The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE! - page 68.

RussHarben

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Quote from: micaman on September 18, 2014, 01:36:41 PM

Quote from: RussHarben on September 18, 2014, 01:26:56 PM

Quote from: zonkism on September 18, 2014, 01:19:22 PM

This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information. I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

Right...that gets you this... http://i.imgur.com/aqPJDJB.png ...but how does that lead you to http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/ ?

Add the first serial number to the url, http://whit3r4bbi7.com/428697, it will redirect to /warp/.

Perfect, thank you. I figured it had something to do with the serial number.

micaman

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Quote from: RussHarben on September 18, 2014, 01:26:56 PM

Quote from: zonkism on September 18, 2014, 01:19:22 PM

This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information. I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

Right...that gets you this... http://i.imgur.com/aqPJDJB.png ...but how does that lead you to http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/ ?

Add the first serial number to the url, http://whit3r4bbi7.com/428697, it will redirect to /warp/.

RussHarben

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Quote from: zonkism on September 18, 2014, 01:19:22 PM

This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information. I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

Right...that gets you this... http://i.imgur.com/aqPJDJB.png ...but how does that lead you to http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/ ?

zonkism

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This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information. I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

RussHarben

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Quote from: goose20 on September 18, 2014, 07:30:56 AM

Is the 4.33 btc bounty some how conected with this error 433 or are there clues in his discussions with The Madhatter?

A clarification...the bounty in 1TLSNYAx5P6Yjie3cF97fZh9U4B5UZ7PF is currently 4.34734734 BTC.

Quote from: itod on September 17, 2014, 05:59:38 PM

RussHarben you are right, I've got it:

http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/

Also, I assume this was covered in the IRC channel last night, but can anyone explain how decoding the printer steganography dots led to finding http://www.whit3r4bbi7.com/warp?

shorena

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No I dont escrow anymore.

Since I am basically at the sidelines this time: Wow!

rock_collector

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I fixed the formatting of the ASCII, I see a face:

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Nice! The face can be viewed in two ways. As a profile, it looks like our friend Ramses from whiterabbit.mp4.

mirth23

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Quote from: alphabetacanary on September 17, 2014, 11:57:50 PM

I'm not sure if the binary 118 betwen the 1st and 2nd DISABLE was mentioned already.

ascii(118) => "v" ... perhaps for v0.3.19

Quote from: itod on September 18, 2014, 04:36:02 AM

More intriguing than that 1110110 are those dots between second and third DISABLE.

aren't those dots just the locations of the characters that turn into the sourceforge address?

goose20

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Some interesting reading of satoshi's earliest posts.

In one (a discussion with The Madhatter) he writes:
"I see, that would happen with multiple nodes using the same NAT or VPN or some ISP that funnels everyone through a few proxy servers. I just committed a fix to SVN for this. If it gets "433" name already in use (it was error 433, right?), it'll retry with a non-address random username".

Is the 4.33 btc bounty some how conected with this error 433 or are there clues in his discussions with The Madhatter?

itod

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^ Will code for Bitcoins

Regarding "0.3.19" and "DISABLE" in the picture, what's announced to be disabled in that version, in referenced Satoshi's last post on this forum, is "safe mode":

Quote

- Removed "safe mode" alerts
"safe mode" alerts was a temporary measure after the 0.3.9 overflow bug. We can say all we want that users can just run with "-disablesafemode", but it's better just not to have it for the sake of appearances. It was never intended as a long term feature. Safe mode can still be triggered by seeing a longer (greater total PoW) invalid block chain.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.29479

luckyknc

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Nice! We can use some ideas for our project https://bitcoinstarter.com/projects/982 thanks!

itod

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^ Will code for Bitcoins

Quote from: alphabetacanary on September 17, 2014, 11:57:50 PM

I'm not sure if the binary 118 betwen the 1st and 2nd DISABLE was mentioned already.

More intriguing than that 1110110 are those dots between second and third DISABLE.

alphabetacanary

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I created an image out of the warp text. Colors are arbitrary.

I'm not sure if the binary 118 betwen the 1st and 2nd DISABLE was mentioned already.

cryptoqueen

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Quote from: juju on September 17, 2014, 10:43:13 PM

Quote from: RussHarben on September 17, 2014, 09:27:40 PM

Fantastic work everyone! It was fun surreptitiously checking my phone tonight during my boring work dinner and see the new revelations roll in.

Has anyone noticed the capital letters in the poem? Something seems to be going on there, but the pattern is strange.

