A couple of thoughts: 1. Here is another awesome painting by coin_artist (of Andreas Antonopoulos); it appeared in a recent article in Bitcoin Magazine: http://bitcoinmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/aantop_border-498x620.png. She's definitely thinking in 1's and 0's. 2. We know she communicates with us via the blockchain, primarily from 1BoRHtJva2L9YyqB1aS1zqgFUjjftNuZtJ but she could also be sending from other addresses. It's interesting (and important for guidance or her response to our guessing) to watch the communication via https://blockchain.info/address/1HXUobwcB19cGDrghuh42HDdJdJvrJUEra?offset=0&filter=0 Yesterday she sent amounts starting at .023 btc, then .022, then .021...counting down to .013. Then stopped. When a poster cleverly asked for help in his bitcoin addresses on the blockchain: "what do the red and green dots mean," her amounts counted down again, from .012 to .001. [She left out .008, .005, .003--could have been purposely or problems in sending.] Then .023, then .001, as if to reiterate or make clear. Later today she sent .005 (perhaps because she had meant to send .005 yesterday but not sure [not sure of anything!].) There are 23 rows in the grid. Is she implying that we need to read the dots (or the text?) from bottom to top (from 23 to 1)? We are behind the looking glass, after all. There could be some reversals, as many have surmised. Why the reference to a "she"? Who are you calling "she"? |
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Nice piece of scrap metal there. But that skeleton of a horse with a skeleton of a man on top of it is much more disturbing.
A Royale "scrap metal"? I have no words. I don't see Queen Elizabeth the second riding that car. And note, she was born in 1926 too. |
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Nice piece of scrap metal there. But that skeleton of a horse with a skeleton of a man on top of it is much more disturbing. This on the hand is my (future)car  |
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stray thoughts: If we read the dots as some sort of bitstream vertically, we no longer have yellows that are directly adjacent to each other. This might imply that vertical is a better way to go for the dots if we assume yellows are delimiters of some kind. Steganography is still a possibility. Cicada 3301 used imgur for at least some images, and the hidden messages were not stripped. I tested the tool used in that game (outguess) on our image and didn't find anything useful. The fact that imgur doesn't strip does mean that it's possible that a different tool may have been used to insert a hidden message, or that outguess was used along with a key. I tested a few possible keys from the character string but did not test anything exhaustively. I doubt this is a useful direction to continue going in unless we get a hint leading us this way. ryanAC: pretty color dot isolates! here's a complimentary, less-pretty, letters-only: s 7 ov Y 8t c a k z
3 C m i u N 2 r h 5
1 H X U o b w
c B 1 9 c G
D r g h
u h 42 H D dJ d Jv r
J U E r a O P 4 i D c
I x b M y 2 n
L i 3 1
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A U r k 9
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F t From what people have said about Cicada 3301, I can only tell the person who finds the key to stay away from them. |
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your code
while (b != 0)
the rosetta code
while (a > 1)
your while loop will terminate for very different reasons.
The keys you got right you must have gotten lucky with
now mind telling me what the heck your doing?
calculating the modular multiplicative inverse, how does that make bitcoin?
I thought bitcoin took a big ulgy number and computed it's sha1.
if the sha1 was less then some other ulgy number called the merkle root then the mining program would say yea!
SHA1? I haven't read the bitcoin protocol in a while, but last I checked it was SHA-256. |
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Even if what I'm doing fully fits the definition of "reimplementation", It doesn't sound so bad due to the following:
All of us are trusting Bitcoin, the programming, the algorithms, etc. I think it stands to reason that we have nothing to lose by better understanding the equations as fundamentally as we really can. What if one in a million people notices something..."wrong" with it? That's kind of one of the very points of "open source". Anyone who wishes to verify the coding is permitted and able to do so. Obviously understanding it is another matter, but with posts like mine, we may be able to assist people in doing just that.
