ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[dserrano5]

What is up with the "Long" "Lat" "Deg" in that picture?

You will need to know astronomy for this.

No. Astronomy deals with Right ascension/declination, not with latitude/longitude. Those would be earthly coordinates.

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[Kangaderoo]

What is up with the "Long" "Lat" "Deg" in that picture?

You will need to know astronomy for this.

No. Astronomy deals with Right ascension/declination, not with latitude/longitude. Those would be earthly coordinates.

http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htm

It definitely mentioned galactic lat and long. all columns are explained here....
Thou shall check the source on all pages, and the source of clue's as well....  
(like I'm still trying to figure out the origins that leads to the ceasar shift of 100......)

[escrow.ms]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbYirSi08m4
rabbit hole.

[micaman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbYirSi08m4
rabbit hole.

With the blue pill, the story ends.

[escrow.ms]

Anyone tried to add all binary data (Most transactions are in binary for ex: 0.010101) ?
https://blockchain.info/address/1PBsAHYQoczQh6mufENsR4tCkKToQKjMzz

http://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

Ps:



http://www.setileague.org/askdr/decodwow.htm

[shorena]

Anyone tried to add all binary data (Most transactions are in binary for ex: 0.010101) ?
https://blockchain.info/address/1PBsAHYQoczQh6mufENsR4tCkKToQKjMzz

http://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

They where clues. I made a summary of them here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.msg7552956#msg7552956

the only part I missed IIRC was the "SOCLOSE" hint. I believe they all hinted at binary. "SOCLOSE" was meant to make us backtrack, same as the reverse counting. Not sure why OP left some oft the numbers out. Maybe there is a reference with the post numbers where binary was mentioned.

[arg]

Anyone tried to add all binary data (Most transactions are in binary for ex: 0.010101) ?
https://blockchain.info/address/1PBsAHYQoczQh6mufENsR4tCkKToQKjMzz

http://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

They where clues. I made a summary of them here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.msg7552956#msg7552956

the only part I missed IIRC was the "SOCLOSE" hint. I believe they all hinted at binary. "SOCLOSE" was meant to make us backtrack, same as the reverse counting. Not sure why OP left some oft the numbers out. Maybe there is a reference with the post numbers where binary was mentioned.

I missed all of the blockchain.info transaction comment hints. So many people seem to think that the "notes" on their website are part of Bitcoin due to the way blockchain.info labels them, but they're totally not. Nobody but users of that website can see them. Until I looked back at comments here I don't even know the OP thought the same.

[LtPaxIV]

ok im back now.got a few new ideas beeing at work

did anyone try to "enroll" the crops.jpg and overlay it with the wow?

@shorena  sieht aus als ob du deutsch kannst,ich kann nicht immer genau das was ich meine in english ausdrücken,wär cool wenn man sich mal austauschen könnt und dann das ganze hier in english posted

[shorena]

Anyone tried to add all binary data (Most transactions are in binary for ex: 0.010101) ?
https://blockchain.info/address/1PBsAHYQoczQh6mufENsR4tCkKToQKjMzz

http://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/

They where clues. I made a summary of them here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.msg7552956#msg7552956

the only part I missed IIRC was the "SOCLOSE" hint. I believe they all hinted at binary. "SOCLOSE" was meant to make us backtrack, same as the reverse counting. Not sure why OP left some oft the numbers out. Maybe there is a reference with the post numbers where binary was mentioned.

I missed all of the blockchain.info transaction comment hints. So many people seem to think that the "notes" on their website are part of Bitcoin due to the way blockchain.info labels them, but they're totally not. Nobody but users of that website can see them. Until I looked back at comments here I don't even know the OP thought the same.

correction:
they where hints in binary, hinting at morsecode

I need sleep

ok im back now.got a few new ideas beeing at work

did anyone try to "enroll" the crops.jpg and overlay it with the wow?

@shorena  sieht aus als ob du deutsch kannst,ich kann nicht immer genau das was ich meine in english ausdrücken,wär cool wenn man sich mal austauschen könnt und dann das ganze hier in english posted

yo schick mir einfach ne PM, aber erwarte Heute keine Antwort mehr

[mirth23]

AFAIK, the blockchain transaction hints were all pretty clearly linked to the very first image puzzle. They hinted to read from bottom to top, and there was also SOS to hint for morse code.

