Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 38. (Read 108519 times)

freenode ##paintingsolvers for the interested. we have a handful of cicada solvers chatting about it.

I'll give a fairly big hint. There's two missing flames in the inner ring. Beyond that, the way things are encoded is a mystery. But that should be enough, if you can reason with the theme of the poem, to catch up with what he's likely talking about.

freenode ##paintingsolvers for the interested. we have a handful of cicada solvers chatting about it.

First of all, sorry for my english, I'm not native speaker but I hope to be understood.

I've read almost everything I could read in 36 pages.

I'm working on this puzzle since the week after CoinArtist uploaded the high-res TIF on her Drive and posted on Twitter. I didn't know she and her works before.

So, I have made progress recently. I can safely say that you are all so far away even from the start (yes, the start! Figure out how much you are far from the solution).

Someone is very close to the first clue to follow, but he/she is also slightly blind and did not see it in the proper way, so this clue was left behind.

White Rabbit, I don't know what your goal is, but from what I know you are saying random things. If you knew more, you could simply solve this puzzle and go away with money. You probably, as 99% of people here, don't even know where to start and why. So, do you want tips? Do you want to bring people out of track just to have more time to solve this? I don't really know but I don't think you are in some way related to this puzzle as someone guessed before.

Now, I am exactly 4 big steps ahead of you all. I'm stuck, and this is why I'm here. I don't know how far I am from solving, I think 2 or 3 more steps before knowing exactly how to fully decode flames, which surely (as many of you have rightly understood) they have what we are looking for.


I really need to win the prize, but I can't win if I'm stuck like now. So I decided to reveal to you what I know, only if I will not be able to solve this in 1 month from now.
I will do a video and I will upload it on youtube or vimeo the 1st february 2018 with details of all the steps I did before getting stuck.

I would like to see this puzzle solved. Maybe some of you, with help to get started, can show me how to go forward.

I will not ask for a part of the winnings, or something. I only ask the possible winner not to run away with the money without explain to all of us how to solve the final steps.
This is the only condition.


For now, open your minds. Good luck to everyone and happy new year 

Might be helpful to some.

the flames could indicate which hex character each tile is supposed to represent and the meanders could represent the order the hex characters are supposed to be read off the board.

The rabbit suggested that there is 011 (0 for the short blue ray, 1 for long)
the brown color is the reflection of that brown O keyhole
i think we have only 8.. count only the light blue color(Long 1+Short 0), the rest are reflections.

i don't know why the others believe that the address is vanity one as the yari chogi board (0123456789ABCDEF) imply that the address is Hexdecimal but maybe we have to connect between the flames, the ribbons, and the board.

I want them bitcoin

To anyone wondering, don't.  I got this far and then stopped:

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B) I concur that there may be anything between 8 and 11 ribbons depending on how acurately you try to count them.

@feedo: that is why I am curious what was your way of thinking to come to attaching those 0s and 1s to the rays of lights

I went through and grabbed every possible character from the tile.  I was left with a string of 64 hex characters that I began to permute, after running all night and generating a 44gb text file containing ~601million keys, the program had only gone through permuting something like 10 or 11 out of the 64 characters in the string.Then i stopped, far to much to deal with for just a random guess.

this is so thrilling   i am followin this thread.