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

[white_[x]_rabbit]

Allow me to make some confusion, do not you think that leaves could be hearts?

In addition to chess, there is also a different game, what are the figures in the deck of cards? Are there hearts?

Have you tried to check which flames are real? In infrared or night-vision you can see them, you thought that some of the flames plus all the rest is the whole jigsaw puzzle?

You focused on one

It's a wonderland, nothing is like you see

[1715034922]

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[itod]

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Let's play a logic game on the whole creation process:
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Nice summary, so many things included and everything true except:

 c) any number of bits -> authors decide to make either fully random or keyword+random data that i supposed to be sha256-hashed to get 256bits private key. Optionally, it could be "Yari Shogi, The Phoenix and The Turtle" sha256-hashed N-times, where N number (at least 7bytes, so 7*8=56bits) is encoded somewhere on the painting, it would be crazy I know, but its not impossible (there is almost 0% chance that they did it:).

This is not possible. If 256-bit key is given by "1FLAME(N6)" address generator, and it is, there is no mathematical process to convert any number of bits to that exact key. So, not "almost 0% chance" but "0% chance" for this option.

One other possibility: Some people think that "swirly-squares on the corners", as you cal them, do not imply QR code, but indicate the directions in which flames have to be decoded. It sounds logical to me, but you can never be sure.

I must correct you, it is easily possible to make such key. Like I explained in my post, all you have to do is take some string, for example your name, "JohnDoe", sha256 it repeatedly, each time taking the hash as a "private key", then calculating a public key out of it, if the public starts with "1FLAMEN6", you succeeded. Save the number of hashes you had to do to get it, and thats your compressed "key". Make a painting related to yourself, encode that compressed key on it using some flames, done. How many times you would have to do the SHA256? Probably (58/2)*(58^6) times (on average, because 7 base58 and 50% chance). So no, there is no mathematical formula that would let you to calculate such key, but bruteforce it? Sure, same as with vanitygen tool.

For example, take your nick "itod", sha256 it 3620 times and you will get a private key 5KGJqWiaPWss3QDZHF9FBkmqc9HwzQnJ4VqtUP37uiaQgsFopJv for which there is a "cool" uncompressed public key: 1AAAxTtHStWdHg2pyDqHaw7oo6DKPbP3S1
So technically you could carry around "itod-3620" note that would be enough to unlock your cool-wallet. What I'm getting at is that there could be "TurtledovePhoenixHeartsInFlames-524324523254" note, so "TurtledovePhoenixHeartsInFlames" sha256*524324523254 that makes some priv key that ends up being public "1FLAMEN6" - but like I said I really doubt thats the case

Code:

