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What is this it seems the puzzle is already solved, what else is there??
What makes you think the puzzle is solved? |
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Hey YuTü.Co.in, congratulations for solving this puzzle! Really enviable! You can imagine that we all are eagerly awaiting some clues. Would you mind sharing some? Thanks! Please! Just a little teaser! Was it a QR Code? Hex? Alphanumeric 8X8 Matrix? Binary? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I have a feeling we won't get something until after the article on vice.com  . Contracts...! Sad if the solver is bound to this. |
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Hey YuTü.Co.in, congratulations for solving this puzzle! Really enviable! You can imagine that we all are eagerly awaiting some clues. Would you mind sharing some? Thanks! |
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She knows what she did.
And it's not about SCAM.
I want to apologies to all that I believed white_[ x ]_rabbit would contribute something useful to this riddle. Now it is exposed that he was a handicap for us naive users (not that I would have solved the riddle without him). How would this sabotage help him and affect coinartist? Wouldn't it make more sense reversed? Make us solve the riddle faster? He couldn't do this because he had no idea of the solution. All of this is really fishy. It would be really sad if this is some private vendetta of yours. I only wished coinartist would have dissociated from white_[ x ]_rabbit timely. Now there is a smack that he came handy. edit: Are you S4VV4S? If true you should really bring this behind. A lost riddle leads you to all of this? That's all you have to blame coinartist for? |
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Satoshis are floating back to 1FLAMEN6 now... .
Still not at least some hints. Hope this will not become a farce.
I noticed them too  when I checked the exact emptying time. I wonder what is it from? Anyway, they are worth 10USD now so nothing particularly rewarding. I wanted to ask, did you have a bot or whatever observing that address? Your post that it was emptied was very well timed too  Just a guess -- If you follow the transaction trail back, those coins came from an address that withdrew the coins in the first place. I wonder if this is just the solver demonstrating to someone (the MB writer?) that he has control of the address. It went: 1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd --> 15x25pXex9ZFUr4kAkTL9ayPCap7VLW8Vx 15x25pXex9ZFUr4kAkTL9ayPCap7VLW8Vx --> 1PGfmyE8ZS6WVNH64wXMtHQwsQRwu5widH 1PGfmyE8ZS6WVNH64wXMtHQwsQRwu5widH --> 1L7dZK3FPCN75VBdHurfF7tZnzqbo5TWYt 1L7dZK3FPCN75VBdHurfF7tZnzqbo5TWYt --> 1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd Or maybe winner and Trinitas teamed up and use the attention for some benefit. That's a good plan . |
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There is something other than bitcoin to find at 1flamen. Can you catch this rare Pokémon? The solution will be released soon, and then it will be too late. There isn't much time. Good luck!
No thanks, not for me. I will close this chapter after the solution. |
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Satoshis are floating back to 1FLAMEN6 now... .
Still not at least some hints. Hope this will not become a farce.
I noticed them too when I checked the exact emptying time. I wonder what is it from? Anyway, they are worth 10USD now so nothing particularly rewarding. I wanted to ask, did you have a bot or whatever observing that address? Your post that it was emptied was very well timed too Added the address as watch-only address to bitcoin wallet (you will get a desktop notification when something changes on that address (client: bitcoin-qt, os: linux)). The satoshis are coming back from the winner address. edit: noticing that it has been emptied on time, was a coincidence. |
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Satoshis are floating back to 1FLAMEN6 now... .
Still not at least some hints. Hope this will not become a farce.
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He/she has to empty Bitcoin Gold first. |
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I would like to congratulate the winner too! (if there is a winner, that is) Well, I am not sure if I should share this, but I have those doubts, it is eating me, and I and so many others invested so much our time in the puzzle, that it had better be cristal clear, and it seems not to be, so maybe I should drop it from my chest... and let others decide. You see, the corresponding BCH address is not emptied: https://bitinfocharts.com/pl/bitcoin%20cash/address/1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegdBut a winner technically savvy enough to solve THAT puzzle must of course realize that about 10% of the prize value is in BCH and about 1% in BTG. Protected by the same private key. The winner must have had a plan to get to all those addresses all at once, before the creators (who know the private key too) could withdraw the founds once they learn one of the addresses is emptied. I know, because it was my plan. Only a person knowing that nobody else has the key could be reluctant and slow about removing the BCH funds. So as I said: the situation seems not to be cristal clear. And with so much energy of everybody invested in this puzzle I thought I should share my doubts. Thanks, bud, I forgot about that. Emptied now. I am glad I could help. Congrats mate! I am glad someone real won this !!! Well, just in case you found my post useful, you could give me merit proportional to the usefulness of the post Yay! Will you post a walkthrough? |
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Congratilations for you Marguerite Christine (or coin-artist), you were able to scam those solvers for more than 3 years in order for you to become famous with those marketing tricks. And now you've achieved what you want successfully by becoming a "FAMOUS SCAMMER" If you have no proof you should stop this calumny. |
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Congratulations to the winner!!! I would love to hear from you! I have been defeated! Haha! More hints now pleaaase. |
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It's finally solved. Address is empty.
