ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[RCHumphrey]

Through the Looking-Glass

I found this connected to the Matrix here: http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/White_rabbit#White_Rabbit
Scroll down till you see it

Late to the party but did enjoy my 2h+ reading up on 1000 posts over this haha...


I can't see anything glaring me in the face?

This under Lewis Carroll is a bit odd....
''thomas lugter af oik+
sut tissemand
life ''

[Mitchell]

So what up?

Did everyone go to sleep for 24 hours?

Nothing? Nada?

Well, I am empty for tonight. I really can't think of anything, sorry dude.

[S4VV4S]

So what up?

Did everyone go to sleep for 24 hours?

Nothing? Nada?

Well, I am empty for tonight. I really can't think of anything, sorry dude.

Yeah, I think I am going to sleep too.
Too tired and my head hurts....

Goodnight bro

[Mitchell]

Yeah, I think I am going to sleep too.
Too tired and my head hurts....

Goodnight bro

That is a wise idea. I should do the same, but well, school is preventing me to do so, hahaha.
Good night dude!

[micaman]

So we still searching for the 1.7z password?
Bad move by YT... Now people will just wait.

[S4VV4S]

Yeah, I think I am going to sleep too.
Too tired and my head hurts....

Goodnight bro

That is a wise idea. I should do the same, but well, school is preventing me to do so, hahaha.
Good night dude!

Different timezones bro.
It's passed 1AM here 

And really I didn't get much sleep lately.....

None the less, I wish you goodnight or good afternoon or good morning depending on where you are

[Mitchell]

Different timezones bro.
It's passed 1AM here  

And really I didn't get much sleep lately.....

None the less, I wish you goodnight or good afternoon or good morning depending on where you are

I live in The Netherlands and it is 00:41 over here (24 hour notation). Going to leave now as well, time to get some rest.

[etamine]

Go to sleep guys, not good for ya. I've been up 24 hours on it and I'm starting to see crap. I can't handle it as well as I could when I was in my teens D: Need to stay up 4 more hours to get back into proper schedule. @.@

[itod]

7/1

New hint will be released within 24 hrs

IMHO this means OP concluded she messed-up something, probably being slightly vague with 'Hint.jpg'. I think we concluded too few things from the 'Bit Sha' phrase and she is going to give us some hint what does it refer to. Actually, we concluded 0 things from it, with everybody concentrating on the 7:51 part. My gut feeling it has something to do with cryptography. If you look at the retrospect we had used no knowledge of cryptography, which is a bit odd for a Bitcoin-related puzzle.

[Baitty]

I think that we are missing something and thats might we are going to be getting a new hint.

[BTCINVESTOR]

Just wanted to say this is very cool. Love the idea.

[elh40257]

About first image. What if blue dot represents pattern inverse? For example, before it we grab all one color dots, and after it we must grab another color dots? What if stop word is not stop word? And are you see that if you mix up some colors?

[Prospero]

About first image. What if blue dot represents pattern inverse? For example, before it we grab all one color dots, and after it we must grab another color dots? What if stop word is not stop word? And are you see that if you mix up some colors?

See the OP's hints here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.msg7458387#msg7458387
The original image is probably not relevant at this point- it was the starting point and we've moved away from it. The current clue is the image clearly named Hint.jpg.

[elh40257]

About first image. What if blue dot represents pattern inverse? For example, before it we grab all one color dots, and after it we must grab another color dots? What if stop word is not stop word? And are you see that if you mix up some colors?

See the OP's hints here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=661781.msg7458387#msg7458387
The original image is probably not relevant at this point- it was the starting point and we've moved away from it. The current clue is the image clearly named Hint.jpg.

Thank you.

[mirth23]

IMHO this means OP concluded she messed-up something, probably being slightly vague with 'Hint.jpg'. I think we concluded too few things from the 'Bit Sha' phrase and she is going to give us some hint what does it refer to. Actually, we concluded 0 things from it, with everybody concentrating on the 7:51 part. My gut feeling it has something to do with cryptography. If you look at the retrospect we had used no knowledge of cryptography, which is a bit odd for a Bitcoin-related puzzle.

I don't think OP messed anything up. She only gave hints on the morse code section, which was correct but nobody figured it out for a while. We made steady progress from then until this step, and now that we're stuck here, it looks like a hint might be in order. Also, I suspect that a lot of the speculation going around about this step is totally off-base (e.g., anything having to do with Alice in Wonderland and the Matrix), so another hint will hopefully redirect us.

I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to this next step is something cryptographic, especially since "Sha" is in our data set, although we also ought to take a look at more exhaustive image analysis. As I've said before, CYMK and LAB colorspace analysis are both promising.

There's something geometrically recurring in the image itself. Do the following in PS or GIMP: duplicate the layer then set the top layer to "divide". It should go black. Then flip the upper layer horizontally, and you'll get a crazy fractalesque thing. Decomposing that into component colors gives you some channels that look like Balinese machine elves. Not quite sure what to do with this information, but it demonstrates that Hint.jpg's background isn't random, it's a mathematically generated repeating pattern.

Here's one that might be a little out there. Let's take the image size, which is a weird size: 799x1039. The product of this is 830161. If you take that as an RGB value 83, 01, 61, you end up with a puce color that's similar to the overall color of Hint.jpg if you let your eyes cross and go fuzzy.

[micaman]

On the bottom right corner there is some handwritten text. We can read "artist" and something a bit longer undeneath... can't figure it out.

[ooxtcoo]

if i watch all this pictures....




















now google for pictures like: "stone arch bridge art paint"

https://www.google.at/search?q=stone+bridge+art&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=22WzU7-yM8bLPfXAgPgI&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=709#q=stone+arch+bridge+art+paint&tbm=isch









so for me the picture looks like some stone bridge painted by some artist...
maybe the name of the artist of the picture sha(artist name) could by the key?


i was not able to find the right picture till now... but i have to sleep now... maybe someone have better ideas...
but seems nobody tought about the idea of some stone bridge art pictures or something simmilar...?


but maybe its not a bridge, maybe its just 3 big stones and some little stones but arround... some art like stonehange or something like that?
anyway.. i did not found any matching pictures till now.


i go to sleep now...

[davida]

now google for pictures like: "stone arch bridge art paint"

I think you have a point there...That seems like a likely possibility if the image needs folded.


Going way back here.... I never understood how the clue 'Contra' related the link bit.ly/mindthecraft  , can someone explain that one to me or is Contra still a clue?

Also continuing on the theme of confusion, I don't really get if the previous clues are still active, like should we keep other clues relating to minecraft and just the general old game clues active, or forget about them?

What about the minecraft riddle? Did it get solved?

[Gatekeeper]

not sure exactly what Contra meant but op stated in update: - Contra code has been solved.
so i think that part is done and dusted

[jc01480]

Look in the background.