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January 16, 2016, 03:37:50 AM |
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I was reading about a 5 bitcoin treasure hunt going on in the deep web this morning. I thought maybe someone here might be running the game. Clues were posted yesterday in the "not evil" tor search site troll box. However, the original information is missing because the info cycles as new chat channels start. Anyone have info on it? The only clue available left was this:
44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84
No one seems to know anything more.
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January 16, 2016, 04:01:20 AM |
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looks like a private key in hex format:
44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84
which translates to base58:
5e1TttAEeAQZrC7vQZ7SWJibFhXVBonw2F5r65jeu9vs
but it's not a private key ;(
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January 16, 2016, 05:19:42 AM |
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January 16, 2016, 05:24:15 AM |
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Can you please give a reference link? I cracked both of the clues & now have two things that I have no idea what to do with. Thanks.
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January 16, 2016, 05:35:50 AM |
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Can you please give a reference link? I cracked both of the clues & now have two things that I have no idea what to do with. Thanks.
Agreed. I think Dalek and xhomerox10 found good leads. My guess is that those values decode into a hint of what to do next. Maybe an IP address or password? The link posed from Dalek points to a group working on it as well. I was doing research on online treasure hunts here in this forum and on reddit when I stumbled across the 5btc treasure hunt. I'm planning on doing one myself for the game I'm building. I'm wondering if the deep web hunt is really this hunt: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000.460
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January 16, 2016, 05:37:57 AM |
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Can you please give a reference link? I cracked both of the clues & now have two things that I have no idea what to do with. Thanks.
Agreed. I think Dalek and xhomerox10 found good leads. My guess is that those values decode into a hint of what to do next. Maybe an IP address or password? The link posed from Dalek points to a group working on it as well. I was doing research on online treasure hunts here in this forum and on reddit when I stumbled across the 5btc treasure hunt. I'm planning on doing one myself for the game I'm building. I'm wondering if the deep web hunt is really this hunt: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000.460Strange. When you put the two hashes together, it becomes a Base58 encoded text. Once decrypted, you get this HEX value; 44E9C30EF2EE5EFD5143A0FC9020C71B104BF393AE90EAC7E3045A657D5ADB84 Not sure what to do with it. On the other hand, the hashes can be considered MD5. I ran a brute force attack and got these results; 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b MD5 : Cayse104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 MD5 : BlancoCan't seem to get any information from them. Gotta keep looking :p
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January 16, 2016, 05:55:50 AM |
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Strange. When you put the two hashes together, it becomes a Base58 encoded text. Once decrypted, you get this HEX value; 44E9C30EF2EE5EFD5143A0FC9020C71B104BF393AE90EAC7E3045A657D5ADB84 Not sure what to do with it. On the other hand, the hashes can be considered MD5. I ran a brute force attack and got these results; 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b MD5 : Cayse 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 MD5 : Blanco Can't seem to get any information from them. Gotta keep looking :p
We found a loose end of the string but we're missing what clues came before this. Your brute force attack on the hashes look interesting, maybe a word jumble? Also the Base58 looks like a good lead as well with it being base58. Maybe its a privatekey for an altcoin or it means something else.
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January 16, 2016, 05:57:51 AM |
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Strange. When you put the two hashes together, it becomes a Base58 encoded text. Once decrypted, you get this HEX value; 44E9C30EF2EE5EFD5143A0FC9020C71B104BF393AE90EAC7E3045A657D5ADB84 Not sure what to do with it. On the other hand, the hashes can be considered MD5. I ran a brute force attack and got these results; 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b MD5 : Cayse 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 MD5 : Blanco Can't seem to get any information from them. Gotta keep looking :p
We found a loose end of the string but we're missing what clues came before this. Your brute force attack on the hashes look interesting, maybe a word jumble? Also the Base58 looks like a good lead as well with it being base58. Maybe its a privatekey for an altcoin or it means something else. I've tried to import the following private keys; 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb8444e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b Both were empty, brand new addresses so they aren't private keys. Might have to search an Altcoin to see if this is a private key for any alt, but I don't use any so I don't have a wallet. Sucks, would be better if we had the actual info. The two cracked hashes might be a password to a wallet identifier? It's possible that the hashes give access to a wallet & the password is something like CayseBlanco
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January 16, 2016, 06:01:58 AM |
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Good discovery. This might help with the treasure hunt. We should all work together and split the prize inb4 hidden paper wallet in the middle of the atlantic ocean with 5 btc in it
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January 16, 2016, 06:07:39 AM |
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Found something else, I shut down my VM earlier so I can't run a brute force attack on this. Putting the two seperate hashes & making them one gives you a SHA256 hash, which may or may not help with the puzzle once cracked. For those interested; 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 - SHA256 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb8444e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b - SHA256 Very hard to crack, near impossible.
