The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE!

[Neantis]

Hello guys, let's do this, LEROYYYYYYYYY

I'm on the IRC channel (#barg on freenode), but I'm all alone, see you there !

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[redhondaxrm125]

Wow.
Is this still going on? That is a pretty big amount if you ask me. Imagine getting 4.87 bitcoins for free? Damn! That would be a hell lot of a fortune!ake me wonder who is really behind this.
But whoever he is, he's a damn generous guy. Lol.

But even if don't find it. I would really love to see someone finding it and exolaining how he did it. That would be so much fun to know.

[Neantis]

There is no trace about clues given back in 2015 by Coin_artist.

Looks like there was retweet about Base6 and Baconian Cipher but can't find the tweets from 2015.

Does anyone know if we have to look at the picture as a painting (no digital editing) or if we should look at it like a photo of the painting (could have been edited).

Could we solve the puzzle by only looking at the painting in a gallery for example ? (still having a computer to compute the base conversion, sha256 etc...)

Thx !

[itod]

Does anyone know if we have to look at the picture as a painting (no digital editing) or if we should look at it like a photo of the painting (could have been edited).

Could we solve the puzzle by only looking at the painting in a gallery for example ? (still having a computer to compute the base conversion, sha256 etc...)

Thx !

Good question. It' very likely some https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography is applied. In previous puzzle we even had files hidden within files, with different kinds of compression algorithms.

You shouldn't assume you can solve the riddle without looking into the file, but it is possible.

[smracer]

I think we are looking for a hex code. 

8 variations of the flames. $a,$b,$c,$d,$e,$f,$g,$h

Also I believe the heights of the non pattern flames are the second part of the hex.  They can be either (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7) short or (8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F) tall

$i = tall $a
$j = tall $b
$k = tall $c
etc...

Here are the flames in the order of the pattern.  inner top, inner right, inner bottom, etc...

$total = $b.$k.$q.$d.$h.$q.$a.$m.$q.$d.$n.$q.$d.$d.$q.$e.$c.$q.$f.$h.$q.$b.$e.$q.$e.$m.$q.$d.$k.$q.$h.$c.$q.$e.$m.$q.$b.$d.$q.$b.$i.
$q.$c.$i.$q.$b.$j.$q.$f.$j.$q.$g.$m.$q.$e.$l.$q.$h.$f.$q.$g.$k.$q.$d.$k.$q.$f.$o.$q.$e.$m.$q.$d.$b.$q.$d.$c.$q.$h.$d.
$q.$h.$d.$q.$e.$m.$q.$g.$c.$q.$a.$a.$q.$d.$f.$q.$f.$m.$q.$c.$l.$q.$d.$m.$q.$a.$p.$q.$h.$p.$q.$e.$p.$q.$f.$p.$q.$a.$o.$q.$d.$m.$q.$f.$n.$q.$b.$d.$q.$h.$m.$q.$g.$h.$q.$d.$o.$q.$d.$d.$q.$e.$m.$q.$b.$k.$q.$f.$d.$q.$g.$i.$q.$d.
$p.$q.$h.$a.$q.$g.$f.$q.$b.$b.$q.$e.$f.$q.$a.$j.$q.$b.$m.$q.$h.$m.$q.$e.$k.$q.$d.$d.$q.$h.$e.$q.$a.$a.$q.$a.$a.$q.$e.$k.$q.$f.$o.$q.$h.$b.$q.$g.$a.$q.$e.$p.$q.$a.$a.$q.$d.$m.$q.$g.$h.$q.$b.$p.$q.$e.$g.$q.$a.$k.$q.$h.$d;

The $q is just a space.

I also think we are looking for 6PR which are the first 3 letters in a password encrypted private key.  There also must be a primer in the flames as you have 36 flames not needed for the encrypted key.  I think these 18 letters (36 flames) either at the front or the back have written text to let you know you have solved the code or are at least getting close.

[TimtheYoutuber]

Would be amazing to get 4.87 BTC for free lol , I cant begin to fathom how this is even possible.

[Neantis]

Unless I'm wrong, something has changed here.

I remember that first 2 comments on page 28 were at the bottom of the page/thread, not the first of a new page.

Anyone edited/deleted a post ?

[Thatstinks]

Can it be solved, yes, will it, no.

Why? Unless you are willing to spend the time and money to buy out dated computers, software and travel the world you will not solve it. Oh and be a genius.

When you think about it the original value was never worth it, still isn't.

[Neantis]

Thank you game master for the high res picture !!!

https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/938483706607611907

This new tweet give us many information about the puzzle. We now have the answer to the following questions (as I see it).

# 1 The private key is only in the painting or also in the digital file ? There is nothing to extract from the digital file, all the information needed are inside the painting (because we have the .jpg and .tif version of the file). I spent time looking for the DCT coefficients histogram in the jpeg file which is useless, there was nothing strange but I wasn't 100% sure, now I have the answer.

# 2 I had the feeling that some text was hidden in the painting, for example, bottom right of the picture, in the jpeg file you can see a "2" in the Grec symbol. I also had the feeling that some text was hidden in a ray of light coming from the keyhole. Thanks to the .tif file I now know that there is no such text in the picture. The "2" is just a JPEG artifact and the text in the ray of light are just brush stroke. So to answer the question one person had on twitter, I don't think there were details we couldn't see in the .jpg file, just things we could overthink.

