Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 48. (Read 108519 times)

I grouped just the lengths by six each on a single line and the pattern pops out:

0 1 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 1 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 0
0 1 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 0 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 1 0 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 0
0 1 1 0 1 1
0 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 1 1 1 1
0 0



No, I count 152 flames in total.  If you look at my post #518, I provided the dataset I am working with.  That probably accounts for the disruption of the pattern in your dataset.  I went over my numbers four times and they always check out for me.

https://books.google.com/books?id=D2xIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=the+love+or+mate+of+another+phoenix&source=bl&ots=5WHf7o9bYQ&sig=EiaAGdkQFMB72M8b-ghEltrWeDQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwid2urYjovYAhWD6CYKHZtXDvgQ6AEwA3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=the%20love%20or%20mate%20of%20another%20phoenix&f=false

This is the page on the left of her new post.

Maybe a new clue from Coin_artist. I will check the image tomorrow, too late here rn.

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

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EDIT: "Please keep in mind that I never said this was a hint." Coin_artist on twitter.

Oh that's sooo funny 

I would not be suprised if this QR code will be the solution :
https://i.imgur.com/VOULE6P.png

Someone just added another 0.001337 BTC to the pot.  I would pay to get the solution at this point. 

@Coin_artist

All I want for Christmas is a clue. You should have included that in your twitter poll

I'm becoming crazy, even found the number 42 on the ribbon's key !

I hope that people without computer skills can also crack this puzzle. Based on my observation 1follow and 1FLAME is a signature prefix found only in a Bitcoin address and is also from vanity address correct me if I'm wrong. To be honest I don't have an idea on this since I am not a computer expert and don't even have a computer unit but I just give it a try because 4.87 BTC is not a joke it is worth millions of local fiat money here in my country.

don't forget that all addresses must start with "1" (or "3"), so "1 in 6" might not be as important as "in 6" or "N6" or even "and 6".  but it probably points to the 6 red ribbons on the key.

I do think the vanity of 1FLAMEN6 should not be ignored, she has always called it by that name, not 1FLAME, so just to reiterate "1 in 6" may be important.

This can not be highlighted enough. Every third post is something where people try to solve this using words, not realizing there is 0% chance it can lead to solution. Author of the puzzle couldn't choose anything arbitrary because we have vanity address to start with, the private key is forced to the author and she had to paint it somehow in the picture.



I would disagree slightly with this. To illustrate I've generated one more vanity addresses that start with 1FLAME:

I don't think that the author used private key in WIF format or BIP38 encoded WIF format. It would be easier for her to use private key in hex or binary format. All private keys in hex are 32 bytes long, meaning they have 64 hex digits [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F], or 256 binary digits [0,1].

If you ask me how she could have encoded these in the picture, maybe there is something in what Regisek hinted few posts above, she used the hex or binary digits as indexes to the chessboard, Regisek nicely noticed size of the chessboard on the picture is 7 x 9 fields, and 7+9=16, exactly as number of digits in hex encoded private key. I'll try to illustrate it like this:



How exactly can flames be used as indexes is anyone's guess.

Crazy and likely irrelevant tangents, but I've been diving into some math and topology to see if there's anything relevant.

The meanders at the corners can only be aligned if you map the 2D image to a non-orientable surface called a klein bottle

Klein bottles are one of the topological maps that a Game of Life game can take for it's map, along with a torus and some other topologies

John Horton Conway was involved in some great mathematical fields, having a type of notation used in knot theory named after him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_notation_(knot_theory)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_theory

The term Meander also has ties to mathematics, describing a non-self intersecting closed curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander_(mathematics)

I've looked around a bit at meander notation and knot notation without success so far
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_knots

The chess game that has been previously mentioned (that matches the number of ivy leaves) was played against a man with the surname Morphy, by the way.

Also, if each leaf pointing to a chess square is associated with two characters, and each leaf pointing to a flame/lack of flame represents one character, we have enough characters to make a minikey. (29+ the S that is leading by default). Each square could have a different combo based on the board orientation, but some are excluded due to allowable characters in base58 notation. Still though, the permutation space is intractable unless we know the order to put the leaves in.

can't hide data in a repeating pattern.  There is a repeating pattern in the heights.

9 (000)short purple red    flames
9 (010)short green  red    flames
21(001)short purple yellow flames
21(011)short green  yellow flames
34(100)long  purple red    flames
26(110)long  green  red    flames
19(111)long  green  yellow flames
13(101)long  purple yellow flames

a little bit of what I was able to extract. maybe we should be focused on the small flames
I have tried brute forcing different combos of binary data to get any useful data but to no avail

I was looking at the key some more and 011010 is equal to 1A in hexadecimal. maybe that is where we should start on the "chess" board

Man i've been lurking in this thread for so long and it just bugged me that i didn't have any clue on where to start but if solving it is as hard as solving the previous coin artist puzzle then i'm out !
Here's a link on how the minecraft puzzle got solved : https://fr.scribd.com/document/359412332/Bitcoin-Puzzle

What make you say she used BIP38 ?

1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd  is a vanity address.  Using a word list is impossible.

She got a random private key similar to this - 5KTVSQgC3Mx1hBWzFSADwYds4L31nbPSNPRQwE1F2GwDfdUjSZK

I found the vanity address 1FLAMEuWQftZ6moQvbAZo5aTqpPbeCrjZj  the above is the private key.

She then encrypted the key using BIP38 and got something similar to this.

6PRN5sGMbcMKzqP1ofE7t4CeMeKmxzSQ6MRfp6cPAGipe1HiF4L9Jf3E2p

This is what is hidden in the flames.  Find 6PR and you get the BTC.

It could be in binary in which case you are looking for this string 00110110 01010000 01010010

Hex is 36 50 52. I don't think it is encoded using hex though.

It could be an Base 64 matrix in which case it could be random.  You can't brute force that.


 

What is that BIP39 wordlist? Possible words for a 12 pass phrase?

Have a good day!

I had this idea of a 12 word seed as key.

So I looked at the Sheakspeare poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45085/the-phoenix-and-the-turtle-56d2246f86c06

And tried to match words with the BIP39 wordlist: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039/english.txt

But I got too many words making impossible to try all combinations.