[itod]

I'm still not quite sure what to use it on, but I'm pretty sure the 0=0A=10BABYA=36 is a character mapping.
0=0
A=10
BabyA=36. Morse code has no lowercase, so she called the lowercase 'a' BabyA.

This also jives with the background story for Wow!.jpg. The numbers/letters are intensities:

The circled alphanumeric code 6EQUJ5 describes the intensity variation of the signal. A space denotes an intensity between 0 and 1, the numbers 1 to 9 denote the correspondingly numbered intensities (from 1.0 to 10.0), and intensities of 10.0 and above are denoted by a letter ('A' corresponds to intensities between 10.0 and 11.0, 'B' to 11.0 to 12.0, etc.). The value 'U' (an intensity between 30.0 and 31.0) was the highest detected by the radio telescope; on a linear scale it was over 30 times louder than normal deep space.

I'm getting obsessed with this above. We haven't used this clue anywhere, and it may be saying to us:
"Use some string and replace
0 with 0
A with 10
a with 36
and then use it as a passphrase to get the key."
Problem is I don't get what "replace 0 with 0" can mean? What's the point of replacing something with itself?

[xELx]

I'm still not quite sure what to use it on, but I'm pretty sure the 0=0A=10BABYA=36 is a character mapping.
0=0
A=10
BabyA=36. Morse code has no lowercase, so she called the lowercase 'a' BabyA.

This also jives with the background story for Wow!.jpg. The numbers/letters are intensities:

The circled alphanumeric code 6EQUJ5 describes the intensity variation of the signal. A space denotes an intensity between 0 and 1, the numbers 1 to 9 denote the correspondingly numbered intensities (from 1.0 to 10.0), and intensities of 10.0 and above are denoted by a letter ('A' corresponds to intensities between 10.0 and 11.0, 'B' to 11.0 to 12.0, etc.). The value 'U' (an intensity between 30.0 and 31.0) was the highest detected by the radio telescope; on a linear scale it was over 30 times louder than normal deep space.

I'm getting obsessed with this above. We haven't used this clue anywhere, and it may be saying to us:
"Use some string and replace
0 with 0
A with 10
a with 36
and then use it as a passphrase to get the key."
Problem is I don't get what "replace 0 with 0" can mean? What's the point of replacing something with itself?

0=0 is just saying that numbers are equal to themselves and wouldn't be converted to anything.

[S4VV4S]

Guys, is it 6657 or 6675 on the Wow that are marked?

[itod]

I'm getting obsessed with this above. We haven't used this clue anywhere, and it may be saying to us:
"Use some string and replace
0 with 0
A with 10
a with 36
and then use it as a passphrase to get the key."
Problem is I don't get what "replace 0 with 0" can mean? What's the point of replacing something with itself?

0=0 is just saying that numbers are equal to themselves and wouldn't be converted to anything.

Thats it! We should take a string, leave the numbers unchanged, turn all uppercase letters to 10, and all lowercase letters to 36. Question is - which string? I've tried the 'z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P' from wow.jpg and got 3669101036361036862101363636736101010103610103610136363610361010363610710363636 3636363636710, which doesn't work. Any idea which string has numbers, lowercase and uppercase letters?

[elh40257]

There is my long shot results: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2a883aee11c1c2ea85ef. Can do this in another ways but this looks wrong. Not understand, must we calculate hash of something with this 51 characters line or work with they as is.

[ooxtcoo]

I'm still not quite sure what to use it on, but I'm pretty sure the 0=0A=10BABYA=36 is a character mapping.
0=0
A=10
BabyA=36. Morse code has no lowercase, so she called the lowercase 'a' BabyA.

