Topic: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 6. (Read 108519 times)

Hi,

How did you interpret the width channel?
See post #1410 for my problem (also quoted below).

The flame width mentioned by smracer in previous post is one of the 4 flames I had trouble with.

In fact, now that I see the output of your code, I also had the very first flame wrong, for me it is narrow.

Very nice.  I see flame 37 you have listed as fat.  If you put it as skinny it makes a space instead of a NULL character.  I'm guessing that was a a mistake in the painting?

First off, thanks to CoinArtist and Rob Myers. I had lots of fun and met many new friends! I will enjoy your future work.


That was actually my work, but I was working with crax0r and others. We even figured out that the 0 is probably the MSB of the reassembled data... on Jan 2! Kind of kicking myself on that one, because we knew what it meant but didn't fully explore it. Kind of lost sight of it afterwards in favor of chasing down other possibilities.

https://i.imgur.com/1aaSJyF.png

You'll note that the keyfile message & code I posted was a distant variation of the actual solution. We tried both xor-ing the streams sequentially and reassembling all flame bits first. We were incredibly close in some of our attempts, as were many others. I actually had code that would've brute forced the actual solution, except we had excluded the blob data track. If we had included that track the search would've found the key. Beyond that, the biggest misstep for us was putting any stock whatsoever in the rest of the clues. It turns out that virtually everything in the puzzle was a red herring. Literally every clue, except the key, was completely pointless.

• 1FLAMEN6 - means nothing
• Phoenix, dove, knight, queen - nothing
• Chess board - nothing
• Leaves - NOTHING!
• Weird flames - nothing
• Mirrored bits - nothing
• Tweets from coinartist - nothing
• Spirals - mostly nothing (small indication of order)
• Poem by coinartist - nothing
• Blue squares - nothing
• Flames on chess board - nothing
• Phoenix spikes - nothing
• Dove tail - nothing
• Weird queen bottom - nothing
• Melting queen - nothing

Overall I'm a little disappointed in the solution. It appears there was no trail of clues or anything to lead you to the answer. You simply had to guess at how to decode it. Looking at the number of combinations to find the correct solution, assuming you knew that the puzzle was created like this: flame_split(xor(WIF+string,011010)) and making no assumptions about the path, direction, value of flames, or order of the flame bits, you get this:

• Order of bits - 4!
• Flame 1/0 value =  2*2*2*2
• Order of segments - 8!
• Direction of segments 2^8

Combinations: 3,963,617,280

And that's if you KNOW the solution method but make no other assumptions. It's not very surprising why it took 3 years to solve. Add the part where you don't know the actual solution, all the red herring clues and thousands of possible methods to encode a private key. That turns the number of combinations well into trillions. Without legitimate clues leading to the solution it seems kind of arbitrary.

Oh well, onto the next thing. Looks like everyone is working on neon district?

In case anyone wanted to see how to solve it, I have written a python script using the solution posted here that decodes the flames.

https://github.com/ynohtna92/1FLAMEN6

You can test it here by copying and pasting the code into the online shell https://www.python.org/shell/

Exactly - Dec[decimal point]14  

BTW, 12 (month) + 14 (day) = 26[full stop, not decimal point]

Dude, if you're not gonna think outside the box, at least keep the flaps closed, for the air conditioner is running. 

Sorry that 'dec' was supposed to mean decimal

Well, nothing really happened on Dec. 14, 2017, except this --> https://blockchain.info/tx/90566d0c25472a26b349f1bd0729edc609bfe694a4907702c1fa019b3f746052 

That article was a good read, but now I’m even more puzzled at the results I’ve got with a flawed (and somewhat convoluted) approach I’ve tried lately. Maybe it’s because I’m still a noob and just underestimated the likelihood of randomly finding anagrams that seemed to be related to the puzzle?

Anyway since my nonsense results still fascinate me, I thought I'd share them. (sorry for the wall of text and possible bad english; tldr at the end)

The first thing I’ve noticed in the flames was the ribbon pattern to the right of the keyhole in the innercolor stream (green/blue sequence), so I’ve decided to start at that position and translate the binary data (6 bits at a time) to a few different alphabets. While most streams still didn’t make sense the start of the length bits in base58 caught my attention which read ‚25MVP252525Vwnnngpn‘.
That ‚MVP‘ was only 2 letters off from ‚ORX‘ but since it’s base58 and that alphabet is missing some letters like capital O it could not be a Caesarian cipher also the end of the string didn’t make much sense either. Even as I was pretty sure that the ORX was likely just a coincidence I’ve decided to run it through Vigenere to see what key would be necessary for that output…. to my surprise the result was ‚YES‘….
After collecting my brain, wich got splattered across the room, I was back to thinking that this still has to be happenstance but just to be sure I’ve run the same algo on each of those streams from every starting position in both directions which gave me strings like „21SIHFTBY22JBDO“ - shift by? still could be random... end of that string does not make sense either again… but then I’ve found ‚YXEHPNIXO‘ (yx phoenix) in the outer flames length stream. Not only that but the starting position was also somewhat funny, as it was the beginning of a 19 bit long match with the inner flames length and the point where the outer flames go around the corner has also been signified by a leaf in the inner flames

