Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 53. (Read 108519 times)

This is an old puzzle that is still ongoing. Many have tried and many have failed.
The answer to the puzzle is the private key to the address that contains the bitcoin prize.

This is the address in question: 1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd

If you are successful, you yourself will take your prize.

Good luck.  

Im sorry for the possible inconvenient post, but I found this puzzle very intriguing and would like to join. But I would like to know first who guarantees that this prize is going to be handled to the winner?

This has been a very fascinating read, and although I can't contribute anything (yet), I lost a bunch of sleep tonight (this morning?) catching up. Thanks for that. 

Here is what I got for the odd flame heights in the same order as the pattern.

0101010100110000111100001101101010111111111100010000111101111110101100001101

I have run it through a few scripts and cannot get anything useful out of it.  If you break it up into groups of 4 and assign letters to them, I still don't see anything useful.

0101 0101 0011 0000 1111 0000 1101 1010 1011 1111 1111 0001 0000 1111 0111 1110 1011 0000 1101

I I N E F E V V T F F S E F A R T E D  <--- This is the best one I got.

There has got to be something hidden in the odd flame heights.  It wouldn't make sense to use the colors because you need those for the private key.

I converted the 0's and 1's to morse code and tried that as well. 

.-.-.-.-..--....----....--.--.-.-.----------...-....----.------.-.--....--.-

ARCANE IONS MAKE TWO MOVES ONTO MAP I WET. 

It looks like pig pen cipher to me.  The last word on the 2nd line is 'DECORATING'.

The hidden messages use characters similar to the ones found here:
    https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/unsolved_puzzle.pdf
But the image quality is too poor to clearly make them out:

So I'm not sure if a group of us stumbled on to an old puzzle or if we discovered a new one?  Amounts are similar (5 btc vs 4.87).... I think we may have just stumbled into the middle of an old puzzle but not sure. :/

Some clues we found:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/5-btc-treasure-hunt-any-info-1329672

An observation:

Traverse the flames in this order:

   outer top, outer right, outer bottom, outer left
   inner left, inner bottom, inner right, inner top

If you number the flames starting at 1, then every even numbered flame's length produces this consistent pattern all around the image:

0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 ....  (short = 0, tall = 1)

The 011 pattern repeats 25 times but only for the lengths.

The odd lengths (the bits between the 011 pattern) seem random and all color bits seem random too.

So the information encoded in the lengths cannot possibly be part of a private key (at least not the even numbered ones). 

This suggests to me that the bits of the private key have been interleaved in the inner/outer colors of the flames.  Perhaps the pattern is there to indicate how to rearrange the bits back into order?

Also note that if you take the first 6 lengths of the outer top in this
order:

 2 4 6 1 3 5

You get: 0 1 1 0 1 0

Which is the same pattern we see in the lengths of the 6 ribbons in the image. (2 4 6 5 3 1 would also work)  In fact, the ribbon pattern also has the 0 1 1 pattern for it's even numbered ribbons.

This suggests a length of 6 is significant.

I count 456 bits of information in total (98 inner flames + 54 outer flames each flame carrying 3 bits of information : length, outer color, inner color)

But 456 bits is much more than is needed for a private key.  You need either:

 1) 256 bits for a raw key; or

 2) 296 bits for a wallet import formatted key (uncompressed); or

 3) 304 bits for a wallet import formatted key (compressed)

If we omit the pattern which we know can't be part of the private key, that leaves 380 bits.  However, the color encoding part contains 304 bits which is just enough to encode 38 bytes (the right number for an compressed wallet import formatted key). 
 
My guess is the lengths are there to show how to un-jumble the color bits back into place.

Another new one: https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/662438552546836481

LOL you really made me laugh

It's hard to tell whether those ports are open for whit3r4bbi7.com or another site because it's behind some kind of proxy. Looks like a shared hosting situation. It's also possible to get to the cpanel admin login for the site, but that's probably outside the bounds of the puzzle.

The video resulted in next step. That's the problem when no detailed log of successful step exists, people are doing the same work over and over.

grr i rebuilt the QR Code on this image:
https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/613560370272153600

had to rebuild it with pixels and reverse the image change all black to white and vice versa to get it to work,
and the result was http://www.whit3r4bbi7.com/

to login:
User: Kevin_Flynn Password: Games?_You_want_games?_I'll_give_you_games...

grr thought i was gonna find something new, perhaps she's hinting we start back at that video that the other puzzlers missed something...

I think a handful are still trying silently.  I am.

And another question: Is there a place where people are discussing this new puzzle? Nobody does it here, LTB forums are dead, seems there are no attempts to solve this. Is that so, or many people are trying it quietly?

Aww, this QR puzzle is very nice! But I'm did not understand, if I must continue to play with resulting string, or I missed something on picture. Got two keys but they are unused. Hope it not solved ATM. Good luck!

I counted 26 different variations on the flames around the outside.  I only found a couple that are split.  Maybe they are supposed to be middle.

inner color / outer color
Tall or short
inner flame (left curl/middle/right curl/split)



Again this has something to do with the 1886 Chess game that ended in 17 moves played by bird.  (17 leaves on the vine)


The game is called "Bird without a nest".

Coin Artist now has a simpler contest for folks like you  
https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/622851401798909952

So is this challege still going on? I still see a balance of almost 5btc here:
https://blockchain.info/address/1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd

look up a few posts