The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 22.

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Quote from: Thoth1978 on December 28, 2017, 08:03:06 AM

There are way, way, more interesting images in theres, in a huge array of art styles. The first step is a macro step, not a detail-related one. I suspect you may have found it, but there are a lot more beyond that. It’s all logical, if sometimes insane. There is a key online that will take you way beyond the first step, and it hasn’t been mentioned by any of the clues. The clue to it is in the first actual step. Once you see it, google it.

i think he refers to another file (not ea oem 011 file) as it's impossible for anyone to see that ea oem 011 embedded in the image.

maybe he means another word which is easier to see in the image, then we have to google it.

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this steganography tools could help us to find hidden information.
but i don't know how it works and how to use it.

https://github.com/b3dk7/StegExpose
https://github.com/varunon9/Image-Stegano
https://github.com/livz/cloacked-pixel

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Quote from: Thoth1978 on December 28, 2017, 07:18:01 AM

In fact, I’m stuck, a bit, on a more traditionally cryptographic aspect of the puzzle. It involves decrypting symbols that serve as instructions in a long series of chains.

i think that there are special symbols and characters in this puzzle that nobody yet can understand.
here is an example:

https://imgur.com/a/mDpTL

the white rabbit posted before a white image that contains letters and symbols.

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Quote from: neogabe on January 19, 2018, 09:06:40 AM

There are plenty of crypto-coding ideas to test here...

https://gitlab.com/users/robmyers/projects

Some of them could be used as inspiration on the current puzzle. (Or be directly applied to it). Good coding skills needed

EDIT: I just saw that he is a gitlab member since April 15, 2015, and the puzzle was published on April 3, so maybe there isn't so much useful code that I previously thought.

Nice work! This code was also posted on gitorious December 2014, predating the puzzle... anyway, thanks to you and 680cfbb909 for following up on an old lead. As I learn more about the coding side of things, I would want any null result I got to be double checked by someone with more experience anyway.

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I think there are two files embedded in the picture.
one of them we already have (That ea oem 011 pdf file)
i think the other one is embedded in characters in the (dove-phoenix area)
the eyes could represent some information and there is a word above the phoenix head in bold blue colour (Y between dove chest and phoenix)

i mentioned that in my previous post (See Post #978)
https://imgur.com/a/YurM0
https://imgur.com/a/tNi9E

those characters could represent a word or a file to search for in Google.

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There are plenty of crypto-coding ideas to test here...

https://gitlab.com/users/robmyers/projects

Some of them could be used as inspiration on the current puzzle. (Or be directly applied to it). Good coding skills needed

EDIT: I just saw that he is a gitlab member since April 15, 2015, and the puzzle was published on April 3, so maybe there isn't so much useful code that I previously thought.

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^ Will code for Bitcoins

There's really a direct mention of Rob Myers:

https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/584358815358943233

Interesting this was buried in a single sentence 700 posts ago without direct quote, and no one emphasized it after that.

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Quote from: itod on January 19, 2018, 07:13:52 AM

Quote from: 680cfbb909 on January 19, 2018, 03:52:19 AM

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Are the hashes I used in the picture. Worth a try, but I don't think this will lead to anything. At least not with the transaction hashes.

I think it's the other way around. You would get nothing by finding the transactions in the picture, transactions are already known. The idea would be to get hash in this manner from something that is drawn in the picture, and since the WIF private key format is basically a hash use it to collect the reward. Since his visualizations and hashes are mapped 1:1, and he generates them from hashes, one should in theory reverse his code and get the hash from visualizations. Lot's of work, but interesting possibility. I wounder what is the source of the info the author of the puzzle thank'd Rob Myers for his work and said "He’s one of the ones who 'Made this possible'". Is this true? Link somewhere?

Interesting idea. But I think you need to know exactly what piece of the picture has to be reversed to a hash. Every slightest piece of information will change the hash, so you even need to know the right angle and size of the figure you want to reverse to get a correct hash. Reversing itself won't be that hard.

On the other hand coin_artist's comment on Rob Myers doesn't necessarily mean that she used something he published to make this puzzle. Maybe they exchanged ideas or discussed possibile puzzle-solving-steps and she thanks him for his help. Or he wrote a special piece of code just for this puzzle which was never published.

Quote from: neogabe on January 19, 2018, 07:01:35 AM

Thanks again, I didn't get nothing useful, but it was worth trying, another searched path. If someone else wants to check it, now it's clear with your explanations.

It's always fun to see some new ideas in this thread and play around with them

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First link of the thread: https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/583979278238359552

https://imgur.com/a/Tqk9B

EDIT: Could be worth checking the other names? I don't remember if it was done earlier in the thread...

