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https://cpdproject.com/img/100_eth_puzzle.jpg

Above image holds the private key of https://etherscan.io/address/0x812DFd7fB17f148d5F0E85Cb3018f8822Ad89E91.

We need to find private key and sweep the fund.

Announcement: https://CPDProject.com/100_eth_puzzle.php

Puzzle Address Ownership Verification: https://etherscan.io/verifySig/2021

May 12, 2020: Hint #0: Follow the Roadmap.

June 1, 2020: Hint #1: Five keywords will become a 64 digit hexadecimal number through various transformations.

July 1, 2020: Hint #2: Dates are in YYYYMonthDD format.

August 1, 2020: Hint #3: Crypto Assets are represented by three capital letters.

September 1, 2020: Hint #4: Date strings are transformed from ASCII to Decimal.

October 1, 2020: Hint #5: Crypto string is transformed from Base58 to Decimal.

November 1, 2020: Hint #6: Months are powerful.

December 1, 2020: Hint #7: Apply SHA256 and repeat for all the auction months.


As stated by CPDProject admin on Telegram (https://t.me/CPDProject), if remain unsolved, solution will be revealed after January 3, 2021. If swept by someone before this date, solution will be revealed after that.

Update 1: The fund has moved. So, it seems that someone has solved the puzzle. CPDProject admin on Telegram (https://t.me/CPDProject) has declared 100 CPD Token reward for the first person to post private key in their Telegram group.

Update 2: Puzzle solution is now updated at https://CPDProject.com/100_eth_puzzle.php.

interesting competition but seems to solve privatekey based on a painting is very difficult, but hopefully there are great people who solve it because the offer given is quite tempting but honestly I'm not sure about this because it's a little suspicious.

I seen images as puzzle before, his is great, thanks a lot op, won't solve myself anything since i'm incapable but shared it with a group of solvers :). The crypto community is bigger than some think , age of rust for example makes crypto games with crypto prizes on the game/puzzle. It also leads to other very cool crypto games and puzzles, just to add it to the puzzle material with prizes in this post.

So if not a problem I would like to add two links here that are connected with what mentioned above, games and puzzles: ageofrust.games and pineapplearcade.net

Also, I was told by a member of the puzzle community the puzzle looks fake, will update when new things, on the meanwhile puzzle hunters should really check links up :) I know of over 25 btc and no idea of how much eth given by just the first site, no idea about the second but the second is a fusion between a few crypto puzzle communities.

Same tough.

Probably they only want to raise awareness about their platform and try to get a lot of followers, the image also from "google" if you search the image by using "Google Image Search". They just add the information about the project and eth address on the bottom, here the original painting image: https://artbynelly.com/product/v-print-limited-edition-0001/

I also don't believe too much the balance on that address, need to make a sign message first from the address to prove the ownership of that address from them.

This will be very tough, I seem not to see anything that could lead to the extraction of the private keys. I want to believe the platform is seeking more community members.

You nailed it, it looks like they are only gathering followers with this trick. If proven fake for sure it will backfire at them. They can't even make original images for this so-called event. Anyways, Let's wait for the OP to clarify himself/herself If they have some explanation about it. Just check their social media there are only a few followers I guess they have just started.

It is very obvious that there is nothing in the picture and as you can see their post.
"100 ETH is hidden in this picture. Anyone, who finds the private key, can sweep it.

Otherwise, follow
@CPD_Project
 & retweet by tagging others. Everyone in the chain, that leads to the winner, will get 1 ETH each."

It is very clear that they are only boosting their followers using this technique and as I can see the balance were transferred just 2 days ago so there is a big chance that they are truly the owner of the balance. And the truth behind their post are as follows base on my deduction.
* Create a false marketing just to gather some followers
* There will be a winner of 1 ETH each but the number of winners are not stated

There is a puzzle before like this but the prize is bitcoin but I am not sure if they got the answers already on that riddle. Now this one, I think this could be a trick like everyone else said. This is a scheme to gain followers or attract users on their platform but the truth is they will never let someone get the prize.

Yeah most likely that there is nothing to be found useful to get the prize. This is a lame plan for marketing. If there is a way to know PK from this they should disclose the process from that image and we can see if this is legit or they just using this for their own benefit.

It's difficult to solve the puzzle as the hidden answer can be looked as a usual image. I wonder how people can find the right answer in that image. The private key has so many combinations, and that can make us give the wrong answer. I hope that someone can be able to get the right answer and get the prizes inside that wallet. And I hope that the rewards will really distribute to the winner.

its a little bit promotion with puzzle giveaway it may be tricky but if its real its a d*mn cool idea for promotion .
I checked the address and the 100 ETH balance is still there , no one still are the winners who claim it. I just find it difficult to find the any  or number in the images.

The questions is if  its real that they have hidden it there or just using the puzzle to have many users to follow thier twitter account.

i have my doubts about this puzzle , for me it is impossible to find any information in the puzzle that i can use to crack the puzzle , it is (almost) impossible to crack private keys to open a ethereumwallet especialy when you have to find all the info in a picture , think all that they are doing is gaining attention for their own project

@OP is not part of the platform, he only sharing the info.

All puzzle challenges always hard to be found, but the problem they using a google picture for the challenge. Now, who is guarantee the picture has the private key, no clue at all on the puzzle. At least if they want to make a puzzle challenge, they will make their own image + add 1 clue on the picture if the puzzle still can't be solved a certain time they will reveal more clues about the puzzle.

