Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 56. (Read 108521 times)

I have tried all possible combinations that you can get from the inner flames a week ago (3bits and 4bits per flame).
I also covered all starting points and cross-checked the resulting private keys with all public keys involved in the game.
I had no positive results.

unless the 99 is NOT a flame but something else. or a flame within the picture not on the border.. just saying

Thanks.  What I mean by the line is if you look at some flames they are filled with fire, and some just have a thin line of color through the middle. Also I think this is just the beginning, like I think we need to find a message in the flames that will lead us somewhere, and its possible that the flames aren't hiding the private key. I can't believe no one has found any message so far hidden in this pic. Damn this is a tough one.

Here's a follow up to my last post on what the different animals/objects in the picture would look like in conway's game of life.

There are 98 flames on the inside border. A Base6 private key is 99 characters [0-5]. We can label each unique flame with a base 6 char.

0
1
2
3
4
5

There should be 6 combinations of each flame so we must reduce the 16 combos to 6 if possible.

I don't know why there are 98 flames instead of 99! Unless I'm not counting correctly

I like your idea, but I'm having trouble looking for the line inside the flame. How many line inside flames are there?

I think a Hex format of the private key is best because of the 16 combinations you found. We can label each unique flame with a hex character. I don't know why there are more than 64 flames which is the number of chars in a hex private key

YPLS 0
YPFS 1
YPLT 2
YPFT 3

YGFS 4
YGLT 5
YGLS 6
YGFT 7

RPLT 8
RPFT 9
RPFS A
RPLS B

RGFT C
RGFS D
RGLT E
RGLS F

If you rotate the picture, some of the white squares look like flowers at the end of the vines.
The vine + flower look like Ipomoea Alba, also known as Moonflower

Has access for new players been turned off?
The token page says "token already sent", but the token is not coming through

edit+: of course it came just after posting this

The Game of Life hints have already been used to solve a previous part of the puzzle. We were required to input the rabbit pattern from the gif you mentioned into a provided GoL simulator to get the next clue. Read through this thread to find out how to get into the Let's Talk Bitcoin secret forum - there's more information there.

The Game of Life Hypothesis

Going to take another angle here so bare with me. In the posts before the picture was released there were other clues, including references to Conway’s Game of Life. Especially in a series of frames where you can see clear examples of at least two different kinds of “gliders”. One going left/down, the other going right down...there may be a third as well.

In any case if you stretch the game of life into this new picture what formations do we have that are represented by the phoenix, dove, vines, knight, queen, and beacon.

You get something like this:

The Phoenix -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sADzf5yh3U and http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Phoenix_1

The (Turtle) Dove - http://www.radicaleye.com/lifepage/picgloss/picgloss.html and http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Cigar, or http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Turtle

The Vines – no known GofL object? (Possibly a representation of tying everything but the beacon together, since the vines don’t touch the beacon but everything else.)

The Knight – http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Types_of_spaceships#Knightship

The Queen - http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Queen_bee_shuttle

The Beacon - http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Beacon

So let’s recap here. We have five of the six elements in the picture represented also in Conway’s Game of Life, which was alluded to before. Now this could be due to coincidence, perhaps I am really stretching here.

But what if our queen bee coin artist created a simulation in the Game of Life based upon the arrangement of these five elements. What if she somehow created a private key from that physical arrangement. Is that even possible? this guy probably knows: http://robmyers.org/

He’s one of the ones who “Made this possible” and has worked on representing bitcoin transactions as game of life sequences http://robmyers.org/blockchain-aesthetics/

So if it is the case that a private key was created from the organization of these five elements in the game of life, the process would have to be reverse engineered. How? who the fuck knows, maybe the flames offer some direction on this.

In any case, I’m tempted to map out the above simulation and report back. Should be fun/insane.

Here's my idea, though i'm not patient enough to run all the variations

There flames are actually coded in 16 combinations

Yellow
Red
Purple (could be blue my screen is weird)
Green

Tall
Short
Line inside
Fill Inside

so one flame for example = YPLS  Yellow/Purple Line Short,
thus here all all the combinations

YPLS
YPFS
YPLT
YPFT

YGFS
YGLT
YGLS
YGFT

RPLT
RPFT
RPFS
RPLS

RGFT
RGFS * appears once only hmm
RGLT
RGLS

so each set of parameters could be a baconion cypher, or the flames themselves could be individual letters or numbers, Ucase lcase etc.

On another note, if i zoom in in photoshop on the strange white uneven border, and adjust my levels high, i see some patterns in the noise of the white border, could be just a jpeg artifiact, but figured i'd show you. Here's just  a small cropping from the upperleft corner of the image

http://imgur.com/WTTieOB

3rd idea, if we want to get really crazy, is that she actually wrote all the characters on the painting. I see FO on the dove, an L and d on the Phoenix, a large black C in the darkest black square and possibly a 3 on the bottom of the queen inside the red triangle.....

As have been said before private key in this specific case is a random number (due to the vanity address) over which she had no control, so private key could not be derived from anything including physical arrangement of the objects, only the other way around, objects could be arranged according to the private key.

Edit:
Just saw now dalek beat me to the explanation

The private key corresponds to a vanity address, so the data has to be derived from the private key.

I just got a QR code to recognize from the pigeon part of the picture.
I can get it to recognize a QR code multiple times but the identified data is different each time.

Could be that there is something there, but its not fully cleaned out yet, or its just a fluke.

here's what I did:


I then opened the picture in Irfan view, decreased the color depth to 2, and tried my phones QRDroid on the different parts of the picture

the first time the value was: : 18795394
the second time the value was: 15034831
third time: 18270434

the image is here: http://i.imgur.com/eGli3ta.png

I have no idea what assets are, let alone "LEAT" asset. Must be one of those Counterparty nonsenses. OP made clear that she is pulling this step to the public, out of the Counterparty system so everyone can play it, so very likely those "assets" have nothing to do with the solution.

Did anybody notice that the address: 1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd has almost all "LEAT" assets?

https://counterpartychain.io/address/1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd

The LEAT asset was issued by: 15gD7jaeRUVJqdc3UCHJThKgVPZa4cGr4f
which seems to love to issue assest.

Do you think that is relevant?

I never said I give up on this puzzle.
Just taking a coffee break and decided to post the QR for levity.

You've spent a whole few hours on the puzzle, give up, and decided to pull up a joke? Some persistence ...

So, after many hours of attempting to figure out this puzzle,
I was able to find this within the picture, which seems to be the next step.
This QR code was created from the painting, importing directly into the QR software.

It is not a private key or address, but a message for the players of this game.  



EDIT: corrected spelling errors

this isn't her first contest. and her real name has been mentioned in the press relating to this contest, so it would be a lot of negative press if this one wasn't legit.