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Quote from: 680cfbb909 on January 19, 2018, 03:52:19 AM

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Are the hashes I used in the picture. Worth a try, but I don't think this will lead to anything. At least not with the transaction hashes.

I think it's the other way around. You would get nothing by finding the transactions in the picture, transactions are already known. The idea would be to get hash in this manner from something that is drawn in the picture, and since the WIF private key format is basically a hash use it to collect the reward. Since his visualizations and hashes are mapped 1:1, and he generates them from hashes, one should in theory reverse his code and get the hash from visualizations. Lot's of work, but interesting possibility. I wounder what is the source of the info the author of the puzzle thank'd Rob Myers for his work and said "He’s one of the ones who 'Made this possible'". Is this true? Link somewhere?

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Thanks again, I didn't get nothing useful, but it was worth trying, another searched path. If someone else wants to check it, now it's clear with your explanations.

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https://imgur.com/a/OcVDr

This is what you get with the same hashes and the game of life simulation.
First picture is the end result after 100 turns. Second picture is the first turn you get.

If you want to try some other visualizations yourself, you don't have to change much code.
You only need to change the initConnection block to:

Code:

var initConnection = function (spec) {
  appendHash("74e037e5b7cea4512625a4af5a1223dbaf5ae3fb629c47263086091c0ba5328b");
  appendHash("1469167e08a116438943319880f415bb8afe279df68aeaaa32186cf4b7d297da");
  appendHash("ed07c5a6c63313f9b6828d3cb8f1d2ead3a4e8eb92ddbf12297c912e9ade3e60");
  appendHash("4879431128d7dc5a8e0e6e7d739bb2246f8537db1cd6f5971fdff6c4d4d301c2");
  appendHash("9c6d9a78bb8a7ee9f78af0944edce9abbe67f835355ba872da618abb6b841f47");
  appendHash("1f49d498f476cf87a62dce43ebf655051b193971a2b8e8e6df71e2aaa329b42f");
  appendHash("458727dbd63f48c833c3d29ea2013281f8bbb0ca8b17a00600972350c273d98e");
};

Save the file and open the responding transactions-*.html file in your browser.

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Quote from: 680cfbb909 on January 19, 2018, 03:52:19 AM

https://imgur.com/a/uYdmJ

This is what you get if you use the turtle.js code to draw the transaction hashes.

Code:

  appendHash("74e037e5b7cea4512625a4af5a1223dbaf5ae3fb629c47263086091c0ba5328b");
  appendHash("1469167e08a116438943319880f415bb8afe279df68aeaaa32186cf4b7d297da");
  appendHash("ed07c5a6c63313f9b6828d3cb8f1d2ead3a4e8eb92ddbf12297c912e9ade3e60");
  appendHash("4879431128d7dc5a8e0e6e7d739bb2246f8537db1cd6f5971fdff6c4d4d301c2");
  appendHash("9c6d9a78bb8a7ee9f78af0944edce9abbe67f835355ba872da618abb6b841f47");
  appendHash("1f49d498f476cf87a62dce43ebf655051b193971a2b8e8e6df71e2aaa329b42f");
  appendHash("458727dbd63f48c833c3d29ea2013281f8bbb0ca8b17a00600972350c273d98e");

Are the hashes I used in the picture. Worth a try, but I don't think this will lead to anything. At least not with the transaction hashes.

Thanks @680cfbb909, maybe the life-game js? or the bitmaps? Perhaps the seven bitmaps could be arranged (4 of them) to create a QR code...

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https://imgur.com/a/uYdmJ

This is what you get if you use the turtle.js code to draw the transaction hashes.

Code:

  appendHash("74e037e5b7cea4512625a4af5a1223dbaf5ae3fb629c47263086091c0ba5328b");
  appendHash("1469167e08a116438943319880f415bb8afe279df68aeaaa32186cf4b7d297da");
  appendHash("ed07c5a6c63313f9b6828d3cb8f1d2ead3a4e8eb92ddbf12297c912e9ade3e60");
  appendHash("4879431128d7dc5a8e0e6e7d739bb2246f8537db1cd6f5971fdff6c4d4d301c2");
  appendHash("9c6d9a78bb8a7ee9f78af0944edce9abbe67f835355ba872da618abb6b841f47");
  appendHash("1f49d498f476cf87a62dce43ebf655051b193971a2b8e8e6df71e2aaa329b42f");
  appendHash("458727dbd63f48c833c3d29ea2013281f8bbb0ca8b17a00600972350c273d98e");

Are the hashes I used in the picture. Worth a try, but I don't think this will lead to anything. At least not with the transaction hashes.