[LowRyder_]

Maybe flames is the *solution*. Look at them, maybe it is a binary layout, 0 or 1. On the left side of the picture you can see 3 leaves (outer chess ground, maybe they hide something e.g. next flames?)
We can notice *10* unique leaves per direction:

N - 10x red/green,
S - 10x yellow/violet:blue,
E - 10x red/violet:blue,
W - 7x red/green or yellow/green + 3 hiden under leaves.

[btctousd81]

this challenge looks amazing,  but its colorful ness makes it difficult for colorblind people, including myself.

are there any clues out there ?

[itod]

We can notice *10* unique leaves per direction:
...

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about with these unique leaves. Unique in what way?

[regisek]

Hello everyone, Polish site wykop.pl brought me here (it's like digg)

Great puzzle, although I enjoy painting I don't like way it is painted (it's very easy to make mistake trying to pull information from it).

We have to many unknows, maybe googling symbols will lead to something.

Flames: only reliable info is length, we don't know what values refer to colours (1 or 0).

I think 6 ribbons on key are important (011010 / 26 / 1a (A1?) )

Also what do you think about 1FLAMEN6 ? "1 flame in 6" (as in 1 flame in every 6) or "1 flame and 6" (which gives us 7)

Also we don't know in what direction read flames and which ones (upper, lower ?)

Does all helixes in corners matter or just only one (bottom left) ?

I also think that board size matters, because its odd (maybe we should focus on odd things)? I think not the number 63 is important (9x7) (or 9+7=16) but board indexes: A1 to I7

Hope it helps. I'd like to see someone solves it, I'm too stupid for it and have no time (2 kids at home ) but it's really interesting. In my opinion we are missing something really obvious which could push everyone on right track.

[krasisoft]

Let say the impossible happens and i found some private key.....how can i test it? I have installed Bitcoin Core5.7.1. How and where to put the private key? Step by step please. I'm new in criptocurency. Thank You.

[regisek]

If you get lucky, share solution afterwards

Simplest way is to create account on blockchain.info and then Settings -> Adressess -> Import bitcoin address. Then on main screen (dashboard) you choose send, put address of puzzle wallet in From and your wallet in To and... private key. If it is OK, you are good to go.
Good luck and let us know!

(I though I found a clue but it was useless )

Oh, by the way. Doesn't blue colour intrigue you? Chess, blue, maybe IBM Deep Blue ?

[JumboCactuar]

how do we know this hasn't been solved already?

someone manages to figure this out then realises the wallet is empty

[itod]

how do we know this hasn't been solved already?

someone manages to figure this out then realises the wallet is empty

Don't be so negative. Since you are newbie, try to find out more about Bitcoin. One of the BTC properties is that you can see the amount of the money any address holds, without knowing the private key for that address. Just go to any block explorer, as you can see in the OP, the reward for this puzzle is parked here: https://blockchain.info/address/1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd.

[regisek]

Hello again, I have few minutes (youngest is taking a nap ) [sorry for my English]

I was thinking about that 1FLAMEN6 and this is what I got:

I assume it means 1 flame in 6. We have 6 ribbons on key, they have pattern 011010. When we look at colourful flames outside chess board we notice that only reliable information is their length (1 for long, 0 for short). And now this is important, where I could get wrong, but I was searching for pattern 011010 among flames and I found only one! It's above dove on inner side (where the leaf is).
Now get this. In those 6 flames we have only 1 unique flame!!! Cool!
And... now we have two ways:

• One which I abandoned, that this flame represents value 6. Because its still tell us nothing (110 - to many options to learn anything).
• Second which I choose. This one unique flame (1 flame in 6) represent perfect 1 - all his attributes have value 1 - long, yellow outside and green inside. This could help in getting binary information from flames

Or maybe there is some other way. What do you think?

I think that we have to consider whole flame as information unit, which give us 2³ = 8 variants. We still don't know in which order read length and colours. Also we don't know the order of reading all flames. But in my opinion key is in them. Brute force isn't option (it's heavy, blunt and not elegant).

But! What about the whole board? This weird chess board must contain clues! I'm now focusing on this one (chess)

Let me know what do you think and is it making any sense? If I helped you somehow, please let know and if you get the bounty thanks to this, remember about tip

[Jarowit]

Hi there

I have just tried a little bit other way:

We have PIDGEON and PHOENIX -> symbols of LIFE.
We have CHESS -> as Garry Kasparov said "Life imitates chess".
We have BLUE stuff here -> G. Kasparov played versus Deep BLUE computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_versus_Garry_Kasparov

As we can see there's a lot of chess moves wrote in "algebraic notation". I tried some password combinations basing on moves from year 1996, game 1 and year 1997, game 6, taking into account chessboard shape (7x9) or marked blue region. Anyway, I'm not even sure what's proper form of the private password so... I'm just leaving it here  .

[regisek]

OK, I have to go to sleep (tomorrow is Monday, some of us don't sleep on bitcoins and have to go to work to make a living ) So I don't think I will be able to spend much time on it during week.

BUT I think now that each flame outside board is hex number, they are actually carring 4 bits of information:

length
outside colour
inside colour
and... inside / outside

and that gives us pretty hex number, used in private keys 

But... so what. I was trying to get some info from flames and nothing.

I know for sure, that we can't use flames as indexes to tiles of board, because too many of them are on tiles borders (I hate those brush strokes! ) you simply can't decide which way to go.
Also, it would be great if we know how to index tiles (9x7 but is it 0 to 9 and then A to F or is it 1 to 9 and A to G, or maybe 1 to 7 and A to I or... etc.) So little information!

Now I know why it is not solved for more than 2 years. I would really like to see it's solution, maybe we missed some clue (or it wasn't been given).