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June 27, 2014, 08:15:33 AM |
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June 27, 2014, 08:18:13 AM |
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RGB = (1,1,1) Red= (1,0,0) Green = (0,1,0) Blue= (0,0,1)
CMY=(1,1,1) Cyan = (1,0,0) Magenta = (0,1,0) Yellow = (0,0,1)
Plotted they make a 3 dimensional cube or square.
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jc01480
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June 27, 2014, 08:19:43 AM |
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Only an artist would think like this! Gotta be a clue.
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June 27, 2014, 08:49:23 AM |
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Checking blockchain, there's a few more things to note tonight.
No more hints will be given.
This is listed on both address 1rEDGrNbuqqtbJU12XiU4hvmfM4XaQVcD and 1rEDGrNbuqqtbJU12XiU4hvmfM4XaQVcD, so it's safe to say those addresses are valid clue repositories.
I'll be honest, I've given this one a lot of silent thought before chiming in.
YT gives number sequences in the transactions list. Starting with the 1AskcEemXLiwStjvHEXGkLSDEWK6CEx9sd transaction, they are as follows, omitting the leading 0.X
10101010 * 00100000 11101000 è 01010011 S 01001111 O 01000011 C 01001100 L 01001111 O 01010011 S 01000101 E 00101111 / 01100100 d 01101111 o 01100100 d 00101111 / 01110100 t 10100110 | 10011110 ž 10100110 | 01011000 X 01011000 X
Now things get cool.
5, 2
4, 1
19, 8
Asked for a hint, we got
01011010 Z eight times.
... think Z has anything to do with this puzzle? Actually, it probably does.
Nine binary commas follow.
a countdown from 23 to 1, omitting 8 AND 3
00101101 -
00111111 ? (This is probably a hint request)
5
followed by another help request from the community, SOS
Lastly followed by 12345, and 98765
That's it, that's the clues we get. I got ABSOLUTELY nothing to contribute elsewise.
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shorena
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June 27, 2014, 09:24:28 AM |
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ITA2 TELEX isnt working either in case someone wondered ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) its a 5 bit code. http://www.bergziege-owl.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Telegraphenalphabet-ita2.jpgraw code used 010101111110101101010100101011110101110111000001101001001011111110011010101011111111000100011011100011101011000110110001111001001101001101100101011011010100011101001111011011001001010100011101111010101110000011110011101101010001110001010111100111101111000011011000001001111101111101110011100111110000111001110101000101110011110111010101111101101110110000010110101011100001010001001001111101101101010010101110010
split to 5 bit parts 01010 11111 10101 10101 01001 01011 11010 11101 11000 00110 10010 01011 11111 00110 10101 01111 11110 00100 01101 11000 11101 01100 01101 10001 11100 10011 01001 10110 01010 11011 01010 00111 01001 11101 10110 01001 01010 00111 01111 01010 11100 00011 11001 11011 01010 00111 00010 10111 10011 11011 11000 01101 10000 01001 11110 11111 01110 01110 01111 10000 11100 11101 01000 10111 00111 10111 01010 11111 01101 11011 00000 10110 10101 11000 01010 00100 10011 11101 10110 10100 10101 11001 0
padded the last to 00000 and got: R LETTERS Y Y L G J Q A N D G LETTERS N Y V K SPACE P A Q I P Z 11100 B L F R INTs R - 4 M - . L - ) Q - 1 F - € L - ) R - 4 M - . V - = R - 4 11100 O - 9 W - 2 INTs R - 4 M - . <- X B INTs A P E L K LETTERS C C V E 11100 Q -> X M X R LETTERS P INTs KYR F Y A R SPACE B Q F S Y W KYR
crap ![Sad](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/sad.gif) I still think the hints point towards some sort of binary coding.
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June 27, 2014, 10:00:47 AM |
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3 new TX over night: spelling 01010011 S01001111 O01010011 Sthey do not come from the usually address though. there are also 2 more with 0.0054321 BTC from 1 sosB9wN5ij84GKfo6Xxx8FWyh5fPXVXu and 0.00098765 BTC from 1 rEDGrNbuqqtbJU12XiU4hvmfM4XaQVcD the last one also has "no more clues" has a blockchain comment. rEDGrN was loaded from the one address we access as the one controlled by OP. https://blockchain.info/de/tx/c353daf8bdbbf74e76ade5d11fec3b0479f20813e15aabb0988f312b04309c1bFibnacci looks like a deadend as well. One of the values is 1000010100010010011 -> 100001010001001001 = 1+13+34+233+987+4181 = 5449 which isnt in base64 there is also no way to encode 0 in fib, so we would be missing 1 letter or wed need to shift by -1 to get a 0. But 1 or 0 would be encoded 11 which is all over the code. ~ 20/80 times sounds a bit overkill to me. Might be noise but since its ignoring the yellow and blue dot(s) I stopped going down that path. Playing around in GIMP a bit with color channels, brightness/contrast, and saturation, I see a few things that might be interesting: - the black border area has plenty of artifacts that mostly look like noise to me, but there's occasional surprising geometric regularity to them. there's a chunk in the lower left that looks sort of like 8-bit art, but I can't tweak things to get anything clear (to me) out of it. - the yellow squares in the lower left quadrant seem extra yellow compared with anything else in the image. - a few of the darker blue squares with dots look like their color was digitally darkened, but it looks like touch up work.
