Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 41. (Read 108519 times)

Is this puzzle still unsolved? I thought it was. This post is from 2014 over 3 years. I cannot wait to see how this turned out. I hope I'll win it.

To me they seem to be. I sense that there are multiple paths to the solution, having followed a few divergent paths that seemed valid until I got stuck. Each macroscopic image of significance seems to be laid out in a 3 or more dimensional grid that you can traverse procedurally. At some points there are very specific instructions hidden in the images you find. Others are more open to interpretation, and lead in different directions.


I can’t reply to a private message  I have for a half hour so I’ll post here. After you complete the first step, look at the image. If nothing jumps out at you, step back or lean in. The puzzle is about rapidly changing perspectives. Sometimes you need the forest, and sometimes you need the trees.

I think this will be my last post in this thread for a while. Good luck everyone.

Soooo after first clue you are both on different track? So I think this answers my previous question

I have only one question - I hope it isn't big clue to answer. Is it solvable the way I mentioned it before? Like you get first fat clue, clue A, 100% certain, you get it, you know it is the one and the you get to clue B etc? They are solid, distinct, undeniable?

Okay, I misunderstood. For a moment I believed you had interpreted the very first clue differently from me, trying to do the thing I wrote to you (which I have excluded immediately when I found that word). Now I know you didn't see the same clue, so we are on two different tracks. I wish you a good luck with your ideas. I will continue to follow my path 

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.

Very nice and pleasant discussion in reading. Continue. I like to read. Have you read Alice in Wonderland? This is a very good title.

Exactly as you said.

Yes, the puzzle is 100% solvable with low-res picture, as initially released. The fact that while zooming in you can find certain things is the cloud-effect playing on you. There are hidden things left on purpose, like the rabbit, but these are all clearly visible with the original JPEG image. TIFF/hi-res-JPEG were released only so people stopped following JPEG-related compression artifacts NOT so you can zoom-in 1000% to find hidden birds singing songs to you.

I’m absolutely positive. I have multiple friends who have seen what I  have seen. You’re a true skeptic, though, and that’s a virtue.There is a small chance that the valid and incontrovertable data I’ve pulled out is an ornate red herring, but I don’t think so. However, I’m not going to defend my statements at this time, because the proof is in the pudding. If the creators of the puzzle see this thread, they’ll know if I’m onto it.

To be honest it’s in my best interest to not have people believe me.

Are you sure you're not telling yourself a story that you simply want to believe? To me, internal part of the art simply tells how to interpret the flames properly, so you wont have to brute-force them. It might tell something quite specific, like read only reds, or skip this, jump over that, flip bits of flames related to the "partially turned page"  (that reveals the blue side), etc. I really doubt you need to go hundreds of steps deep in order to see N-th meaning of all of this. Remember, if you stare long enough at the cloud, you can see anything, and usually those are things that directly reflect your life somehow. Make sure you'Re not in a rabbit hole, dug by the author of the puzzle, cause you might get lost in there.

You could refer to all these small drawings spreaded throughout all the art piece: https://imgur.com/a/5z9WL

They are thousands and more, they are people, animals, creatures... I noticed them the third day spent on this hi-res image at 200% zoom, I thought I was visionary. Thanks for noticing them too.

By the way, they are not the very first step that lead to something useful, they could be only funny easter eggs, or maybe they become useful later. I don't know. My workflow is much simpler and straightforward, it involves only what everyone can see without the need to zoom. You will eat your hands when I, or someone else, will reveal it to you.

I hope to solve this before being forced to tell you.

How can I try?
Do I need to decipher the whole secret key?

I suppose too

The one thing that comes to mind is that the White Rabbit is part of the team that designed the puzzle and is frustrated that most people are stuck on the first page, counting flames. The first real step and beyond goes many, many layers deeper. I have found dozens of significant images in that file, or hundreds if you count intermediary steps. There are two big stories, told graphically in there. It’s almost a game, more than a set of images, and appears to descibe at the very least, a vast 3 dimensional space to explore. There may be more dimensions there, if you go by the nodes between them. The white rabbit is the key, and you won’t find him (I don’t think) on the first image.

Everything White Rabbit said in this thread, that I’ve seen, applies to the puzzle. This isn’t bragging, more of a sideways hint because I have a sense of honor. The flames, and counting them may have later relevance, I’m not sure, but I haven’t used them directly at all, and I’m hundreds of steps deep. Lateral thinking and a sense of aesthetics will serve you well. This is an amazing feat of software engineering, but the progress I’ve made  has mostly involved my artistic skills. 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.

If you figure out the first step, save early and often, and set aside gigabytes of space for the data you pull out. I lost a few days before I got back on track after a mistake in that department.

To do the first steps, just to let you know, you don't have to know about vanity address, it's everything in the art piece and all you need is to think different and to use your brains.

I don't mind if you think I have nothing or you don't want to wait. You waited 2.5 years, I think you could wait 1 month more    bye

And this is coming from somebody who on Dec 22 - a week ago - was asking what a vanity address was... wow, you (kreeoz, thoth1978) guys have egos the size of a planet I must admit.


@crax0r

I can tell you what he has: nothing

Or, you know, you could just write about it here, since you're stuck. Nobody will wait for your video that long. Also, nobody will give up because you said they are far away and you're so much ahead, so your plan will not work (if that's your plan ).

So instead of bragging, share whatever you have, like all of us did, or... stop bragging 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 

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