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1  Economy / Collectibles / Re: [NEW] Introducing "Hidden in Plain Sight", Limited Edition with 1 BTC Prize on: August 11, 2018, 05:27:05 PM
Linking to the clues context.



http://bit.ly/2vCdpoN

Code:
"This work is comprised of Satoshi Nakamoto's famous whitepaper words, scaled by Log N. 
Disparate ideas inspired Satoshi to create a solution to revolutionize modern socio-economics and industry.
The work reflects on the elements that brought this technology to life, and challenges the underlying security model.
Hidden in plain sight lies something more: a treasure hunt. 1 BTC is concealed within the work."

Edit: Address of prize https://blockchain.info/address/37XTVuaWt1zyUPRgDDpsnoo5ioHk2Da6Fs


http://bit.ly/2MdGUrh

Code:
You can throw at least half of those out. This is clue #1.


http://bit.ly/2Ou6m8F

Code:
Sorry, inbox is flooded. 
When you have the answer, there will be no doubt.
It's not easy, but it's absolutely possible.
Think in pairs (Clue #2).


http://bit.ly/2MijWhD

Code:
Code easily, attack early


http://bit.ly/2vYcBtK

Code:
Lost transaction costs almost users.


http://bit.ly/2Ovb9Xs
Code:
00212121


http://bit.ly/2vyAXL2

Code:
Try +1


http://bit.ly/2Mid9os

Code:
Final clue: almost open



http://bit.ly/2Mp3f4w

Code:
To triumph, one must look within. 
To infinity, and beyond.
When you are close to home, X marks the spot.


http://bit.ly/2w1bd9x

Code:
Thanks for summarizing, this may be helpful for latecomers going forward.
No one said it would be easy, enjoy the journey! Good luck to everyone, signing off for now.


http://bit.ly/2M8CKkv

Code:
-1, same puzzle.

http://bit.ly/2MdhVEs

All op comments



2  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins [SOLVED] on: September 20, 2015, 12:10:52 AM
Congrats to the winner !! 
I almost solved it long time ago. I was missing the f in ueBaf ,I used a 6.



3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What would happen if Bitcoin went offline for good tomorrow? on: September 04, 2015, 05:42:03 AM
1FnhQVrtMowT2frE6W2WEMkUdSFXVdCux9


Restart from zero, and start mining with my laptop again. Grin
Then bitcoin will go to 1000$ in one week or less and I will cash out at the top.  Grin
And wait for the cycle to repeat.

4  Bitcoin / Electrum / Re: Electrum 2.4 binaries on: September 02, 2015, 11:32:59 PM
Thomas

Downloaded the standalone version but found that it does not work like the previous version (2.3.2) The previous version first checked the local folder to see whether the required files were present in that folder when it started up. The current version (2.4.3) does not do this and create new folders under Users\AppData (on Windows).

Can you guys perhaps look into this for the next release as this will make the standalone version a bit pointless if its going to 'insist' on having its data files on the main drive of the pc.

I was also unable to open any of my wallets but I guess this was because of no hardware wallet support being present in this version. All my wallets are trezor watch-only wallets.


I have a workaround for this .
run command  :
Code:
electrum.exe -P

or You can create a shortcut of electrum.exe at same folder and open properties of the shortcut and add " -P"  at the end of target field.



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5  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: September 01, 2015, 12:14:24 AM
There are 15 missing characters with known letter casing.



Code:
2     1    3     4     5     6     7     8     9     10                
5Juu2 CkB3       EcyH9 dypNh DZ8fX gh6RQ wwbo5     6       E
           AAaAa                               __-_  -^^-^-      




Uc="ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ123456789" (33 char)
lc="abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789" (34 char)




try brute forcing this number of keys  
                                                    
(33*33*34*33*34)  * (34*34*33*34) * (34*33*33*34*33*34) * (!9)


And on top of that the casing may change as seen in solved levels.
6  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: August 31, 2015, 01:16:16 AM
The book is a road block for me without it I can't go any further .
I'm in a non English country .
English books are rare in bookshops  over here .
Ordering online take ages to deliver to my country .

As for brute forcing it's not fun at all.
And useless anyway at this stage especially if there is a reordering step.



5 days left till end of puzzle.
I hope the OP is preparing another one.

7  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: August 27, 2015, 01:55:39 AM
For about 30 Minutes ago i received a Alert, someone has cracked the Cipher, i was also recently contacted by that person.

The person who cracked the cipher does not want the Bitcoins on the private key an only cracked it for fun, so he sent the BTC back to the Adress, for the next person to crack it! so the game is still on! (for the bitcoins that is)


https://blockchain.info/address/1CQQ9menL2fZGdEseDsdC278rQ12Ai9XfG

Well done cipher cracker , Good job . And thank you so much for letting us have another chance.
8  Economy / Exchanges / Bitfinex is having bugs today on: August 25, 2015, 08:40:38 PM
Bitfinex have been glitching and having bugs all day.
They have been halting trades for many times.

https://twitter.com/bitfinex

 Angry Sad


9  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin price is dropping!! What to do?? on: August 25, 2015, 04:05:11 AM
could it be crashing because dow jones crashed hard today?

I was also thinking the same thing


It was the bitfinex bug that crashed bitcoin yesterday

https://twitter.com/bitfinex
https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/3i5thz/daily_discussion_monday_august_24_2015/cudrtfc
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-price-slumps-following-bitfinex-outage/

10  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: August 24, 2015, 10:36:07 PM
Has anybody already checked could 3 be page(word)-character instead of page(line)-character?