A puzzle like this or two were going on on steemit few years back, but the image had a huge resolution you had to zoom the shit out of it, this image is in pretty poor quality that and the group of solvers claiming it looks fake was enough for me, the balance... does look fresh but usually if you do such thing you sign a message aswell, how it would be fair to treat OP then?
Edit: Here's a link of steemit puzzlepicture as example: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@lucasgabd/up-for-a-challenge-this-picture-puzzle-has-more-than-4-8btc-27000-00-usd-hidden-since-2015  I'm certain that you can see more examples if you follow the link.

Edit2: I do like the pic anyhow.

Well, if someone found the answer from this image, he was definitely not a normal person. This riddle is really too hard and I can't find any clues when looking at it. Hope everyone will find the answer as soon as possible

Solving this image is very hard because they did not give 100 ethereum easily they need people to think very deep about what is the really answer. But Im really sure that  they have person who can solve this and they got the reward. I don't have enough knowledge about this because my thinking is not good with ghe logic or any problems. Let see who gonna solve that.

There is nothing special about this picture, it seems like it is a normal photo and they are trying to create curiosity to attract readers, Also it seems they are trying to promote their twitter. by calling follow if we can't solve the puzzle

Is that the Phemex exchange puzzle?

This can be true but projects like this do really make their promise for puzzles like this with real money, with real Ethereums. Decoders that are good with puzzle-solving can do this but it's not going to be easy because it's a lot of money.

It's too hard to find the private key in this picture. I tried to observe for about 15 minutes but I could not find any hints or information related to the private key. If someone finds a private key, then he's a genius

I know I don't have a chance to find that one, but I can't wait to know the solution to this interesting riddle. It used to be like that but the prize was BTC and someone had solved it but I didn't know if it was real or fake.

I thought they were promoting the CPD project. And if that's true, they are really smart for creating the curiosity of the participants and they will definitely follow their twitter.

#MeToo

Bitcoin is the Moon. In a moonlit night Vitalik is riding an unicorn on planet Earth, while baby Unicorn Ethereum is sitting in his lap. CPD planet can be seen in the night sky.

^This is what I can make out of this pic. Now, how can this lead to the private key?

We all have doubts but its challenging so I took my photoshop out, adjust its hue and levels but nothing seem to appear here. Is there a duration of this puzzle because if I still have time and its still not solved, I could get back to examining it again. 100TH is a big amount right now and anyone who can't get of their houses has time to examine the image. Anyone tried scanning using the QR?  :D

Well, look at their article: Otherwise, follow
@CPD_Project
  & retweet by tagging others. Everyone in the chain, that leads to the winner, will get 1 ETH each. Obviously they are Fomo on their twitter account and their telegram, You will never solve this riddle because this is just a regular picture

A wise man (not sure who, but I think it was P. T. Barnum) once said...

This is even harder than the one been hosted by Phemex and if no hints to be given I think no user/s will ever solve the puzzle. I think this was just some sort of advertisement on their platform hoping it wouldn't be turn out to be the same by the above exchange which many thinks it's really unsolvable, I'll be a watcher by now until a/some hint/s is/are out.

Indeed. I've spent about half an hour trying to play in Photoshop, changing colors to find some hidden clues, I've tried to use certain list of bytes from inside the file as private key, no luck. I gave up.

I also tried changing the color of this picture to photoshop, unfortunately I did not find any information to get the private key. Hope someone can solve this picture and share it here

thats cool  . first time to hear that idea just to find clues . im only aware of looking at the picture but all are right on here that there is nothing on the pic  .

 private keys should be compose of numbers and letters afaik but on the pic i can only see few words and mostly images but what if we type list them all down ? number could be related to the age of vitalik based on the pic. its really mind but for what they are paying 100 eth if its easy .

This is really a though puzzle to be honest. No clues in the picture and I don't think it's possible to guess private keys from looking at a picture. Private key contains alphanumeric characters and can't be easily guess, not even the first three characters. It could have been easier if it a pass phrase.
On the other hand, I don't think think the organisers are honest and they know what they are doing. Someone here could have cracked it if this has been done before.
I will follow up to see how it ends.

Is that Vitalik sitting on the horse?  ::)

They have posted a signed message on twitter - https://twitter.com/CPD_Project/status/1250869755751399424. It appears to be verified - https://etherscan.io/verifySig/2021. I have updated the same in OP.

Indeed. I am more of a Bitcoin Airdrop hunter.

Only half an hour for 100 ETH? That seems too low. No? ::)

I had no other idea. Nothing much else to do.
Unfortunately the prize goes to the one who finds the key, not to the one with most time spent on it.

That is what it seems like. But, as per suggestions given in their Telegram group, we have to focus on the Whitepaper. I suppose, Vitalik wont help us in this hunt. :D

Balance me real quick! The caption already shows you will sleep on the picture while clearing the picture for ETH.
I think this could be a trick like everyone else said. This is a scheme to gain followers or attract users on their platform but the truth is they will never let someone get the prize. Why ask people to follow them, Retweet and tag people to follow and do suit. They could have come out without any task. This is just low budget twitter gain followers giveaway.

Maybe that's what he thought of in half an hour. He had no other idea to decode this picture. If we want to win and get 100 ETH, I think we need to do more and it may even take several years to find the winner.

Clearly a fake ETH PUZZLE. As what others have mentioned that the person/people behind is/are just trying to gain social media followers. Checked where those ETH came from and looks like the owner trades daily.

Maybe its real ,they are the only one who knows and the persons that will solve the puzzle and claim the 100 ETH.

