[SOLVED] [0.02 BTC] Short Puzzle.

[LoyceV]

I hope you were pleasantly surprised when you found out how to continue after you found the messenger.

I was I couldn't figure it out for more than a day, I tried many different combinations including brute-forcing, and eventually my brute-force worked. Then I realized the hints would have been enough without brute-forcing, so it was a nice surprice indeed.

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[AirShark]

"messenger" it member forum?

[actmyname]

Solution posted.

[LoyceV]

Solution posted.

Do you know who else solved it and took the remaining 0.005?

The lock is opened by your key, which holds another. But where is the second one?
You're nearly done. Don't get board just yet. Stay hungry for the answer: this will help you decipher everything.MangepKV2115jq46vEPQfhJgUBbW8ZytkY7McscLgdMQnWu

This had me puzzled for a very long time. One of the things I considered, was that "the second one" made the tail of  "1" look like an address, but that was a dead end.

by your key := SHA-1 hash; second one := placement of the second 1 => 13
don't get board just yet := go to board 13, French local board.
stay hungry for the answer := translate "mange" into English.

This was completely lost on me! I never understood board 13 was French, I couldn't figure out what "Menge" meant, but it looked too much like a word to be part of a random private key. I assumed the "5.00000000" BTC risked from satoshi's feedback meant either "5" as the start of a private key, or "remove 5 characters" which meant remove Menge.
"Stay hungry" to me is like the exact opposite of "Eat". I was only thinking of edible things, but couldn't figure it out until I brute forced the 3 characters.

It was a very nice challenge! And that makes me wonder how you come up with this, I've created small puzzles in the past, but nothing even close to this complicated.

[actmyname]

Do you know who else solved it and took the remaining 0.005?

Mystery, just like the first.

It was a very nice challenge! And that makes me wonder how you come up with this, I've created small puzzles in the past, but nothing even close to this complicated.

Some parts are disjointed. That's because I come up with them on the fly. I have an initial motif for the puzzle (i.e. the previous one was my first try at messing with vanity and color hexes). This puzzle's was the use of another account, to make someone log in.

Everything else was just bunched in through coincidence. The privkey had "Eat" in it and I figured: let's turn that into a small bit.

Hashing made it easier to elongate the length of the puzzle.