ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[5w00p]

what are you going to do if you figure out the public address's private key?  how does one go about claiming the BTC in the address?
thx

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[Yemmster]

One thing that seti does is looking for repeating non natrual patterns no?

Near the end of Wow.JPG this pattern can be found. As a matter of fact, the only thing after this is "FF D9", which someone mentioned is the "eof-signal" for jpg-files.

I don't know enough about photoshop or other image manipulating programs to say that this is manually added.
It just looks way to out of place to me.

Code:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F

001F9600  8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 7C B1 57 62 AE C5  Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±W|±Wb®Å
001F9620  5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A  ]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š
001F9640  BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15  ».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».
001F9660  76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A  v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*
001F9680  EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55  ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìU
001F96A0  D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB  Ø«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«
001F96C0  B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57  ±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±W
001F96E0  62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE  b®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®
001F9700  C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 62 AD E2 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57  Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb.b.â®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±W
001F9720  62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE  b®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®
001F9740  C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D  Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]
001F9760  8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 1A F6 C5 5B  Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb..öÅ[
001F9780  C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D  Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]Š».v*ìUØ«±Wb®Å]
001F97A0  8A                                                                                               Š

The following, repeated 28 times:

Code:

[s]8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D[/s]

Not really repeating, there are some alternations in the HEX but not by much:

Code:

8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 7C B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 62 AD E2 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AD 1A F6 C5 5B C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BB 15 76 2A EC 55 D8 AB B1 57 62 AE C5 5D 
8A BF

[arg]

what are you going to do if you figure out the public address's private key?  how does one go about claiming the BTC in the address?
thx

If you have the privkey you open Bitcoin Core, open the debug console, type "importprivkey keykeykeykeyhere", and wait for your monies to appear.

[jc01480]

what are you going to do if you figure out the public address's private key?  how does one go about claiming the BTC in the address?
thx

If you have the privkey you open Bitcoin Core, open the debug console, type "importprivkey keykeykeykeyhere", and wait for your monies to appear.

What arg said...

There are other ways to do it depending on the wallet you use.  You essentially look up info on how to import the private key into the wallet of your choice.  Not sure if you can do it with an exchange account like Coinbase.

[Kangaderoo]

in WOW there is a xmp packet

All that data matches up with what http://regex.info/exif.cgi has labeled the Paint Based Correction. This might just be the OPs edits on top of the original.

Looks like that's true. Here's the coordinates plotted out.

On a piece of paper, your Y direction is downwards... you should flip this image, and overlay with the wow.jpg I guess.
visually it seems the channel information alteration lines up.
if might give the right order of the revised channel numbers....
I just don't have the tools....

[jc01480]

Anyone know where we stand at the moment?  I tried accessing the files from work again and got red-flagged big time.  Any luck on 3.7z or are we still walking down a fork in the road?

[Mitchell]

Anyone know where we stand at the moment?  I tried accessing the files from work again and got red-flagged big time.  Any luck on 3.7z or are we still walking down a fork in the road?

We already solved 3.7z and everything after that. Currently stuck at Crops.jpg. You should checkout Shorena's PDF which is an amazing summary of what happened and what we need to do right now.

Some of you might have wondered where I have been the last days.

I posted a .pdf file yesterday, that was removed by the mods. Not sure why, probably because it had no proper introduction and I used the first one click hoster that did not want my mail.

I though the name of the file "the_trail.pdf" was clue enough to what it is. It was not finished, it is not finished now, but it will serve for those that want to catch up.

The short version is not done yet, it might never be done in time, depending on the way this goes. The file is very large because of the pictures inside.

here are the files: https://mega.co.nz/#F!Nlo2QJ4T!lgKMM21_MUhG99BRbwZhHQ

@OP thanks, its art the way it should be. I learned a lot about myself the last days.

[jc01480]

When this is all over we need another forum to discuss all the cool shit you guys used to crack these things.  I am curious as hell.

[jc01480]

My iphone won't let me open the file.  Dammmmmmmiiiit!!!
Just wanna play!  Lol

[arg]

My iphone won't let me open the file.  Dammmmmmmiiiit!!!
Just wanna play!  Lol

https://i.imgur.com/wafTGWy.jpg

We have this.

[jc01480]

Thanks, arg.  So what are we looking for in this file?

[rgm108]

The left half reminds me an awful lot of old computer punch cards...

[Kangaderoo]

in WOW there is a xmp packet

All that data matches up with what http://regex.info/exif.cgi has labeled the Paint Based Correction. This might just be the OPs edits on top of the original.

Looks like that's true. Here's the coordinates plotted out.

On a piece of paper, your Y direction is downwards... you should flip this image, and overlay with the wow.jpg I guess.
visually it seems the channel information alteration lines up.
if might give the right order of the revised channel numbers....
I just don't have the tools....

see how it roughly seems to line up with the the  "2" ....
like said, I just don't have the tools for an exact line-up... so it could be nothing......

[sha-256]

https://i.imgur.com/EsHnRWj.jpg

www.twitpic.com/6doge5

https://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/385773053.jpg?1314731708

something tells me wrong

[jc01480]

Trying to find the relevant part of that hash?

[Yemmster]

https://soundcloud.com/skungyfunkyitis/6-e-q-u-j-5

Probably completely unrelated though.

[jc01480]

Tried overlaying that over the original photo?  Long shot.

Edit:  I think private key is still in original photo.
The roundabout circles are possible pointing out the letters and numbers on the key maybe.

[S4VV4S]

-snip-

Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEVE: There is GOOD out there.We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING ?

If this is what you actually decoded then that is different than the original message.
In the original it says up there, not out there....

[Kprawn]

Would someone please upload the latest pdf file onto another service.

My work is blocking the link provided here, and I have some free time, to help you guys, working through that.

Thanks in advance. 

[Mitchell]

Would someone please upload the latest pdf file onto another service.

My work is blocking the link provided here, and I have some free time, to help you guys, working through that.

Thanks in advance. 

The one from Shorena? Here you go dude: https://www.mediafire.com/?ow7xg1m7ajm2dar