Its not small money that's why they want to also be benefited having it by having a promotion in their social media  channel.


I hope some one can clear the puzzle and post it here if they solve it.  I see many members already tried their luck base on the post above.

C'mon guys, that's not Vitalik sitting on the horse, horses don't have a horn... That's a Unicorn!

We can say is Vitalik sitting on the Unicorn holding a Unicorn... And the unicorn is Mining ETH on each step.

I only hope this puzzle isn't fake.

No one was able to solve the Phemex puzzle and they provided a very complicated solution. Here is a thread that was tracking the Phemex puzzle - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5219581.0.

Indeed, the painting is already exist before they start this puzzle thing except they only added some social media links on the bottom,
and btc logo and their logo. But maybe the puzzle hidden on those things ? The social media links and the logos might be the clues.

I like both analysis of the puzzle image. Can we move depending on either of the above?

Whitepaper? Means https://cpdproject.com/whitepaper.php ?

BTC, Ethereum & CPD, all these words from the puzzle image are present in the whitepaper. But, what next?

I dont know about ageofrust.games, but pineapplearcade.net is probably by the Reddit user u/PineappleFund. There is a dedicated wiki page regarding his/her philanthropy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple_Fund.

Vitalik is adventuring in a moonlit night, while his unicorn is mining ETH. CPD planet looks like Saturn and is in the sky.

This is how it appears to me. But, whitepaper does not say anything about mining.

I joined CPDProject.com and created a referral campaign for BitcoinTalk. Anyone interested, can join here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5245802.0.

The contest is interesting indeed. But I'm not that one who can capture the private key from this paint. It's a much much tough puzzle for me.

The picture doesn't looks like a puzzle for me because that picture is not created by the puzzle owner.
Picture puzzle is very hard to crack, thats why the amount of coin hidden on it usually huge. Any peoples can verify this picture is really contain puzzle or not ?

Now a days, its time or trend seems project are started with the many types of crypto puzzles games. It's good for gain much more knowledge and development of sharp mind & get good earnings. But scammers are also active in the market  & will be disturbed us.so always beware of that persons.

This paintings are cool many people are invited to think about this.There are a lot of messages in the paintings but a little back to the old era. I hope there are those who deserve to get the prize from the answers given apart from other things.

It looks fake and gay. Seem like another trick gets free retweets and likes, a public stunt no less. People need to be smarter and not everything on the internet is real since "so many people retweet so it must be true, right?"

The base picture is an artwork by another artist. They appears to have edited it to represent their puzzle. But, have you ever heard anyone verifying a puzzle? That is impossible, because whoever knows the solution, may sweep the fund. If you are looking for proof of their ownership of the fund, that is provided though - https://etherscan.io/verifySig/2021.

besides using the bitcoin halving for airdrop a shit token and then auctioning some of those shit token for Ethereum.................. mindblown

Time to make some easy money!!!

They imitate the one who launched the btc puzzle but the truth is can you see something that really have a clue on private key on this one? From its look, we can determine if there is something we can found out about this image but for me its only a pure painting. I like something tricky contest but Im very suspicious that this could be just another style of marketing to gain more users. We can assume that this is a fake puzzle, if there is really a private key on this, they should reveal later on whether the clue is there and show us how to find it if someone really got the keys.

Maybe there is a fund but the clue were never put on that piece of art. My guess is this is just a hype, and will really never give to anyone but just a show.

very difficult, i could not find anything in there. i thought, my eyes would escape from my head.
i opened my eyes too wide for fear of missing something there. but i still found nothing there and i gave up.

i wonder, is there someone who is able to find it and be the winner? i am curious, how he found it there.

This seems to be a very difficult puzzle and no clue is given to how to find it. I fear there won't be anyone who can do this but let's see. Otherwise it will be a waste of time.

Puzzle solvers at different platforms are already on it. There will be hints as well. So, puzzle will probably get solved at some point. Otherwise, I'll expect them to release a solution for everyone to see.

Thanks for this. What are the main platforms the solvers discuss this puzzle? Here, in this topic there are only posts like "the puzzle is difficult" or "the puzzle is scam" and so on.

Can you please share some ideas the puzzle solver have at the moment, if they are really solving it and really have some ideas there to go...

if only like this there is no clue or anything it will be very difficult to solve

I just checked the eth address and till now, no one has been able to solve this amazing puzzle. I wonder how many months will it took to solve this kind of puzzle. I have no knowledge about this kind of thing all I had to do is watch the image carefully that might lead me to another clue.

really is this true? that's a lot of money to be won, well this is hard to solve.. seeing the picture that we can get the private key. Only genius can solve it but I'm gonna try.;D

yah, keep on looking for that nothing.. the only clue i find is a cheap scam advertisement to auction off their shit token.

Great competition but to me it  seems to solve private-key based on a painting is very difficult for people like me, i wish there are great and research-full  people who will solve it because the offer is given quite a appealing . May be this is a appealing plan for marketing and to get all that they are doing is gaining attention for their project .

I have seen this puzzle is being discussed on multiple Telegram groups.

CPD Project has already stated in their group ( https://t.me/CPDProject ) that hunters need to focus on the whitepaper. So, I assume, picture is the key and answer is in the whitepaper. ::)

In any case, they said there will be multiple hints provided, first being on the halving day, which is less than 3 days away. Hence, for now, I am just sitting in their Telegram group and waiting for hints. 8)

They posted in twitter the 1st hint:

Hint #0: Follow the Roadmap.

https://twitter.com/CPD_Project/status/1260232673387298816

Waiting for them to explain for stealing the image from someone else work..

