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Hi friends,

Another treasure hunt is underway n the Bitcoin community as members seek to crack a puzzle hidden in an image that resembles a “word cloud”.

The image was posted earlier this week on the Bitcoin subreddit by new user cryptogreetings, who informed excited readers that one whole Bitcoin (currently worth $8300) was up for grabs for whoever could figure it out. At face value, the image is a word cloud of words and numbers taken from Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakomoto’s whitepaper, all different sizes and overlapping each other.

The words “blocks”, “transaction,” “attacker” can be seen among dozens of others, with the Bitcoin symbol superimposed on top, creating a white area.

Full article : https://www.ccn.com/theres-1-bitcoin-hidden-in-this-puzzle-and-whoever-solves-it-wins/amp/

Bitcoin address : https://blockchain.info/address/37XTVuaWt1zyUPRgDDpsnoo5ioHk2Da6Fs


https://i.redditmedia.com/NdLEoUJCqNLlZFQBKEr7lxTK-PKQjqi5FtBM8k5lqs8.png?fit=crop&crop=faces%2Centropy&arh=2&w=960&s=f513458136760e0db27fe467b5117dee

this is very difficult to do in people who have not enough science in solving puzzles like this, this is the work of a group of professionals

Yes sure and that is why it is worth a bitcoin .

a hard puzzle that why a bitcoin

I have spent over 15 hours solving this puzzle but couldn't even get a clue nor am i able to understand the clue given by the host . ;D

it may have no solution
Or the solution is forever known only to the creator.

Normally these types of puzzles require cryptographic knowledge to solve, and since you immediately have no idea where to even begin, then I doubt you had any chance of solving it to begin with.

Also, you have to consider that this problem was designed for tens to thousands of minds to work on, as such it will probably take a cross-disciplinary approach to solve it, as there were likely multiple people involved in its creation too.

So you mean people who have cryptographic knowledge can only solve this ?

it is a bitcoin related puzzle so you have to have some knowledge about the cryptography that is used in bitcoin at the very least. for example one possibility is that there is a BIP39 seed hidden among these words, so you have to know how seeds work, what clues to look for, how many words there are in a seed, the checksum,... in order to figure it out. and that is just one of the simplest possibilities to solve this, there may be many other more complicated ones.

Hmm.... but the simple way that you said to me seems to be very complicated

since you immediately have no idea where to even begin, then I doubt you had any chance of solving it to begin with. thanks you

This sounds very very interesting and I really wants to try this out. If anyone is paying a whole bitcoin for solving a puzzle then it will be like winning a lottery game and I seriously wants to try to solve this puzzle but I don’t think that this news is possible because bitcoin is very high valuation crypto currency and it is about worth 8300$ so how could one pay such a huge amount for solving a puzzle but if this news is true then I would like to try my Kuch and wants to solve this puzzle at once.

All the best mate!! :)

according to your price report which is about $1000 or a week older than the current price it seems like you are really unaware of things that are going on in bitcoin world and it is not just limited to bitcoin price :D
there has been a lot of puzzles like this in the past and many of them have given away a lot higher amounts than this. there was a 32BTC puzzle if i am not mistaken recently. there was another 0.5BTC one last year which was a bunch of pictures each pointing to a single letter in a private key and many others like this. 1 bitcoin isn't that much for many of early adopters!

I can not do this puzzle, because I'm not an expert

looks like bitcoin advertising done right to attract more peoples comes to bitcoin.
this should be cracked by peoples who have knowledge about bitcoin wallet and key soon.
Good luck for decrypting the picture above.  ;D

I do not believe in these things. BTC games are often scam

May be but there are such contest that have paid in the past . There is a puzzle , if you solve it you get a private key of an ETH wallet . The wallet has something around 10 ETH . So not all are scams . And i believe that this one is also not a scam .

In my opinion it might be better decentralized because in each country have its own authority over their finances if centralized there will be governing the finances of the State over other countries, perhaps with the existing system is good only I think the existence of bitcoin amid advances in technology good in facilitation so that no negative news stories about the existence of bitcoin and bitcoin can also stimulate the economy with the help of investors so much development of technology-based projects so that's it according to my perspective.

The address of the wallet begins with the letter "3" which is the address Mutisig! It is more difficult to guess than the address with "1". Hope someone succeeds!
Good luck!

address starting with 3 used to ONLY be multisignature addresses but after introduction of Segregated Witness in 2017 these addresses that start with 3 can also be SegWit addresses. it is a nested thing with witness program in a script hash thing (P2WSH?) which results in the address to start with 3.

although the creator of the puzzle has not said anything of sorts as far as I know and unless there is a transaction from that key we can never know for sure either.

This can't be solved by only one person alone. It should be done in groups by geniuses to solve the puzzle and would probably take months or years to solve it and get the reward. Is there anyone out there currently on the hunt for this 1 btc treasure? I don't think its really worth it. It would take a lot of time and brainstorming to finally figure out the puzzle and solve it.

Obviously you need lots of knowledge about cryptography and it is prepared by many geniuses . They prepare it so that no one wins . It takes a lot of time for them to prepare such puzzles .

I have no idea even i stare on the picture for a long time.
all i can see some familiar words and that's it.

But i have some doubt on the solution.
is there only one possible solution? or there are some backup answer to mislead someone if they get on the right path.

There should be only one possible solution for the 1 BTC prize.

But according to the creator, there’s also some consolation prizes scattered in there. Those consolation prizes could be far less than 1 BTC though.