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81  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.53 BTC Private Key Prize *update on: June 29, 2014, 10:19:11 PM
*Update 6/29

- Message decoder has been discovered.
Hmm, which was that?
82  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.53 BTC Private Key Prize*** on: June 29, 2014, 07:51:08 PM
Only 1 google result for "No more clues. GoodBye and Good Luck.", a recently published sherlock holmes story.
83  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 29, 2014, 08:02:35 AM
This may sound silly, but I think she's trying to say that one of us, S4VV4S most likey, had the answer, clue, or piece of the puzzle we're missing.
Has somebody tried matching the times of her tx comments to users' forum posts?
84  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.53 BTC Private Key Prize***** on: June 29, 2014, 01:04:52 AM
Updated opening post:

Quote
Update 6/28:

OP made no mistakes.

- Embedded morse code has been solved: "They cannot attack what they DO not see"

If OP made no mistakes, then all the typos in the morse code were intentional errors. Guess we should expect more of that type of obfuscation.
85  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.53 BTC Private Key Prize***** on: June 28, 2014, 08:57:23 PM
I have to underline one important thing: Almost all posters in this thread are operating under assumption that private key must be 52 characters long, starting with '5' and following by 51 characters. This is completely wrong. It's just a WIF representation of the private key, one of many formats private key can have. Essentially, private key is any integer starting from 1 and ending with 0xFFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFE BAAE DCE6 AF48 A03B BFD2 5E8C D036 4141, see explanation here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Private_key.

I believe this wrong assumption was started by incorrect naming of the textboxes on the brainwallet.org website, which name 'WIF representation' as 'Private Key', while the real private key is what they call 'Secret Exponent'. In ECDSA cryptographic sense that integer is just the number of times we dot-multiply Generator point with itself, and X and Y coordinate of the resulting point being our public key.

So, people, you are wasting time looking for a 52-character string starting with '5', you should be looking for a number.

Hi, and thanks for adding but I think you might be wrong....
First of all 51 char priv keys start with 5.
52 char prib keys start with K or L (believe me I found quite a few).

Last, I don't believe (personally) that we are looking for something like that, I think we are looking for a keyword or key-prhase that will reveal the priv key.
But that is just my opinion.

None the less, thanks for adding Wink

nope, itod is right. a private key is just a number which can be represented in different encodings, WIF being only one of them.
86  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.53 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 28, 2014, 08:18:10 PM
Who is the troll that made the new TX?

Nevermind, the OP updated the bounty therefor it's real - for now.....

I disagree. blockchain shows it was relayed by ip 46.28.204.51, instead of directly through blockchain like the other transactions and it uses a different miner's fee.
87  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.24 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 28, 2014, 07:52:29 PM
threshold noise folding: http://imgur.com/d5YK3nO

Look at all the information now visible in the black borders. This jibes with the "do not see" hint.
88  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.24 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 27, 2014, 10:52:01 PM
So are we assuming that the "donot" is not a clarification to us using "cannot" earlier but rather an instruction to not use http? Is this implying that we shouldn't be looking for a link or should we try using https?

more likely an .onion address

onion addresses are 16 character strings, consisting of the characters a-z (case insensitive) and 2-7. if we can find a candidate string, just append .onion and view it through tor.
89  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.24 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 27, 2014, 09:47:44 PM
So are we assuming that the "donot" is not a clarification to us using "cannot" earlier but rather an instruction to not use http? Is this implying that we shouldn't be looking for a link or should we try using https?

more likely an .onion address
90  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.24 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 27, 2014, 09:07:55 PM
If PB stood for anything, it would probably be Public Broadcast Service.


My guess is the answers are all directly in the image, no second steps, no complicated Cicada style runaround.


Except when she posted on reddit, she called the image a "shared start point". which implies to me, otherwise.
91  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.14 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 27, 2014, 08:18:29 PM
This much discussion really calls for an IRC channel Smiley
92  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.0076 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 27, 2014, 08:16:26 PM
I think the OP is choosing specific addresses to communicate specific pieces of the puzzle.

