Phy Challenge

[KarTonP]

not riddles from me dear sir if you do not get the header which i know you do, 39–42 Native SegWit P2WPKH.
Wouldn't that be funny he messed it up so bad he locked him self out so he is like huhh  i will see if these guy can find a way back in. lmao

This challenge started out as an after-the-fact challenge with no prize pool; the prize was added later to motivate people to solve it. To say that the author doesn't have access to that address is complete nonsense. Besides, there are too many clues pointing in the right direction—everyone understands from the data they already have where the clues lead and what they need to find.

[clark2346547]

meta-clue to either wake up or confuse even more your LLMs, as they seem to have crossed off-road...

Code:

gvonys fhelucrM kbZ

im damm sure that I got ur hint and ur right; this throws off LLMs cross the road.

Code:

A purely P2P version of modular values would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through the fractional reserve banking system. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent private key recovery. We propose a solution to the problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network spacestamps information by carefully measuring it into an ongoing chain of phylo-based proof-of-equivalence, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-equivalence. The chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it serves the chain. The network itself requires minimal structure.

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The kTimesG 2026/06/05 Bitcoin has worst weekly fall since 2022

looks bad this bearish cycle around and no end is in sight, so here's a puzzle for everyone, no loose ends, no hashing.

Code:

J0d1vHyLWQXkQWZBhfQmZWu8jgXA54DgLx+bPJQNBrL4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABbiQspK6Gr2bE

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2026/06/05/UrS0Mq.png2026-07-30 edit: fixed BACKSPACE cat incident (missing "J" character)

Quick clarification: if I redrew the image with every skin-tone variant changed to the default yellow, would the answer stay the same?

[PHA_.07]

Code:

A purely P2P version of modular values would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through the fractional reserve banking system. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent private key recovery. We propose a solution to the problem using a peer-to-peer network. The network spacestamps information by carefully measuring it into an ongoing chain of phylo-based proof-of-equivalence, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-equivalence. The chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of events witnessed, but proof that it serves the chain. The network itself requires minimal structure.

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The kTimesG 2026/06/05 Bitcoin has worst weekly fall since 2022

looks bad this bearish cycle around and no end is in sight, so here's a puzzle for everyone, no loose ends, no hashing.

Code:

J0d1vHyLWQXkQWZBhfQmZWu8jgXA54DgLx+bPJQNBrL4AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABbiQspK6Gr2bE

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2026/06/05/UrS0Mq.png2026-07-30 edit: fixed BACKSPACE cat incident (missing "J" character)

Quick clarification: if I redrew the image with every skin-tone variant changed to the default yellow, would the answer stay the same?

Theirs a better way check the op's post.

[whanau]

Well I have been staring at dots on a piece of paper during the ads this evening and I see no pattern or image in the black & white image.
There is nothing in the clues for me that say 'turn it into color'. But that is striking - thanks to the person who did it, but is color relevant?. I guess I lack imagination.
Thanks for the Meta clue, kTimesG.   

[kTimesG]

Quick clarification: if I redrew the image with every skin-tone variant changed to the default yellow, would the answer stay the same?

Only if you already know that the image was redrawn and requires to test the skin-tone to fix the image.

There's no "useless" information added into the puzzle.

[detechs]

meta-clue to either wake up or confuse even more your LLMs, as they seem to have crossed off-road...

Code:

gvonys fhelucrM kbZ

im damm sure that I got ur hint and ur right; this throws off LLMs cross the road.

My llm solved that instantly, latin is an easy language

[clark2346547]

meta-clue to either wake up or confuse even more your LLMs, as they seem to have crossed off-road...

Code:

gvonys fhelucrM kbZ

im damm sure that I got ur hint and ur right; this throws off LLMs cross the road.

My llm solved that instantly, latin is an easy language

It is not what it is.

Quick clarification: if I redrew the image with every skin-tone variant changed to the default yellow, would the answer stay the same?

Only if you already know that the image was redrawn and requires to test the skin-tone to fix the image.

There's no "useless" information added into the puzzle.

Hey author, I think I may have reached an interesting stage. I found eight symbols that seem structurally different from the rest: .. ⚠️ . . . . .

Am I looking in the right direction, or could this just be a coincidence? If these eight are significant, should I focus on their positions/order, their relationship to their opposite pairs, or some other property? I’m not asking for the solution, just a small nudge on whether this is the intended path.