Dont waste your time this was fake to steal peoples money.

No puzzle in the picture because its a stolen art.

Thanks. Two hints are out so far. OP updated with latest details.

And we have the hint #1 here:

https://twitter.com/CPD_Project/status/1267535237069897729


We need more hints, with those ones still difficult to solve it.

This is really interesting crypto puzzle and its really difficult  to determine the exact password key of this wallet address. I think we need more hint for this since private key of any Ethereum wallet is really hard to guest. We need to guest it for a million times then we can answer the real password.

I give up lol.. It is now 50 days still no one can sweep it. This is hard to crack this puzzle, I guess we need more hints here, 2 hints is not enough.  ;D

Five keywords? Bitcoin, Vitalik, Buterin, Ethereum and CPD? Anyone tried transforming these to 64 digit hexadecimal number?

Some crypto puzzles are hard to resolve, I've seen so much coming up and some are still unresolved.

The only concern I'm having here is that the artwork is used without consent of the artist. At least you could have done a collaboration!

Following up on this thread to see if someone manages it, please write a blogpost/thread about how you cracked the code.

Transform how? Write them side by side and perform SHA 256 on the whole? That's not giving us the private key. :'(

lol , there are a lot of options to transform the key words , i realy love puzzles but this is one that is cracking my head , even the hints are almost a puzzle to me , sounds easy to crack a puzzle for 100 ethereum but i think  that i earn that 100 ethereum faster with participating in bounty's , i am old when this puzzle is solved

hahaha, challenging puzzle, maybe you can see the same puzzle like this, to see how they solve it, I see that I need special skills, and I go back in this puzzle, because I think that I can't

how are you looking at the bytes from the file?
I also tried photoshop and didnt really see any clues.

In my opinion, it would be best to show the solution for this one to prove the people that the hints are legit and make another puzzle to have a lots of legit followers in their social media accounts and for their project. I am sure there are lots of people who would loved to join this kind of puzzle.

With a file viewer in hex mode. Most file managers I worked with (on Windows) have that.

This will be very difficult to solve because there are no detailed instructions of at least 50% that you say, and my question is, what if this puzzle cannot be broken in a long period of time?

I think it will continue to exist until someone can break it. And at that time its value could increase many times compared to the current price

It's strange why the balance Still there I though there is a winner already.

To help other member's just follow their Twitter account they give a hint for this puzzle that can help to someone to solve it.

Here is the Twitter account https://mobile.twitter.com/CPD_Project .

Also i found that they have a bounty running now here is the link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5253785.0 .

I was told by my friend that there is a kind of puzzle that can produce 100 ETH, and after I saw it. That's really frustrating. There was no help whatsoever, just vital pictures with horses. And that can't produce any keywords. Even though it suits big rewards with difficult work.

Seems like the painting or should i say the CPD project have many negative comments on twitter, The artist of painting is not aware that they were using her painting to promote their campaign. As of now, no individual had ever cracked the puzzle. Maybe the team should change the game, Launch other bounties like signature campaigns, 100 ETH is a good amount to run it, if they want their project to be recognized more.

Links here: https://bit.ly/30DJE74

bets are very tempting but very difficult to find these keywords because they are stored in an image, hopefully there will be people who can find the key to take ETH.

I tried everything even tried staring at the picture for a half-hour but still couldn't figure out a single thing about the puzzle. I hope you guys will have better luck then I did lol.

Sometimes the key is staring right back at you so better try to solve the puzzle, start with what is visible in the naked eye then move to more a more difficult pattern, this puzzle is going to be hard since the prize is 100 ETH

If you just look at it, I believe you won't be able to solve this riddle in 100 years. This puzzle has been around for 2 months but no one has been able to solve it yet, obviously we need to take other measures to find the clues.

Need to realize this is a promotion, to reach many people. at certain times the puzzle will be solved and revealed to the public by the project team. 100 ETH is not a small value, I think this fund will be used by the project later.

Artist:

CPD:

Artist:

So a big copyright infringement has been done on this giveaway, the artist an owner of the artwork has the copyright and she doesn't want CPD use it... Let me grab some popcorn, this is getting interesting!


Source: https://twitter.com/ArtbyNelly/status/1263792942185091072

keywords that are very difficult to solve because the code lies only in a picture if anyone can solve it means that the person's IQ is above the average person in general.

CPDProject signature campaign is already running - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5253785.0.

Well, that was an interesting turn of event for the hunt. Now I guess they would either have to cancel the hunt because of DMCA or they would have to restart the hunt with a different image.

I think its better to open a new campaign and use that 100 eth as rewards dont make another puzzle but a campaign that can help them .

A promotion is the exact words and they have bounty already adding that 100 ETH rewards will help advertisers to join in a bounty.

I was examining this painting since it was posted in (April) But until now I wasn't able to figure it out. It was very hard to find those private keys out of that painting. I'm doubting that it will resolve and unlocked soon thats why to all who are trying to unlock the 100 Eth puzzle. Good luck!

I believe that no one will waste time on your campaign. Budget is too low and waiting too long to receive distribution, there are currently many other better projects running so you need to revise the rules if you want to attract participants.

They haven't say what will do about all this issue, i think to stop this giveaway and make a new one would be a wise desition and if he decides to move on with this image, then they will only prove how they give zero fuck about the artist, and that is not fair.

