Sorry that 'dec' was supposed to mean decimal

That article was a good read, but now I’m even more puzzled at the results I’ve got with a flawed (and somewhat convoluted) approach I’ve tried lately. Maybe it’s because I’m still a noob and just underestimated the likelihood of randomly finding anagrams that seemed to be related to the puzzle?

Anyway since my nonsense results still fascinate me, I thought I'd share them. (sorry for the wall of text and possible bad english; tldr at the end)

The first thing I’ve noticed in the flames was the ribbon pattern to the right of the keyhole in the innercolor stream (green/blue sequence), so I’ve decided to start at that position and translate the binary data (6 bits at a time) to a few different alphabets. While most streams still didn’t make sense the start of the length bits in base58 caught my attention which read ‚25MVP252525Vwnnngpn‘.
That ‚MVP‘ was only 2 letters off from ‚ORX‘ but since it’s base58 and that alphabet is missing some letters like capital O it could not be a Caesarian cipher also the end of the string didn’t make much sense either. Even as I was pretty sure that the ORX was likely just a coincidence I’ve decided to run it through Vigenere to see what key would be necessary for that output…. to my surprise the result was ‚YES‘….
After collecting my brain, wich got splattered across the room, I was back to thinking that this still has to be happenstance but just to be sure I’ve run the same algo on each of those streams from every starting position in both directions which gave me strings like „21SIHFTBY22JBDO“ - shift by? still could be random... end of that string does not make sense either again… but then I’ve found ‚YXEHPNIXO‘ (yx phoenix) in the outer flames length stream. Not only that but the starting position was also somewhat funny, as it was the beginning of a 19 bit long match with the inner flames length and the point where the outer flames go around the corner has also been signified by a leaf in the inner flames



There have been a few more strings in the other streams which seemed to make somewhat sense at the time like ‚TBCNIYTRZSUDT‘ (try in btc dust z).

Something else that somewhat stood out to me, that I have not seen mentioned yet, are the numbers on the image: 1000 (dec 8) on the dove’s tail, 11110 (30) on the head of the phoenix and 111 (7) on his hand(?), 44 (also the startpositon of the ribbon pattern next to the keyhole) in the flames above the blue colored E (dec 14), 3E (62) at the base of the queen and of course the pattern from the ribbon 011010 (dec 26)
Except for the numbers on the phoenix all of those numbers are divisible by 6 if you subtract 2 from them.

While it was obviously the wrong approach it still was a lot of fun and the whole puzzle has blown my mind away more than once.

tldr: translating those flames (6 bits at a time) to base58 and applying Vigenere with key ‚YES‘ on the output results in some funny strings.

Awww, part of me hoped that this puzzle will become a Voynich manuscript of our time.
Congratulation to whoever has solved it!!

And thank you very much coinartist and co for creating this beautiful piece of art!
Even as I didn’t manage to solve this puzzle, trying to has been a lot of fun (mostly ) and I learned quite a bunch at the same time.

Hope the solution gets published soon, curious if I’ve been on the right track with Vigenere and the dust.