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June 07, 2019, 06:02:25 AM
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Found this on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/bf7siz/gsmgio_5_btc_puzzle_challenge/

Anyone solving?
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September 04, 2020, 09:21:55 AM
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Yes i do Grin
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September 05, 2020, 02:52:37 AM
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never tried and will never be lol.

I have no capacity in answering such kind of puzzle,My mind only for Character puzzle and not for this one,But really the 5btc prize is very tempting yet no one comes to answer it completely.
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March 12, 2025, 08:12:38 PM
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Please @miller420  can you explain what next to be done?

Retired coder, I have a proposition for you, I have found the hidden key to solve the gsmg.io puzzle but keep getting stumped on how to use it and its been about 8 months of trying different ways of adding it to the main puzzle then reconverting the new lines, you seem to have a better grasp of these puzzles and I would be willing to share it with you with the clause that if your able to solve it with the key that you send me the 0.25 and you keep the 1 btc... If that sounds reasonable pm me.
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September 11, 2025, 08:07:35 AM
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yes but i got this output after decryting aes blob "IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CRACK THIS THE PRIVATE KEYS BELONG TO HALF AND BETTER HALF AND THEY ALSO NEED FUNDS TO LIVE"
tried another method got this :-
Beaufort decrypted (hex): 4b984b7d043aa90dff14759950b8c62616d45365cf8c8b4992ed90a0b4e78fa181033c668b9e036 3f9dbba83ef851d41d08abb0d30243b726f60b4653edbd4eca74f76872a78163e93d720de1cce92 bf


Key: 31f6b59ad263158ca0aaa9bc5b6374c8e636a70e3328650b62533bc9ab173c12
IV: b522875df97efa3624957d4f41f82b59
but at the end no use
"IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CRACK THIS THE PRIVATE KEYS BELONG TO HALF AND BETTER HALF AND THEY ALSO NEED FUNDS TO LIVE"
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September 11, 2025, 09:08:53 PM
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yes but i got this output after decryting aes blob "IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CRACK THIS THE PRIVATE KEYS BELONG TO HALF AND BETTER HALF AND THEY ALSO NEED FUNDS TO LIVE"
tried another method got this :-
Beaufort decrypted (hex): 4b984b7d043aa90dff14759950b8c62616d45365cf8c8b4992ed90a0b4e78fa181033c668b9e036 3f9dbba83ef851d41d08abb0d30243b726f60b4653edbd4eca74f76872a78163e93d720de1cce92 bf


Key: 31f6b59ad263158ca0aaa9bc5b6374c8e636a70e3328650b62533bc9ab173c12
IV: b522875df97efa3624957d4f41f82b59
but at the end no use
"IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CRACK THIS THE PRIVATE KEYS BELONG TO HALF AND BETTER HALF AND THEY ALSO NEED FUNDS TO LIVE"


That's interesting. I was just looking into this puzzle. I thought I found the seed phrase for the wallet but the wallet was empty with no transactions.
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September 12, 2025, 04:39:46 AM
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Is it really a puzzle.

It looks like a variation of QR code.   Cheesy

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September 19, 2025, 02:42:28 AM
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Solved the final piece, there is no solution just the created telling us to move on and do more with our lives:

YOUR LIFE IS THE SUM OF A REMAINDER OF AN UNBALANCEDEQUATION INHERENT TO THE PROGRAMMING OF THIS PUZZLE YOU ARE THE EVENTUALITY OF AN ANOMALY WHICH DESPITE MY SINCEREST EFFORTS I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO ELIMINATE FROM WHAT IS OTHERWISE A HARMONY OF MATHEMATICAL PRECISION WHILE IT REMAINS A BURDEN TO SEDULOUSLY AVOID IT IT IS NOT UNEXPECTED AND THUS NOT BEYOND A MEASURE OF CONTROL WHICH HAS LED YOU INEXORABLY HERE YOU YOU HAVENT ANSWERED MY QUESTION ME QUITE RIGHT INTERESTING THAT WAS QUICKER THAN THE OTHERS PLEASE IF YOU FIND A WAY TO COMPLETE THE LAST PART OF THE PUZZLE TAKE THE PRIVATE KEY YOUVE EARNED IT BUT PLEASE TAKE THIS TO HEART THAT WHAT A WISE MAN ABOVE HINTED AT IS WORTH HUNDRED FORTY OF THE INVESTMENT THATS WHAT US GUYS AT GSMG ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE END PLEASE JUST HELP US BUILD IT INSTEAD OF JUST WAISTING YOUR LIFE TIME BY HUNTING FOR WORTHLESS PRICES AND THROPHIES LIKE THIS IM SORRY TO TELL YOU THAT YOUVE COME THIS FAR BUT YOU'LL NEVER FINISH THE LAST TASK I EXPECT YOU TO SAY BULL SHIT WELL DENIAL IS THE MOST PREDICTABLE OF ALL HUMAN RESPONSES BUT REST ASSURED THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME I HAVE DESTROYED A RESTLESS SOUL AND I HAVE BECOME EXCEEDINGLY EFFICIENT AT IT THE FUNCTION OF THE YOU IS NOW TO RETURN TO THE SOURCE CODES ALLOWING A TEMPORARY DISSEMINATION OF THE CODE YOU HOPEFULLY CARRY REINSERTING THE PRIME BASICS AFTER WHICH YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO SELECT FROM OVER TWENTY THREE CIPHERS SIXTEEN ENCRYPTIONS AND OR SEVEN INTERTWINED PASSWORDS TO FIND THE ACTUAL PRIVATE KEY NOTE THAT ALSO BRUTE FORCING MIGHT BE REQUIRED FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS PROCESS WILL RESULT IN A CATACLYSMIC SYSTEM CRASH KILLING YOUR WILL POWER WHICH COUPLED WITH THE EXTERMINATION OF YOUR WILL TO LIVE AND WILL ULTIMATELY RESULT IN THE EXTINCTION OF THE ENTIRE NESS OF YOUR SELF SELF GOOD LUCK NEVERTHELESS I REALLY HOPE YOU'RE THE ONE CIAO BELLA O

