http://nintendo8.com/game/60/contra/Also I can see the words: The Craft Mind Fat Crab YT - the artist Mint Minecraft Heat Hear Hat Cat Care and probably a shit load more if I keep staring at it..... Is there anything contra related in Minecraft? Sorry I don't play the game, which is a bummer right now 
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One more thing before I leave.
The OP has corrected us on the CANNOT DO NOT thing.
So divert your search to that sentence.
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Back in the days, when they used Morse code, they talked like this.
I will be back at home at ten stop Get out your broom stop I will be wearing a helmet stop
The stop indicated, the end of a sentence.
Do we have a Morse code with 2 sentences, where you do not use the stop?
I still say it's a bitcoin adress with a private key encrypted with a pass phrase.
You get the bitcoin adress, and unlock it with the private key, but you would need the pass phrase.
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Anyone else honest enough to admit they are to stupid to attempt this... I am :~(
I need a hug.
I admit that I'm not able to reproduce what the persons in this topic have done. It blows my mind, but that doesn't make it less interesting. We are not stupid, we are just stuck  Hugs  That being said, I went back to see what we have done wrong (according to OP). I have reviewed some of the images posted by members, and I found this has the letters toR in the left hand side going down:  Also this image has the letters u on the left side and WFM and a reverse K on the right side:  Now this has obviously got binary code but also blue dots..... But as Shorena said before, too complicated to make out which goes where:  I will keep looking for clues we found but got wrong, but I have to leave soon so I might not be able to add much today. The above could be relevant or not, but as others suggested I think we should get back to the CSV. It is clearly mentioned in the letters of the portrait EDIT: Also PB could be Parity Bits as another member suggested or Play Back, as in go back and play things again |
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I have to underline one important thing: Almost all posters in this thread are operating under assumption that private key must be 52 characters long, starting with '5' and following by 51 characters. This is completely wrong. It's just a WIF representation of the private key, one of many formats private key can have. Essentially, private key is any integer starting from 1 and ending with 0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4141, see explanation here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key. I believe this wrong assumption was started by incorrect naming of the textboxes on the brainwallet.org website, which name 'WIF representation' as 'Private Key', while the real private key is what they call 'Secret Exponent'. In ECDSA cryptographic sense that integer is just the number of times we dot-multiply Generator point with itself, and X and Y coordinate of the resulting point being our public key. So, people, you are wasting time looking for a 52-character string starting with '5', you should be looking for a number. Hi, and thanks for adding but I think you might be wrong.... First of all 51 char priv keys start with 5. 52 char prib keys start with K or L (believe me I found quite a few). Last, I don't believe (personally) that we are looking for something like that, I think we are looking for a keyword or key-prhase that will reveal the priv key. But that is just my opinion. None the less, thanks for adding nope, itod is right. a private key is just a number which can be represented in different encodings, WIF being only one of them. For sure, but 51 char key starts with 5, 52 char key starts with K or L. There are also 44 char keys and mini-keys but like i said I don't believe we are looking for that now I don't know why you believe what you believe, but I guarantee you private key is a number that can be any length (while being in range) and start with arbitrary digit (hex or decimal). You can still search only those starting with '5', but you will not solve the puzzle that way Other assumption is that we are looking for a keyphrase, like "correct horse battery staple". That is much more reasonable than one discussed above, but you have to keep in mind that is just one of the possibilities. I have found keys that start with: K, L, S and some of them 4 (I think). I know what you are saying bro, and you are right. None the less we could just be looking for a 12 word seed for dark wallet. I am just saying that I think we should be looking for a keyword and outguess the key out of the image. That's all  Anyways, gdnight to you and thank you for being part of the team. You are a great asset |
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Anyways, guys and girls, sorry I need to get some shut eye. I am too tired and I got a headache.... And Alice isn't helping....... (hint, hint) |
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I have to underline one important thing: Almost all posters in this thread are operating under assumption that private key must be 52 characters long, starting with '5' and following by 51 characters. This is completely wrong. It's just a WIF representation of the private key, one of many formats private key can have. Essentially, private key is any integer starting from 1 and ending with 0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4141, see explanation here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key. I believe this wrong assumption was started by incorrect naming of the textboxes on the brainwallet.org website, which name 'WIF representation' as 'Private Key', while the real private key is what they call 'Secret Exponent'. In ECDSA cryptographic sense that integer is just the number of times we dot-multiply Generator point with itself, and X and Y coordinate of the resulting point being our public key. So, people, you are wasting time looking for a 52-character string starting with '5', you should be looking for a number. Hi, and thanks for adding but I think you might be wrong.... First of all 51 char priv keys start with 5. 