itod-3620:  1AAAxTtHStWdHg2pyDqHaw7oo6DKPbP3S1 no-compr 5KGJqWiaPWss3QDZHF9FBkmqc9HwzQnJ4VqtUP37uiaQgsFopJv
itod-11117: 1KATM5B7DnJgzmCzrBfVz5QnGeuWsGLxb1 no-compr 5JQHoWH7YEkeesfXiTAWZScQSWkrgrVFT2onoLfr9XFvXKcNu5o
itod-13944: 1337DHC8YLRDn18DNWURtQgN6e4BzRCW3t no-compr 5JAbgYSwgFCB1fDiWWYcbSQa7ZaunWgqX4opGe46EB4TpwsjEXd
itod-16936: 1KATb1vWTc2nvVPzS29Ns7Rzhk7wwJNc4a no-compr 5HubVydGAKFrMeussx1z3koewuoFpimJJD1LnVb6pvtzorfkBX7
itod-21117: 13377uEyZchS7pfwFSXcbd9onezk1porD8 compr    5JP1VKdQvfiJq3b5djY5mq6AQvbCCanH8sB2GAMYqyY3px4UUjn
itod-21445: 1LQLcnQA9G2pEYkvjtBV37YB2ELk9UTKAT compr    5KMA9YXeH6njcaekF3Xnh7L6ecp3NBBeLoWRD575QzSY1Fjfspf -- 1LQL...KAT ? :D
itod-23977: 1FLMKkb4nC5GHg5tbffifobkN3ar7paCuj no-compr 5J8Y1J4i5mJvQeLzjJRd7UPiebb8w7UATQDVT58HtPrxquuvb2o
itod-25712: 1CATdDdNS4BnVrDr1xov8Yerz4S8VC7MvE no-compr 5JZTYkbbZFKzYbkb9zSLFKMtYHbFXCbPzANwrnFXxZqhUiiFjpy
itod-26907: 1234LQFb6pbAAE75zzzi85ve4hvWjHmCeW no-compr 5JdbM9esjUT6nHaxRLcVEAGUZHNq2Sr6FYao4AKquFYDpwFZjwq
itod-30753: 1LoLbZY61SBeAJBQEcY7JCxbpFDdyUPA6A compr    5J7eoNjciSYjnD891YYFuVZLEU5ygdFM15EqP7EJVhEbLztFvDm
itod-30847: 1KATAMG3jphTGjEziu3ZTfxh1SQsajFPN2 no-compr 5JSGbJSATH3A35a4Sj76gHiMFWotVuf6q39SkXDABV6bL94TCuP
itod-31054: 1BUXRXHPAXdQ28MfhjcY5J6gB4n5wbH5Xa no-compr 5KQwGmQaZHitoywpRwqL4LQtQsEBUJRPXWauriHLozdFKdbpqSy

etc.

crax0r, you are a genius. Never heard of this type of vanity address generation, and it can easily be the case. Now that I think about it, there's far more then "almost 0% chance" this is the way puzzle key is generated, knowing how previous puzzles worked and author's love for words it is likely she used this unusual kind of vanity address generation just to make it more interesting and harder then simply painting the key in the picture.

[darkgod5]

crax0r and itod, the problem with this theory is that since it will take around 8.7339E+11 keys to find a 1FLAMEN6 vanity address you're now looking for some way the author encoded a ridiculously large decimal number in the image.

[itod]

crax0r and itod, the problem with this theory is that since it will take around 8.7339E+11 keys to find a 1FLAMEN6 vanity address you're now looking for some way the author encoded a ridiculously large decimal number in the image.

8.7339E+11 in hex = CB5A19C780. Do you think similar ten digits number is so large? Until crax0r came with this theory everybody was looking for much, much larger number hidden in the picture.

[xMossx]

11) The artist begins the flame-paintwork. She had painted 200 flames but only 152 are needed, hence a bit over 40 are left "untouched". The 152-data-carrier-flames are clearly painted-over the original orange+white flames.
   a) Pro Inner to outer theory: I assume she didn't want to inner side look dull, hence every flame was painted-over. Next, when she moved to the outer-side, she more or less tried to leave equal number of unused flames on all outer-sides (about left=15,bottom=10,right=10,top=6). I assume she continued painting from the left side. Perhaps overshot the count initially (by skipping too many, 15), she later did 10 twice and finally only 6 at the top.
   b) Pro Outer to Inner theory: The Artist knew that the inner side has 98flames, so she left them for later. The paint-work was actually started from the outer top, she knew 152-98=54 flames had to be put on the outer side, so she left 6 flames on the outer top side, then 10 for right and bottom, finally being left with 15, had no other option but make the left-outer side the must dull, with 15 dull-flames against only 8-data carriers.

I think it is safe to assume she can count and that placement of the flames was more deliberate than the process you describe. It is a puzzle and was not likely thrown together haphazardly.

[feedo]

Allow me to make some confusion, do not you think that leaves could be hearts?

In addition to chess, there is also a different game, what are the figures in the deck of cards? Are there hearts?

Have you tried to check which flames are real? In infrared or night-vision you can see them, you thought that some of the flames plus all the rest is the whole jigsaw puzzle?