Congratulations to the winner!
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I don't think it's about social engineering, IMHO it's about vines and the leaves, they are so obviously 17 of them. Flame heights just held that message, flame colors probably can help somehow to decode the leaves.
Was just kidding . There must be some instructions in the painting. Tomorrow is kreeoz great day. Maybe he will open our eyes or he solves today. |
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.-..----..-.-......-....----.---..........-.-.-..-..----....----..--.-.-.-.-
Here are the non-pattern heights of the flames in morse code.
I found the word seventeen right here. It might be coincidence.
.-..----..-.-......-....----.---... .......-.-.-..-. .----....----..--.-.-.-.-
... . ...- . -. - . . -. = seventeen
THEseventeenISKEYFILE ? Edit: Couldn't hold my self and tweeted: Hey @coin_artist, TheSeventeenIsKeyFile, right? 🤓 Then this happened: YT▷ followed you 46 seconds ago
YT▷ liked your Tweet now Then again, she may be playing with me, although it looked like she immediately knew what I was talking about. Very good. Maybe the whole puzzle is about social engineering . You took the lead! |
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1. Is everyone aware there are 3 files included in this image?
2. No one references this image in a 3D perspective.... only 2D. Has anyone beside me started down this route? If so what did you find?
Welcome! 1. No. Can you give us more information? 2. I think no one tried this officially yet. I made some perspective distortions and created a plane with mapped texture in blender for some more transformations until I realized I have no talent for CAD. The relevant parts for this final puzzle start around page 15 of this thread. So you can skip some pages. Good luck! |
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i don't know what do you mean by using ASCII ,do you mean that we can translate some symbols using ASCII... here is an example: (how we can read this) https://imgur.com/a/YurM0There is a < symbol and Y letter in bold blue between dove chest and phoenix. This is related for decoding flames so integer range 0-255 can be decoded to characters. The minecraft server are all offline currently. Overlay for 14722 idea: https://imgur.com/a/1QyaS |
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Guys I would like to apologize for a mistake I made in my previews analysis.
I assumed that the private WIF key is random (private/public key pair was generated with a vanitygen like tool without modifications)
so my conclusion was that the "yellow/red", "green/blue" bit stream can not encode a private key.
Unfortunately my assumption might not nesesery be true,
in fact there only needs to be about length("FLAMEN6")*6bits= 7*6bits = 42bits random bits in a stream to generate a public key with "1FLAMEN6" prefix,
so not only the "yellow/red", "green/blue" stream may contain a valid private key, but also only the "short/long" stream is enough to create a valid private key with a "1FLAMEN6" prefix.
Even more, it's probably possible to modify the original vanitygen source code so, that the time it would take to find such a private key is the same as now (on my laptop the estimation is ~5 days). The only change would be to feed vanitygen not with random numbers but with a desired bit pattern + the 42 random bits.
If this is the case in this puzzle, you have to decide for yourself.
I don't see a reason to apologize. We all have ideas that might lead to something or not. Thanks for your correction. With oclvanitygen I only get ~8 hours estimation for 1FLAMEN6. The creators are into cryptocurrency for many years already so they will have tools and processing power to create keys how they desire in a fraction of time. |
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What if the public key, and private key were encoded in the painting?
What benefit would we have from the public key? Bruteforcing would be little more possible but still impossible |
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I've asked White Rabbit about "Dr. Mabuse" because I found the text "Dr. Mab" in the image (border, in the background of the flames).
could you please explain how did you find that? Sure. I create a layer filled with red and set blending mode to "color". It should work in photoshop and krita (used latest beta) (did not try in gimp because I am not comfortable with the ui). Now the background of the flames should become some hardly readable text. She really has a scrawl. You have to rotate/mirror to get something readable on some sides. Additionally you can use curve, level, hue, saturation filters to enhance readability. Some subjective interpretation of the texts: N 1984 Dr. Mab....WASABI (might also say Dr. Mar) CSI 6 E18 At 16 Sec (I mentioned this before. Not sure about the last part) BRA BRAG Sahara 197 AMERA (totally not sure) Ace.... Also the ribbons of the key seem to contain a number. See the image: https://i.imgur.com/1hvEIex.png (14722?) Edit: Some other thoughts: The twitter profile picture of coin_artist could be a hint: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/915914534430363648/fxPVth9e_400x400.jpgThe image has the red glasses I found in the CSI episode. It has spades (leafs could be spades). Edit2: Please use extended ASCII (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437) for your decryption tests. I have a feeling it might be useful and it doesn't hurt. Edit 3: You can find many symbols/numbers/texts but as others have mentioned already it is hard to say what is real/important or just a side effect of the painting style. |
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