🧩 Newbie puzzles ! 🧩 Solve one and get the MERIT you deserve 🏆

[Rizzrack]

Not sure if this will be a thing or not but just thought it would be fun...

Question 1:

01100100 00110010 01101000 01110110 01001001 01000111 00110001 01110000 01100010 01101101 01010110 01101011 01001001 01000101 01001010 01010101 01010001 01111001 01000010 01101001 01100010 01000111 00111001 01101010 01100001 01111001 01000001 01111001 01001110 01111010 01001001 01111010 01001101 01101010 01011001 01100111 01011001 01010111 00110101 01101011 01001001 01001000 01100100 01101111 01011001 01011000 01010001 01100111 01100100 00110010 01000110 01111010 01001001 01001000 01010010 01101111 01011001 01011000 01010001 01100111 01011001 01101101 01111000 01110110 01011001 00110010 01110011 01101110 01100011 01111001 01000010 00110011 01011010 01010111 01101100 01101110 01100001 01001000 01010001 00111101

[SOLVED] by Diplester6666 in this post.
Explanation
Question 2:

Code:

5wUP8bK2gm91cAcRa5wCXm89Rx91nrx8sCBYsGGghYcaDeWyJtUnejg8mEwYjUnRegSEJ7qPpmDh5fVyMmdL4KUtKxxNV7ycgb1FcGH9SCvpNGmWmiAYexUqdC8gzuH69cauBVcnFVsps2EWKw8QnVkP1Vv5Do1nGYujGPbyHo3nqVcf56USwaQud7ezCiZS8mt6pMnkkoqrpWQCqvc78p3KQKXeBnAj8h7YadRh2rqvBi96hM1sfjk5jaQqbHKwLnhETi7ZpGMCcrZpTw3rdMfSdUnkXGQMs2SkCuEURoutBGYentNN6UBPTwitJEuk95VDADjBizVjfxkqaCtFh1R

[SOLVED] by BitcoinIsABubble in this post.
Explanation
Question 3 (more of a challenge actually than a question) :

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Tjho uijt nfttbhf: "Xf bsf bmm tbuptij fydfqu gps DTX" vtjoh uif tbnf beesftt J bn (1K7neh5scRzVIFOZey39XWXL7gtMqFpYAz)
-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNATURE-----
1J7mdg5rbQyUHENYdx39WVWK7fsLpEoXZy
IDt1vr8Ahx4Yt3Rm5zfvwbGIis7MrpSDNx8ev6inxMr+NB8CWOHoTPVeujlfYMpsW58Txp1scaxXY5WtNQhbS94=
-----END BITCOIN SIGNATURE-----

[SOLVED and EXPLAINED] by BitcoinIsABubble in this post.
Question 4:

Who sings this song?

00stulowe 00Leopold Martynov 0moonchkins 00Hydroponica 00doaseric  00stulowe 00Leopold Martynov 00natostanco 00zhouguilxy 0linh09 00vyjhfguyhfy 00zimbodog 00jk1234 0leeuwtje 00zhouguilxy 0leeuwtje 00vyjhfguyhfy 00zhouguilxy 0boopathy4613 00zimbodog  00stulowe 00natostanco 00doaseric 00doaseric 0ethioninja  00stulowe 00natostanco 00natostanco 0moonchkins 00vyjhfguyhfy 00Hydroponica 00vyjhfguyhfy 00jk1234 00Hydroponica  00stulowe 00marvel212 00Hydroponica 00zhouguilxy 0leeuwtje 0ethioninja

[SOLVED and EXPLAINED] by PhoenixZephyrus in this post.
Question 5:

Upload the below image to imgur or a similar service and post it here:

NB2HI4DTHIXS65DFPB2GE2LOFZXGK5BPOFRWI2DPMF2GMZDQ

[SOLVED and EXPLAINED] by myself in this post.
Question 6:

for (i = 3):
     type(X) == string
     print(X) =

[SOLVED] by decodx in this post.
Explanation
Question 7: Soon^TM

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[NeuroticFish]