You focused on one

It's a wonderland, nothing is like you see

I see what you mean, but do you mean that real flame is IR flame or they are different, i was thinking that real flame is what we can see. and i found two IR flames which are small with white inner flame (in upper edge), the other IR flames without inner flames.

but i don't see the other game.. deck of cards?!

BTW i found some chinese letters inside the binary strings,, one of them 檵 which means: Loropetalum chinense... 流 Stream..  and even in the white image i see some chinese letters encoded the image file... maybe one of the developer is chinese   

[k3ym4s73r]

Might be interesting - the first 'flame-bits' up to the first leaf (from the top-left corner) are 0110110110 = 438 = 0x1b6 - a coincidence?

[white_[x]_rabbit]

Merry Christmas everyone! Do not miss the christmas by solving these puzzles, remember your loved ones, make this time happy.

https://i.imgur.com/NB5gfi0.gif

[regisek]

I don't see anything in it, I even don't know how we were supposed to get to this :/

Anyway I agree with you in one thing - Merry Christmas everyone, spend this time well!

[Thatstinks]

This reward does not match the time and expense in acquiring the tools needed. Couple that with the intelligence required and spending your time elsewhere if that person would gain you more. If you are not that intelligent, willing send more time than it is worth and buy several older computers/software, give up, you will find nothung with just your eyes.

[white_[x]_rabbit]

Eyes, some software and intelligence are enough. It was on Twitter, but what harm is it to show it one more time?

https://www.furtherfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/tcf.png

[Pan Troglodytes]

Might be interesting - the first 'flame-bits' up to the first leaf (from the top-left corner) are 0110110110 = 438 = 0x1b6 - a coincidence?

or it might be interesting that the last frames from the same row are 0010 = 2 = x2. A coincidence?

[kn0w0n3]

Eyes, some software and intelligence are enough. It was on Twitter, but what harm is it to show it one more time?

About the image in the photo: https://www.furtherfield.org/2c-e6-85-dc-0b-a7-9f-2c/

[feedo]

Eyes, some software and intelligence are enough. It was on Twitter, but what harm is it to show it one more time?

About the image in the photo: https://www.furtherfield.org/2c-e6-85-dc-0b-a7-9f-2c/

This is for Ethereum wallet, not bitcoin

An example private key

In Bitcoin, a private key is a 256-bit number, which can be represented one of several ways. Here is a private key in hexadecimal - 256 bits in hexadecimal is 32 bytes, or 64 characters in the range 0-9 or A-F.

E9873D79C6D87DC0FB6A5778633389F4453213303DA61F20BD67FC233AA33262

[dimouj]

Eyes, some software and intelligence are enough. It was on Twitter, but what harm is it to show it one more time?

https://www.furtherfield.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/tcf.png

About the image in the photo: https://www.furtherfield.org/2c-e6-85-dc-0b-a7-9f-2c/

This is for Ethereum wallet, not bitcoin

An example private key

In Bitcoin, a private key is a 256-bit number, which can be represented one of several ways. Here is a private key in hexadecimal - 256 bits in hexadecimal is 32 bytes, or 64 characters in the range 0-9 or A-F.

E9873D79C6D87DC0FB6A5778633389F4453213303DA61F20BD67FC233AA33262

Hey dont waste your time with rabbit he is a troll , he just draw lines on the puzzle image or say 4-5 random words and wastes our time.

Dont feed the troll .
(ONE OF THE RULES ACCORDING ARGS)
This is just my opinion

[kn0w0n3]

Eyes, some software and intelligence are enough. It was on Twitter, but what harm is it to show it one more time?

About the image in the photo: https://www.furtherfield.org/2c-e6-85-dc-0b-a7-9f-2c/

This is for Ethereum wallet, not bitcoin

An example private key

In Bitcoin, a private key is a 256-bit number, which can be represented one of several ways. Here is a private key in hexadecimal - 256 bits in hexadecimal is 32 bytes, or 64 characters in the range 0-9 or A-F.

