ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[mtgox555]

Someone discovered a message decoder. It may or may not be found on the enderman wiki (http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Enderman)

[w0lverine]

The whole “they cannot attack what they do not see” thing does fit quote well with endermen.
I hope this puzzle doesn t take us to minecraft..

[e1ghtSpace]

The whole “they cannot attack what they do not see” thing does fit quote well with endermen.
I hope this puzzle doesn t take us to minecraft..

I have an account so if you need it, just ask (PM) as I don't really use it any more.

[w0lverine]

The whole “they cannot attack what they do not see” thing does fit quote well with endermen.
I hope this puzzle doesn t take us to minecraft..

I have an account so if you need it, just ask (PM) as I don't really use it any more.

Thanks I actually already have one. What I meant is that if we start to involve videogames this might make look this whole thing less serious..


On the wiki, at the bottom, this phrase comes.up:

As of 1.8, Switching to spectator mode and taking an Enderman's camera adds the invert shader, suggesting that they see The End as an island of blue cobblestone (because end stone is a yellowish inversion of cobblestone) in a white sky, with white pillars, white Endermen with green eyes and a white Ender Dragon

Does that mean we need to look t the picture with an invert colour filter?

[micaman]

Following that path, i ended up here
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/User:CoinArtist

She deleted something like: Endermen under the effects of an invisibility splash potion.  In this case you can attack what you do not see.


Base triangle in UI is very similar to ours, so if you try to overlap those big squares, they match letters and dots of the picture.

They hide these

ota
CNr
D
IMn
Li
th
(blue dot)
bye
TC
r
a
A
B(Yellow dot)
(yellow dot)Ft

but only 28 grey squares...


EDIT
Something like this




"A haunting of Endermen enjoy a cryptic evening."

[micaman]

"Invisibility now functions, and turns mobs invisible. Players under its effect cannot be detected by other players. A potion and splash potion of Invisibility was implemented and added to Creative mode. The golden carrot was added as the ingredient for the potion of Night Vision which, when inverted, creates a potion of Invisibility."

"The inclusion of a Golden Carrot in the recipe of the Potion of Night Vision is possibly a reference to the urban legend that carrots will improve your vision."

So now we must eat some carrots so we can improve our vision. 

[moinen]

Here is the enderman screenshot overlaid on the image. The triangle and these tiles match up.
https://i.imgur.com/fEpOgfP.jpg
The word "CoNtra" pops up to me. Inverted colors? Or reading backwards? The 987654321 transactions and the countdown refer to backwardsness as well.

[xELx]

I think we should be looking at why the dots are included. Two yellow and one blue.

[jc01480]

My head is throbbing again.

[mtgox555]

So what we are looking at now has just about as many upper case as lower case. This is normal if it represented hex data. But there are no numbers which would be weird for hex.

I'm playing with blue dot as "@" and yellow dot as "." but i'm getting nowhere. Here are some of the stuff i have written in notepad

Code:

otaCNrDIMnLith@byeTCraAB..Ft

CNDIMLTCABF
otarnithbyerat

aaAbBCCDeFhiILMnNorrtttTy

ABCCDFILMNT
aabehinorrttty

new hint: classic games

[jc01480]

Mtgox555, you run those through the calculator?  Also, you must be getting info from somewhere else.

[w0lverine]

something to do with contra the game? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(video_game)

[mtgox555]

I don't see how contra could be applied to this. I tried to see if pacman could reveal some sort of path but it doesnt seem to fit well enough
https://i.imgur.com/MAsfPh1.png

[davida]

contra-
prefix
prefix: contra-

    1.
    against; opposite; contrasting.
    "contradict"
    2.
    Music
    (of instruments or organ stops) pitched an octave below.
    "contralto"

Origin
from Latin contra ‘against.’
Con·tra
ˈkäntrə/
noun
noun: Contra; plural noun: Contras

    a member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that opposed the left-wing Sandinista government 1979–90, and was supported by the US for much of that time. It was officially disbanded in 1990, after the Sandinistas' electoral defeat.

[davida]

When i cover all the data that has already been used (included the most recent data from the overlay image) it leaves you with exactly 60 characters...

from top left to bottom right:

s7vY8ckz3miu2h5OP4icxby231nmHdErLbw5uf3SvjwoAU9FzRe7e62YT6Di

reversed:

iD6TY26e7eRzF9UAowjvS3fu5wbLrEdHmn132ybxci4PO5h2uim3zkc8Yv7s

I wojuld keep checking the other combinations but i'm away to bed.

https://i.imgur.com/blmC1Qs.jpg

 btw... the removed data is colour coded

yellow boxes -  morse code
red boxes - bitcoin public address
white boxes - all data from the image overlay

EDIT: I posted this before I saw the latest clue about classic games!!! iTS all rubbish basically!

[xavier46930]

The word "CoNtra" pops up to me.

Current hint: ask a classic, avid gamer

"Contra" - my guess is contra code: http://www.ign.com/cheats/games/c-nes-5653

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/4231/261961-a_konami.png

 

[timewave0]

How about Zelda? The Dark Wallet logo with the additional triangle section suggests an inverted Triforce. In Link to the Past, you can get a magic cape and turn invisible, rendering enemies unable to attack.

[shorena]

How about Zelda? The Dark Wallet logo with the additional triangle section suggests an inverted Triforce. In Link to the Past, you can get a magic cape and turn invisible, rendering enemies unable to attack.

that was my thought as well, so we need another triangle to make a triforce maybe. Still on.mobile but maybe she has a user on one of the zelda wikis as well.

[xavier46930]

How about Zelda? The Dark Wallet logo with the additional triangle section suggests an inverted Triforce. In Link to the Past, you can get a magic cape and turn invisible, rendering enemies unable to attack.

that was my thought as well, so we need another triangle to make a triforce maybe. Still on.mobile but maybe she has a user on one of the zelda wikis as well.

WHAT?

Obviously she is referring to "contra code." Have you ever played a classic video game and used a cheat? Start with the obvious, expand from there.

For example following contra code: there is a bit . ly address, which uses the blue "dot" as an internet "dot." Just sayin: Obvious code is obvious.

[Prospero]

Obviously she is referring to "contra code." Have you ever played a classic video game and used a cheat? Start with the obvious, expand from there.

For example following contra code: there is a bit . ly address, which uses the blue "dot" as an internet "dot." Just sayin: Obvious code is obvious.

if you're suggesting https://bitly.com/uuddlrlrba, append a '+' to the url to see the bit.ly stats and you'll see it was created in 2009.