You'll have to excuse Death and Taxes's god complex, he likes to butt in conversations and push his own views onto people(i.e discourage them from reimplementing stuff). |
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OP is born for Hollywood.
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If the man wants to reimplement something, let him. That is how he is going to learn.
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While 2BTC are a good incentive, I am not like you guys, thinking outside of the box(and I can see some people went outside what is outside the box). I could never solve this even if I spent my whole life on it.
But if I had to give an opinion. I guess looking at the pic reminds me of a QR code.
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I'm a bit worried about them going all Lord of the Flies on each other though. The initial group is going to be might small and mighty isolated for a long time...
You mean forever. It's a one-way trip. Not enough women for hooking up, fights, insanity...bad things could happen with the human psyche when he knows he will NEVER get home. |
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The setgenerate command usually uses an unoptimized and slow algorithm, in the face of GPUs you'd be better off not using it.
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Actually, nothing in Bitcoin is encrypted, except the wallet if you choose to do so.
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all FEAR is INSIDE YOU HEAD.... we dont give a F*CK , if ghash.io misbehaves it will lose its good name . and will be replaced by someone else we are noet DEPENEDENT obn ghash.io nor do they own all mining hardware its custumers use  so do executing your fear , is suicide for ghash.io , they can do it but wont get them very far! This is demonstrably false, because they have already misbehaved and yet now they are the largest mining pool. Most people simply don't care, they just want to maximise their own profits in the short term. And yet if you look at the stats, they are at 34%. |
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The author of the thread registered on the same day he disappeared. Didn't even bother to read his post. It's obvious he was a troll and this thread needs to get deleted.
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Is it technically possible to change the mining protocol, so that a certain IP (solo miner or pool operator) cant have more than 49% hashpower ?
No. #1 you cant force miners to update their client, so you are suggesting a hardfork #2 you cant check how much hashingpower a certain IP has. You might allow only 49% of all block over a given time from a certain IP, but that would need a central place to deliver those blocks which can check where they come from. Thats not p2p, thats even more power on a single point. besides that: miners could just change the IP. also: there allready is an emergency solution: http://gavintech.blogspot.de/2012/05/neutralizing-51-attack.html1. You probably should've mentioned the IP change first. 2. The other information becomes irrelevant(but not useless), if you said that first. |
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Interesting! Thank you very much! You seem to be an expert on this. Then how can we communicate with KRUNIAC? Gratefully, Philip If the btc were sent to a mixer or exchange, then the exchange could simply be moving them around. But if not, then the lead sounds solid. However, it is also safe to assume that the thief is reading this thread right now, and by providing the information of where you think the coins are, and provided it's correct, he will know for sure if you are onto him or not. Addendum: Looks like this thread is rather old, shame I didn't look at the date. |
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allien detected  very far from the possibility of aliens who did it because I really do not believe in the existence of aliens. lol Then you are an ignorant person who thinks humans are the only race in the universe. Aliens exist alright, whether they are here or not nobody knows, but to NOT think that out of the billions of galaxies with trillions of stars with a dozen or so planets orbiting each, there isn't a single alien advanced race is just simply ignorant and not understanding how the universe works or fathoming just how BIG it is. Now, I'm not claiming they were abducted by aliens, but that they exist, the only reason there is no contact is because we all live in different time periods, this is basics, nothing can travel FASTER than the speed of light. Any attempt at contact would take light years to reach, LIGHT YEARS. It's also reasonable to say that civilizations probably rose and went extinct and if they tried to make contact, we didn't have any radios yet, or perhaps we weren't even in existence yet. |
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Some users need to turn off the computer and step outside. Living life on a forum can not be good.
If you tell me anything outside the forum that makes you a millionaire overnight, please do.  |
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In 5 years I am sure it'd be in the high trillions, maybe even quadrillions.
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Wow jesus I have two days in, how the heck does someone get 70 days logged in?
Side note: I've been here since 2011???
And I've been here since then as well. |
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