I missed this latest scammery. What's he after old empty wallets for? Supposedly its so he can sign messages from them and then say, "Look, I must be Satoshi!" Here's an archive of the original thread: https://archive.is/vLfExSomehow Twitter connected the cock.li email address to him, I dunno, he must have used that email service in the past or something. Ah I'm still too naïve sometimes Thanks, appreciate it. Will look into it further So it was the email address someone used to connect this with Craig?
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I missed this latest scammery. What's he after old empty wallets for?
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Good afternoon, I have incent tokens in the toolbar, please tell me how to withdraw them to your wallet?
Should be a simple matter of logging into your account. What is the problem? when you enter your account, in the send tab, you can send to a friend or send to a business, and how to send to your wallet? Maybe there is some kind of guide? Withdraw is a separate function, should be in the menu.
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I'll post my thoughts so far here. They may or may not be useful - I hope so. It looks like blockladder has deleted posts he made in the past. A Google search shows up the odd quoted post for which the original has been deleted. It's hard to tell whether these are sarcastic or trolly. Either way, I've hit a dead end. Here's what I've assumed so far. Some of these assumptions could be false, of course. Thoughts/Assumptions 1) ‘Why The Comb...’ is poor grammar (it should be ‘Why Does The Comb...’). I assume this is deliberate (OP appears to have native English), and that ONLY these letters are required. 2) I assume it’s an anagram of the question for that reason. 3) The ‘.txt’ is difficult; it could be part of the answer, or could simply indicate that the answer is plaintext. Including ‘txt’ increases the proportion of consonants to a problematic level. 4) I assume that the 8 camel case words are to be hashed (SHA256) to create a 32-byte privkey. It is technically possible that the 8 words ARE the key. However, this would require that several letters were discarded (as the question contains too many), and there is no obvious indication of which ones. 5) ‘Natasha Otomoski’ is an anagram of ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’. The letters were clearly grouped to indicate this, so I assume ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ is a part of the answer. This massively reduces possible permutations for 8 words. If it is not, and is simply deliberately misleading, it becomes vastly more difficult to figure out the answer. 6) There may be a second layer in the puzzle, whereby the answer references something in the question rather than just using its letters. ‘Why….?’ implies an answer ‘Because...’ (the right letters aren’t present though) or ‘To...’ I spent a while considering the joke, ‘What has teeth but cannot chew’. Answer: A comb. ‘ToChewThe21MbyteHashOfSatoshiNakamoto’ doesn’t hash to the given address. 7) The significance of ‘21’ (or ‘12’, or ‘1’ and ‘2’ separately) in the answer is unclear. The letters aren’t present for ‘21 Million bitcoins’, though they are for ‘21m Btc’. A rail fence cipher doesn’t appear to produce anything useful. That's all from me. It felt I was getting close. Assuming there is a solution, I hope this helps someone find it.
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I posted this in Slack earlier today: So you will likely be aware from the recent market action that things are building with Incent. *The* big initiative is now on the cards, building towards a public launch in the next 2 months and using all the tech and proof-of-concepts we have developed in the last couple of years. It would be good to know who is around as we pin down the messaging for this and prepare to make the big push.
If you're on our Slack, we'd like to use that to keep people informed over the next few weeks and months. This is the critical moment for Incent, so I hope you will join us.
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Good afternoon, I have incent tokens in the toolbar, please tell me how to withdraw them to your wallet?
Should be a simple matter of logging into your account. What is the problem?
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Right. Either the 8 words are the privkey (which is possible if OP did some brute forcing - I've done something similar myself, several years ago now, for a puzzle), or it's a hash. Either way, it's finding the right 32 chars. I have been assuming that they are from the question itself, like others have been.