Code:
3: 978-0-7538-1368-3 8(11)-4- 54(2)-1- 192(7)-1-
9(1)-1- 344(10)-1-   AAaAa

Screenshots from the pdf to make it easier
page   8: https://i.imgur.com/AVxCBem.png
page   9: https://i.imgur.com/a7hO7Np.png
page  54: https://i.imgur.com/fIEVFGr.png
page 192: https://i.imgur.com/hTmAPsi.png
page 344: https://i.imgur.com/gd7Or3m.png


In page 192 and 344 the words count is not clear .


11  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Public still largely unaware of what Bitcoin is, how to use it and how to obtain on: August 24, 2015, 12:39:09 AM
It's very true, people don't know enough about Bitcoin and what they think they know (about Bitcoin only being for drug dealing) is wrong.

I'm starting crypto courses near me later this year but the advertising is more about money not necessarily about Bitcoin. People need to see the benefits of crypto and how it can help them gain control of their money.

You can't teach someone who doesn't know how to install an app on his phone about something as complicated and confusing as bitcoin , believe me I know a lot off them.
We need to chose easier targets (the geeky people are the simplest they know how to do research ) .
As for other relatively harder targets . We need to develop easier ways to make there first contact smooth and easy .
I find the main software a little bit confusing. I think it would better to avoid it. At first contact .
The seed concept is confusing to, if you chose electrum for first contact .
The waiting for confirmation also confusing .
The online wallets not so secure .
So you better plan before you start a conversation with anyone about bitcoin.

Spending tests for digital goods are the best aproch.
You give him some bitcoin for free or for some $$ and you make him buy the goods.
(give him a taste of what bitcoin  can do).

good luck teaching




12  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What is your dream for bitcoin? What will it become? on: August 23, 2015, 10:18:36 PM
Possibility to exchange it at every exchange shop or bank  like euro and dollar .  Roll Eyes

13  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: August 23, 2015, 09:42:16 PM
Uh Oh. We should actually try to figure out what #3 actually is.
As I stated before there is tow versions of the book Softcover and Hardcover the PDF we used is the softcover one , but there is an error somewhere in page numbers I think . If someone can get his hand on both versions It would be great  . Or else the OP give us some help.
As I suggested earlier, you can use Amazon's "look inside" feature to grab the pages for both versions of the book.

There is no "look inside" for Hardcover. 
And the look inside doesn't cover the hole book anyway.

If you can manage to get us the pages we need . It would be very nice of you . Cheesy Cheesy


14  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: August 23, 2015, 02:40:33 PM
Uh Oh. We should actually try to figure out what #3 actually is.
As I stated before there is tow versions of the book Softcover and Hardcover the PDF we used is the softcover one , but there is an error somewhere in page numbers I think . If someone can get his hand on both versions It would be great  . Or else the OP give us some help.
15  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: August 22, 2015, 11:32:44 PM
Full result of what I have so far:
Code:
1. 5Juu2  (confirmed) 
2. CkB3  (confirmed)
3. EAhBp, NAhBp
4. EcyH9  (confirmed)
5. dypNh  (confirmed)
6. DZ8fX  (confirmed)
7. gh6RQ  (confirmed)
8. wwbo5  (confirmed)
9. teLs6, jeBa6, ueBa6, pdBa6, sdBa6, tsBj6, tsBu6
10. dGYa11E, wVLyNnE, dRNoTtE, eGYoMm5, r3C1NnE



I think there will be a reordering step at the end .
16  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Any altcoins with 8mB blocksize limit out there ? on: August 21, 2015, 01:41:46 AM
Closest thing I know of is bitbean with 20mb. Although I think the DEV abandoned the project.  Roll Eyes big surprise Roll Eyes

http://www.bitbean.org/about.html#

Quote from link
Quote
BitBean is based on a pro-Gavin proposal for a Bitcoin 20MB block size fork. Why wait to see if Bitcoin will ever change, BitBean started out from the beginning with 20MB blocks!

I guess bitbean is based on Gavin's modifications .
17  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Any altcoins with 8mB blocksize limit out there ? on: August 21, 2015, 01:33:01 AM
topic moved to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1158215.msg12198396#msg12198396
18  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Any altcoins with 8mB blocksize limit out there ? on: August 21, 2015, 12:58:33 AM
All in title.
I am wondering if there is any alt-coin with 8mb block-size limit that we can run tests on ,
to get some ideas about what we are running to if we increase the block-size limit in bitcoin .
 Huh Huh
19  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Any altcoins with 8mB blocksize limit out there ? on: August 21, 2015, 12:41:22 AM
All in title.
I am wondering if there is any alt-coin with 8mb block-size limit that we can run tests on ,
to get some ideas about what we are running to if we increase the block-size limit.
 Huh Huh

20  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: Bitcoin Cipher/puzzle - 0.56 Prize ! Bitcoins on: August 19, 2015, 01:58:06 AM

Code:
9: Y2lwaGVyMTMzN0Bob3RtYWlsLmNvbQ== 
10: 4 7 25 1 27 27 (E) -^^-^-


Using the base64 from puzzle 9

Code:
Y2lwaGVyMTMzN0Bob3RtYWlsLmNvbQ==
 4 7 25 1 27 27 (E) -^^-^-

0        1         2         3
123456789012345678901234567890
Y2lwaGVyMTMzN0Bob3RtYWlsLmNvbQ==

wVLyNnE

Using the Morse code table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
Code:
0        1         2         3
123456789012345678901234567890123456789
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890

dGYa11E




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