Topic: Take my BTC from my Digital postage stamp challenge (Read 1064 times)

Here ya go guys!  Will be posting a new one soon...so stay tuned.

I have a list, in alphabetical order too.

I feel like I am not the one who should make the call to reveal it (or not), since this was not my challenge. Just providing the list, will not make any good to those that struggle to find all the names. They will need to see where exactly all the names were located.

0.00001134 BTC (the equivalent of 65 cents today), might worth $65 someday. However, the 65 cents (in terms of old dirty fiat) might become totally worthless one day... 

So do you have a list of all the users in the fully completed puzzle? Just curious! Well done either way mate!

Edit - That .65 USD today could be 65 someday, but yeah that's painful!

Congrats tweetious - nice job 
Can’t wait for the next one Krog - thanks again 

  Congratulations!  Job well done mate..... I have something brewing up my sleeve far better than this....stay in tune

Not quite sure why everyone slept on it, however, I managed to initiate a sweep, 6 hours after the 00:00:14 EST timelock period.

I also slept on it (pun intent) since 00:00:14 EST was really early on a Sunday morning (here in Europe), hence I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that the amount was still there,  after 6 hours.... (on a lazy late Sunday morning when I wake up.... LOL)


Due to the mempool overload, the minimum fee amount that made any sense, at the time, was around 40 sats/byte (transaction took around 2 hours to get confirmed). Anything lower than 30 sats/byte (with 130k unconfirmed transaction at that moment) might take many hours/days to get confirmed.

That was actually a donation to the miners, since I got a total of around 65 cents out of it... LOL (0.00001134 BTC)

Awesome challenge @krogoth ... keep up with the good work! 

I'm in agreement with this, I think it should have stayed in the collectibles section.  I'm assuming this about bringing awareness for your cryptostamps project, which are collectibles.  Do we know which mod moved the thread?  I'd be happy to petition for future thread to remain in the collectibles section.

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Too many clues, dude!  

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Well, I actually had all the names the night of the 15th, but I didn't recognize one of them.  Finally saw that member's name today and recognized it from the puzzle, lol.

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ETA: Just an FYI, if I win the race the funds will be sent to BPIP's donation address.

Well I’ve got the 20 names at last - I reckon it took me about 3 and 1/2 hrs in total with the last one taking about 1 and 1/2 
Doubt I’ll be awake for the the actual broadcast , but thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and look forward to the next one ? Thanks Krog
Good luck to all on Sunday 

Well, It's absolutely a "game", so I guess there is that, but it now lacks the visibility of collectibles.

still fun, but yeh there is no gambling involved

Jeez - I was wondering where this thread went , crazy !!! Totally agree with all who commented - no way should this be in Games and Rounds  Wonder if you’ll get a reply from the mod Krog ?
Well done to all who’ve got the names so far - 1 more for me to get !
Can’t wait for the 30 name round too - you’re always coming up with some cool/different ideas Krog 
Anyway a few days to go yet - no surrender

  I dont have list with me...but the only one or ones that might have had numbers are at the end of name iirc.

So example redsn0w has posted.

So does the name become redsnow ? or redsnw

Thanks

  There were names with numbers or a name with number from forum...but the numbers are not on word puzzle...just the name without number or numbers.

Can the name have a number? if yes, how do we account for that

thanks

https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/decodetx/


 By the way...that code you have brings an error..somthing wrong with your copy.. Try and copy it correctly and it will work

Okay

I have the names.

How was this ecncrypted ?
020000000103bfdaa1eb2ddfe0f3413737fafb043f0607229643ba5934fcc1ce7455e23f3100000 0006a473044022007da6d883ee0952139a8b97c7c89503f4c13e6f69e213eec838a23e35f8808e1 02207082958fb7f01920e1fc89b2b08fb946f9a43da5f2604e334e28318f6c837b0201210372a52 f8ef2e3663507477f7f0cf1994c8cb46252ca22bed4425a70cab09deca3feffffff01bd27000000 0000001976a914675bd20c10471947aa3ae1ef323d01fa41e7e2a588acdee83160

Which algorithm?

or which website/app/ etc. to decrypt it, please ?

Thanks
Edi

I was being a bit generous with usernames involving numbers and the other one was a very short username that I guess just accidentally lined up.

  Really!  Now that is interesting...they must have been a coincidence as I only placed 20 names.

Ooof... that was a bit of a workout... but I eventually got there after a couple of "red herrings"... "found" 2 (!!?! ) "extra" usernames

verification

Well. I thouhgt we are only looking for people who posted on 15th Jan in the colelctibles forum.

I totally agree. This is actually a free giveaway, rather than a gambling activity.

  I am pretty upset this has been moved to gambling...there is no gambling herevand no money being made...if anything it is educational with a crypto stamp being ready to be swept.

  I wrote to the moderator about this and why it was moved.