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cloverme (OP)
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January 16, 2016, 09:38:28 PM |
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Good discovery. This might help with the treasure hunt. We should all work together and split the prize inb4 hidden paper wallet in the middle of the atlantic ocean with 5 btc in it Sure... sounds good. I can't imagine it's on some island off of Africa... at least I hope not :|
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January 17, 2016, 01:31:32 AM |
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Could not be the solution in the words instead of in the numbers ? Most of times people try to decode it using softwares in the hope to find a private key or something else. But couldn't it be some indication about pages in a book or something else ? It may seems a bit excessive in the encryption, but it may be a thing of this kind I think. However, it seems improbable, but maybe...
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January 17, 2016, 04:48:56 AM |
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Good discovery. This might help with the treasure hunt. We should all work together and split the prize inb4 hidden paper wallet in the middle of the atlantic ocean with 5 btc in it I'm in for helping you like your suggestion says. I like a good challenge and I just came across this a short bit ago. So let me know if your interested and if you are working with anyone else.
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January 17, 2016, 06:32:51 PM |
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I think I need some more hunts. It is too difficult to guess with such limited information.
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January 18, 2016, 08:25:33 PM |
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I did some more searching this morning, this appears to be the start of it. A user posted it last weekend on reddit in /r/cryptocurrency: http://pastebin.com/CZkkHvpq
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January 19, 2016, 05:05:28 AM |
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Alright, just wrote up a quick summary. 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 MD5 possibility: 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b - Cayse 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 - Blanco Google Search: intext:"Cayse Blanco" Brings up a treasure island website result. http://www.piratetreasureisland.com/island_location.htmLooks unsolved, interesting read. Put both the clues together; 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 Private key in HEX format. Decodes to base58; 5e1TttAEeAQZrC7vQZ7SWJibFhXVBonw2F5r65jeu9vs Nothing. SHA256 possibility. 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb8444e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b Putting two clues together gives you 2 SHA256 hashes. Cracking these might give you an answer to what the next clue is.
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January 19, 2016, 01:16:15 PM |
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i could be entirely way off the beaten track but somethings telling me we are looking for a wallet address, and a signature to a signed message containing clue number 2, basically looking at the variables from the pastebin hope this helps get to the next step
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January 20, 2016, 11:32:25 AM Last edit: January 20, 2016, 11:45:56 AM by newinbtc |
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Can you please give a reference link? I cracked both of the clues & now have two things that I have no idea what to do with. Thanks.
Agreed. I think Dalek and xhomerox10 found good leads. My guess is that those values decode into a hint of what to do next. Maybe an IP address or password? The link posed from Dalek points to a group working on it as well. I was doing research on online treasure hunts here in this forum and on reddit when I stumbled across the 5btc treasure hunt. I'm planning on doing one myself for the game I'm building. I'm wondering if the deep web hunt is really this hunt: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000.460Strange. When you put the two hashes together, it becomes a Base58 encoded text. Once decrypted, you get this HEX value; 44E9C30EF2EE5EFD5143A0FC9020C71B104BF393AE90EAC7E3045A657D5ADB84 Not sure what to do with it. On the other hand, the hashes can be considered MD5. I ran a brute force attack and got these results; 44e9c30ef2ee5efd5143a0fc9020c71b MD5 : Cayse104bf393ae90eac7e3045a657d5adb84 MD5 : BlancoCan't seem to get any information from them. Gotta keep looking :p http://md5.wisetock.com/13517 link from where you got md5 Google Search: intext:"Cayse Blanco" Brings up a treasure island website result. http://www.piratetreasureisland.com/island_location.htmthis image http://www.piratetreasureisland.com/images/BLANCO.JPGsearch image on google with (not evil) hint showing reddit link
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