https://i.imgur.com/goR7hi2.jpg

There have been a few more strings in the other streams which seemed to make somewhat sense at the time like ‚TBCNIYTRZSUDT‘ (try in btc dust z).

Something else that somewhat stood out to me, that I have not seen mentioned yet, are the numbers on the image: 1000 (dec 8) on the dove’s tail, 11110 (30) on the head of the phoenix and 111 (7) on his hand(?), 44 (also the startpositon of the ribbon pattern next to the keyhole) in the flames above the blue colored E (dec 14), 3E (62) at the base of the queen and of course the pattern from the ribbon 011010 (dec 26)
Except for the numbers on the phoenix all of those numbers are divisible by 6 if you subtract 2 from them.

While it was obviously the wrong approach it still was a lot of fun and the whole puzzle has blown my mind away more than once.

tldr: translating those flames (6 bits at a time) to base58 and applying Vigenere with key ‚YES‘ on the output results in some funny strings.

what the fuck have i just read! is this the solution to what so called The legend of satoshi nakamato?!!
@ytcoinartist Really?! seriously?! are you kidding us?!!


Thanks God that i didn't invest time and effort in this big troll shit (just a few hours though)
but after i read that solution i knew why all those genius solvers were not able to find the right way,
because simply you were trolling them with that image filled with clutter and symbols!

What about those 17 leaves and their directions and placement on the chessboard?!
what about that 7×9 Fuckboard?!
what about the queen? the knight? the phoenix and turtle dove? the blue color tiles? the transparent bottom of the queen? the vines and all those characters and symbols scattered everywhere includig that BIG E in the middle? what about all of this image?!!

this puzzle turned to be nothing more than decoding flames and nothing else needed!! just the flames!
you can give this biggest troll ever made other names like: FUCKING HEARTS, TROLLING HEARTS,
HEARTS OF COIN-ARTIST... anything except legend of satoshi nakamato!
is this puzzle a legend?!

what kind of stupidity is that to use just the flames to encode the key?
That stupidity and the trolling effect of all this image and symbols is the real reason why it lasted more than 3 years,,, not the difficulty at all.
the previous puzzle with much much more complexity took only few weeks for the genius who solved it, but this one is the most stupid thing i've seen!

of course i am not talking about your art, the painting itself is really of a great quality, its a masterpiece, i was really thinking to buy something like this if it was in limited quantities or something like collector edition.

and of course i am not talking about your other works, this is my first experience in puzzles and i don't have that much knowldge in ciphers and programming to success, but this puzzle is just for someone lucky! nothing needed more than luck, just luck!

i would say congratulations for the lucky winner who won the lotto!
i am sure there were many genius guys who have tried their best from the beginnig and invested too much time and effort in this Troll, i feel really sorry for them, i imagine if i was one of them i would feel like breaking down this painting over your head!

if you read some of the posts you'll see how far you troll the solvers in your rubbit hole all that time.
look for example these posts:  post  #1370   #1406  #1305

Those guys are genius!, i am really amazed by how far they've reached and how they think out of the box to solve a puzzle supposed to be a legend with too many elements and deep thinking, but they failed just because of the stupidity integrated in this puzzle and only one way that needeed luck!

i sent merits to those guys and i encourage anyone here to read their posts and sent them merits, they deserve a little reward!

i apologise for that guy (kreeoz) as i called him scammer because i was skeptical of that 1st feb date.
i am sorry dude, and your way of thinking was really amazing, in fact the puzzle should be created in the same way you showed us!

i also apologise for @ytcoinartist herself calling her scammer, obviously you are not, and i don't have any proof, but you really have been trolling those genius solvers all that time with this puzzle so be sure in the future to think carefully before you make such a thing.

i am not that bad guy, i really feel sorry for all you guys, i'll be sure to delete all those posts.
i was trolled by that White-x-rabbit and that image about WR in the first post of this topic, but it wasn't just my mistake, the puzzle itself was trolling us, his claims that he knows the author and all that trolling stuff he posted and even without any response from coin-artist or the real author.
they can simply step in and tell us that he is trolling us and they don't know him.

anyway, i would say again that i am so sorry for any mistake and all the bad stuff that i've made.