  I am not happy at all that we are in gambling. Not sure I will continue after this one. If you are as upset as I...please reach out to moderators in collectables....i mean people host free raffles in there with no issue at all.

  No backwards as far as I am aware

you are definitely missing some OG members from the collectibles section from the above list (regardless if they are part of the solution or not).

Having said that, I guess that you are not expecting someone to just comment here the names that you are missing (ie a solution or even give hints) at least prior to the broadcasting deadline.

Since you went the extra mile and did a script to solve this, why not just put all the forum usernames into it, and run it?  

Is it not already,  "vertical...diagonal...horizontaly and backward"??

I wrote a small script to solve this.

Problem is I only have these names

['thursday', 'luzerviking', 'raghavsood', 'mitchell', 'haloxon', 'owlcatz', 'kryme', 'evilish', 'dumbastronaut', 'eclipse', 'mityme', 'xslyy', 'hellot', 'satslife', 'retrosoviet', 'moparminingllc', 'heisenberg', 'chibitcty', 'mindtrip', 'hunter', 'motoxguy', 'agrawas', 'jcga', 'liquidoptions', 'est', 'heisty', 'selassiesoildier', 'turbodogma', 'spokanistan', 'thenovemberman', 'room', 'philipma', 'janemil', 'windjc', 'krogothmanhattan', 'hanspetertt', 'cygan', 'azkabal', 'crypto', 'ezeminer', 'digicoinuser', 'sircyptos', 'polymerbit', 'hanspeter', 'litlitbit', 'edits', 'minerjones', 'canaryinthemine', 'mrcrypthodl', 'xenodata', 'elmejorrematador', 'heisenberghunter', 'phishead', 'yogg', 'cryptocurious', 'dozerz', 'owlctaz', 'fusioncoins', 'batesresearch', 'blucepheus', 'realediston', 'yimfinity', 'eodguy', 'mrcryptohodl', 'blackjonny', 'gatorelf', 'eclipseee', 'tweetious','thebreadedbaby']


what names am I missing?

Agreed, and to make it more fun, just mirror all the letters so in order to solve it you need to use a real MIRROR :-D It's gonna be epic!! I love riddles, you can't scare me with it, if i had no kids i'll be the first one to solve them.

I cant believe they placed this is gambling....wtf?

  Oh really! Easy you say....next one lets make it vertical...diagonal...horizontaly and backwards as well now.

I need to change my glasses man, that's horrible. I think I manage to get all the names correctly after 2 more hours of staring like a crazy.
Just a tip for the others. Printing really helps but if you are stuck, print it in a bigger scale like A2 and hang it somewhere far from you so don't ruin your vision. I found one name when just randomly look at the word list hanging on the door at work. It helped me, it could help you too. If I don't get too lazy to wake up that early, I'll try to catch the prize

20 was easy, 30 wont be difficult either, just some more time spent in staring The worst think is when I close my eyes I still see the list.. and those patches of letters repeating are so heavily stuck in my head.. I LOVE IT!!!!! Thanks for the great experience I haven't been reading so many random letters for years....

omg, I smoked to much pot when I was a teen

Completed last night. Hint: it's much easier if you print it. Good luck everyone, the race is on.

  Glad you are having a good time...wait until the next word puzzle of 30 names hits your brain  

Headache -yes
Sore eyes -yes
Entertained - VERY
17 names found , 3 to go  
Thanks Krog
EDIT - aargh - 1 to go

Oh I don't want to lead you on a wild goose chase. The member in question that I had to remove hadn't posted since 2015. I spotted a common word, did a member search and thought I had verified that they were active. Only after trying many things with me thinking I had the 20 usernames did I figure I got one wrong. So I revisited the list and spotted the error and had to thus go find the real 20th user.

That's great news,and thanks for the tip plen, so now I have to find actually 5 not 4 names. It's gonna be fun to figure out which one is not included. Now I saw that the time of the locked transaction is actually Sun Feb 21 2021 00:00:14 EST, that means 05.00.14 UTC, I guess I won't be the first in that challenge but I'll try my best.

Good luck everyone and thanks for the tip again.

Thanks for the puzzle Kroth.  This one is much harder, I must admit.  I'm up to nineteen usernames, and I found some that should be, lol.  I've had enough for tonight, I hope to find the last one tomorrow night.

Congrats on cracking the code, plen.  I guess it's going to come down who has the fastest connection and sets the highest fees, lol.  Good luck every one.

Good luck everyone! The sprint will be on come Feb 21.

I actually found 21 names somehow!  Took me a while to figure out which one wasn't counted.

I have a headache already... found approx 16 names, luckily I hang out in that section even if I don't post much there so most of the known names I know and are "easy" to find, well i needed to check the recent post from this section too, but those 4 are hard ones... If the headache is gone tomorrow I'll continue. It's really exciting, thanks krogo, I see you are still in a good mood. I love all your work man.

