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1  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [NEW] Introducing "Hidden in Plain Sight", Limited Edition with 1 BTC Prize on: August 15, 2018, 08:42:35 PM
Don't waste your time with this. Here is proof that every possible clue and every number, letter or word which might have been considered as part of the puzzle was in fact generated randomly by a js engine.

You can go ahead and play with it, I just spent 10 min and generated a similar image.

https://github.com/jasondavies/d3-cloud

So, where to begin...

It was indeed stated that the words are scaled by log n which is a feature of d3-cloud. Cool.

What's not being said, is that if you try it yourself, you will get the exact 'strange', 'enigmatic' and apparently non-random spread of single letters, numbers, groups of numbers, names,  etc that everyone was talking about on Reddit. In fact, all those were randomly generated.  

Take a look at my image. Ignore the resolution or the actual order, these are irrelevant. If you spend enough time adjusting the angles and other parameters in node.js you can get a 100% copy of this randomly generated  puzzle - then you just add the white circle and logo in Photoshop.

What is fascinating, and for this I am sorry for all those who actually tried to solve this, are my highlighted elements. I circled only a few but just compare them with the ones in the original image. You will also find the same numbers, single letters, etc spread out in different parts of the 'puzzle'. This means that whatever you do, no matter how hard you try, you will never succeed because every element you might think it's part of the 'giant puzzle' as it was advertised, is in fact a product of a .js library and not an intentional clue or puzzle piece.

The trick here is to understand this:

How can anyone use js to randomly generate a bunch of letters and numbers and dates, based on some input/text, and then assume that people should be able to figure out some non-randomness from that, and get some free BTC?

Look at the original image. You will see the same 'enigmatic' numbers, single digits, dates, capital letters, etc, that you can generate on your own. Even the so called words Block Chain Transaction are also written with a large font in my image. Not to mention the difference in font size and font style of text and numbers, all are random.

And you might be spending a long time trying to link those somehow. Or you might wonder about the position of words, letters, numbers, and so on. Positioning is random, there is no intentional link between any of the elements within the image. You will never be able to find any link because it has no logic, it was built by a machine in JavaScript. And no human being has been born yet capable of finding reasoning and non-randomness in a randomly generated bunch of crap.

We now have proof that the original image was randomly generated, with some PSD work.

I have also proved that all the single elements like letters, numbers, font size, font style, etc, were randomly generated.  

I conclude that there cannot be any intentional link between this randomly generated image and.... anything. Not to mention a Bitcoin private key, address, etc.

Therefore, the puzzle is a fake.

Any connection between this puzzle and a BTC address is unintentional.  

If anyone claims that this is not a fake, they cannot argue against my objection. A genuine puzzle can only be an original work, non-randomly generated, and intentionally constructed by the mind and talent of an artist. Not made by a JS engine.

I am tired of people believing they are smarter than everyone else. And please don't be tricked by my new account, I am older than most here.

My image, randomly generated:


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