Thanks for sharing among us. I have expriance cracking a lots of puzzle. But this one is seems difficult to me. No idea, this is real or scam but  I've tried a lot. And can't found any key  >:( well don't forget to info if anyone able to solve it. Im still trying

Ofc this is a scam to fool you to get followers in order to create a fake community to fool gullible people to buy their shit tokens in the auction.

Many might get surprised, but the truth is, it is perfectly legal to edit a publicly available image and using it to a different purpose, other than it was originally intended.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariou_v._Prince

If anyone of you care to check origin of the puzzle image, you'll find that it is not the high definition one sold by the artist. It is a low definition representative image readily available on Google hosted by various web portals.

Moreover, in conversation with artist, CPD Project claimed that they purchased this final image from another artist, based on relevant keywords. If that is true, then they do not have any moral responsibility either, because, they paid for it themselves.

In any case, if the artist still believes that using this image for puzzle is illegal, she can always move to court. But, to the best of my understanding of this issue, she has a lost case here.

its quite hard to crack the puzzle. Its around 2 months have past but nobody able to solve the puzzle when there is no lack of genius in this market. I doubt, this puzzle is given due to their marketing purpose only. What if they create new eth account & transfer those reward to themselves & claimed that "someone win that reward by solving this puzzle"?

Impossible, I think they are using this trick to get more followers, that's all, how can you find key words when you aren't given 4 to 5 recovery words? The past puzzle tasks I've come across give out few words of the Mnemonic seed and ask the audience to solve the rest, don't waste your time

I think there is still a possibility of people who can decode an encrypted code in such a way because I see some people have cracked the code like that so just need to be careful and don't give up trying to be able to penetrate the private key.

I can't see anything here than CPD Project trying to create some awareness, I bet thousands of people will be following their Twitter channel right now, it's possible to crack private keys but almost impossible without any clue, I don't see any puzzle waiting to be solved in that painting

I don't know, but if they do that, then they better not create this riddle. It will make their conscience guilty. Also this is a really hard puzzle, it takes more time for someone to solve it, or a little hint from the team.

This is really hard to crack this puzzle, I don't think if someone can crack it, seems it would take years. They should add another clue to the puzzle.

this will be very difficult, take a long time to solve the puzzle and will look impossible because it consists of 64 passwords.
however some people might try it even though the chance is small, I doubt anyone will succeed.

it seems like this is just a futile bet because finding the key is a very difficult thing, hopefully, there will be people who can find the private key.

They have already stated in their Telegram group that, if remain unsolved, they'll add a new clue at the beginning of every month, till the end of this year. If still remain unsolved, after Genesis Distribution Day, i.e. January 3, 2021, they'll publish the solution.

2 months have passed, and what other clues have they given? I can't see those clues and it seems like everyone here is the same

I think this is also very difficult to solve but they added new hints for this month and also for June, so maybe every month there will be additional hints and maybe someone can solve it after getting a lot of hints.

I am very interested in ideas like this, is this some kind of airdrop or free distribution for anyone who can collect a lot of good things going forward? and again I think it takes a long time to gather such perfect scores. good luck to the people who work in it.

you are a long time members now but you still don't follow the simple rules.

You can't beg in this forum it may end your account to be ban so be careful next time other things refer link is also not allowed in this forum find other social media channel that can drop it.

 very interested  . i wanna going to try it .

Check https://cpdproject.com/100_eth_puzzle.php for latest hints.

yes, although the offer is very tempting but it is also a difficult job. whether that's true or not but my instincts, maybe they focus more on marketing and just to attract users or followers. for me personally not too interested and not sure about that.

it seems to me a very difficult thing to be able to decipher a private key starting from an image, but maybe there are special programs that can help, I'm curious if someone will succeed and how, we will see...

that can help only the instructions given by them, because what I read they will always give instructions every month and it might take 1 year for someone to solve the mystery of the painting

There are infinite ways to search a private key hidden in an image...

You could download the image, make a sha256 from the image file and work with those numbers, or you can try to find some hidden words in the image and search brainwallets. As i say, infinite ways. So the odds to solve this are close to 0.000001%.

But good luck for all.

It is really too hard to break the secret of finding the world hidden in the image with right way because I was trying more than three weeks now without any positive. I hope some of people in right direction they can going to break the secret what hiding in the image.

No one can find the private key in the picture. Maybe they put a private key there, but it's already random. So rearranging is also not an easy thing. I messed with the picture, but there's nothing there. Lol ::)

I tried this more than ten times , but really very very tough puzzle...I think no one will solve this puzzle in this planet...

OP updated with latest hint published on July 1, 2020.

Puzzle creators clarified in their TG group that there is nothing to look for in the image data file. They're asking to focus on the whitepaper and compare with the image to look for keywords. I think, hints given so far are in that line as well.

although they ask to focus on the whitepaper no one will be able to find the private key from the wallet, imagine how one can compose a private key by finding it in a whitepaper that may consist of 5000 words

Well, that makes it an impossible puzzle to solve, as some people already say, is just a marketing strategy to capt some media attention, but the way to solve the puzzle is impossible with the hints we have right now.

It would be really easy for them to generate a new user and claim he solve the puzzle... They recover the 100ETH and the marketing strategy is a success..

It's really crazy, that's why they have 3 suggestions, but still no one has been able to find the results and get the reward. I think they need to wait months and months for more clues

First hint they told people to follow the roadmap, and now they told people to focus on the whitepaper.
I think the purpose of this puzzle is to make people read their whitepaper so people know about their project, the puzzle itself have no intention to be solved.