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Quote from: chubbychew on January 18, 2018, 12:00:37 PM

Off flame ramblings follow:

It's time well spent going back through this thread a couple times (long though it may be) and seeing for example that:

1) The Phoenix and the Turtle poem was referenced in post #338 on April 5th, 2015

Based on what I have read regarding previous challenges, ytcoin_artist doesn't give hints but does let people know if they are on the right track and confirmed found clues to previous ARG challenges. The fact that she tweeted a section of the poem might be to say "you found this clue but didn't think it was the next step, look again" I couldn't find her giving any hints or clues aside from this one...

2) The skinny inner flame data channel was detailed in post #404 possibly before that as well, then re-discovered recently by smracer. This game has gone on so long that people have forgotten what was tried, abandoned, rediscovered etc.

BitcoinArbiter in post #400 posted a link to some of Rob Myers work https://robmyers.org/blockchain-aesthetics/

It would seem that coin_artist and Rob Myers are tight collaborators

His blockchain-aesthetics code was done around the time this painting was created

some of the code has instructions to "draw" blockchain transactions using "turtle graphics"

I am not a programmer, perhaps someone with better skills can use the code here: https://github.com/robmyers/blockchain-aesthetics/

and make the turtle graphics code examine and draw the transactions done on the 1FLAME address like this one?

Just delving back into the crazy...

This could be a good one, there is no need of programming skills for running the code, download the zip from github and launch "transactions-.html" you will see the results on your browser. The javaScript functions takes data from a live web-socket in JSON format, from here 'wss://ws.blockchain.info/inv', later parses data and takes the "hash", in our case should be "9c6d9a78bb8a7ee9f78af0944edce9abbe67f835355ba872da618abb6b841f47" as you said.

I could try to modify the code later, for using only that hash, but my coding habilities are limited on Js, perhaps someone with better skills could lend us a hand.

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I follow you Mr. Rabbit.
You like Dr. Mabuse? It's a good movie, Mr. Rabbit?

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Do you still count the flame? They carry information to look at the image where the details matter.

You still do not follow me, you do not trust the rabbit, still many of you can not see me in the picture.

Why?

In your world it is hard to understand that nothing is the same?

Because in the picture it is not an ordinary world.

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Quote from: bachus on January 18, 2018, 12:06:49 PM

Quote from: neogabe on January 18, 2018, 05:01:30 AM

Agree with you, just saying because I'm seeing a lot of effort on flames, like the lines of code from @kn0w0n3. But for example, nobody talks about why that kind of creeper plant is holding the queen while it melts... Maybe applying maths, logic and counting is not the way for this one. Take this only as thoughts, I really admire all the work being done here. (And in previous puzzles that I followed too).

I don't think it's been mentioned before, but the vine seems to originate from a single white square on the bottom row.

yes it has been mentioned before (I can't find who mentioned it though, you would need to read through the thread to find it) that the vines grow NOT from tiles but from the cracks between tiles, the same about the key hole - it is between the actual tiles. I have this idea that didn't bring fruit yet, that it is not tiles that count but the so-called (in mathematics) lattice points. Lattice points are points where the cracks ("grid lines", as wikipedia puts it) intersect. In that case we would be dealing not with 7x9 chessboard, but rather with a 6x8 lattice, but the key hole and the growing vines could be expressed by integer coordinates in the lattice.

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Quote from: bachus on January 18, 2018, 12:06:49 PM

Quote from: neogabe on January 18, 2018, 05:01:30 AM

Agree with you, just saying because I'm seeing a lot of effort on flames, like the lines of code from @kn0w0n3. But for example, nobody talks about why that kind of creeper plant is holding the queen while it melts... Maybe applying maths, logic and counting is not the way for this one. Take this only as thoughts, I really admire all the work being done here. (And in previous puzzles that I followed too).

I don't think it's been mentioned before, but the vine seems to originate from a single white square on the bottom row.

2 squares not one (look at B9 white square in third row)

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Quote from: neogabe on January 18, 2018, 05:01:30 AM

Agree with you, just saying because I'm seeing a lot of effort on flames, like the lines of code from @kn0w0n3. But for example, nobody talks about why that kind of creeper plant is holding the queen while it melts... Maybe applying maths, logic and counting is not the way for this one. Take this only as thoughts, I really admire all the work being done here. (And in previous puzzles that I followed too).

I don't think it's been mentioned before, but the vine seems to originate from a single white square on the bottom row.

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