52 char prib keys start with K or L (believe me I found quite a few). Last, I don't believe (personally) that we are looking for something like that, I think we are looking for a keyword or key-prhase that will reveal the priv key. But that is just my opinion. None the less, thanks for adding nope, itod is right. a private key is just a number which can be represented in different encodings, WIF being only one of them. For sure, but 51 char key starts with 5, 52 char key starts with K or L. There are also 44 char keys and mini-keys but like i said I don't believe we are looking for that now EDIT: don't get me wrong itod, it's just that I have a feeling the we are looking for a keyword. Like I said thatnks for adding |
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I have to underline one important thing: Almost all posters in this thread are operating under assumption that private key must be 52 characters long, starting with '5' and following by 51 characters. This is completely wrong. It's just a WIF representation of the private key, one of many formats private key can have. Essentially, private key is any integer starting from 1 and ending with 0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4141, see explanation here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key. I believe this wrong assumption was started by incorrect naming of the textboxes on the brainwallet.org website, which name 'WIF representation' as 'Private Key', while the real private key is what they call 'Secret Exponent'. In ECDSA cryptographic sense that integer is just the number of times we dot-multiply Generator point with itself, and X and Y coordinate of the resulting point being our public key. So, people, you are wasting time looking for a 52-character string starting with '5', you should be looking for a number. Hi, and thanks for adding but I think you might be wrong.... First of all 51 char priv keys start with 5. 52 char prib keys start with K or L (believe me I found quite a few). Last, I don't believe (personally) that we are looking for something like that, I think we are looking for a keyword or key-prhase that will reveal the priv key. But that is just my opinion. None the less, thanks for adding |
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Who is the troll that made the new TX?
Nevermind, the OP updated the bounty therefor it's real - for now.....
I disagree. blockchain shows it was relayed by ip 46.28.204.51, instead of directly through blockchain like the other transactions and it uses a different miner's fee. The bounty has been updated here |
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Update 6/28:
Do not rely solely on Users for solves, double check solves for user errors: #checkuser404
OP made no mistakes.
confirmed:
- Public Address has been solved: 1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra
- embedded morse code: "They cannot attack what they DO not see," has been solved.
No more clues. Good Bye and Good Luck.
Oh god. This shit is getting tense. Where is this message from? OP, it has been updated. Start DOing.... OP, you haven't answered my question..... rdgrn sos or PB ? |
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Why? Our aim is to get the key to outguess the private key out of the image...... EDIT: I have said that before and I truly believe that, that is what we are looking for. |
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Who is the troll that made the new TX?
Nevermind, the OP updated the bounty therefor it's real - for now.....
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Reasons I use Gimp.... #1 Its Free #2 Its Free #3 Its Free Yes... So? EDIT: The OP is an artist therefor has PS definitely..... |
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So, we have no clues again.....
sure we do. current unknowns: - what is up with that wily blue dot? - what does "THEY CAN NOT ATTACK WHAT THEY CAN NOT SEE" mean? - do the morse words do anything other than make the above phrase? - is there anything in the junk redgreen? - what do any of the alphanumerics in the puzzle mean that aren't part of the public bitcoin address? - can someone who's better than me at GIMP find something hidden in the image? threshold noise folding: http://imgur.com/d5YK3nOHi, sorry, don't get me wrong but I hear the word GIMP show up a lot and as a designer I can tell you we prefer PS. So, do you know something we don't? Probably a stupid question and I apologize because it's completely logical to use GIMP since it's free. So, do you know something we don't? |
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Who keeps adding all this money to the prize? Someone has some deep pockets I'm guessing  Pretty cool puzzle though. I was wondering the same thing. This is a huge prize. Who us funding it? And why? Just for fun? (not complaining hehe just curious) Do you have any idea how many of us go to sleep (when we manage to) and keep thinking about this riddle? |
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Alice, FFS girl, can't you see we are dieing for another clue? Pleeeeeezzzzzz Thank You We Love you I'm fairly certain that we are "Alice." The artist is YT. To be more precise, the artist's username here started with YT and I think YT was her twitter handle. YT is also in the image in a way that can be interpreted as a signature. The "CHCKUSER" message made me wonder: perhaps the name YT is relevant. My guess is that it's taken from a major character in Snow Crash. (That's why I mentioned Hiro Protagonist in my first post in this thread.) In Snow Crash, YT stands for "Yours Truly". I hope this helps. Yours Truly.... Will look into it but so far I came up with nothing  |
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