ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize, Game Over

[Izerian]

i cant replicate ur search,plus how the fuck do i open these .img 7zip tells me: wrong command line

Literally just searched for zJZqlJnDndxoLVEMmVOlPzewEeUCrsIRoahzpenyP on bing.

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[LtPaxIV]

lol ok,even bing is fucked up.im in germany and bing didnt find any.i changed my country to united states and "bing" i got same findings as u did.(but the whole each country gets own searches is another story)

and how to open the files? i cant mount em 7zip doesnt like em either

[Izerian]

second link has a whole load of data at the end of the text too... I need a rabbit hole sniffer.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

There is one problem with online hashing, at least from personal experience, hashing is done on the ASCII, or on the binary. So I'm not sure if using online tools is good.

[Izerian]

There is one problem with online hashing, at least from personal experience, hashing is done on the ASCII, or on the binary. So I'm not sure if using online tools is good.

It was just a search on a string. No hashing. (My local sha256 method uses UTF8 and a {0:x2} string formatter, works fine in .Net)

[jc01480]

You guys are going to make me have more kittens, aren't you?  Wait long enough and the litter I just had will be grown with Facebook accounts and everything.  Seriously, I was pondering over this puzzle at work and came to the conclusion that a lot of you have.  Something with the crops picture is supposed to be included in or added to the wow picture.  As most, I think it is something obvious we are all missing (clearly).  It is Saturday night (here anyway) and you are all out enjoying the evening or sleeping.  Well deserved.  I've played with a few concatenation a and didn't come up with anything.  I did learn how to import a private key into Coinbase.  Tried a bunch and triggered some alarms with them I think.

I'll review some stuff and see if I can't help.  But I warn you know, the winner, whoever it be, gets the prize and a mother-trucking littler of kittens!  Non negotiable!  And if this drags out you'll get two!  Dammit!

But seriously, let's get this thing finished.

[Kprawn]

What is up with the "Long" "Lat" "Deg" in that picture?

You will need to know astronomy for this.

No. Astronomy deals with Right ascension/declination, not with latitude/longitude. Those would be earthly coordinates.

http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htm

It definitely mentioned galactic lat and long. all columns are explained here....
Thou shall check the source on all pages, and the source of clue's as well....  
(like I'm still trying to figure out the origins that leads to the ceasar shift of 100......)

Then I guess you have looked into where those coordinates points to into space? {Mayor constellations? or planets?}

People who are into Astronomy also use coordinates to point to objects in space with their telescopes. {Proof of work, if they find something}

One of my friends has a program, that simulates that, I will ask him tomorrow.   

[rgm108]

What is up with the "Long" "Lat" "Deg" in that picture?

You will need to know astronomy for this.

No. Astronomy deals with Right ascension/declination, not with latitude/longitude. Those would be earthly coordinates.

http://www.bigear.org/Wow30th/wow30th.htm

It definitely mentioned galactic lat and long. all columns are explained here....
Thou shall check the source on all pages, and the source of clue's as well....  
(like I'm still trying to figure out the origins that leads to the ceasar shift of 100......)

Then I guess you have looked into where those coordinates points to into space? {Mayor constellations? or planets?}

People who are into Astronomy also use coordinates to point to objects in space with their telescopes. {Proof of work, if they find something}

One of my friends has a program, that simulates that, I will ask him tomorrow.  

Wiki: The location of the signal in the constellation Sagittarius, near the Chi Sagittarii star group.
This region of the sky lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star group Chi Sagittarii, and about 3.5 degrees south of the plane of the ecliptic. Tau Sagittarii is the closest easily visible star.

[arg]

There is one problem with online hashing, at least from personal experience, hashing is done on the ASCII, or on the binary. So I'm not sure if using online tools is good.

In this case the OP used ASCII mode for a all hashes, it messed me up for ages until I realised what was going on. I've pretty much given up at this point. There's no fun in writing endless permutations of python scripts that shuffle letters around, hashes them, tries to decode them as private keys, and fails time and time again. Whatever the puzzle is designed to do is nothing that I can come up with, nor my partner, nor anybody else it seems.