If this is the correct direction to go in, it's really challenging to tell what's a clue and what's an artifact of the artistic process. Maybe there's some other manipulations people can try out that I'm not thinking of.
I just check it with inverted colors and the only thing that struck me was: red and green are complementary colors blue and yellow are complementary colors as well. So there might be some sort of code where red/green are one thing and yellow/blue are another thing complementy. E.g. yellow = shift left, blue = shift right. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsoftware.intel.com%2Fsites%2Fproducts%2Fdocumentation%2Fhpc%2Fipp%2Fippi%2Fippi_ch6%2FImages%2Fch6_color_models_1.jpg&t=665&c=anZpqV8eZVmuEg) this one? That's a prime number love.
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June 27, 2014, 10:24:40 AM |
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Guys and girls, if there is one thing we have noticed is that the transactions coming from "Alice" all count backwards 23-13 13-1 9-6 5-1.
Maybe we should be looking for things in reverse.
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June 27, 2014, 10:36:18 AM |
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Public Note: no more clues We are screwed...... ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) Also the last clue came from: 1 rEDGrNbuqqtbJU12XiU4hvmfM4XaQVcD So maybe we should just focus on the red green dots
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shorena
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June 27, 2014, 10:44:34 AM |
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stegdetect Uc6VAnV.jpg Corrupt JPEG data: 6 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 Uc6VAnV.jpg : negative
dont get excited they are just 0 bytes. Might be just data corruption. also ELA looks normal to me. http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=02f2441a5bbd0a9fc3b69c0a4d490516ea0ddc46.913084&show=elaAlso I know we should not brute force, but I had to make sure: stegbreak gives nothing Loaded 1 files... Uc6VAnV.jpg : negative Processed 1 files, found 0 embeddings. Time: 255 seconds: Cracks: 3666043, 14376.6 c/s
Guys and girls, if there is one thing we have noticed is that the transactions coming from "Alice" all count backwards 23-13 13-1 9-6 5-1.
Maybe we should be looking for things in reverse.
Probably. I am going to research some of the basics. http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/practical.pdfPublic Note: no more clues We are screwed...... ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) -snip- ![Sad](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/sad.gif)
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June 27, 2014, 10:47:40 AM |
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Public Note: no more clues
We are screwed......
Also the last clue came from: 1rEDGrNbuqqtbJU12XiU4hvmfM4XaQVcD
So maybe we should just focus on the red green dots
SOS + rEDGrN = Morse code? @,w,b,5,!,@,@,@,@,y,@,#, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,@,u,@,f,e,@,!,!,@ @,@,!,!,3,#,T,#,#,@,@,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,#,C,@,@,!,!,S,!,v,! @,@,@,j,!,!,@,@,@,!,@,!, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,#,@,!,!,w,!,@,!,o,@,@ @,A,!,!,@,@,@,U,@,!,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,r,@,!,@,!,@,k,!,9,@ F,@,@,@,z,@,R,!,@,#, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,!,e,@,@,@,7,!,a,@,# @,!,e,#,!,!,!, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,J,@,6,!,@,@,!,@
!,@,!,@,#,2,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,#,!,!,Y,!,T,! o,@,!,6,@,!,!, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,@,A,!,!,@,# !,B,!,@,@,D, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,i,#,@,@,@,!,@ @,!,#,@,F,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,@,!,t,@,! !,@,!,@,!,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,@,!,!,@,!
Consider lines 13 to 18 and then 19 to 23. Reading top to bottom (@ = . and ! = - and # = break/next char) @@@@@ = 5 which is typically what priv keys start with. Maybe I looking at the wrong stuff?
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June 27, 2014, 10:55:57 AM Last edit: June 27, 2014, 11:19:24 AM by S4VV4S |
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stegdetect Uc6VAnV.jpg Corrupt JPEG data: 6 extraneous bytes before marker 0xd9 Uc6VAnV.jpg : negative
dont get excited they are just 0 bytes. Might be just data corruption. also ELA looks normal to me. http://fotoforensics.com/analysis.php?id=02f2441a5bbd0a9fc3b69c0a4d490516ea0ddc46.913084&show=elaAlso I know we should not brute force, but I had to make sure: stegbreak gives nothing Loaded 1 files... Uc6VAnV.jpg : negative Processed 1 files, found 0 embeddings. Time: 255 seconds: Cracks: 3666043, 14376.6 c/s
Guys and girls, if there is one thing we have noticed is that the transactions coming from "Alice" all count backwards 23-13 13-1 9-6 5-1.
Maybe we should be looking for things in reverse.