I you need to explain exactly what you mean, like the way ognasty explain for signing of message and encryption message before newbies started using his step to apply, i know newbies will be difficult to understand what you want them to do, break it down for people to understand, you can add some explanation there, like to make a little brief about the coding, so if you don't want to do it like that, know that it can't be answerable by newbies

He doesn't need to explain anything. Actually I'm almost there, I should look up the "last bit of information", but I'll stop and let others who may need merit more to find the answer.
It takes less than 5 minutes if you know what to do/what to look for.

[GiftedMAN]

Not sure if this will be a thing or not but just thought it would be fun...

Question:

01100100 00110010 01101000 01110110 01001001 01000111 00110001 01110000 01100010 01101101 01010110 01101011 01001001 01000101 01001010 01010101 01010001 01111001 01000010 01101001 01100010 01000111 00111001 01101010 01100001 01111001 01000001 01111001 01001110 01111010 01001001 01111010 01001101 01101010 01011001 01100111 01011001 01010111 00110101 01101011 01001001 01001000 01100100 01101111 01011001 01011000 01010001 01100111 01100100 00110010 01000110 01111010 01001001 01001000 01010010 01101111 01011001 01011000 01010001 01100111 01011001 01101101 01111000 01110110 01011001 00110010 01110011 01101110 01100011 01111001 01000010 00110011 01011010 01010111 01101100 01101110 01100001 01001000 01010001 00111101

To be honest, am lost trying to figure out what this is all about,I wish you can help us with some explanation maybe it will help newbies like me to understand clearer and better.

[Diplester6666]

OK, I got -
d2hvIG1pbmVkIEJUQyBibG9jayAyNzIzMjYgYW5kIHdoYXQgd2FzIHRoYXQgYmxvY2sncyB3ZWlnaHQ=

Now thinking what to do with this information next.

[Rizzrack]

OK, I got -
d2hvIG1pbmVkIEJUQyBibG9jayAyNzIzMjYgYW5kIHdoYXQgd2FzIHRoYXQgYmxvY2sncyB3ZWlnaHQ=

Now thinking what to do with this information next.

You're on the right track !
It is nice of you to post the current findings. Will give 1 merit only to the newbie that gives the final answer though  

Keep going, you're almost there !

[Diplester6666]

Answer:
BTC block 272326 was mined by F2Pool and the weight was 65884

[Rizzrack]

Answer:
BTC block 272326 was mined by F2Pool and the weight was 65884

That is correct ! Well done sir  
The question was: "who mined BTC block 272326 and what was that block's weight" and it was encoded in base64 and the result was encoded in binary (that's what you saw 10101001101101101).
You just had to reverse the process !

Stay tuned for new questions ! ... didn't think of a next one yet  

[Diplester6666]

THANK YOU for the merit sir! I enjoyed solving the puzzle as much as I enjoyed receiving the merit. Have a good day, sir!

[BernyJB]

Alright, I got the question. How did you get the answer?

[Lafu]

Not sure if this will be a thing or not but just thought it would be fun...

Thats a nice thing and i am more surprised that somebody already managed to get the right answer !
Well done Rizzrack , and i guess that some kind of questions like this one will be good to get new Users into researching about it.
Hopefully we will see more in the future like this one here.

[Rizzrack]

Thats a nice thing and i am more surprised that somebody already managed to get the right answer !

I was more surprised a user named dataispower said it was too hard  
IMO it was pretty easy. This is a bitcoin forum after all... not World of Warcraft so I assumed the correct answer will be give sooner rather than later

Well done Rizzrack , and i guess that some kind of questions like this one will be good to get new Users into researching about it.
Hopefully we will see more in the future like this one here.

Thanks! Have a few ideas... Will post the next one sometime this weekend

[JeromeTash]

Alright, I got the question. How did you get the answer?