Does globally swapping the two arms preserve the answer?

[KarTonP]

Does globally swapping the two arms preserve the answer?

I tested a sample of 8–9! emoji. Both the most significant bits and the least significant bits. I compared them with a set of addresses as ESDCA verification that it is k

The author who likes posts about those same emojis. All the data except for K satisfy the equation. What's going on here?

[clark2346547]

Does globally swapping the two arms preserve the answer?

I tested a sample of 8–9! emoji. Both the most significant bits and the least significant bits. I compared them with a set of addresses as ESDCA verification that it is k

The author who likes posts about those same emojis. All the data except for K satisfy the equation. What's going on here?

How long have you been trying to solve this? Have you found any other clues? I noticed things like “CUES” and the Fibonacci series, but I have no idea whether they’re actual clues or just coincidences.

[KarTonP]

Does globally swapping the two arms preserve the answer?

I tested a sample of 8–9! emoji. Both the most significant bits and the least significant bits. I compared them with a set of addresses as ESDCA verification that it is k

The author who likes posts about those same emojis. All the data except for K satisfy the equation. What's going on here?

How long have you been trying to solve this? Have you found any other clues? I noticed things like “CUES” and the Fibonacci series, but I have no idea whether they’re actual clues or just coincidences.

I've personally been spending 30 minutes a day on this for two weeks now.
Similarly, I have a fully valid signature for the target we’re looking for. But to close the chain, we need to find the correct K. I’ve also been experimenting with these emojis, selecting different groups and playing around with their order. Both full bytes and high-order bytes. I also experimented with the scalars S(side a) and S(side b), thinking that might be a clue to finding K. And that’s just part of the information. After we got the hint about the “West Wind,” I started using that direction to build a chain of 9 emojis as the basis for the sequence.
It seems to me that until we find out the bitness of the scalar K, it will be difficult to follow the exact path.

[detechs]

Does globally swapping the two arms preserve the answer?

I tested a sample of 8–9! emoji. Both the most significant bits and the least significant bits. I compared them with a set of addresses as ESDCA verification that it is k

The author who likes posts about those same emojis. All the data except for K satisfy the equation. What's going on here?

How long have you been trying to solve this? Have you found any other clues? I noticed things like “CUES” and the Fibonacci series, but I have no idea whether they’re actual clues or just coincidences.

I've personally been spending 30 minutes a day on this for two weeks now.
Similarly, I have a fully valid signature for the target we’re looking for. But to close the chain, we need to find the correct K. I’ve also been experimenting with these emojis, selecting different groups and playing around with their order. Both full bytes and high-order bytes. I also experimented with the scalars S(side a) and S(side b), thinking that might be a clue to finding K. And that’s just part of the information. After we got the hint about the “West Wind,” I started using that direction to build a chain of 9 emojis as the basis for the sequence.
It seems to me that until we find out the bitness of the scalar K, it will be difficult to follow the exact path.

im also stuck at K with everything else solved, looking at the image on different backgrounds shows a distinction between types of emoji

[clark2346547]

Does globally swapping the two arms preserve the answer?

I tested a sample of 8–9! emoji. Both the most significant bits and the least significant bits. I compared them with a set of addresses as ESDCA verification that it is k

The author who likes posts about those same emojis. All the data except for K satisfy the equation. What's going on here?

How long have you been trying to solve this? Have you found any other clues? I noticed things like “CUES” and the Fibonacci series, but I have no idea whether they’re actual clues or just coincidences.

I've personally been spending 30 minutes a day on this for two weeks now.
Similarly, I have a fully valid signature for the target we’re looking for. But to close the chain, we need to find the correct K. I’ve also been experimenting with these emojis, selecting different groups and playing around with their order. Both full bytes and high-order bytes. I also experimented with the scalars S(side a) and S(side b), thinking that might be a clue to finding K. And that’s just part of the information. After we got the hint about the “West Wind,” I started using that direction to build a chain of 9 emojis as the basis for the sequence.
It seems to me that until we find out the bitness of the scalar K, it will be difficult to follow the exact path.

im working 7-8 hr a day on this puzzle but stuck at K.

[whanau]

Proposal for kTimesG.

I think all  participants visible and invisible are stuck at the same place.
No one is likely to post much more except AI twaddle in case someone else has a eureka moment and claims the prize.

How about;
The puzzle stays the same. You move the funds elsewhere. The public key is already 'public'
First to publish the solution and explanation gets 50% of the pot and at your discretion you allocate the other 50% to active participants based on their input.

