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The solution is interesting and may relate to this puzzle. Each image is converted to six bits of information, and this series of six bits are used as index into Base58 charset, "123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz". To simplify it, each 6 bits are index how much is each letter away from the beginning of charset - the letter/number "1". This series of 6 bits converts to WIF encoded private key in this manner. If something like this applies to this puzzle also, we are looking for series of 6 bits which begin with 5 since all WIF encoded private keys begin with this number.
Heh, I solved that one. I was excited that it might apply to this one too but alas I've tried it and nothing. Compared to 1FLAMEN6, this was a cinch...
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Congrats, good to meet you. I'm the creator. It was a relatively simple puzzle to cheer someone for Xmas. :-)
1FLAMEN6 is a "slightly" tougher piece..
Searched 152 flames for possible variant producing only base58 characters too, but no luck. I see no simple lead in puzzle data for determing PK format used. I think all hopes for linear sequencing of data are gone...