If I manage to claim those coins I will donate them to the SpamBuster club

Perhaps I can provide the answer to the riddle... with another riddle!

A green egg? With a watery red "yolk"? sounds refreshing...   Also, it's all in lowercase.

This is more difficult, I only have 5 names, hahaha.

Wahey, looks like fun. When I’ve got some time to kill over the next few days I’ll definitely give it a go . Thanks Krog
PS aid also like to know the answer to the original riddle 

Found a few names but I give up. Might try and look for more names later as there's plenty of time left (till 21st).

What was the answer to original riddle btw, if you or tweetious don't mind sharing?

good question
or it might just not be who knows

luckily I have time to figure it out

Cool.  
I'm proud to see you inspired yourself from my work !

Good luck to all participant's in Krog's game

 Horizontal, vertical and diagonal.

Fun!

Quick question, the word search is horizontal, vertical and diagonal? Or no diagonal?

Well....here is another nice challenge that I think will be a bit harder and fun.....





   



     But thats not it, you need to wait until the 21st February to broadcast this timelock code. So in other words even though you have figured out the password for the private key, there is no bitcoin in the stamp. The coins will be available AFTER you broadcast the raw Hex code on that day, then the stamp will be loaded, then you can sweep.

    Keep in mind its for Sun Feb 21 2021 00:00:14 EST. Blockchain takes a median time, in other words even if you transmit at exactly that time, an error might come up, as the median time lags behind real time, even up to an hour or two depending on how long the blocks take to be added to blockchain.













     So to recap,

      a) Solve the word puzzle by finding the names of 20 forum members

      b) Place names in alphabetical order

      c) Take the first letter of each name and altogether they will be the password required to unlock the private key

      d) Broadcast the raw hex code here https://blockstream.info/tx/push on the 21st February 2021.

      e) Once that is done, the stamp will then be loaded with Bitcoin.

      f) Sweep the private QR code stamp with the correct password consisting of the first letters of each members name from the word puzzle in alphabetical order.

     
   So even though you figure out the password now, you will still have to wait until Sunday, so many people can have figured it out, but still you have to beat your other competitors to broadcasting the raw TX and then sweeping.  Goodluck!!!
     

  Lefty and righty when punching...

     Every possible key caps symbols all been hit randomly...call it a drunken keyboard dance. 

  Its worth close to $1000....I do hope I remember where I placed that damn password....

Assuming these are only small caps alphabetic digits, a 100 digits passphrase would take at least 3.142931e+141 (26^100) trials to bruteforce it.
You have pretty much the same chance (or better?) by going after Satoshi's BTC stash at that point.

"100 plus"?

Dont understand the question...read up further here

http://www.crypto-stamps.com/

 I just want to ask, how's the postage is dued using these stamps  ?!

Just 6 random characters would already make it expensive to crack, see I'm BIP38 curious, please help me out!.

I'm curious: what is it? I tried "I am not", but it's not that one.

Okay, but please don't do this:




Maybe I'll try to emulate your exact random keystrokes?  I might be here for a minute or two.



Lol, I'm coming for your $4 in change.

Just kidding by the way, I'm not sweeping it.  I just wanted to see if I figured out the password.

   Its been online since 2017 and never been cracked.

    No hints as the password was created by me punching keyboard symbols randomly to create a ridiculously 100 plus pass word that will take millennia to crack.

     Thats why i did this one today with a riddle.

Was there any hints for this one or another post about it?

   Hmmm....be ready for another one soon...just need to make it a bit harder..too many smart people here!

   You can still try this one http://www.crypto-stamps.com/private3.html

    It has 0.02BTC

I know the password, but I didn't have any wallet installed on this phone, and now that I installed mycelyum they went ahead, haha, it was nice and fun to try.

I am getting worried here... my precious sats are in danger... prolly should I do RBF ? (after all those tx fees, not a lot of sats will left)

  Congrats...i see it is indeed swept away!

    I need to come up with something a bit more challenging next time!

Damn I was 4 minutes late! May just try to beat you out for the fun

aaaand... swept! 

tx is still unconfirmed, hence there is still time for someone to figure it out, and "steal" my precious sats... 

Was asked how to sweep the btc from the stamp.

Use your bitcoin wallet to scan the right qr code...thats the private key. It will ask you for a password..if its correct then it will sweep the bitcoin and you can send anywhere to another wallet address or sweep into the wallet you are using.

Well....been asked about that loaded online stamps password http://www.crypto-stamps.com/private3.html..which I think according to https://www.betterbuys.com/estimating-password-cracking-times/ will take about forever to figure it out.

   So that being said, I made another one loaded with about $5 worth of BTC or 0.00010246BTC.

    The BIP38 password is the answer to the following riddle....Goodluck!  

    Red as fire, yet fire I am not
    Green as grass, yet grass I am not
    Water I have, yet a lake I am not.
    
     What am I?