That I think would encourage some ideas to be put forward and some brainstorming to happen here.

Just a suggestion.

[detechs]

Proposal for kTimesG.

I think all  participants visible and invisible are stuck at the same place.
No one is likely to post much more except AI twaddle in case someone else has a eureka moment and claims the prize.

How about;
The puzzle stays the same. You move the funds elsewhere. The public key is already 'public'
First to publish the solution and explanation gets 50% of the pot and at your discretion you allocate the other 50% to active participants based on their input.

That I think would encourage some ideas to be put forward and some brainstorming to happen here.

Just a suggestion.

That's a good suggestion! Been wondering where ktimesg got to, even though they don't owe us anything it would be nice to have a conclusion to this.

mauri ora

[KarTonP]

The significant bytes “s” correspond to nine emojis. Reading their Unicode bytes “from the inside” yields the following result:
031dffd7ff0d400f0afcc3fdcefc0d400f0da10f3a390f77ff0d400f68fe0d080f

Is this yet another hint that we need to find k in roughly the same way?
If so, what is the bit width of at least the scalar?

meta-clue to either wake up or confuse even more your LLMs, as they seem to have crossed off-road...

Code:

gvonys fhelucrM kbZ

Here, too, the question isn't about figuring out what's written in the Latin alphabet, but rather what steps need to be taken to get the result we're looking for.
This phrase provides two clues right away.

[KarTonP]

The significant bytes “s” correspond to nine emojis. Reading their Unicode bytes “from the inside” yields the following result:
031dffd7ff0d400f0afcc3fdcefc0d400f0da10f3a390f77ff0d400f68fe0d080f

Is this yet another hint that we need to find k in roughly the same way?
If so, what is the bit width of at least the scalar?

I don't think it is of any relevance, and just random data. Image is likely encoding 1 bit per emoji, we have to figure out the reading order and how to assign bits. The 72 bits of s helps verify if the solver is on right path (first or last 72 bits of encoded value are same as s, something like that).

meta-clue to either wake up or confuse even more your LLMs, as they seem to have crossed off-road...

Code:

gvonys fhelucrM kbZ

Here, too, the question isn't about figuring out what's written in the Latin alphabet, but rather what steps need to be taken to get the result we're looking for.
This phrase provides two clues right away.

I think so too, reversal and rot-13(half?)

Yeah, you got me right—it’s just that, of all the tests, this is the most reasonable result, considering that when we ran the test, we got these values (031dffd7ff0d400f0afcc3fdcefc0d400f0da10f3a390f77ff0d400f68fe0d080f), we were essentially performing the same operation to verify the correct S.

I think we need to dig a little deeper in this direction. Therefore, the most reasonable approach right now is to explore these avenues (reversal and rot-13).
UPD ROT-13 = No

[detechs]

has everyone else mapped the emoji properly? If you don't do it yourself it's like watching the simpsons on repeat.

here's my skin tone mapping if anyone can compare and see if we are seeing the same thing or not, I have an genders mapped correctly I think, just some skin tones look like yellow as well as a natural one and color picking them gives an answer in-between so it's hard to pick one or the other.

[KarTonP]

I created another system: I simply uploaded all 256 emojis as images.

I created one main table and three intermediate tables, in which all the emojis are organized by color. This method is simpler and also provides an easy sequence based on the main table with 256 emojis.

[PHA_.07]

Nice Pictures but if you guys are using those then how are you calculating for k then, just by mind power? (joke) or you not going to be using the system that's built in?   I think allot of you are missing that clue, others have crunched the numbers not knowing about the others ways that come right back to the same spot. You can come at in different ways and end up flowing to the same numbers.

[detechs]

Nice Pictures but if you guys are using those then how are you calculating for k then, just by mind power? (joke) or you not going to be using the system that's built in?   I think allot of you are missing that clue, others have crunched the numbers not knowing about the others ways that come right back to the same spot. You can come at in different ways and end up flowing to the same numbers.

My pictures are just for visual, to see the data in easier ways or any patterns, because if it's based on skin tones, some emoji in the image are a skin tone in-between, or the image or parts of it weren't converted to grey scale in the same way. Or maybe the emoji are irrelevant and the whole thing is an ai trap haha like the rest of the puzzle and the clues. Wonder if we'll get any more hints or if anyone will solve it before the 22nd