Lmao. Apparently they differ from every other lending platform because they are "next gen". More like a "next generation" scam.


This cracked me up a little. It just feels like that they have put every single technical word they know of and put them all in one sentence. And the only thing that they claim separates them from the rest, is something nonexistent, and they have no proof of existing.

I doubt this is actually a ponzi scheme but instead just a scam that will take your money as soon as you invest in it, because apparently you are able to withdraw your investments instantly, and we know if that actually is true, then the whole scheme would collapse.

ZEROHEDGE Article on Bitcoin and British Crown Jewels: Bitconnect and Bitconnect-X Ponzi schemes:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-03/welcome-bitcoins-trough-disillusionment?page=2#comment-11114193

Sorry that 'dec' was supposed to mean decimal

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



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 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.

                                         vlad been ill? maybe another dancing girl to cheer him up?


                                               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbVz5V6DCds


                                                           since we are mooning,    

Man I was so close.  I was in the process of writing a perl script to XOR the 8 different possibilities of the data streams with 011010.  I had it right though on my first guess.

Outer Color Yellow - 0  Outer Color Orange - 1   Inner Color Purple - 0  Inner Color Green - 1  Inner Color Skinny - 0 Inner Color Fat - 1 Short Flame - 0 Tall Flame- 1

I had posted the above a while back.

After writing the script I would have run a word attack on the results and I had created a word file with words from the poem.  Here is a sample of that list.
wonder
shine
right
Flaming
sight
Property
Reason
division
compounded
twain
concordant
dove
chorus
tragic
THRENOS
Beauty
truth
rarity
Grace
simplicity
cinders
Death
nest
loyal
breast
eternity
posterity
infirmity
married
chastity
Truth
repair
prayer


Yep, there is truth and rarity right in there.  heh.  So close.

That's good to hear, thanks.

Have not received mine yet but will keep an eye out for them. 

nope, no need; YTC is better

I’m not going to just say what it is. It’s something that was there all along. And the solver decided to leave it for someone else. I don’t know why you’re insisting that I ruin the mystery. It’s not a big deal, and someone will eventually stumble on it. Or they won’t.

Thank you! I'm so happy everything worked out. Pretty thrilled to close this chapter. I know there were many people who spent a lot of time on this puzzle. I appreciate everyone who was a part of this journey. The upcoming years of bitcoin are going to be very exciting, I'm looking forward to where this road leads.

I've found myself surrounded by some amazing talent because of these puzzles. It's turned out to be somewhat of a recruiting process! And with these friends I've gained over the years, we've enjoyed building other puzzles and starting this new indie game studio. If you haven't heard about it, this is my latest project: neondistrict.io. We have an easter egg puzzle with 15 ETH created by our lead game developer. The puzzle begins on the footnotes of the white paper https://s3.amazonaws.com/neon-district/NDWhitePaper.pdf. Some have gathered on ND discord to work together on the challenge, https://discord.gg/As654jg.

Many of the friends I've made during these puzzles have gone on to become active contributors to the success of bitcoin. I'm humbled to be amongst such great company.  

Some notes about the puzzle, yes the chessboard dimensions and the knight's tour were red herrings. Yes, there was the symbol of Œ on the queen piece for Phœnix. And there are many other forgotten details that Rob and I chuckled about these past couple of days while we were chatting with the journalist. Most of those were omitted, but I'll leave those to your imaginations. However, it was true that the painting subjects were a tribute to the poem, as it ends as a prayer for the two birds, and leaves the reader uncertain of what comes next. This was a very powerful poem for me at the time that I created this puzzle, as I too, was sighing a prayer during the process. Amazing how dramatically things can change in a few years. I wish you all the best!  

If you are right with your assumption, I might consider asking him what the fine sort of alcohol was that completely brainfucked him.