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᠎ (https://27ebfGNx4nJQT2dfs3E4mxV3tuytamWeJm86K77pa3SDrzk)

No idea what's going on?

Check out the previous puzzles:

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Hint 1: The first 5 letters of the second address are missing two vowels. | Addendum: The words in the addresses direct you to certain parts of the forum.
Hint 2: Where BBCode cannot exist, something else does. Word processors may help. | Addendum: Check for hidden characters.
Hint 3: Perhaps you should look for the reference but in a different format.

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SOLUTION

Step 1: The first post has the contents: [᠎color=#ba58ec][᠎url=https://27ebfGNx4nJQT2dfs3E4mxV3tuytamWeJm86K77pa3SDrzk]. ba58en → Base 58 Encoding on the 273bf... string.

Step 2: Decoding the 27ebf... string leads to the 1NEGtaGs... address which sent the prize to 1shBNg... and on my trust page, I was given a neg tag that included a shebang in it.

Step 3: The text was: "part of the corrupt gang#! with tman laudaM Darkstar hhampuz all 5 collude" with a reference of search. This was by user "dtmorelikeshitty"

Step 4: MD5 hash of "search" is 06a943c59f33a34bb5924aaf72cd2995 and searching for it on-forum leads to this post: (irrelevant parts deleted)


Step 5: I sent a positive trust to Cyrus: "4᠎ real, a ᠎g᠎reat ᠎q᠎uality admin with ᠎Z᠎eal. I'd trust them as a proper Ad᠎j᠎udi᠎cA᠎tor. ᠎6᠎" and the characters 4gqZjcA6 were surrounded by 0-width whitespace characters.

Step 6: The reference was to pastebin, which leads to https://pastebin.com/4gqZjcA6:


Where my profile contains the partial private key 5KVwLpFLnaf2RrDnK9gZRky

Step 7: Searching again for the SHA-256 hash of "search" returns this post: Re: What exactly is Trust Depth? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3132360.msg32395594#msg32395594)

Step 8: The dtmorelikeshitty (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2532561) profile has the user "QBFD4raRqXMjwBRWqFR1GqyCN" in its trust list.

Step 9: The dtmorelike profile also has "... + DQw" in its profile.

Step 10: Putting all three parts together (5KVwLpFLnaf2RrDnK9gZRkyQBFD4raRqXMjwBRWqFR1GqyCNDQw) leads to the private key.

Done.

wallet number found

How did you do that?

The number is color white

There is what we called hidden BBcode. If you are used to a forum site, you may know how to find the hidden bbcode.

It's pretty easy to do actually.
You can figure it out mah bro 😁

The hard thing to do is to solve the OP's puzzle hahaha.

Maybe small hint?
Got 2 wallet addresses but dont have any ideas :c

27ebfgnx4njqt2dfs3e4mxv3tuytamwejm86k77pa3sdrzk

what's this actually?

Me too I got that but Im stuck 😁

Got this Bitcoin address : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1shBNge3MFyF6jWkehGyUHey6opSf3gG1

How did you do that?

That I address that I found is linked into this address : https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1NEGtaGsd7ftoPxAqwai6TdzdXhVP2Q8zi  ??? Hmmm

Maybe someone has already solved the puzzle ?!

Hint 1 posted. Good luck.

where i can see puzzle?

first post

but in first post is name girl
but in two post The first 5 letters of the second address are missing two vowels.
apparently I don't know how these two Hint  to make a priv key
what i do use for answer on this puzzle?

where you see name girl?  :o

in coment https://www.wykop.pl/wpis/38477671/27ebfgnx4njqt2dfs3e4mxv3tuytamwejm86k77pa3sdrzk-pr/ but now he del

wrong way you chose

all wallet number written here, use hint 1

Shebang :D
i dont have any idea what we should find at the end, private key?

Ooops, i thought you were looking for the puzzle piece lol haha sorry mybad.

I think you are now near to completing the puzzle?
I don't even know how to get the wallet address haha XD

Also dont have any ideas :C

Its to fun actually , its what i found till now ,
1.1shBNge3MFyF6jWkehGyUHey6opSf3gG1  //  0.01 Btc wallet
2. hint direct me to "shebang" means we should Ignore some letters or numbers or both
its my first try but  i checked Op's previous puzzles , he enjoys to direct to pastebin.

You forgot about Reserved.hr

I dont understand HR , if you do may be it help :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_(girl_group)

Update :

Computing
<hr/>, an HTML element that creates a "horizontal rule" or dividing line
.hr, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Croatia
HR (software), a program that automatically forms mathematical theories by searching for sequences of numbers
Half Rate (HR or GSM-HR), a speech coding system for GSM developed in the early 1990s

I don't think the "reserved" is part of puzzle.
It is just a reserved spot for the hints to be easily seen.
Hmmm i think... XD

i'm with you but Op is polish and maybe trying to advertise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved   :)
hr could be reserved store in croatia  ;D
please tell me i'm close .

I already tried to decode URL of reserved.hr, also try to decode phrases from this website, with Shebang commands also

Maybe need Hint 2  ::)

mb 1NEGtaGsd7ftoPxAqwai6TdzdXhVP2Q8zi <- second address ?!

Hint for permutations? :p Shit's case sensitive

go for hint #3 , for example lets talk about what we are looking for? soccer player?animal?colour?

Main Problem in your puzzle's is that we dont know where its gonna end , every answer could be a clue to the new path.

It ends with a private key leading to your reward.

Each numbered hint is for a different step.

Reserved.hr is part of the puzzle?

No. [hr᠎] is just "horizontal rule" for the line.

I don't understand these hints at all.

I think hint two has to do with Visual Basic or a macro.  You can run both in word processors like me word.  So something that doesn’t translate on the bitcointalk post will.

Wait that image in the first post.  Someone drag it into word and see if it is a zip file



or typescript would work in a word processor but not bbc.

or the shebang image has the information hidden in the file itself. 

Hint 3 and addenda for 1 and 2 added.

Aqwai (hausa language) = there , there are
tell me im close  ;D

My head is hurting! I need help to perform another search!

Just completed another search.

I need help to collude the information I have found. Could the OP provide some more hint?

Just found out that the puzzle has been solved.  :'( :'(
Looking forward to the solution and the next puzzle....

Solution posted. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5100994.msg49374170#msg49374170)

I don't understand the logical chain of this puzzle

Not a chance my friend :p I reached this part and I told you that this was case sensitive.. I thought the 6 pastebin link letters were 4 + Z + A + A + 6 + the hex of one of the shebang chars, 23 or 21.

I was never going to figure this one out, but hey I've learned something this time, good puzzle!

>Actually believing someone solved this

LMFAO. What a trashy-ass puzzle.
glad to be never participating again
short btw haHAA

Are you really complaining about someone giving away free money? I was one step away from the end.   I appreciate it, not for the money but for the challenge.   Negativity like this is a cancer on the forum. 

So, i only get to step 3 so far, lol. I know the part of the private key in your profile but don't have idea about the rest of it, and i use base58 to encode "dtmorelikeshitty" and combine it with that half private key and since you write "Brevity is the soul of wit." i thought this will be Shakespeare's Hamlet (https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/74850.html) reference, but looks like i'm wrong ;D.

Cool. Thanks for giving it a shot.