That's right and this is just a marketing strategy for their project. They just want to focus users on their project details , imo. If there is really a private key in the image , than only image's file name decryption maybe the way to  findout some hint for the private key. I might be right or wrong. This is just my opinion, let me know what other things about my opinion.  ;)

As I mentioned before in this thread, they have already stated in their Telegram group that, if remain unsolved, they'll add a new clue at the beginning of every month, till the end of this year. If still remain unsolved, after Genesis Distribution Day, i.e. January 3, 2021, they'll publish the solution. So, creating a random user to move the coins is not an option for them. They'll publish a solution whether someone solves it or it remain unsolved.

Is there a fixed date for the release of clues? Or they release the clues at random dates? Need more clues because right now I am nowhere close to finding the private key of that wallet lol.

Hints are published in the first days of each new month, so at least it was before that time the next one should be published on August 1

FACTS:

1) The whitepaper consists of a total of 660 words. If we remove repeated words, we end up with 308 unique words (removed comas and periods).  
2) The roadmap has 29 unique words (data have been changed according to hint #2)
3) The combined set of words gives 320 unique words. If we remove digits (2021, 21, 3 and  7) we get 316 unique words.
 

4 months have passed but until now there is no one who can solve this mystery. even though the instructions are updated every month, it will be very difficult to solve them

May 12, 2020: Hint #0 Follow the Roadmap.

June 1, 2020: Hint #1 Five keywords will become a 64 digit hexadecimal number through various transformations.

July 1, 2020: Hint #2 Dates are in YYYYMonthDD format.

August 1, 2020: Hint #3 Crypto Assets are represnted by three capital letters.

Thanks. OP updated with latest hint published on August 1, 2020.

100 ETH is a big bounty (now $38 000). So,  the puzzle is not expected to be easy.

So far we know that we need 5 keywords (hint #1), probably from the roadmap (hint #0):

ROADMAP

February 2, 2020 CPD Token creation.
At Bitcoin Block #629999 CPD Token airdrop to BTC holders of registered Bitcoin addresses.
May 20, 2020 CPD Token claim takes place.
From June 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020 CPD Token auction against ETH.
January 3, 2021 Genesis distribution of CPD Token.


The dates have to be changed according to hint #2
And crypto assets have to be written using 3 capital letters according to hint #3

So the sorted words in the roadmap are (removed doubles and punctuation):

2020December31  2020February02  2020June01  2020May20  2021January03 #629999 addresses
against  airdrop  At  auction Block BTC claim CPD creation Distribution ETH From Genesis
holders of place registered takes to Token

The difficult part is to figure out how to transform 5 words into 64 hex number ...

Question #1:  are these 5 words used to make a phrase such as
          2020February02 CPD BTC ETH 2021January03        separator blank
          2020February02-CPD-BTC-ETH-2021January03        separator -
          2020February02CPDBTCETH2021January03            no separator
  or are words transformed separately and results combined later.

Question #2: The purpose of the picture is still unknown.

Added note:
According to CPD official telegram, I quote:
"All information required to derive the private key can be done through tools
freely available online. Programming knowledge will help you to try various
combinations in a shorter time" from CPD project.

Any thoughts ?
 
(You may PM me)

Exactly 12 years ago Bitcoin's genesis block was mined on this date. Crypto Powered Development Project is allocating tokens as per Bitcoin's schedule. Look at how they did the airdrop at Bitcoin block halving. So, January 3, 2009 may also have a role to play.

strange competition! but if we can to find or cant to imagine this private key - thats mean we can hack any wallet?? as for me it very strange? as I understood private key no one can imagine!

The competition is that the CPD project group has put 100 ETH in the wallet 0x812dfd7fb17f148d5f0e85cb3018f8822ad89e91
Of course no one can guess the private key unless the owner wants us to find it.
This is why it is called "a puzzle"  ;D

Yes this is true, but on January 3, 2021 is scheduled to launch the ETH2 network, as well as launch the CPD browser through which will be distributed CPD Token.

Ok OP, but lastest hint is #3 not #2 :)

WoW! This is a news to me. Can you please point out to any official post by Ethereum Foundation or Vitalik Buterin that confirms this date, i.e. January 3, 2021? Will ERC20 token movements be stalled on that day?



Sorry. Typo. Updated.

Already 7 months and no one has solve this puzzle, this only means we don't have the right tools to solve it, like if OP want to hang on this marketing strategy for all the year. Impossible puzzles aren't fun at all. Would be nice to get a true challenge and not this waste of time.

Remember marketing campaigns like this are a double edge sword... It can be something good for the business, or end terribly wrong.

indeed this puzzle event has been strange for 7 months, but the clue given is only 3 and it's a bit confusing, in fact I see some crackers on twitter also can't solve puzzles from CFDProject even though they are people who often solve puzzle like this, the possibility of this puzzle can be solved if 50% of the clue has been given by CFDProject but I don't know how long we have to wait to get 50% of the clue, 12 months maybe?

I don't think we can get the private key just by imagining the picture, it is the combinations of some words, converted by some method.
If you join the telegram group, you will know some clues because the admin given some clues there.

