Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 47. (Read 108519 times)

I find it interesting that this book, entitled "The Shakespearean CIphers Examined" shows the Turtle and Phoenix poem on p.123 as evidence of Francis Bacon's signature.  The claim was made by William Stone Booth whose work is now regarded as 'bunk'.  However, Francis Bacon is credited for inventing a cipher that essentially boils down to a binary encoding.  Probably means nothing but I just found it interesting.



http://marshallfoundation.org/library/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2014/06/Shakespearean-Ciphers_II_watermark.pdf

And thanks to that numbering suggestion the key and the ribbons end up to be on the A1 square, the same number that is encoded in the ribbons. It seems that maybe  the ribbons were intended as the indication on how to count squares, but since nobody figured it out in 2 years .... white rabbit showed us the solution
 

thanks, no reason to get offended, the language you are using is a little odd -  maybe trollish and rabbitish they are similar? and that is why they made the connection

I will not be answering one of those

this bit I don't get. Are you saying that the new picture actually is a hint or not?


re 1) I was thinking that maybe the leafs they point to some interesting places: some of them seem to point to some flames, and then some of them point to some chessboard squares, but then again some of them point to nowhere or it is not clear where they point.
re 1) - and there is order to the leafs, at lest some of them clearly grow from the same vine

re 2) note that yari shogi squares have no color assigned

re 4) the red ribbons seem to be coding 011010 bin = 26 dec = 1A hex and 1A may indicate the rightmost upper square. Or not. 26 may be the number of letters A-Z

Actually this is contrary to what they say on Yari Shogi webpage, that the fields of the chessboard (or yarishogiboard, if you will) should be numbered from 1 to 7 and then from A to I. But anyway it hardly can be considered a good clue, as it was pointed out in this thread many times that 7+9 = 16 = number of hex symbols. So try harder and try something less obvious this time


no, actually I do not

Thanks for replies and @Neantis for good word and encouragement

I want to clarify - when I was writing about new picture I have meant this from 15th of December

https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/941452262978748417

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRC10xTVoAAjR9w.jpg

Yes, 6 bits is sufficient to cover Base58.  But if you come across 6 bits that represent a value >= 58, you have to decide how to handle that as it would not address a B58 character.  You can wrap around or consider it invalid.

- I also think that there is too much guessing but that's maybe because we haven't seen the obvious clue.

- The new picture (high-rez) is not a clue but helped many people. We stopped working on wrong path (jpeg glitch which showed as text in the painting)

- With the new picture (.tif) you can see brush strokes, you can see how she painted it (the order) and even though I'm not sure you can spot some mistake she made and fixed (see the first flame, bottom right, inner track => Looks like it was a purple flame first and changed to a red one).

- It's not bad PR to have an unsolved puzzle. The most famous puzzles were unsolved for a long time.

- Don't burn out on the puzzle, if you don't see anything take a break, come back to it later.

Well, still that doesn't mean anything. If you can solve it just solve it and end this mess. You will be famous that's for sure. And rich.

More I think about it more I think it's broken (maybe because of painting technique?)  (that is why she posted new picture - and she says that nowhere she said it was a clue - maybe she gave up on this but it's bad PR to said that people have followed broken puzzle for 3 years).

There isn't no single point to catch first, even 1flamen6 is no good. I'm quite annoyed and tired, probably like a lot of people before me.

If it will not be solved I hope she will leave solution in her last will  (I wish her long and happy life, don't get me wrong! )

But although I'm complaining I thought about it a lot (sic!) and I have few observations and questions, maybe it will help someone.

1) We have 17 leaves, 17x3=51 characters of WIF. WIF is encoded in Base58 (26 letters capital and small and numbers without O, 0, l, I, +, / - so it's smaller Base64).
Could anyone tell me what's the lowest bit number to encode it ? Is 6 bits enough or we need at least 7 ?

2) Notice that queen is not transparent (you can't see chessboard under) except base, where you can clearly see red chess tile (so that you don't mase mistake and assume other colour). Maybe it's important?

3) You say that orange flames are not important. I disagree. If they were not important, she could paint colorful flames more fat? For one thing, they determine the exact place of our 3-coloured friends.

4) What about 6 ribbons on key? Maybe they are some sort of checksum? Like you know, a in Base64 or Q in Base58, when you invented some sort of method to decode chessboard tiles and you stumble apon tile with ribbons on it you can verify?

5) also notice that keyhole along with roots of branches of vines (where they punch through chessboard) are never inside tile, always on borders. Interesting.

That is all for now, I'm going to bed. I have already trouble in work because of this %$#@#$ puzzle, so tomorrow only read some or post but no quality analysis. Fortunatelly I switched off computer during weekend and manage to have a great time with kids, it was worth it.

Nothing wrong with you Rabbit, i can see you, i hope it's not late
I follow you, but i don't have Btc to donate

That always better as he keep hiding behind BTC.
Everything he did great till now. He bring to the world new economic market with huge potential. thank you for that

Men, the one who created this puzzle wouldn't give so many clues like you did.

You also have a problem to write proper english, why should I trust you ?

Do you want Bitcoin cash ?

Who also think this is a troll ?

I counted 45

Hello everyone, could someone verify my data? I'm trying to count this weird colourless flames on the outside (sometimes orange, sometimes yellow?) and my results vary from 44 to 46

lol...

If I were able to get a 256 raw key made of 0s and 1s out of this picture, how would I convert that to a private key to import into blockchain.info?

Can you please have a look at the high definition of the picture published by Coin_artist on Twitter and confirm or deny your message ? You can find it as pinned on her twitter.

I also saw the 2 as well on the first version of the picture (low res), but in the end it was just a jpeg artefact, see my previous message.

the painting isn't just about colors and flames, we have many elements, but if there is a start position for flames then i believe that it should be the lower left G swirl for many reasons: firstly this is the only G that has fire inside it and the flames to the right (bottom edge) is longer and bigger, whereas on left side edge becomes smaller and fewer even they can't cause any harm to the 2 leafs, notice that we have 2 leafs inside left edge and only one inside top edge, in right edge one leaf just touches the edge, and no leafs inside bottom edge, and we have that queen piece melting as the flames in the bottom edge are stronger. lastly i can clearly see number 2 on the upper edge of the lower right G swirl (after zoom in) which refers to the order of G swirls and direction... ((lower left G is the first then lower right then upper right then upper left))


other than the flames direction i found some letters and numbers, i see 4 or 4A or 42 in the middle of upper edge (its clear even without any zoom)... on the phoenix neck there is a cross and after zoom in you can see 4 or 5 letters BA and YR (inverted) on the cross (maybe it refers to colors) to the right i see Ld and to the left of the cross i see Y2Kc or Y21 (above the red spot)

there is F8 on the Dove's wing which refers to the chess square position (F vertical) + (8 Horizental)

we have two keys not just one, the second key with 8 or 9 blue ribbons, and in the white square above the key i see numbers (2822) and even letters 1 c z 2 @ the lower edge of the square.

i don't know why (egg easter) is the name of this painting (there is no egg!!)

coin artist put a hint yesterday on twitter:

here is a pdf copy of that book (Loves Martyr):themathesontrust.org/papers/audio/mysticalpoetry/phoenix-lovesmartyr.pdf

and here is the wiki link to that story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chester_(poet)

Good Luck!

This is my dataset visualized.  Relative positioning between inner/outer track not preserved as I assume bits are meant to be taken track-wise.