Code:

Standing alone, A loving bee. SA
Today we Live, Ode to the Free. TO LF
Some will think, He is dead. SH
Is that Truth, Never misread. IN T

All that are lost, Know the future. AK
Aeons will fly, Man will Alter. AM A
All your heart, To the mislead. AT
Open your eyes, Give them Bread. OG

Ode to no one Ode to the Free. OO F
Death may come, Black may be. DB
You will love, Eclipsed you will be. YE
Fortunes foretold, Rich men will cease. FR

I am not gone. Encrypted and free. IE
Nodes run wild, Dawn of the Bees. ND B
I Will Never For... IWNF

SATOSHI NAKAMOTO GOODBYE FRIEND Sad

this sounds very sad

I fixed the formatting of the ASCII, I see a face:

http://i.imgur.com/JNfSqP3.png

juju

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Quote from: RussHarben on September 17, 2014, 09:27:40 PM

Fantastic work everyone! It was fun surreptitiously checking my phone tonight during my boring work dinner and see the new revelations roll in.

Has anyone noticed the capital letters in the poem? Something seems to be going on there, but the pattern is strange.

Code:

Standing alone, A loving bee. SA
Today we Live, Ode to the Free. TO LF
Some will think, He is dead. SH
Is that Truth, Never misread. IN T

All that are lost, Know the future. AK
Aeons will fly, Man will Alter. AM A
All your heart, To the mislead. AT
Open your eyes, Give them Bread. OG

Ode to no one Ode to the Free. OO F
Death may come, Black may be. DB
You will love, Eclipsed you will be. YE
Fortunes foretold, Rich men will cease. FR

I am not gone. Encrypted and free. IE
Nodes run wild, Dawn of the Bees. ND B
I Will Never For... IWNF

SATOSHI NAKAMOTO GOODBYE FRIEND Sad

this sounds very sad

RussHarben

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And the 0.3.19 announcement was satoshi's last post on bitcointalk....

https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/satoshi-3

RussHarben

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Fantastic work everyone! It was fun surreptitiously checking my phone tonight during my boring work dinner and see the new revelations roll in.

Has anyone noticed the capital letters in the poem? Something seems to be going on there, but the pattern is strange.

Code:

Standing alone, A loving bee. SA
Today we Live, Ode to the Free. TO LF
Some will think, He is dead. SH
Is that Truth, Never misread. IN T

All that are lost, Know the future. AK
Aeons will fly, Man will Alter. AM A
All your heart, To the mislead. AT
Open your eyes, Give them Bread. OG

Ode to no one Ode to the Free. OO F
Death may come, Black may be. DB
You will love, Eclipsed you will be. YE
Fortunes foretold, Rich men will cease. FR

I am not gone. Encrypted and free. IE
Nodes run wild, Dawn of the Bees. ND B
I Will Never For... IWNF

mirth23

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lots of IRC activity that I'll summarize briefly. all characters in the thing are accounted for.

a hidden poem that snakes around the grid (me):

Code:

Standing alone, A loving bee.
Today we Live, Ode to the Free.
Some will think, He is dead.
Is that Truth, Never misread.

All that are lost, Know the future.
Aeons will fly, Man will Alter.
All your heart, To the mislead.
Open your eyes, Give them Bread.

Ode to no one Ode to the Free.
Death may come, Black may be.
You will love, Eclipsed you will be.
Fortunes foretold, Rich men will cease.

I am not gone. Encrypted and free.
Nodes run wild, Dawn of the Bees.
I Will Never For...

a remaining chunk of text translates into a link to the original bitcoin paper (frisco / micaman)

Code:

h t : / o r e o g . e / r j c s b t o
n f l s D s g 0 a e / i c i . d /
t p / s u c f r e n t p o e t / i c i
/ i e / e i n 2 P p r b t o n p f

==> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Design%20Paper/bitcoin.pdf

there's also 'DISABLE ....... DISABLE DISABLE' and '0.3.19' in the image (lots of people saw this immediately), which may refer to v 0.3.19 of bitcoin: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Changelog#0.3.19.5B22.5D (frisco)

whit3r4bbi7.com/ is other remaining text, vertically in the poem

the last characters are the bitcoin genesis wallet (micaman)

Code:

1 1 P e 5 G f 2 M T T 5 L v D v N
A z 1 P Q e i D P f L S m 7 i f a

==> https://blockchain.info/address/1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

I think the next step is to find another internal link on whit3r4bbi7.com based on the above clues.

other outstanding stuff:
* the hex from the 404 page on the site
* QR code in note.png
* noise covering Th____ in alpha.mp4

rock_collector

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WoW, you guys!! Amazing, great job!

FableOfTheBees

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Quote from: itod on September 17, 2014, 04:13:07 AM

Quote from: TR3N47Y on September 14, 2014, 06:50:40 AM

There may or may not be bitcoin along the entire trail.

It's very probable we have an answer to this question. Many people believe that this 0.3BTC is a teaser left along the trail:
https://blockchain.info/address/1BZ3wRijRMcZ5u85fkPUgtpX3gbqBSEvQJ
and that below is the private key in picture form:
http://i.imgur.com/owvrOnU.png

I've run this tool https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ on the above image and I got this: http://imgur.com/aqPJDJB

It's the same date as BTC genesis block creation.

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