Yeah. Now i also believe that they are fraud. They only created this puzzle due to make hyip about them. This is a easy way to Advertisement without any cost. I wonder, still nobody able to transfer that 100Eth. Really this is nothing but a waste of time

If the puzzle can be solved easily, then they are wasting their money. It takes a variety of steps to find the answer, and if you can't then it's best to ignore it. Never FUD it because in the future there will be clues and someone else will find the answer. And it will certainly take a long time

Ok, you think it cant be imagine, how you think it could be known? do you really thinking our brain can count this combination?? I really thinking that it can only happen by accident, I will check group thanks!

what if the guys above are right ? what if clues are only thier way to keep people coming back or to keep people join if they are new to this puzzle but you have a point that they should make it hard because the reward is freakin huge but why not make smaller versions for a while like decreasing the reward and decreasing the difficulty , in that way there will be solvers that can win and they can vouch or post a review about this site . thats only my recomendation to them

I didn't even know about this puzzle, I see people complaining how difficult it is.

Go back to page 1 !  ;D

That's why 100 Ethereum is the reward and the hard effort of the people who try to solve it will pay off. I just want to know this puzzle still ongoing? Because OP Last Active is August 05, 2020. Yes, this is so hard and I think 3 clue is nothing.

We need some tools to solve it or the image includes everything??

September 1, 2020: Hint #4  Date strings are transformed from ASCII to Decimal.

Awesome idea. mind-bending at present, but as others have said, as clues are revealed, the process to reverse engineer the answer will be made more evident. Commenting here simply to be abe to keep track of this, because my cannabis addled mind wouldnt figure this out even if you used the BIG CRAYONS.

Are there any other hints to be given? maybe we have to wait 20 - 30 more hints to solve the mystery in the painting
hmm, but I'm thinking of going to a fortune teller :D because with 100 ETH I can become rich ;D

Thanks. OP updated with latest hint published on September 1, 2020.


All hints published so far are in OP. You may check https://cpdproject.com/100_eth_puzzle.php as well.

I also notice there are some update about the puzzle especially op added hint #4 on yesterday, September 1, 2020  but mate, about to 5 months has past and i think its not possible for anyone to crack the puzzle. We should better use our time for other works instead of wasting time for it, although i also want to see someone winning 100 ETH by cracking this puzzle

This is very difficult to solve and get the private key from it.  A group effort is needed i guess .That Justifies the 100ETH price. The clues given so far is not enough for people to solve it. lets hope someone really pull this off.

As have been stated many times in this thread, a new hint will surface the first day of every month. So, if remain unsolved, 3 more hints will be there before they reveal the solution. 100 ETH is now ~34k USD. I don't think this much money can just drop on our lap out of the blue. We have to follow the hints and try at our spare time.

Whoa i though it's already Solved, I saw back then this on June and looks it's still not solved. Anyway beside the "Puzzle" things good marketing strategy too, Read some previous post and you guys are really good! Good luck for all people who still try to solving the puzzle!

So many compaints I see above. Guys, the reward is 100 ETH. Of course it is going to be difficult. If someone easily solves it then it is not worth it. If you guys have nothing to contribute then just leave it alone. Nobody forced you guys to solve the puzzle. It is for those who got time to solve and wants some challenge.

That's the problem, looks like the puzzle doesn't have a solution, and suddenly someone will come saying he find the solution, but to be honest, the only way that can happen is if OP makes this rigged and gives the solution to a friend. I can see it coming.

This isn't a puzzle, is just a nasty marketing strategy. Is the 'How to spend 100 eth in marketing without spending them'.

oh sick, I hope to get that big prize or the equivalent of 100 ETH? but it is absolutely impossible to win big prizes or shoot riddles to solve the address key. I'm just going to see if there is someone who can solve this puzzle.

Even if people can't get 100 ETH by bitching here, they can still make a few Satoshis by shit posting. So, no matter what, the complaints will continue. :D

I don't see anything at all in the image above, the image looks like normal but it turns out that behind the image there is some code to crack the ethereum address key. it was only natural that the rewards were large because the level of difficulty far exceeded ordinary human minds. for me it is very complicated.

that it seems to me that another Buterin should be born to open this puzzle.  This is not given to us ordinary people.  If this is true, then I wish you all the best!

whoaaaa!!! Until now this puzzle is still unsolved, the price of ethereum is now expensive and those who can get their private key will become rich, and I am sure that the instructions given in the picture and some encryption descriptions should be easy to find, don't break it. passionate, looking to see you

I think this is illogical, why would they spend 100 eth ? for what?
especially after suspending their twitter account
Even they rented domain name only for one year (https://who.is/whois/cpdproject.com).. if they can spend 100 eth for Puzzle!
why they don't spend some money for modern design for example or marketing.. or development?

I find this really strange
I mean, who knows if there is a Puzzle or not

I can't agree with you more mate, I've thought about this things you said, i personally was in the puzzle for some time, after brainstorming on different codes and many ways to see if I could be lucky, I gave up, just like you've said, they should have this money on a better website and marketing or maybe on bounty and airdrop to build their community.

October 1, 2020: Hint #5  Crypto string is transformed from Base58 to Decimal.

To me, this is no different from other hints, but i will keep trying to see if i will get lucky, though i can honestly say that am not smarter than those in the telegram group , those guys there are really trying their best get into this wallet

Almost 185 days have past since the 100 ETH puzzle start. I also try to solve but its hard. I know 100eth is a huge reward for normal public like meh, and so it is common that "this puzzle must be hard one" but it's really ridicules that, everyone is failed to crack it when there are so many hints are available. I assume, hints are useless,, have no connection with this puzzle at all

I think it is the opposite.... the hints define the puzzle... without the hints, it can't be solved.

I persoanlly dont consider the hints posted on the site as so many mate, infact, i have this feeling that the hints provided are not yet connected to the potential private key that unlocks the wallet, and i personally see no one craCKING that wallet anytime soon, maybe as the hints come, it will get clearer as to how other hints connects to the wallet but for now, this is just a waste of time for people who dont have all 24 hours to themselves like me .

