On the Reddit forum there was another "treasure hunt" launched by Bitcoin supporters, who are trying to find a way to decode a puzzle hidden in a picture like a " soul battle "to win prizes worth ... 1 BTC.The image was posted earlier this week on subreddit r / Bitcoin by an account called cryptogreetings and informed readers that they would donate 1 BTC (currently worth about $ 7,500) for anyone who can. Find out the answer. As far as we can see, the image is a "jumble" of words and numbers taken from the whitepaper of the inventor of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakomoto, of all sizes.
The words "blocks", "transaction", "attacker" can be seen along with dozens of other words, with the Bitcoin symbol overlapping, creating a white area.
A hacker who has no history of activity other than the puzzle, leaving only the description for the player:
This work includes the words "immortal" from Satoshi Nakamoto's famous prospectus, miniaturized by Log N. Disparate, which inspired Satoshi to create a solution to revolutionize the background. modern economy and society. The work reflects on the factors that bring technology to life and challenges the basic security model. Hidden in the image is something bigger than that: a treasure hunt. 1 BTC is hidden in this picture.
While Reddit users are counting on the "goodwill" of cryptogreetings to offer a more concise way to decode this puzzle, the post owner has added a Bitcoin address that contains 1.00152389 BTC in it, plus $ 12 to cover transaction costs. (
https://blockchain.info/address/37XTVuaWt1zyUPRgDDpsnoo5ioHk2Da6Fs )
Community while set of assumptions made and lamented the difficulty of this puzzle, with top comment in the post as "I feel I sell the kidney for $ 9,000 USD even easier." A Another tries to solve puzzles with mathematical methods and thinks that this is a serious thought for him, and a third person says, "I started the same thing. Then I realized there were millions of permutations in this puzzle. It's really hard to break this encryption trick. "
Many other users admit they do not know where to start with the puzzle. However, not everyone gives up so easily, with other users seeking answers together. The user with the nickname Zyntra on Reddit has posted:
Some things I noticed so far:
- Some words start with capital letters, while others are not.
- Many words and things related to mathematics, but some letters stand alone. You can find C, W, M. Some digits are also singular.
- There are some dashed by some symbols in the lower right corner of Bitcoin with the letter B in the capital. I do not know what that symbol means.
- There is a bit of open space in the top right corner, indicating how to fill the rest of the image.
- Some numbers are meaningful as part of a math reference or whitepaper. But the longer numbers I still can not understand, they are not dates or references from the whitepaper, such as 19981101.
Another user named AnotherSmegHead has figured out the number of times the words are used in the Bitcoin whitepaper and embarked on the research.
These are the most commonly used words in the Bitcoin whitepaper:
transaction 69 times, block 67 times, hash 33 times, nod 31 times, chain 27 times, attacker 23 times, network 21 times, proof-of-work 18 times, owner 17 times, work 16 times, coin 16 times, one 15 times, honest 15 times, public 14 times, timestamp 14 times, trust 14 times, key 13 times, 12 times, new 12 times, 11 times, 9 times, 9 times, 9 times, 9 times, 9 times, 8 times, 8 times, 8 times, 8 times, 8 times, 8 times, 8 times, 8 times, 8 times. 7 times, 7 times, 7 times, 7 times, 7 times, 7 times, 7 times, 7 times, 7 times 6 times.
If you save the image then you will get the image name is NdLEoUJCqNLlZFQBKEr7lxTK-PKQjqi5FtBM8k5lqs8
Remember me if you 'crack' this code.
An important clue comes from the main cryptogreetings. When a user named mishax1 says "there are 239 BIP39 words appearing in that picture," the puzzle owner replied that "you can type at least half of that number. This is the # 1 clue. " Asked for more clues, u / cryptogreetings seem mysterious and suggest that perhaps the suggestion may be given in the future if the task is too difficult. They also revealed that 1 BTC is the first prize, but not the only one.
There are also a number of encouraging prizes scattered throughout, but we should not talk about incentives right now.
This is not the first time Bitcoin has been hidden in puzzles like this. Marguerite Driscoll collaborated with three others by 2015 to hide 4.87 Bitcoins in her artwork, which then cost about $ 1150. The picture is the first puzzle that can be used to solve the problem, but it also connects users from two major social networks, Reddit and BitcoinTalk.
Link to the game :
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8kk0pa/1_btc_is_hidden_in_this_puzzle_good_luck/