@shorena  sieht aus als ob du deutsch kannst,ich kann nicht immer genau das was ich meine in english ausdrücken,wär cool wenn man sich mal austauschen könnt und dann das ganze hier in english posted

https://i.imgur.com/h1vUrNt.jpg

Sorry, had to

[mirth23]

I'm taking a few hours away from this and hope to help progress when I come back with fresh eyes. I think that we know what the key is and that we just need to understand how to read it.

[protokol]

Yeah this is doing my head in, been trying a lot of character shift stuff with no luck...

I noticed that there are the same number of letters in "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P" as there are numbers in the downward column in Wow.jpg (41 characters). So I've been shifting the letters up/down by the corresponding number in the downward column, as per "0=0 A=10 BABYA=36".

eg, the first one I tried was a downshift (the final countdown?), so "z" shifts down 2 characters and becomes "1", J shifts down 7 chars and becomes "Q" etc:

Code:

z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P (original)
z--JZqlJn---D-ndx-oLVEMmVOlP-zewEeUCrSI-Roahzpeny-P (characters 0-9 removed)
2--791357---9-135-7913579135-7913579135-791357902-4 (corresponding numbers in downward column)

169QiroOu862M1og27vuWHRtePoU17nxHjbLsVN7Yxbk3wnn17T (letters shifted downwards by corresponding number, original characters 0-9 replaced)

I couldn't get anywhere with this, tried various hashing and private key generation tools. I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I like how this approach incorporates all 3 clues (the 0=0/A=10/a=36 code, plus the header and the column from Wow.jpg).

[arg]

Yeah this is doing my head in, been trying a lot of character shift stuff with no luck...

I noticed that there are the same number of letters in "z69JZqlJn862D1ndx7oLVEMmVOlP1zewEeUCrsI7Roahzpeny7P" as there are numbers in the downward column in Wow.jpg (41 characters).

There's 51 characters in the top string.

[protokol]

Sorry didn't explain very well, there are 51 total characters, 10 of which are numbers 0-9, the remaining 41 are letters.

[jc01480]

How about a character shift of only 30?  Didn't the SETI article indicate that the Wow signal was only a 30 (unknow unit of measure) deviation from the standard background noise at its highest point?  May not have anything to do with it, who knows.

[arg]

How about a character shift of only 30?  Didn't the SETI article indicate that the Wow signal was only a 30 (unknow unit of measure) deviation from the standard background noise at its highest point?  May not have anything to do with it, who knows.

Nope.

Code:

Tadn3KFnHcaWhVH7RbIpziqGzsFtVT8Qi8ygLMmbvI4BTJ8HSbt
Vcfp5MHpJecYjXJ9TdKr1ksI1uHvXVASkA0iNOodxK6DVLAJUdv

[ooxtcoo]

How about a character shift of only 30?  Didn't the SETI article indicate that the Wow signal was only a 30 (unknow unit of measure) deviation from the standard background noise at its highest point?  May not have anything to do with it, who knows.

U=30 and that was only the highest measured signal (30 time of normal deep space noise).

that dont mean it isnt more after 30...



another idea is: CHANEL NUMBER (2 digit VERTICALY)

here it means the first colum (verticaly), but since we only have 1 digit veticaly, maybe we need to find the 2nd colum?
and in original there are two, which build up the channel number!

[Gatekeeper]

OP posted


- 6EQUJ5

- No sha or hash needed

[Mitchell]

6EQUJ5 is a reference to the Wow! code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Maybe we need to do something with 6EQUJ5 and the code we extracted. Shifting it using those numbers or something. No idea, brain is dead.

OP posted

- 6EQUJ5
- No sha or hash needed

Confirmed. I saw it too

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

6EQUJ5 is a reference to the Wow! code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal
Maybe we need to do something with 6EQUJ5 and the code we extracted. Just don't know how.

OP posted

- 6EQUJ5
- No sha or hash needed

Confirmed. I saw it too

[S4VV4S]

0 = 0A = 10BABYA = 36WOW?

On the original image....
0 is the starting point, 0 = A, capital a, 10 characters is a baby a (cute )
Above that there is also the letters 3 6 w o w.......
Wonder what that means....