Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 4. (Read 108519 times)

There were many previous steps/puzzles before the painting was even revealed. You noobs just want to find something to whine about and are too lazy to even read the thread from the beginning.

I spent about two hours last night looking at that challenge. I ran all the commands I could across all the files and directories and saved a copy of all the files:

Feel free to check it out here:
https://github.com/bboe/something

I wasn't able to get anywhere via SSH and I have no idea yet where this address comes from that someone on Reddit suggested is the one holding the coin: 1KWkDsv9VsdwsCWpJ2mu9R5AgUWgSPQHjf

I'd love to hear any thoughts that you are anyone else has.

How many are a lot? You list?
Many insincere deceptive delusions of creators. That's why it took a long time.

What's the point in cooperation? You will write your findings, I'll write my findings, and then some dude from secret board will base on them and get the prize. Not happening. I think in few years maybe the bitcoin puzzle thing will be still, but all the forums will go dead. People aren't stupid and they learn from mistakes.

EDIT: More over (I'm really bitter right now), the rules where not to brute force and cooperate. And how this thing got solved? By brute force and lack of cooperation. Just LOL.

That one looks interesting but it seems to be dead now (no activity whatsoever for 5 months on reddit), but the server is live and it is what counts

• 1 btc - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6r316b/there_is_1btc_hidden_in_the_terminal_it_is_yours/
  

The server responses but its ssh responses changed during the course of the day today, as if they are constantly changing something.
Is anybody else trying to solve it maybe, even if it is a shared effort in between other puzzles - maybe we could create a dedicated thread (?)

Thank you for that summary, I feel the same after reading solution. And all those red herrings!!! So big troll! And how you can tell what is fat, what is skinny? Honestly, like I said before - idea was good but implementation not so. And I think it was meant no to be solve.
Also: answer to your question - after reading this, I gave up on Neon District. If the ytcoin artist created this it is not my type of puzzles. I love labirynths going from clue A to B and her puzzles seems to involve luck and brute force. No thank you.
I also learned that internet is full of trolls and you can't trust anyone except yourself. This is sooo sad
Also I'm sad that not the crax0r and the rest of the guys claimed the prize, their were so close and focusing on real stuff.

Well, it was fun and the begging and pain at the end (fu...ing trolls) but after reading this I am somehow relief, no way on Earth I could solve it. Time to move on to some serious and normal puzzles.

Hindsight is 20/20 but before the solution was posted, I had a feeling I had found "the primer" which was hidden in some of the leaves. Here is what I found, I shared some of it on this forum previously. The ampersand seems to say "small orange flames & leaves". There is a left pointing, up pointing and down pointing leaf attached to the ampersand. The left hand side border has those same three leaves with the small orange flames touching them. The left pointing leaf at the top has 1 orange flame touching it, the up pointing leaf has 2 white/orange flames touching it and the third downpointing leaf has 3 orange flames touching it, 1,2,3... If you look at what they are pointing at, it makes more sense when seeing that those three leaves are paired with the other three leaves which go off the border of the chess board.
1) The first leaf pair is pointing at height. The one on the left is pointing to "tall" the one on the top row is pointing to "short" (if it was pointing to a colored flame this might have been ambiguous).
2) The second leaf pair is pointing to outer color. The one on the left is pointing to a tall yellow purple (fat) flame, and the one on the top row is pointing to a short orange purple (fat) flame. Since height is already taken care of, the only difference is outer color
3) The third leaf pair is pointing to inner thickness. The one on the left is pointing to a tall orange green skinny flame and the one on the right is *touching a tall orange green (fat) flame. The difference is the inner thickness.

I had used this ordering a ton (1 height 2 outer color 3 thickness) but much to my chagrin, I was only looking at three channels at a time forgetting that obviously the ordering of the first three channels implies the fourth. I probably wouldn't have caught the true solution though because I foolishly was not checking multiple interpretations of channel values (red = 1 yellow =0 OR red=0 yellow=1). But there's my thoughts on it. I'd love to know if this was indeed intentional as I believed.

Hey, Pine, you and others may not know this but it was I who founded the first ever crypto charity - Bitcoin 100 (now defunct) - where not a single satoshi was misappropriated nor any of its volunteers paid, again, a single satoshi for the literally thousands of hours put in over the course of its existence, not to mention our own moneys put in as donations and keeping the site running. Not bragging, per se, but do like your site. The Water Project did receive donations from us. I like that one.

Apologies for the aside, all.

Bruno

PS: This site is still running slow on my end, but much improved since earlier.

2 more:

• 1 btc - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6r316b/there_is_1btc_hidden_in_the_terminal_it_is_yours/
  
• 0.01 btc - https://rushwallet.com/contest

I only know about three puzzles with crypto prizes right now: (1) https://www.neondistrict.io - 15 ETH, (2) http://viacoin.org/puzzle/ - 1337 VIA, (3) http://crypto.haluska.sk/crypto_db18.png - 0.035 BTC.

Good luck.

