ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[micaman]

Come on guys let's keep it simple.
I will try to broadcast the double SHA of the key into space, let's hope someone answers...

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkycNvrpjCs

[Gatekeeper]

only thing that sticks out for me is
1ndx (index)
V0lP (voip)
and of course the Roahzpeny (Rose penny)

but as usual dead ends all around and no idea which direction to take. zzzz

[mirth23]

Ok, here's what we've got:

Code:

CHANNEL NUMBER, (TWO DIGITS, WRITTEN VERTICALLY).
z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

edit2: note that it's unclear if that's a O or 0 above; the two fonts are different so there's nothing to compare it against. I think it's most likely the letter O but the transformation below assumed it was a 0.

perhaps that means a transformation?

Code:

z9Zln6DnxoVMVl1eEUrIRazeyP
6JqJ821d7LEmOPzweCs7ohpn7

or perhaps a similar thing with just the digits?

Code:

68107
96717

zip codes in nebraska and hawaii?

edit: amusing factoid: if I convert that to GPS, it's in Siberia... I was all excited that it might be pointing at the Tunguska event, but upon closer inspection it's quite a ways off. Siberia a big place.

uhhm.

the fact that string is 51 characters was obviously compelling at first, but it's not in base58 so it's unclear how we'd shift it into a private bitcoin key. I've tried a couple approaches and always end up with some invalid characters, unless I start out by doing some weird transpositions that don't make a lot of sense.

edit3: it's also unclear what the next step is - there's no obvious thing to unzip, so does that mean we're almost done? even if that's the case, I am going to step away from the keys for a while.

edit4: managed to extract this hidden image!


...

ok, not really. zzz.

[arg]

edit3: it's also unclear what the next step is - there's no obvious thing to unzip, so does that mean we're almost done? even if that's the case, I am going to step away from the keys for a while.

The JPEG is too big for my liking.

[elh40257]

Damn son, what a fluke! hahahaha

To unlock Crops:

shax2 Wow! = 807779b76e88b7aa9abc84a126822f76c0f24a28b5eb2ea1baa435eb09f5c155

Sorry for a bit offtop, but have a newbie question, how to get this? First calculate hash of "Wow!" (without quotes), then hash result again? Lowercase or uppercase? Already tried this bash script (''sh scriptname.sh Wow!''):

Code:

echo -n "$1" | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | tr -d '\n' | openssl dgst -sha256

And this python code:

Code:

>>> a = hashlib.sha256()
>>> a.update("Wow!")
>>> a.hexdigest()
'4a7d6d3e8888a86b41c710f1d44c43d9ec7a4f97dce4f1ec3c0fb124ca0188de'
>>> a2 = hashlib.sha256()
>>> a2.update(a.digest())
>>> a2.hexdigest()
'15b46b4b87922f08d5cf6df20f900941953fb712df4bd2dda935f0b1f82b7cb9'

No matches. Look like all this time I do it wrong.

[Gatekeeper]

lol yeah , when i sha256 Wow! twice i get somthing different to the answer, so i'm intrigued to know what is the real answer because it doesn't seem like it was Wow!

[arg]

Code:

echo -n "$1" | openssl dgst -sha256 -binary | tr -d '\n' | openssl dgst -sha256

The first hash is into hex, then the second hash is of the hex not the binary.

[mirth23]

If you're trying to replicate the results, you should be hashing '6EQUJ5' not 'Wow!'.

[xELx]

THAT'S THE ONE. I've literally been sitting here trying to remember what the hell I put assuming that it was "Wow!". Sorry folks!

Thanks Mirth.

[xELx]

http://youtu.be/4JFmQNuG7AY?t=28s   

The Final Countdown

[elh40257]

Damn I'm slow... Thanks to you all.

[Denise520]

I was so confused about what SHA256 is.

[Izerian]

Damn I'm slow... Thanks to you all.

You're not the only one... "Wow!" as a literal can effectively piss off.

[Gatekeeper]

http://youtu.be/4JFmQNuG7AY?t=28s   

The Final Countdown

So we're obviously close to the end or even the clue we are stuck on is the end, being 51 chars it could be a priv key that is coded somehow. I'm totally stuck so good luck to whoever figures out the next part

[xELx]

Song removed from original post.

[micaman]

Song removed from original post.

I hate when she does that... why???

EDIT: Still no strange signals.

EDIT2: It can be another bitcoin address. I'll check it tomorrow if it hangs until there. GN & GL

[mirth23]

i'm working an angle, no data yet though.

edit: adding a prediction here, for posterity. zzz.

Code:

 md5: 8825d35a32fe23b7b26b2604b5928451

[Yemmster]

Two lines sepparate Wow.JPG from the original document.

CHANNEL NUMBER, (TWO DIGITS, WRITTEN VERTICALLY).
z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmV0lP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P

CHANNEL NUMBER, (TWO DIGITS, WRITTEN VERTICALLY),
00000000011111111112222222222333333333344444444445
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

[/s]


I'm Waay to slow today

[sha-256]

edit4: managed to extract this hidden image!

impressive, how did you do?

[Mitchell]

Damn, this puzzle is going crazy!

Shorena, your PDF file is nice, however you should try to make it more "one thing". There were a lot of stand alone sentences, which was pretty annoying for me. If you packed them together in one little story it would have been much better. Other then that, it was definitely a good read. I got mentioned ones and one of my posts is included, yeah