Topic: Introducing the 310 BTC Bitcoin Challenge - page 5. (Read 20043 times)

Very interesting activity, I am ready to accept this challenge, I think this will become a topic that I will pay attention to every day, because I encountered this kind of challenge for the first time!

Hmmm, It seems this is not a "NEW" Puzzle...

Here is something I found from JAN 2018 about this same Address with the 310 BTC.
Following A few Commits, This has been going on for months!
Makes you wonder just how many Salty people there are by now 

https://github.com/glv2/bruteforce-salted-openssl/issues/11

We Shall continue the epic journey,
Into the vast Darkness of the unknown,
in search of our LIGHT...

Best regards,
BTC13371dPfKeHmfwVZmVVHrrPdbkYsUSxSVpBTC

Sorry everyone, but congratulations to me. I've solved the 310 BTC challenge!! Want to know how I did it? Gather around and have a seat - it's story time! You're favorite!

It's the hash of the first three hashes of the private keys created from the keywords "lyrics rhythm music" then converted into morse, and that converted into a binary string converted into decimals.
But first you have to unsalt the hex - of course, it's saltied. From there we derive the seed phrase of the rgb LBSs which are divisible by 8 and separate them from the GRN levels of the alpha layer. But you knew that. Some bright bright people in here.

Then you map those coordinates by placing the curves on the map into steganogrophosaurus decipherer software and placing the results from the original message over a map of Europe. This was deduced because it's obvious the creator is from Europe given his accent and his code name: Pip. His birthday is Oct 2 which makes him a Libra. (That's also why Pip said it could be partly solved on a train - think about it!)

If you align the map with the constellations from Oct 2, 2018 you get a direct path pointing to the constellations of the Libre. Giving us our next 12 word mnemonic 32byte bip. Then the key can easily be derived using the shift function of the word Bitcoin upside down backwards from the grid, extracted from the bezier ellipticals converted through the ascii to the salted binary blob, twisted then filtered with a stained glass mosaic in the forest multiplied by 16. You have to find your way to the coordinates.

It was in Bellarussia - of all places! Now that I have over 310 Bitcoin (don't even know how I solved this first amongst all these tech wizards and goddesses -see you aren't the only ones in the world who can have/win Bitcoin!), if you send me just 1 BTC, I will send you 10! BTC: 19jU6bzMkYi3hS2cDSMpuqmMKbRzm5pqUE Have an awesome day! Don't worry, I'm sure Pip will have other challenges to come. He has literally tens of thousands of Bitcoins and he's not afraid to share. Yes, he's not fond of charities, but I'm sure he likes you.

Don't fall for the lies of "crypto_jedi_ninja". If it's a joke, it's not funny.
Not only isn't funny, it's misleading!

when i readed all the post and replays of members, now i understind i am sure that i will never get the 310 BTC   

I think there is no end date.
But unless OP decides to pull out (as it has happened before - I saw such cases on reddit) I think it'll be solved pretty quickly, as you can see there are at least several groups of people trying to decode it and probably many other such groups are hidden, there is a lot of money to be won so expect fierce competition.

I found it on the first assignment. But it is already empty.
https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/address/1DeVCjUDvykHmf3TPn5JoBoikabXn3e7CN

Hint: https://imgur.com/a/OVcLilX

The use of the word bigger in this sentence gives away that the answer it's in the first option. Enthusiasm about the question and people's interest  makes people use words like "bigger" or other adjectives that tend to stay where the truth is in the sentence.

i will tend to believe that the 0.1 wallet answer has to do with the 0.2, 0.31 and 310 BTC wallet.

That means most probably the other 2 wallets 0.2 and 0.31 are also part of the the big answer.

Very curious about the final answer and about the difficulty of the last one... is there an end date? like one year or something?

I'll just leave this here

https://i.imgur.com/th0pqhg.jpg

I don't know if I'm on a track or not at all and I'm doing this as I can, but on the forums dealing with this puzzle I found nothing like this.

- On photoshop, since the original image by making a threshold in value 1 and de-zooming of the image I get this image that I call "A" with regular points
https://imgur.com/uJe9tET

- In the same way with a threshold at 255 I get "B" which reveals dots and the outline of the QR code at 0.1BTC
https://imgur.com/8P6hOTu

- By adding A + B + The original image I notice that the points appear in some cells of the image as well as on some of the curves of beziers. Moreover the points of A appear on black background and that of B on white cells -----> it is possible that I didn't reveal all the points which should appear on black or white background.
https://imgur.com/ntHB83M

- Always starting from the original image, doing Image / Settings / Equalize then a threshold to 255 and finally Zoom Out I isolate some points that appeared on B. I thus call this image "C"
https://imgur.com/p5CRL5G

- By making A + B - C and by putting colors in them, we can distinguish some kinds of regular grids intertwined
A in red
B in Blue that seems to have other grids to isolate
C in green
https://imgur.com/D627qSc

