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July 14, 2011, 06:34:46 PM Last edit: July 14, 2011, 10:25:24 PM by casascius |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Whoever can first figure out how I have hidden the 0.25 BTC gets it. The 0.25 BTC are waiting for you at 1AJ3vE2NNYW2Jzv3fLwyjKF1LYbZ65Ez64 (just sent it now).
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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Anonymous
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July 14, 2011, 06:39:24 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Found it.
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Bitcoin Swami
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July 14, 2011, 06:40:29 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Whoever can first figure out how I have hidden the 0.25 BTC gets it. The 0.25 BTC are waiting for you at 1AJ3vE2NNYW2Jzv3fLwyjKF1LYbZ65Ez64 (just sent it now).
Do I have to be super geeky to figure this out?
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July 14, 2011, 06:40:39 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Found it. LOL. But I mean 0.25 BTC you can actually spend, not the occurrence of the substring "0.25 BTC" in the string. http://blockexplorer.com/address/1AJ3vE2NNYW2Jzv3fLwyjKF1LYbZ65Ez64
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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July 14, 2011, 06:40:49 PM |
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Normal Text: This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight. Md5 Hash: 8a8da79b8a574ae0c474f82d97c0b222
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July 14, 2011, 06:41:27 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Found it. LOL. But I mean 0.25 BTC you can actually spend, not the occurrence of the substring "0.25 BTC" in the string. Well if you sent it to me I could spend it, couldn't I?
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July 14, 2011, 06:42:21 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Found it. LOL. But I mean 0.25 BTC you can actually spend, not the occurrence of the substring "0.25 BTC" in the string. Well if you sent it to me I could spend it, couldn't I? If you find it you will be able to send it to yourself.
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Companies claiming they got hacked and lost your coins sounds like fraud so perfect it could be called fashionable. I never believe them. If I ever experience the misfortune of a real intrusion, I declare I have been honest about the way I have managed the keys in Casascius Coins. I maintain no ability to recover or reproduce the keys, not even under limitless duress or total intrusion. Remember that trusting strangers with your coins without any recourse is, as a matter of principle, not a best practice. Don't keep coins online. Use paper or hardware wallets instead.
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July 14, 2011, 07:06:07 PM |
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Given that it is a specific address, it would indicate that the solution will eventually resolve into either a wallet.dat or a private key (and given casascius's service, I'd guess that the solution is a private key) and isn't the login to an online wallet, as those can't guarantee sending from a specific address.
The string is very short and generic, and so it seems a little unlikely that the private key somehow is encoded into it. A private key is 256 bits and the string (assuming casascius is only looking for a-z,A-Z,0-9, period, comma, space, even including the quotes, gives a total of 66 symbols, or ~6 bits per character) has a total of 324 bits... That really doesn't include enough to hide it stego-style in such a pretty sentence.
Given that this is ruled out, its probably more likely to be a logic or lateral puzzle. plain site... site, website... somewhere on his website, view source, ctrl-f, plain.htm, plain.html.
I think I'll give up, never very good at these things.
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July 14, 2011, 07:17:59 PM |
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Can it currently be retrieved without linux?
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@electricwings BM-GtyD5exuDJ2kvEbr41XchkC8x9hPxdFd
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July 14, 2011, 07:21:21 PM |
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I bet the SHA-256 of that message is the private key needed to claim the bounty.
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I am an employee of Ripple. Follow me on Twitter @JoelKatz 1Joe1Katzci1rFcsr9HH7SLuHVnDy2aihZ BM-NBM3FRExVJSJJamV9ccgyWvQfratUHgN
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July 14, 2011, 07:24:06 PM |
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I bet the SHA-256 of that message is the private key needed to claim the bounty.
Doesn't look like a private key to me... 47510706d76bc74a5d57bdcffc68c9bbbc2d496bef87c91de7f616129ac62b5f Lots of 5's in there though... maybe it starts at a midpoint and goes to whatever characters are necessary for a private key?
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July 14, 2011, 07:27:12 PM |
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I bet the SHA-256 of that message is the private key needed to claim the bounty.
Doesn't look like a private key to me... 47510706d76bc74a5d57bdcffc68c9bbbc2d496bef87c91de7f616129ac62b5f Lots of 5's in there though... maybe it starts at a midpoint and goes to whatever characters are necessary for a private key? Every 256-bit value is a valid private key.
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I am an employee of Ripple. Follow me on Twitter @JoelKatz 1Joe1Katzci1rFcsr9HH7SLuHVnDy2aihZ BM-NBM3FRExVJSJJamV9ccgyWvQfratUHgN
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July 14, 2011, 07:28:24 PM |
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I bet the SHA-256 of that message is the private key needed to claim the bounty.
Doesn't look like a private key to me... 47510706d76bc74a5d57bdcffc68c9bbbc2d496bef87c91de7f616129ac62b5f Lots of 5's in there though... maybe it starts at a midpoint and goes to whatever characters are necessary for a private key? Every 256-bit value is a valid private key. So starting with 5 is just because the PK is generated by the client then?
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July 14, 2011, 07:28:37 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Which string?
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July 14, 2011, 07:29:29 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Which string? The encapsulated one.
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GeniuSxBoY
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July 14, 2011, 07:32:39 PM |
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1AJ3vE2NNYW2Jzv3fLwyjKF1LYbZ65Ez64 Found them!
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July 14, 2011, 07:34:58 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Which string? The encapsulated one. That's implied but not stated.
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July 14, 2011, 07:36:24 PM |
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"This string contains 0.25 BTC hiding in plain sight."
Which string? The encapsulated one. That's implied but not stated. I doubt it's a trick question... but go off on that tangent if you want.
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July 14, 2011, 07:38:00 PM |
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1AJ3vE2NNYW2Jzv3fLwyjKF1LYbZ65Ez64 Found them! How?
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July 14, 2011, 07:39:28 PM |
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1AJ3vE2NNYW2Jzv3fLwyjKF1LYbZ65Ez64 Found them! How? He didn't. He's just saying that they're in the BTC address above, so he found them.
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