@Rizzrack already answered it, though you might not understand what he said

So let me try simplifying it for you.

If you see the code OP posted. The first thing on your mind is a binary code. (If you have some little computer science Knowledge like me, you will instantly sense this)

So you have to decode the code to text using a tool like this: https://www.convertbinary.com/to-text/

The text output you get is on base64 format.

Code:

d2hvIG1pbmVkIEJUQyBibG9jayAyNzIzMjYgYW5kIHdoYXQgd2FzIHRoYXQgYmxvY2sncyB3ZWlnaHQ=

So you have to decode the base64 format to readable text using a tool like this: https://www.base64decode.org/

You will end up with this text

Code:

who mined BTC block 272326 and what was that block's weight

Use block explorers like blockchair.com, and you will end up with the answer by searching for Bitcoin block 272326

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/272326

[decodx]

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This was a great puzzle, I like this kind of thing.
Unfortunately, since it was mentioned in the title that it is only for newbies, I didn't even try to solve it. Maybe next time.

[sheenshane]

Alright, I got the question. How did you get the answer?

Since it's already answered I will disclose to you how they got it.
It's a Binary code and here's how to translate the Binary code to text.
( https://www.morsecodeninja.com/binary.html )

Now, translate this to Binary text,

01001110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100

[pakhitheboss]

I enjoyed solving it too. Expecting more puzzles like this one on this board @Rizzrack

Since it's already answered I will disclose to you how they got it.
It's a Binary code and here's how to translate the Binary code to text.
( https://www.morsecodeninja.com/binary.html )

Just do a general google search using the keyword Binary to Text and you will get multiple websites offering this service for free.

[StormHawk]

Alright, I got the question. How did you get the answer?

Since it's already answered I will disclose to you how they got it.
It's a Binary code and here's how to translate the Binary code to text.
( https://www.morsecodeninja.com/binary.html )

Now, translate this to Binary text,

01001110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100111 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100

Now you've got it

[acroman08]

-snip

thanks for explaining it in a layman's term. although I knew that what Rizzrack posted was a binary code I never knew that you can simply decode it by using a simple tool. I always thought decoding a binary code you'd have to do it manually which I think would be hard or would take a lot of time. again, thanks for explaining it.

[NeuroticFish]

IMO it was pretty easy. This is a bitcoin forum after all... not World of Warcraft so I assumed the correct answer will be give sooner rather than later

It was indeed a very nice puzzle for anybody having a bit of knowledge about the "internals".
I mean that although indeed it's a Bitcoin forum, far too many don't know what base64 is and also far too many don't know what to do with a list of binary digits.

So my advice is to make also puzzles for those with no IT background, or at least tell that those without a bit of IT background may "have difficulties"
Still, it was a nice one

[aysg76]

It was indeed a very nice puzzle for anybody having a bit of knowledge about the "internals".
I mean that although indeed it's a Bitcoin forum, far too many don't know what base64 is and also far too many don't know what to do with a list of binary digits.

So my advice is to make also puzzles for those with no IT background, or at least tell that those without a bit of IT background may "have difficulties"
Still, it was a nice one

Yeah people who are not aware about say base64 encoding or decoding might face difficulty in solving this puzzle as you said who are not from IT background could have trouble solving these puzzles.Although i would say binary is more known to people as they have learnt that 0-1 is computer understandable low level language basically termed as binary but after steps might be confusing.

But still members could feel it interesting to solve while making efforts to learn about new things through this also so nice efforts by the @OP to start something which is helpful in learning new things to newbies.So make such puzzles for them to engage them more.

[BernyJB]

You will end up with this text

Code:

who mined BTC block 272326 and what was that block's weight

Use block explorers like blockchair.com, and you will end up with the answer by searching for Bitcoin block 272326

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/272326

That's what I wanted to know! Thank you!
I had already gotten the question (who mined BTC block...). I use https://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/, but didn't know about the block explorers...