This also jives with the background story for Wow!.jpg. The numbers/letters are intensities:

The circled alphanumeric code 6EQUJ5 describes the intensity variation of the signal. A space denotes an intensity between 0 and 1, the numbers 1 to 9 denote the correspondingly numbered intensities (from 1.0 to 10.0), and intensities of 10.0 and above are denoted by a letter ('A' corresponds to intensities between 10.0 and 11.0, 'B' to 11.0 to 12.0, etc.). The value 'U' (an intensity between 30.0 and 31.0) was the highest detected by the radio telescope; on a linear scale it was over 30 times louder than normal deep space.

I'm getting obsessed with this above. We haven't used this clue anywhere, and it may be saying to us:
"Use some string and replace
0 with 0
A with 10
a with 36
and then use it as a passphrase to get the key."
Problem is I don't get what "replace 0 with 0" can mean? What's the point of replacing something with itself?

i wrote for you a tool which do this for you: http://jau.cc/bitcoin/ARGConverter.rar

but i tryed already many many different things....

the very first one which i tested was:

1.) using this data: z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

2.) covert to digits using my tool:
6169193552471949862131493959750213114224831047251614058144030125354187275036436 151404960725

3.) sha256(sha256(digits)=08a5fdd4bf90c5932b809e9b7c6ceacea7ee410c9b375da924e39b6a36f66d7d

3.)hex to B58Check: 5Ht6Va2Rot3XXLx88ZV7FrsQEHAyRCxf7jP4e5pYsbYBbeooBer
(B58Check because the result at the end "Bbeoober" looked somehow funny...

but i got this adress bitcoin: 1LM3yKQu7TAzZzS1KE5y1D24sWsXJchKs1

[itod]

1.) using this data: z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

2.) covert to digits using my tool:
6169193552471949862131493959750213114224831047251614058144030125354187275036436 151404960725

It looks like you've used some other rules of conversion. For instance, starting from the beginning, how did you convert 'z' to '61'?

[Izerian]

Odd coincidence I'm sure. Since we're talking about signals from space and all.

Starting with the string "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P"


---------------
No Numeric characters: "[^.0-9]"
    zJZqlJnDndxoLVEMmVOlPzewEeUCrsIRoahzpenyP
---------------
No Alpha characters: "[0-9]"
    6986217177
---------------


OP said to use Google, but they're evil so I tried Bing (lol)... straight up search (no quotes) on the non-numeric string yields:

http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-midr-c1-v1.0/mg_0009/f00n065/ff32.img~
and
http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-dim-v1.0/mg_1215/fl18s342/fl15s341.img

I haven't looked at the top 'img~' link, glanced at the link following it and it's a bunch of text about the space time continuum for all I know at this point. At risk of embarrassing myself for even posting this, I'm going to sign out and participate in my life for the rest of the evening. Someone please find something!


EDIT: Someone please find something other than this

[ooxtcoo]

1.) using this data: z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

2.) covert to digits using my tool:
6169193552471949862131493959750213114224831047251614058144030125354187275036436 151404960725

It looks like you've used some other rules of conversion. For instance, starting from the beginning, how did you convert 'z' to '61'?

because in upper case and lower case...
should i convert all lower case to upper case and convert all the same?

[LtPaxIV]

Odd coincidence I'm sure. Since we're talking about signals from space and all.

Starting with the string "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P"


---------------
No Numeric characters: "[^.0-9]"
    zJZqlJnDndxoLVEMmVOlPzewEeUCrsIRoahzpenyP
---------------
No Alpha characters: "[0-9]"
    6986217177
---------------


OP said to use Google, but they're evil so I tried Bing (lol)... straight up search (no quotes) on the non-numeric string yields:

http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-midr-c1-v1.0/mg_0009/f00n065/ff32.img~
and
http://starbase.jpl.nasa.gov/mgn-v-rdrs-5-dim-v1.0/mg_1215/fl18s342/fl15s341.img

I haven't looked at the top 'img~' link, glanced at the link following it and it's a bunch of text about the space time continuum for all I know at this point. At risk of embarrassing myself for even posting this, I'm going to sign out and participate in my life for the rest of the evening. Someone please find something!


EDIT: Someone please find something other than this

i cant replicate ur search,plus how the fuck do i open these .img 7zip tells me: wrong command line