Closer than you thought. You also had Beauty on the list, albeit the phrase was “B34u7y, truth, and rarity.”

I'm leaning toward that phrase and “TORCHED H34R7S” having something to do with whatever is supposedly remains to be uncovered, supposedly left by Isaac who supposedly left other clues in the two bitcoin transactions returned to IFLAMEN6.

Funny how the amount sent to Justin virtually equals the chump change sent to 1FLAMEN6 by Isaac aka "he will laugh" the day before ...

https://twitter.com/jtobcat/status/959872508462817281


Even funnier is what's written on Justin's shirt --> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fitch

Quasi-aside, for those suffering depression because the puzzle has been solved or that The Scream was stolen (recovered but damaged), contact the following fellow sleuth and world traveler ...

http://www.naswil.org/volunteer/volunteers/justin-tobin/


I think I'll leave this here as well (not to be confused with polecat aka fitch) ...

TOBCAT: INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS OF OBJECT CATEGORIZATION

Object detection is already wildly spread in industrial applications as far as the appearance of the object is fixed (size, shape, color,... ). Using simple image processing techniques like pixel value thresholding and pattern matching, known objects can be recognized in real time in 2D images.

Excuse me, why is it in that exact order? the beginning is because the rabbit looks at that side, right?
It would be great for someone to do a step by step with images haha PS: The best puzzle.

Oh, and congratulations to those of you who were *actually* on the right path. Though people made fun of *me*, I owe you all an apology for how I privately reacted.

Not really, I think that after the first few steps, there are a lot of different directions to go. And I don't think of the images as my art. I think of the image as interactive art.

Thank you I will tell her. But I know what will be the response: computer graphics is not necessarily her means and besides - it would just be a copy of your art.

Pan Troglodytes: For some reason when I try to quote anyone, I'm unable to. However, thank you for acknowledging that there was something to find. I'm crazy, for sure, but hopefully in a "productive member of society" kind of way.

But as for that beauty, working through this puzzle, even if I was on the wrong path, was often sublime. I've had so-called mystical experiences (I'm an agnostic, so don't put much weight on them), but this puzzle shows that coin_artist knows her stuff.

I'm not talking directly to her because I think she'd prefer that we explore it all on our own without dragging her in. The fun really is in the exploration, and a true artist prefers to let others do the interpretation.

If your wife wants to explore the image, I'd recommend the tiff version. The jpeg worked fine, but became pixellated a few dozen steps in, and the detail in the tiff is worth a slow computer.

The person who was tipped wasn’t close to me. But one of the many people who have randomly sent me a dm on telegram to prod me about the puzzle. Im always paying attention. There were other Bitcoin Easter eggs along the trail, not just the grand prize. It is true that one person claimed the prize, and they shared it with the person that they felt helped them. He was working with Trinitas in a private solving group, that’s also  been working on other puzzles. I saw their screenshots of their messages back and forth, as did Rob and the journalist. The comment that tipped the solver off was the conversation he had with Trinitas in the private group chat.

as I said before it is definitely not my thing and I would not have followed, but surely I am impressed. But I shared your images with my wife who is an artist and she just cannot believe the beauty of it all.

Having said that, I really must admit I can see the queen and the cheshire cat and all those things really are in there.

Hello,

I just read the solution article and even with it I had troubles finding the private key. Either there are mistakes in the flame width channel or I did not understand which part of the flame is supposed to be narrow or wide.

I bruteforced the message I found with random permutations until it contained a valid WIF private key. I had 4 bits which did not match in the flame width channel. Here are the 4 flames to which they correspond.

https://i.imgur.com/QH1aSpq.jpg

I've written next to them what they are supposed to be, but I had the opposite value in my dataset. Can someone please explain why these flames are supposed to be narrow/wide? Especially why the two top ones are supposed to be narrow? Isn't it the width of the inner color which matters?

EDIT: the wrong flames were circled in the first posted image

Part Two of my exploration of the Rabbit Hole (wrong approach) is up. There are some images that I think even the biggest skeptics would find hard to dismiss.

I obviously know I was on the wrong path, but there are some very real, and very cool images in this puzzle. I don't think I've even scratched the surface.

https://yetzirah-games.squarespace.com/blog/2018/2/3/the-legend-of-satoshi-nakamoto-part-2-the-rabbit-hole

me too I was 6 Excel cells away from the solution (48 possibilities in there). I think not only we were close. As I said in my previous post, the solution was imminent. Of course I know it only now (after I know the proper solution). Not knowing that - I was not in a hurry, really, just progressing slowly  

Reading that article was the worst experience in a few years for me ... I had hoped I was far away .... But no