Guess the private key, win the bitcoins (puzzle game)

[NLNico]

The formula (u+m)(u-m) makes a parabola. There is an OS called "Parabola GNU" so the answer is GNU.

Or maybe I am just going crazy and seeing patterns, logic and answers in everything

[micaman]

My guesses are:

cyclononasulphur - S9
mdma - E
spot - X, C
vides - UC
2(C21H23NO5) - 2H
disk free - DF

vi - 6, C
G-B-D-F - G7
puli - K9
(u+m)(u-m) - D2F, DTS, DSF
360' - 6H

Salisbury -
+Domitian - 96
Llyswen -> south - A438
... - S
1001 - 9

Still no clues on the bold ones...

[jbrnt]

The postcode for Salisbury is "SP", if this helps anyone. I thought of Stone Henge before. I think the postcode made more sense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SP_postcode_area

[dalek]

i gots the precious 

 https://blockchain.info/tx/744b8161e746f5b4c2b12e2de9d48a0ead08465d58167db97f60795e96f823a9

will post the solution after confirmation

[Cassius]

Aaand it's gone! Congratulations and make sure you contact BitScan so your achievement can be recognized.
Will keep you posted about the next installment.
Nice job, dalek.

[dalek]

confirmed now, so here's the solution: S9EXUC2HDF6G7K9WMM6HSP96A479S9

this doesn't count as contact?    guess i'll have to create a throwaway twitter account...

[Cassius]

confirmed now, so here's the solution: S9EXUC2HDF6G7K9WMM6HSP96A479S9

this doesn't count as contact?    guess i'll have to create a throwaway twitter account...

Drop them an email, unless you really want to stay anonymous. I'm hoping there's a further (smallish) reward. I don't hold the purse strings! If not I'll let them know.

[jbrnt]

Well done dalek!

I would think it's about time someone would get it. Most clues have been solved. So "Salisbury" is "SP". "Disk Free" is just "DF"? How uneventful, it should be "SS" as in "Solid State" harddisks.  

[dalek]

Well done dalek!

I would think it's about time someone would get it. Most clues have been solved. So "Salisbury" is "SP". "Disk Free" is just "DF"? How uneventful, it should be "SS" as in "Solid State" harddisks.  

i thought disk free would have more likely been MB or GB. and heroin OD.
and surprised vanitygen has no minikey support still. somebody could then have turned it into a brute forcer.

[Jouke]

Congrats! Had all except WMM? What does it stand for?

[Cassius]

Congrats! Had all except WMM? What does it stand for?

(u+m)(u-m) = uumm or "double u double m"
Sorry.

[Jouke]

Congrats! Had all except WMM? What does it stand for?

(u+m)(u-m) = uumm or "double u double m"
Sorry.

Did you guess that Dalek, or bruteforced it?

[micaman]

Grr... so close.
Congratz to the winner!
 

[dalek]

Congrats! Had all except WMM? What does it stand for?

(u+m)(u-m) = uumm or "double u double m"
Sorry.

Did you guess that Dalek, or bruteforced it?

i figured it out after reading the thread from the previous contest

[medUSA]

So it's gone! Congrats dalek!

confirmed now, so here's the solution: S9EXUC2HDF6G7K9WMM6HSP96A479S9

I am checking the answers to the clues. I find "(u+m)(u-m) = uumm = wmm" a stretch. I appreciate difficult puzzles, but illogical solutions are just unbearable. He could use split them up and make the clues difficult, or use "Found MRW" as the clue

[Jouke]

So it's gone! Congrats dalek!

confirmed now, so here's the solution: S9EXUC2HDF6G7K9WMM6HSP96A479S9

I am checking the answers to the clues. I find "(u+m)(u-m) = uumm = wmm" a stretch. I appreciate difficult puzzles, but illogical solutions are just unbearable. He could use split them up and make the clues difficult, or use "Found MRW" as the clue

You know, we talked about it at the office, and I actually wrote down u²-m² = uu-mm, to bad it never crossed my mind to just remove the minus sign

[campycoin]

Here's my clue:   Two word description of this puzzle and its answers....

The solution:   Horrible

Whore - Able
You Idiots

[Cassius]

Here's my clue:   Two word description of this puzzle and its answers....

The solution:   Horrible

Whore - Able
You Idiots

 
I'm going to take that as reassurance that this episode wasn't too easy.
At least you didn't commit suicide in the end.

[campycoin]

The day isn't over....

I give you props for the game.  To be honest....  I just don't like the brute force...

and you know that's how this one was won

If he got wmm out of (u+m)(u-m) then he's a genius!

[Cassius]

The day isn't over....

I give you props for the game.  To be honest....  I just don't like the brute force...

and you know that's how this one was won

If he got wmm out of (u+m)(u-m) then he's a genius!

I do get where you're coming from.
I would have preferred to do this without the brute force element. But I knew that people would make the software. That's why the first one was solved so quickly. My response was to make some of the clues much harder, so that it wouldn't be so easy to guess most and brute force the rest. You'd actually have to get into the head of the puzzle-setter and figure out how they thought and the kind of clues they were setting.
It's possible this went too far, though someone obviously did manage it with a minimum of hints.
Next one I won't write this way, it will use a different principle.