution is either

- the private key or

- the seed

of the address which holds the dough. And since I won't be able to solve it, here is what I've found so far:

The truly interesting thing is the tree in the background. If you zoom in, you notice these things:

- It consists of different distinguishable sections
- the sections are either brown, yellow or green
- the sections have either one, two or no small red stripes on them
- there are gears in the branches as well
- I have the feeling, that the cables don't play a big role in it, could be wrong, though

Now, the fact that there is no visible pattern in the way the different elements are located to each other, I strongly suspect this to be a code of some kind, consisting of the different sections and their properties. colour plus red lines gives nine possible combinations, if you'd somehow factor in the gears, you'd have 10.

What I struggle to find is
a) an order to put them in. The tree structure makes that very hard. You probably go clockwise, but how exactly do you count branches? Where do you start?
b) I'm not good at cracking basic replacement encryptions, but that's what it looks like.

Now, you guys have fun. If you happen to crack the code and think I had something to do with it, send some love my way Wink DsZfAtRU1SwLPunaLnPCebFfk4uhiA7jRSg

PS.: Two things I decided to ignore for now, but may actually be critical:

- The shape of the keys at the knees of the figure look like letters of some kind, either "real" letters that are very well ofuscated or some fantasy language, like the dragon language or whathaveyou. Not my field of expertise.

- I think some connecting pins of the sections of the tree have different colours as well. But it's so small and irregular, that it may be nothing.
legendary
Activity: 1498
Merit: 1000
is it still pending?
legendary
Activity: 1981
Merit: 1039
that countdown to the coinbase presentation  Cool
sr. member
Activity: 406
Merit: 250
Wow cool prize! though I feel  I'm not smarter enough to solve the complicated puzzle.   
legendary
Activity: 2184
Merit: 1028
#mitandopelomundo
The prize is about $1500 at this time

The puzzle is here: https://decred.org/januspuzzle/

"A tree that does not bend will inevitably break.  The repository unit is corrupt.  Begin."

https://twitter.com/decredproject/status/839204577920565248






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