Probably. I am going to research some of the basics. http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/papers/practical.pdfPublic Note: no more clues We are screwed...... ![Tongue](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/tongue.gif) -snip- ![Sad](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/sad.gif) stegdetect will give negative on this image too: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fe9TLWvo.jpg&t=665&c=NGJ1GuG3P1vsFA) but I can guarantee to you that it has hidden content. You don't even need a key to extract it ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) EDIT: In case anyone is wondering about the hidden content: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The work of a private man who wished to transcend, He trusted himself, to produce from within. 1:2:3:1 3:3:13:5 45:5:2:3 20:3:20:5 8:3:8:6 48:5:14:2 21:13:4:1 25:1:7:4 15:9:3:4 1:1:16:3 4:3:3:1 8:3:26:4 47:3:3:5 3 13:2:5:4 1:4:16:4 . o n i o n Good luck. 3301 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSyjguAAoJEBgfAeV6NQkPsgAP/A3tMC3lpyFNAc/sj+Izu15S CzUjZJMe20Gu9UMNokQ2UJabktv9w0GMyK17TrMkUcU+ZpjdzGNqKoE2ETVxLmD/ uBZtR5PnF9EE3D08tJUPN1vSrYNkYk+9zcaUJZMPNgYNCt/CACutPwrOci9i9FDO 7BIpnhGqT3ZruqrSwO2Y73LJI1xxUt1XUqh1NQ+fJeAFMRkJBZZazkxRlgk3GGsF fLrcEKrS+KBipV1EQaaKxjISc9hc2c1TfxE66evlkN+zLcoyDcYuyruNM5wiZzgM 2uR58c+xgWQgG5UuLFClfvjDxUvDkrKt4mzEeaYSUm1MsYueuYklz4ydlg5Mf6l2 p1WyAxO52XfXVUZASk6VmaEQ0WjODTXvLeFTxUSDoKDMkvxDVxX6wGkufS9JwakB nTZizZ8Ypv8GcNCuNNGd6gZ1Vk2MYntggXdX8INd0Itcd3QnLqbBnATDOinDxlOs 5zTrtyTHNaxxDagPfAbU1jMXM0aHd7PFAzjjp7kgCTWqMyBch+8Vt80bjkdL9iw8 Q3hxuanq8mh6nUGc+tNe0UfqKHEbE+jWIezYqgawJB0M9R5OhxWE+E+jPXtZKkXQ JHYndPDrrsV8q27b7p0KN0+oblTkjqsItIAuLu7FNd0B4xb1jjp1Sbh7WJdZ/rbi mCO0vN/obU9qK1Vfapy0 =6Gxk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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June 27, 2014, 10:58:16 AM |
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Public Note: no more clues
We are screwed......
Also the last clue came from: 1rEDGrNbuqqtbJU12XiU4hvmfM4XaQVcD
So maybe we should just focus on the red green dots
SOS + rEDGrN = Morse code? @,w,b,5,!,@,@,@,@,y,@,#, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,@,u,@,f,e,@,!,!,@ @,@,!,!,3,#,T,#,#,@,@,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,#,C,@,@,!,!,S,!,v,! @,@,@,j,!,!,@,@,@,!,@,!, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,#,@,!,!,w,!,@,!,o,@,@ @,A,!,!,@,@,@,U,@,!,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,r,@,!,@,!,@,k,!,9,@ F,@,@,@,z,@,R,!,@,#, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,!,e,@,@,@,7,!,a,@,# @,!,e,#,!,!,!, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,J,@,6,!,@,@,!,@
!,@,!,@,#,2,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,#,!,!,Y,!,T,! o,@,!,6,@,!,!, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,@,A,!,!,@,# !,B,!,@,@,D, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,i,#,@,@,@,!,@ @,!,#,@,F,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,!,@,!,t,@,! !,@,!,@,!,@, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,@,@,!,!,@,!
Consider lines 13 to 18 and then 19 to 23. Reading top to bottom (@ = . and ! = - and # = break/next char) @@@@@ = 5 which is typically what priv keys start with. Maybe I looking at the wrong stuff? I have made that suggestion before but since my morse code ain't that good I stopped at: c t h u l t (.) t k e t s e C e t s o
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June 27, 2014, 11:00:09 AM |
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The reward is way too low judging from the difficulty of it.
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"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" 😼 Bitcoin Core ( onion)
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June 27, 2014, 11:09:00 AM |
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The reward is way too low judging from the difficulty of it.
The reward is to get to brag about it ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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June 27, 2014, 11:30:40 AM |
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Is the reward splitted into several smaller prices? THe 2.94 price is divided into more rewards? I dont get it at all ![Smiley](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/smiley.gif) BR
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June 27, 2014, 11:33:21 AM |
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so now is a cicada 3301 game with a .onion address? ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif)
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June 27, 2014, 11:38:26 AM |
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so now is a cicada 3301 game with a .onion address? ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) NO NO NO. I just posted that as an example.
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June 27, 2014, 11:41:18 AM |
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oh, ok tnx!
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June 27, 2014, 12:58:15 PM |
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I have made that suggestion before but since my morse code ain't that good I stopped at: c t h u l t (.) t k e t s e C e t s o
Which parts are you using? http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm
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