BoR - not sure what this means (main contributing address)

BoRH == bottom of right hand? that is where her initials (YT) are.
93  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 2.94 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 27, 2014, 01:40:51 PM
Let me say that I have a feeling that we are looking for a url that will lead us to the next step (and also add to the bounty).
Just a feeling Wink

right, but the valid morse code spelling out valid words is hard to ignore. the words can be converted to hex/decimal/etc using http://brainwallet.org/#converter. it might be a false trail but it's the most promising lead yet.
94  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 2.94 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 27, 2014, 01:32:39 PM
I have made that suggestion before but since my morse code ain't that good I stopped at: c t h u l t (.) t k e t s e C e t s o

Which parts are you using?

http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm

This: http://www.unfiction.com/dev/tutorial/Morse.html

And this: http://www.scoutnet.nl/~inter/morse/morseform.html

The problem is that some dots > 8 and can't be recognized.....

I am sure that the 1sos address is trying to tell us something though......

EDIT: Sorry I didn't get your original question.
I am using the dots.

Tried both green = - Red = .  and vice versa
this is where i'm at now:
r=. g=-
- .- .-.. . .... .- -.-. -.- . ...- .. .-.. -.-- --- -.- . .-. --- -.. . .- -.-. - -. . ... - -. --- --- -. - .. -- . .- .--. . -..- - .. .-.. - - .-. .. -.- . -.- .- -.-. . - .-. .- - -.-. ... . -.- . -.-- .-- .. ... ... .... .- ... .... .- .. -- - . -.-. . ... - -- - .... .. - . -.-. .... --- -.-- --- ..- - .. .. -.. . - ... .. .. --- - . . -. . - --- . - - .... - .. .--. ... . - . - .... . .-. . -. - .. ... - --- .--. . -- --- .-. -.. ... - .-.. .-- --. ---. -. -.-- .- . ..-. -.. -- .... - .... -- . - -. -.-- - .-- - . .-- - .--. ---. -.- . ..- . .- .-.. . -. . -.. .-.. .- .--

talehackevilyokerodeactnestnoontimeapextilttrikekacetratcsekeywisshashaimtecest mthitechoyoutiidetsiioteenetoetthtipsetetherentistopemordstlwgnyaefdmhthmetnytw tewtpkeuealenedla

the first part "tale hack evil yoke rode act nest noon time apex tilt" looks promising, but then the code breaks down after the tiles start hiding behind the people, which makes me think that the dots on the hidden tiles need to be guessed. though, you can still pick out some words from the remainder of text, like "... key ... hash ... tech ... you ... teen ... toe ... tips ... stop "

edit: forgot to mention that i got this by reading the dots downwards (took the hint from the countdown)
95  Other / Off-topic / Re: Pot heads come and watch all episodes of weeds season 8 no signup on: June 26, 2014, 11:04:33 PM
cracking comedy tv show about a family that grow and smoke pot, come and watch for free, i also had a few new movies but was asked to remove them by my server host for copyright reasons, i am adding new stuff all the time so keep checking back

http://johnspool.org.uk/watch.php?vid=60fd92ed8



bittorrent is best for this kind of stuff. thepiratebay is immune to takedown notices.
96  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: Missing keys puzzle game episode 2 - 0.1 btc prize on: June 26, 2014, 10:59:55 PM
Going to have to wait for a hint.

But I did notice that The Bible Code was first published in 1997/1998 (wikipedia/amazon discrepancy). The original journal paper which inspired the book, was published in 1994.
97  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: ARG Puzzle with 2.85 BTC Private Key Prize on: June 26, 2014, 07:38:02 PM
Note the title of the reddit post she created to point here: http://www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/28vxuj/new_arg_bitcoin_private_key_is_the_prize_shared/. Specifically the phrase "Shared start point". So I don't think a private key is embedded in the image.
98  Economy / Service Announcements / Re: Win Free Bitcoins Each Hour at bitfaucet.bl.ee on: June 25, 2014, 09:22:13 PM
create a faucet with no balance, ask for donations, take the coins and run.
99  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: A bitcoin blockchain parser in a few (thousand) lines of C++ on: June 20, 2014, 11:16:20 PM
If you don't mind C (versus C++), picocoin's "blkstats" utility parses the blockchain in under 3 minutes.

https://github.com/jgarzik/picocoin/blob/master/src/blkstats.c
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128055.0
https://github.com/jgarzik/picocoin/


Can this be used to compute the bitcoin rich list (list of all addresses with balance greater than x)?
100  Economy / Games and rounds / Re: 0.03BTC giveaway on: April 29, 2014, 11:43:37 PM
I'll try my luck: 1Ja2AxA8hfFMrPwSTV9nP6kq7bp3f7x734
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