This one is too programmy to feel like I can do much of anything... Here's a tid bit that may be helpful though: on the CSS for the terminal there is a call for a font "VT232" or courier. Working in graphics and searching the appropriate repositories turns up no such font ever. Perhaps "VT232" is a useful code at some point.

Note: I wasn't the one to solve this, but I did make significant progress.

I posted around Christmas and because I was unwilling to give away to much information, no one believed that I had made progress on the puzzle. I was actually ridiculed and called schizophrenic, but I was telling the truth. I was legitimately trying to help others make progress. The key was to think like an artist.

Anyway, since there's no information yet about how it was solved, I wrote a blog post about my own progress.  Congratulations to the winner.

Here's the post:

https://yetzirah-games.squarespace.com/blog/2018/2/2/the-legend-of-satoshi-nakamoto-part-overview-long

I think the puzzle is worth exploring even without the financial incentive. It's brilliant, and fun to explore. Maybe my post will help some of you get started.

I gonna tell you guys and gals REAL hints!

it's called 1FLAMEN6 because... Wait for it...  
16 different flames!!!  

And I can give out two more secret hints that no one have seen yet but I don't know if the first one is important or not. Let's see who can solve this

The "W hite R abbit" is in the red ribbons

The Phenix and the turtle has "1658" characters

i tried to google aur files mid-Jan but I was not successful, anyway, as I said many times, I was doubtful to that idea.

You should have come forward with that autorealm idea when I posted that https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000.msg28336592#msg28336592
Now it is definitely too late for any new ideas and I hope to hear from the winner soon! If there was a map - we'll know it.

You see, the thing is, you wrote 3 years ago that you created the puzzle with 3 people.
https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/584338579691798529
sooo, your word doesnt mean much as of now.

As i expected, coin-artist is a big scammer.
she or one of the creators withdrew the prize.

there is only one file (pdf file), have you found another files?



I know you are busy these days, Hope you passed that laser gate puzzle LOL

Yes, I really think that's the case. It's actually very difficult to design a puzzle that is challenging yet solvable. One has to take great care to ensure the solution is achievable without the benefit of having the solution to begin with.

With mistakes being made in previous puzzles, I think it's clear that the author is not very rigorous in their design. Further, at the time this puzzle was made it was worth a lot less, so there was much less incentive to do it properly. The fact that the prize money was once worth $100K USD is also a good indication that this may be unsolvable. Look at all the crazy solutions to other ARG's that are worth only a couple hundred bucks. You could imagine those solvers, as well as many more would be attracted to the larger prize of this puzzle. Lots of very brilliant people have worked on this and still nobody has even a confirmed first step.

From the authors perspective I'm sure it seems simple, but to those without the benefit of knowing the solution, it might not be solvable. This is basically the definition of hindsight bias.