Thanks. OP updated with latest hint published on October 1, 2020.

I do think the same.

Whether someone can solve it or not, solution will be given. At that point, we'll be able to verify whether it was solvable or not.

November 1, 2020: Hint #6 Months are powerful.

I am new to a unique puzzle game and it looks interesting, I have gathered all the clues and tried to break it down into private keys. Anyone will be motivated to get the 100 ETH prize and someone with advanced blockchain knowledge will stand a chance to win the game.

I didn't understand this hint.  ??? ::)

October 1, 2020: Hint #5  Crypto string is transformed from Base58 to Decimal.

Try this converter: https://brainwalletx.github.io/#converter

For example "CPD" (Base58 input)  is transformed to 38292 (Decimal output)

I see the picture above has some clues about numbers,
because usually the background image of a person riding a horse is identical to a forest or tree, but this is just a color,
and each color has a unique code, for example like this.
https://i.imgur.com/8jlEnEq.png

It is impossible to find a private key using this image.
Private key is not so easy task to found. If one word is wrong then this is fully wrong. I think no one will discover it.
I think after the period you should transfer your fund to another account and describe the privatekey to us accordingly the image.

Thanks. OP updated with latest hint published on November 1, 2020.

I have doubts about the hint given because it is not a hint that is not a real hint, it is just ordinary words, I think it would be easier if I provide instructions, for example giving 2 private key prefixes

Just coming here to check if anyone has been lucky enough to break into the wallet, but I see there's not been anyone, this hints can only begin to make some sense towards the end of the puzzle game, till then, I will just stand by and watch as I have tried severally with no luck  I think those with advanced technical and fundamental blockchain skills stand a better chance of breaking into the wallet.
But then, I wish everyone Goodluck.

The crypto network is greater than some might suspect , period of rust for instance makes crypto games with crypto prizes on the game and puzzle. It additionally prompts other exceptionally cool crypto games and riddles. They can't make unique pictures for this alleged occasion. At any rate, Let's hang tight for the OP to explain himself/herself If they have some clarification about it.

100 ETH is now worth ~47k USD. I guess, sharpest minds will now join the hunt.

Already over 60k USD.

All hints

May 12, 2020: Hint #0 Follow the Roadmap.

June 1, 2020: Hint #1 Five keywords will become a 64 digit hexadecimal number through various transformations.

July 1, 2020: Hint #2 Dates are in YYYYMonthDD format.

August 1, 2020: Hint #3 Crypto Assets are represented by three capital letters.

September 1, 2020: Hint #4 Date strings are transformed from ASCII to Decimal.

October 1, 2020: Hint #5 Crypto string is transformed from Base58 to Decimal.

November 1, 2020: Hint #6 Months are powerful.

December 1, 2020: Hint #7 Apply SHA256 and repeat for all the auction months.

Money gone 1 minute after release of  Hint #7 .... very clever or very suspicious !

there is no goal to spend all this money, so I think someone is running all of this of cheating this is very suspicious.

seems like somebody solved and taked all the eth was in there
https://etherscan.io/address/0x812dfd7fb17f148d5f0e85cb3018f8822ad89e91

Exactly, I noticed the eth has been moved out few days ago, probably immediately after the last hint was given. Its either someone has been following the hints judiciously from inception and breaking the puzzles as they come or something mischievous was executed. The puzzle must be very difficult to break no doubt and the winner really did a great job.

Thanks. OP updated with latest hint published on November 1, 2020.


A 100 CPD reward for the first person to post private key seems to have been declared in their Telegram group. I have updated that in OP.

A 100 CPD reward for the first person to post private key seems to have been declared in their Telegram group. I have updated that in OP.
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Does these 100 CPD have value or some expected value?

As per their update in group, someone seems to have posted the key and claimed 100 CPD Token as well.

They don't seem to have any preset value. Token has not yet hit the market. Distribution is scheduled on January 3, 2021. How would there be a value, if it has not hit the market yet?

Puzzle solution is now updated at https://CPDProject.com/100_eth_puzzle.php. OP updated accordingly.

Interestingly, the fund, which is now worth ~0.13 Million USD, is still sitting idle on the address, where it was swiped at.

I'm still not sure if someone has solved it because I didn't see the news on telegram and I think it's the team's other wallet and sent there because no one can solve the puzzle

The person still not reveal themself, could be someone who really wins the puzzle or just random new things from the team sent to another address and claim that the puzzle prize has been claim.

Well no body know!

However, the team already share step by step "How to solved the puzzle from the beginning to private key" you can take a look  here:https://cpdproject.com/100_eth_puzzle.php

I was examining this painting since it was posted in (may)But until now I wasn't able to figure it out. It was very hard to find those private keys out of that painting. I'm doubting that it will resolve and unlocked soon thats why to all who are trying to unlock the 100 Eth puzzle. Good

100 ETH has already been unlocked and moved to other address. The solution is out and CPD Token has started trading on UniSwap too - https://info.uniswap.org/pair/0xae67f2599d37b9226341a8a3d98555d6b5339ea0

Please check OP.

I'm checking this thread a few months later after my last visit and glad to see that someone finally able to crack this hard puzzle and out 100eth which is already increase 7x from then. I can see those all others hints but honestly those are too much hard to solve. I don't want to argue that, team themselves transferred those ether or someone else but im felling happy to got this answer.