Why would that require brute forcing? You "simply" pick 8 words that total up to 32 chars as your answer: WeCreateAnAnswerThatIsEightWords Then pick whatever method you like to use that as your private key: char->hex method... which yields private key: 5765437265617465416e416e737765725468617449734569676874576f726473 (18LpdmS7UPHRPsNmD384LRRawHjVXprJy1) or brainwallet (sha256) method... which yields private key: 8EAFEFFE8CEE0E1E43A53314FFEC31BE09B378A4E733A516BBBAEB177CC151FD (15idakESXkA4N5Uyjts2xTFupBLD9Pibz2) You can then send your X BTC prize to the address you just "created" The problem we have is that there is no definitive answer as to whether we should be doing "char->hex" method or "brainwallet" method. I guess the solution to that problem is to simply check both! You misunderstand. It's possible that the privkey itself is a plaintext phrase like TheCombOfNatashYaddaYadda. However, since only a few such phrases would fit the criteria for a privkey (I think around 1 in 200), you'd need to search a load to get one that worked. Or you can create any phrase and hash it for a privkey. Either method generates a valid privkey. But only one will create the privkey to the prize address. So it helps to know what he was doing
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Rooting for you guys, I hope its for real and someone here solves it. Annoyingly, I've hit a dead end. I'll give it a while longer, then post my thoughts here in case they're of use to anyone else.
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from what I understood, the 8 words in camelcase form 32 characters and then sha256 (8words) forms the private key I don't think it's a troll - I'll give it a little bit more time and then, if I can't solve it, drop my thoughts here. When you have enough letters to play with, you can make it fit (almost) anything. But the answer I've got so nearly fits the criteria, and reflects the principle hidden between the lines of the question very neatly (I can't say more without giving it away). But I cannot figure out how it's slimmed down to 32 letters. I am missing something. Thank you for the tool. Right. Either the 8 words are the privkey (which is possible if OP did some brute forcing - I've done something similar myself, several years ago now, for a puzzle), or it's a hash. Either way, it's finding the right 32 chars. I have been assuming that they are from the question itself, like others have been.
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I don't think it's a troll - I'll give it a little bit more time and then, if I can't solve it, drop my thoughts here. When you have enough letters to play with, you can make it fit (almost) anything. But the answer I've got so nearly fits the criteria, and reflects the principle hidden between the lines of the question very neatly (I can't say more without giving it away). But I cannot figure out how it's slimmed down to 32 letters. I am missing something. Thank you for the tool.
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https://brainwalletx.github.io/#generatorjust insert your guesses into the passphrase field that it will convert to an address. I feel close. I have a solution that matches the right criteria, with the double meaning implied by the question. Just need to figure out how to process it. Thanks - BitAddress does the same if you enter a non-valid private key. I've been using that. It's not clear from the question whether the solution to the riddle is the private key itself, or whether it points to the private key. I don't think it will make too much difference either way but would help - knowing if the answer is 32 letters or not would be useful.
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I feel close. I have a solution that matches the right criteria, with the double meaning implied by the question. Just need to figure out how to process it.
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Still unsolved? I have a couple of ideas.
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Hoping to be there.
please ensure that you confirm your attendance on the meetup page Done.
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Bitcoin is designed for financial transactions, but that's just information stored on the blockchain. The information can be anything. The Omni layer is a 'hack' that lets you store other information on the Bitcoin blockchain, and that information records creation, transfer etc of other tokens. Like a blockchain on top of a blockchain. Think of it like cleaning your ears with the lid of a biro. It's generally frowned upon in polite society and it's not what biros were designed for, but it works well enough and you can't stop people doing it so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The Vicks vaporub discussion a few pages back is another example.
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Well, that was that. It was, in it's own way, Fabulous. Though 23:10 was a bit much. Going to need another glass of wine.
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We have to accept the possibility of a momentary dip below previous ATH (~$1156) but that possibility is fading as we move deeper into 2019. Has to be under 5% chance at this time.
The bear downtrend line and the 200WMA will intersect around late March / early April 2019. Shit will get fucked up then if we haven’t broken the bear line by that time (which everyone has forgotten about).
April is when Murad expects a bottom. Again, not unreasonable. The really good news is that the bear line hits zero around August, so we'll definitely be in a bull market by autumn. We will repeatedly break the bear line sideways, rally and fall and form a new bear line. We should do that 4 - 5 times this summer, rebounding off the 200 WMA. is it really a weighted MA? BitcoinWisdom.com just saying it's a simple MA. W for Weekly.
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We have to accept the possibility of a momentary dip below previous ATH (~$1156) but that possibility is fading as we move deeper into 2019. Has to be under 5% chance at this time.
The bear downtrend line and the 200WMA will intersect around late March / early April 2019. Shit will get fucked up then if we haven’t broken the bear line by that time (which everyone has forgotten about).
April is when Murad expects a bottom. Again, not unreasonable. The really good news is that the bear line hits zero around August, so we'll definitely be in a bull market by autumn.
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