ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[Kprawn]

The Public adress decommpressed first file, is there any other of the public addresses, who deposited the BTC in that first public key, that might unzip the 2 cnd file?

Just a thought?

[davida]

Or the remaining gibberish letters from after the morse code 'stop word'?

[S4VV4S]

Or the remaining gibberish letters from after the morse code 'stop word'?

As another member pointed out, STOP in morse code means stop transmitting message (or sentence) and continue with next, but we couldn't find anything else 

[S4VV4S]

`No, I give it up,’ Alice replied: `what’s the answer?’

`I haven’t the slightest idea,’ said the Hatter.

Why do I keep getting stuck at this?

Maybe because I haven’t the slightest idea either 

[mtgox555]

I tried to use week 51 day 7 which this year is Dec 21. On Dec 21 this year it is winter solstice. I tried to use that, and the sha256 hash of it as password. no luck

[S4VV4S]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.

[Mitchell]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.

-snip-

Now that you mention it, it does look that way...

[S4VV4S]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.

-snip-

Now that you mention it, it does look that way...

Also, if you look at the face the eye are staring at the 7:51

[shorena]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.
-snip-

It does indeed and if you concentrate to "not see a cat" you can actually see the rest as a langscape.

[Kprawn]

I tried these combinations b.t.w

7:51BitSha
7:51 Bit Sha
7:51 Bit Sha
ahS tiB 15:7
ahStiB15:7

To eliminate the obvious.  

[etamine]

Alright, it's 1230 in the after noon. I'm going to bed. I'll dump what I got- just remember me when you're rolling around in tall that BTC **sniff**


7:51 - my hunch for this for a long time was that it was "Bit Sha"(7 characters) followed by it's private key(51 characters). I tried like a million times and it wouldn't work. I tried so many variations. No dice.

"Bit Sha" - Bitcoin and Shacoin are both things. But so is Catcoin, which if you couldn't tell, is pretty relevant to the image. All of these are 7 charaters long as well. I tried variations of "Bit Sha Cat" and the such with combos of hashes but had no luck.


I tried most every variation of the previous followed by their priv key equivalent as well as the img file's hash/priv key.

Just in case some of y'all don't follow- Take any data >> SHA-256 >> Base58check >> Private Key


As for the Catcoin, I couldn't find anything that led me to a transaction or block or any such that had a clue. Catcoin uses scrypt to hash and I didn't even bother looking into it, so maybe there's something there(prolly not).

Here's a list of a small portion of stuff I tried so you can get an idea of what I was going for.

Code:

Bit Sha5KJEqDSGVn7Y334Rr8A8s87bSDvf5sBs8uxG2NHogXtFRAqVEkw
Bitcoin5KBZytdkzttdedEB7xLom6YnHRCVTNQPUrJiTDJKS7VJUbiX6Di
Shacoin5KEPMxXf7T1J6aK6PBoimHri1H3KYfVB9n7mK7vTeczZcE4MGqK
The Con:5JkBShdYBVKNsAxBZsYgLhecjkzcVNL9DsHKHxzoUAt4CAcQAXe
Chessur:5J11eCUzLZjx8BtcdJ8LDhgztRrcp4TH1FxYE58N1NTE3WKnHPT
Chessur5J11eCUzLZjx8BtcdJ8LDhgztRrcp4TH1FxYE58N1NTE3WKnHPT
Bit Sha:5J11eCUzLZjx8BtcdJ8LDhgztRrcp4TH1FxYE58N1NTE3WKnHPT
Bit Sha5J11eCUzLZjx8BtcdJ8LDhgztRrcp4TH1FxYE58N1NTE3WKnHPT
Chessur:5KJEqDSGVn7Y334Rr8A8s87bSDvf5sBs8uxG2NHogXtFRAqVEkw
Chessur5KJEqDSGVn7Y334Rr8A8s87bSDvf5sBs8uxG2NHogXtFRAqVEkw
The Cat:5Kk1tMyDDbmmP89NaMTX4FV5KMMmysCc1p3PowbnW2yQejbajmu
The Cat5Kk1tMyDDbmmP89NaMTX4FV5KMMmysCc1p3PowbnW2yQejbajmu
Carroll:5Jie2RaW6UqsGp1oYDqLkX3SkGaRVKkJjLCNzN6nzL51eksxh8S
Carroll5Jie2RaW6UqsGp1oYDqLkX3SkGaRVKkJjLCNzN6nzL51eksxh8S
Address:5JUaEqABgKxf99DnnpfdNNdGrhSFvJAtqYT6cnjF9mbw6YrGMEs
Address5JUaEqABgKxf99DnnpfdNNdGrhSFvJAtqYT6cnjF9mbw6YrGMEs
256 Sha:5J4UxBA5nNBdkCn7ggb6dD1Pc6WkQLhb2AHh2SdtQumS4bDcsau
256-Sha:5Hymxfh7z3NhYRPhPBRkUW9uFtdtTfUA5ZbTn1LgvUSjcVnYJUn
256-SHA:5Jp9PoFDepFPxZeRWXf4tiYJLwuRtYFdDYYrGJjyFwCEp944eMU
256 SHA:5JX8PbsLVpUwgy5gEkQJYS1wguGokBfeYRYgY6re91rcpi43QeC
SHA-256:5KF13kQeQEYy9gcY6vrSzWLp1QcMdzic9Sc6qGEHCyrXdDZyeSu
256 Sha:5HuaQxr7ZE25zSXyBoAK3VkHMfEaE3aB5S8JMd71oAMwYvb24Nz
256-Sha:5HuaQxr7ZE25zSXyBoAK3VkHMfEaE3aB5S8JMd71oAMwYvb24Nz
256-SHA:5HuaQxr7ZE25zSXyBoAK3VkHMfEaE3aB5S8JMd71oAMwYvb24Nz
256 SHA:5HuaQxr7ZE25zSXyBoAK3VkHMfEaE3aB5S8JMd71oAMwYvb24Nz
SHA-256:5HuaQxr7ZE25zSXyBoAK3VkHMfEaE3aB5S8JMd71oAMwYvb24Nz
384 SHA:5JvBE7U11zLDBxkXqFuhGUHrYg7uAKDmiqfxXhPLsj1f6TsWe7z
384-SHA:5KkPMwYKFN8JxpUJz6UwRphGZA8rpSGhaG3ZXKW4Uot7QEKyQJA
384 SHA:5KCU29R6rxm46veFQtgdUGx8jR4UMHtM2YjwYthR7xqg676NEes
384-SHA:5KCU29R6rxm46veFQtgdUGx8jR4UMHtM2YjwYthR7xqg676NEes
512-SHA:5JWSU47Q8ZZVruqmBPMDzGjgeMrevSmNRsyvv6LrGVg6uSLHRDs
4352372:5KfFmNkmr1R5j1DPrgRbiXQxeUJt6YBQhahMR8tsGRXk3srq8u7
4415860:5JNCEcdGpSdUuUdBm31L9x6kYv9xBgN1TN5LYvdn1tEX2HYd7wb
4415860:5KUcdjkpXmCSzLyZRTLU5YBJpB3oSXSf8qc17bRxNqmZmh366Ah