This last result makes me think of this puzzle in the same genre:
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@mmorsl/solution-of-the-bitcoin-crypto-puzzle-level-4-by-zden

I suppose that if we connect these points and grids with the Béziers curves we must obtain something. I don't know if it has something to do with the 0.2BTC wallet just discovered. For now I'm blocking
If it helps someone, don't forget me if you find something

Hi

I tried to pm you about some info I have decoded. But I got the following error:

User 'anbei22' has not chosen to allow messages from newbies. You should post in their relevant thread to remind them to enable this setting.

give me your contact info and we can get started

I won't even try to solve this as I'm an idiot (I could have enough money from crypto for few years but I sold instead hodling etc.) but I found this very interesting:
Wow man, these had to be hell of airdrops  
Best regards to my family, everyone involved and all good people
^^^ in case this topic is in TV  


Wow

Hey everyone - cybourgeoisie here (solver for LTC segwit puzzle, designer of an unsolved ETH puzzle).

We have a pretty robust puzzle solving community in the Neon District Discord, and we'd love to welcome anyone to it. The community of solvers includes Coin Artist, Zden, Cloverme, ARGSS and pretty much every solver and creator of the past few years.

Join us here: https://discord.gg/bTTWpDB

I am not super technically savvy so not sure if I can solve this puzzle.  But I suspect there are things in plain site on the image to lead people astray and it may be perhaps right under our eyes.  Trying to determine what that might be.

It may be gathered from morse code, a binary string, or perhaps converting morse into a binary string or vice versa.

Here’s a list of possible clues or pieces to the puzzle I’ve gathered:

•   Can only PARTLY be solved by printing the image, not using software – was stated by the creator of the challenge as his first HINT – I think once you have the binary string you may no longer need a computer.

•   Creator calls himself “pip”

•   310 – the number of Bitcoins in the wallet and written by hand on the image

•   Oct 2 2018 – date of the challenge’s release and written on the image in small letters

•   “The key is hidden in the LSB on the red pixels line 310” Quote from https://www.reddit.com/user/uihwfebwuehifwejiuof

•   “The LSBs themselves make up the encoded binary string.” Quote from https://www.reddit.com/user/BTChallenge String seen here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/498650463021826087/498736944189145089/binary_string.jpg

•   Input SHA256 of all data on a SINGLE LINE – according to the email page fro the creator found through the QR code, found by adjusting the RGB scale – the question is, what is “the data you got so far”? QR leads here: https://bitcoinchallenge.codes/register-310/

•   May have to solve the first three keys with smaller rewards to access the big one

•   There may be a clue in the public address and message from the creator

•   Original image is a forest seen here: https://tineye.com/search/00c4ec33b3746f9f5b61946101561e15a694868e/  

•   May be a mosaic puzzle: https://airccj.org/CSCP/vol7/csit76703.pdf

•   Curved lines and circle on the image may be alluding to a former BTC image puzzle: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@mmorsl/solution-of-the-bitcoin-crypto-puzzle-level-4-by-zden


Tools which may prove to be helpful (or not):

Binary Converter
https://www.convertbinary.com/alphabet/

Morse Code Translator
https://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html

Python command to convert binary strings into morse code
https://pypi.org/project/morse/

SHA hash generator
https://www.mytecbits.com/tools/cryptography/sha2generator

Cornell Article on Voroni Diagrams
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs100r/2007fa/lectures/100R-lec21.pdf


21 Characters in plain site (in no particular order):

L
3
C
E
O
2
7
5
K
O
D
8
9
9
D
4
F
A
1
F
6
4

GRID

511    B20    332    328    410    530
22B    0FE    52E    D0F    7A1    65B
52C    7E7    511    2F6    56F    C4B

I doubt I will solve this – will try a bit more later.  But if I was helpful to anyone a tip would be immensely appreciated!  BTC: 15cHc2GgAbKpRNHezPMeFJpfZ2G5dHMoPq

Maybe the 0.1 wallet is part of something bigger. Maybe it's not.
Either way, if I were to publish the steps, I would be unintentionally giving that away and it is too early for hints already.

How about this little theory:

A hacker has commited a grand bitcoin theft a while ago and is now trying to clear the trails to these Bitcoins through a puzzle. The one who will win the grand prize is the hacker himself, who can now hide behind the claim he has won the Bitcoins with his sheer knowledge.

Edit: Maybe the victims can ask for a subpoena to check a certain Binance account? Maybe there is another account at Polo, that might be interesting for LE.

A few addons to my theory:
(OP's wallet from 04-04-2018 until now)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/3KCEGC4GaATQCnzogrpSDRJLKAjWvgudmW (OP's wallet from 04-04-2018 until now)
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/13hLyfRHg7p9Zw7WHToRT67JR1HR92Mvxw (OP's wallet until 04-04-2018)