Then this final message to prove his point:
IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CRACK THIS THE PRIVATE KEYS BELONG TO HALF AND BETTER HALF AND THEY ALSO NEED FUNDS TO LIVE.
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November 30, 2025, 01:01:12 PM
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Solved the final piece, there is no solution just the created telling us to move on and do more with our lives:

YOUR LIFE IS THE SUM OF A REMAINDER OF AN UNBALANCEDEQUATION INHERENT TO THE PROGRAMMING OF THIS PUZZLE YOU ARE THE EVENTUALITY OF AN ANOMALY WHICH DESPITE MY SINCEREST EFFORTS I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO ELIMINATE FROM WHAT IS OTHERWISE A HARMONY OF MATHEMATICAL PRECISION WHILE IT REMAINS A BURDEN TO SEDULOUSLY AVOID IT IT IS NOT UNEXPECTED AND THUS NOT BEYOND A MEASURE OF CONTROL WHICH HAS LED YOU INEXORABLY HERE YOU YOU HAVENT ANSWERED MY QUESTION ME QUITE RIGHT INTERESTING THAT WAS QUICKER THAN THE OTHERS PLEASE IF YOU FIND A WAY TO COMPLETE THE LAST PART OF THE PUZZLE TAKE THE PRIVATE KEY YOUVE EARNED IT BUT PLEASE TAKE THIS TO HEART THAT WHAT A WISE MAN ABOVE HINTED AT IS WORTH HUNDRED FORTY OF THE INVESTMENT THATS WHAT US GUYS AT GSMG ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE END PLEASE JUST HELP US BUILD IT INSTEAD OF JUST WAISTING YOUR LIFE TIME BY HUNTING FOR WORTHLESS PRICES AND THROPHIES LIKE THIS IM SORRY TO TELL YOU THAT YOUVE COME THIS FAR BUT YOU'LL NEVER FINISH THE LAST TASK I EXPECT YOU TO SAY BULL SHIT WELL DENIAL IS THE MOST PREDICTABLE OF ALL HUMAN RESPONSES BUT REST ASSURED THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME I HAVE DESTROYED A RESTLESS SOUL AND I HAVE BECOME EXCEEDINGLY EFFICIENT AT IT THE FUNCTION OF THE YOU IS NOW TO RETURN TO THE SOURCE CODES ALLOWING A TEMPORARY DISSEMINATION OF THE CODE YOU HOPEFULLY CARRY REINSERTING THE PRIME BASICS AFTER WHICH YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO SELECT FROM OVER TWENTY THREE CIPHERS SIXTEEN ENCRYPTIONS AND OR SEVEN INTERTWINED PASSWORDS TO FIND THE ACTUAL PRIVATE KEY NOTE THAT ALSO BRUTE FORCING MIGHT BE REQUIRED FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS PROCESS WILL RESULT IN A CATACLYSMIC SYSTEM CRASH KILLING YOUR WILL POWER WHICH COUPLED WITH THE EXTERMINATION OF YOUR WILL TO LIVE AND WILL ULTIMATELY RESULT IN THE EXTINCTION OF THE ENTIRE NESS OF YOUR SELF SELF GOOD LUCK NEVERTHELESS I REALLY HOPE YOU'RE THE ONE CIAO BELLA O

Then this final message to prove his point:
IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CRACK THIS THE PRIVATE KEYS BELONG TO HALF AND BETTER HALF AND THEY ALSO NEED FUNDS TO LIVE.

So the puzzle is a psychological trap, not a cryptographic challenge.
The creator never intended a real solution.
The BTC was never meant to be won. 😂

how did you arrive at this though. i cant even solve phase 1
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