Oh, and surely some one else has noticed that the file size for this little jpg is 1.21mb right? I turned it into an audio file and found nothing. Checked the hex, ran steno tools on it and couldn't come up with anything. But then I noticed that after saving/moving/copying/whatever the file size dropped to 600kb. Perhaps the false file size is part of clue?

I don't know anymore.

Good night and good luck.

[S4VV4S]

-snip-

Shouldn't we be focusing on the password of the next zip file?

[Mitchell]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.
-snip-

It does indeed and if you concentrate to "not see a cat" you can actually see the rest as a langscape.

It does indeed. Goddammit, this picture is such a mind fuck.

[S4VV4S]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.
-snip-

It does indeed and if you concentrate to "not see a cat" you can actually see the rest as a langscape.

Hmmmm, any 8 Bit games that remind you of that?
Wonderboy comes to my mind......

[shorena]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.
-snip-

It does indeed and if you concentrate to "not see a cat" you can actually see the rest as a langscape.

Hmmmm, any 8 Bit games that remind you of that?
Wonderboy comes to my mind......

Monkey Island, but the swordfighting scene has another background

[jc01480]

Just FYI, I checked out the pixel at 7, 51.  Guess what?  It's brown.  That is all...

[S4VV4S]

Doesn't that look like two game characters fighting with swords - the left one holding a shield as well.
-snip-

It does indeed and if you concentrate to "not see a cat" you can actually see the rest as a langscape.

Hmmmm, any 8 Bit games that remind you of that?
Wonderboy comes to my mind......

Monkey Island, but the swordfighting scene has another background

Hmmmm, maybe the "face" is a skull from the game or a map?
A pirate map?

[mirth23]

I agree that it looks like two characters swordfighting. After doing some googling on sword and shield in video games here is a list of games that probably AREN'T those figures:

ActRaiser: doesn't have a shield, doesn't look quite right
Archon: no matching character
Castlevania: graphic style is similar but doesn't look quite right
Golden Axe: none of the main characters are pictured
Nighogg: pretty sure not since it's more about fencing, although the art is somewhat similar
Rygar: Nope, he doesn't have a sword
Super Ghouls and Ghosts: figures are shaped wrong
Trojan: Maybe? Figures aren't shaped quite right.
Zelda: Link has a distinctive silly hat that we don't see

The artwork looks naggingly familiar to me as something I played on the C64 in the days of yore (really dating myself here), but I can't quite place it.

I wonder if the figures go along with the background image in some way?

Monkey Island, but the swordfighting scene has another background
...
Hmmmm, maybe the "face" is a skull from the game or a map?
A pirate map?

I do recall a Monkey Island map that had something like this, but the sword fighting figures look wrong (especially since one appears to have a shield).

[S4VV4S]

Shit, I was trying to make a remake of Wonderboy in Wonderland Monsterland   a while back for android and I had the full map.

Let me look for it......


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Boy_in_Monster_Land

EDIT: Yeap, probably Monkey Island.....

[shorena]

Shit, I was trying to make a remake of Wonderboy in Wonderland Monsterland   a while back for android and I had the full map.

Let me look for it......


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Boy_in_Monster_Land

EDIT: Yeap, probably Monkey Island.....

mirth is correct the art style is wrong for monkey island. it looks older yet the background is huge (for an old game) even if its fixed.