Ok thank you for your comment, but if you read my previous posts you wouldn't accuse me of all what you said.


absolutely not the same person, moderators can easily verify that, And yes you are right that i did some bad stuff here because i was trolled by his clues which seems to me more logical, but i've apologized for that.

but what i've posted lately it was just my opinion after reading that shocking solution!
i have some skeptical questions, not only me, many guys here (including you) were expecting more genius solution that include every element in the image not just the flames and Luck.

why all of those elements were there? and not one of them were needed in the puzzle!
why nobody mentioned that there is a rabbit if we rotate the image for 3 years, except that rabbit?
why he mentioned that there is EA OEM 011 in the image? no one noticed that and it was clear in the image that there is a big E symbol in the middle but not needed in the puzzle!
many things in this puzzle turned to be nothing as if someone decided at the last minute to stop using them and encode the key in the flames only.

nobody can solve this mystery except coin-artist and WR, we don't know why he said " she knows what she did"?! we don't know why she was angry and went in a bad discussion with WR?!
if he was trolling us and claiming that he knows the authors why she didn't step in and tell us that she doesn't know him and he is scamming us?

@ytcoinartist and others.. Are there any more unsolved puzzles, with a good potential prize?

Do you know any website where i can find a list of those puzzles?

Will you ever stop trolling for heavens sake? Stop throwing accusations if you don't have a single proof. What can she be hiding? Come out in the open or stop it.

Troll comes here claiming he knows the solution, claims he knows the author of the puzzle, asks people for money in exchange for clues and you support him. Until yesterday you had his picture in your avatar here, and cried in your posts how we need him. Whet else is there then conclude that you and him worked together to troll this thread for months or that you are the same person? If you are not same person as him you should be ashamed you supported the troll and ruined everyone else's you in decoding the flames. Instead you are continuing to troll and throw accusations. Do you have no shame?

The same here, she didn't give a clear answer to this mystery, obviously she is hiding something.
That rabbit also is hiding something, they both know each other, and that rabbit was engaged in this puzzle.


what kind of stupidity is that ?! I am not WR, shame on you!
go check with the moderators who is WR.
WR was obviously a big troll, i was trolled by his clues nothing else.
It's better for you Both to tell the Truth instead of hiding it.

Thanks kindly for the quick reply.

I forgot to mention that there's at least three levels of difficulty, at least three different puzzles to be purchased: moderately hard; very difficult; diabolical (just formulated in my mind a few minutes ago as to how this level could be created/achieved). The number of pieces is less than two dozen.

Since it looks like your plate is full (unless you reconsider), anybody else interested in teaming up? Before offering up your services, there is one caveat: I would need to know exactly whom I'm speaking with, thus would need to verify who you are.


If that's the case, perhaps the transaction on Dec. 14, 2017, was a clue of sorts, with even the date 12-14-17 chosen on purpose in making the transaction. Probably not, but still something to consider.

cr347or was Rob Myers.

Hi again, Feedo and WR. This is getting ridiculous. I'll stop responding now. GLHF

Since I'm also interested in the other mystery of this puzzle: what is the relation between white rabbit and coin artist?, I have in mind some questions:

- There's a diagonal line at the phoenix wing, which seems to be drawn on purpose. To me it looks like the move of the waffle ( inverted knight ), also named phoenix in the shogi chess. The white rabbit instruction is to turn the picture according to that line.

- The WR always says time is short, he is late, for a very important date. What date is that?

- There's a website called 17leaves.com which at first the content looks like about yoga and spiritual stuffs. But if you investigate more in the blog, the time of events implied in it will point to an account named StephenMorse. This account is the first one who mention about using leet (1337/1347) to decode. And there's also an account named StephenM347 on bitcoin stack exchange. Is it a coincidence or does he have some relation to the cr347or?

WTF i've just read, to whom you are speaking?! do you mean that i am a puzzle maker?!!
i've said many times here that i don't even have the experience to solve puzzles (ciphers, codes, programming) so how can i make puzzles?!!

you are mixing strange things in your head! The rabbit was obviously a troller and the moderators can easily know if he has another accounts, but i said he obviously knows you because the clues he posted in the forum related closely to the puzzle.

you still didn't give a clear answer, why you drew that big E in the middle of the image?, why you drew those melting three droplets from the queen base? 1000 on the dove's tail? 11110 on the phoenix?
The 17 leaves? 7×9 Yari chogi Board.... WTF all of those things doing in your puzzle.

it's obvious that the rabbit was engaged in this puzzle at some time, then you separated for some reason that we don't know and you don't want to say the Truth, that's all.

Rabbit is Troll, and you know him, that was obvious after i read that shocking stupid solution.
Again i don't relate at all to puzzle business or to that troll so called Rabbit.
you can ask the moderator to verify that.

It's so funny from you that you believe i am a puzzle developer! seems that you didn't read my posts.

I have a huge project on my plate right now with Neon District. I have to be incredibly selective with projects that I take on right now with my team. But this thread is FULL of talent. There's plenty of people here that would be worth recruiting for projects. If you think you have a cool idea you should hit some of these people up to collaborate. That's all I've done over the years to build my team. I appreciate the offer tho! And it sounds interesting!!    

Seriously? I'm seeking an honest team to develop a real-life 3-D puzzle. I've worked out most the particulars, ready to bring it to fruition. In fact, I even have an idea as to how it could be introduced on a popular TV show still running today, albeit a cut in profits may have to stem their way but such would no doubt increase sales several fold. A stretch, I know, but still worth a shot if possible and not really needed if the product is viable enough to stand on its own, marketed via conventional means. Also, the puzzle can readily be played on handheld devises as an APP or on PCs, thus working in concert with one another in advancing the project. As an APP, I truly envision it as addictive, with the same for the 3-D puzzle measuring ~6" square (no, it's not a Rubik's Cube). Back to the APP aspect, yes, a crypto token can easily be incorporated in the mix, thus allowing players to earn while playing.

You interested? If so, I'm willing to share everything as long as there's no chance of the idea being stolen from underneath me.

Bruno