E9873D79C6D87DC0FB6A5778633389F4453213303DA61F20BD67FC233AA33262

Umm.., you coulda just read the link I posted and seen that it is clearly not related. Also, the private key in the photo is not an eth key....

[feedo]

most of you guys if not all think that the Rabbit is troll, not only i disagree with you but now i am sure that he is one of those behind this puzzle.

34 pages here and many other groups talking about this puzzle but nothing interest me other than those few rabbit posts (now most of them deleted!)

i understand now that This puzzle is 100% impossible to solve without some clues and hints and that was for a clear reason so that coin-artist will become famous as long as this puzzle not solved and its btc value going up (there are 3 other guys behind this art but nobody mentions or remembers them).

maybe one of them decided that its time to give help and solve this puzzle (of course not coin artist because she hopes that no one could solve it for another 10 years)

[white_[x]_rabbit]

So thats another one of my troll list then...
The rabbit posts got deleted because I reported every single one of them. 50% of the conversation here is not about the puzzle anymore but people posting something about the rabbit.
Thats toxic!

By negating my information, you turn out to be a troll. On what basis do you deny information given by me? Pure feelings, right?

As for the posts, they were initially deleted by moderation, and then I removed myself.

[vishy]

Just started on this.

Not sure if this has been observed before... i need to catch up on this thread.

- objects / leaves - each have x number of leaves (or hearts) attached to them

key - 0 leaves the genesis block?
swan - 1 leaves
bishop - 2 leaves
knight - 4 leaves
dove - 8 leaves

- also we could be looking at mnemonics this time around?

- I also noticed a small arrow bottom right white corner

- Firing up photoshop to do some color adjustments to see if I can find a hidden layer of color coded clues

[regisek]

Hi, Merry Christmas everyone!

So, I'll try to summarize what we know.

First - I hope it's logical puzzle - that means clue A guessed properly leads to clue B and then C etc.

That in mind, we have few obvious clues.

1flamen6 - still unsolved (or I missed solution)
6 ribbons on key - we have lead that it means A1, which helps on naming chessboard tiles. From 01 to F9. Which could be good, but I have two problems with it. We don't have value 00 or any letter with 0, like D0. Second, if it would be encoded in hex, we have to visit one tile many times and what with repeated values like BB, CC, AA, etc. So in my opinion it's something, but not quite solid.
white rabbit visible on puzzle after rotating picture - that could show "proper" way of looking on picture. Also it is clue directing to Lewis Carroll

http://www.chessmaniac.com/lewis-carroll-and-chess/
We have White Queen (Alice?) and... Blue Knight, which is odd (in book there is Red Knight). Blue and Red are basic colours, won't get one from another (and negative of blue colour is orange). I think it's worth dig deeper.

White Queen and Blue Knight - don't know, look above

Dove and Phoenix - points to poem about turtle-dove and phoenix - solved. And that lines could direct to some sort of sums:

So they loved as love in twain
    Therefore they loved inasmuch as the love in two beings
Had the essence but in one;
    Had the substance and nature compounded into only one;
Two distincts, division none;
    Two separate birds, but inseparable and indistinguishable;
Number there in love was slain.
    Combined as one in love so extinguishing their separate selves.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
    Their hearts were separate, but not divided;
Distance, and no space was seen
    No range nor gap was there
'Twixt this turtle and his queen;
    Between the hearts of the Dove and his Phoenix;
But in them it were a wonder.
    However, their combination was a miracle.

colourful flames around - everyone agrees that they have pure binary information, but we don't know how to read them. 98 inner, 54 outer also 44 with no colour. Very hard to count colourless and sometimes I have trouble with determining height (especially of colourless)

red and blue chessboard tiles still unsolved

17 leaves also unsolved

swirls in corners - direction of flames reading ?


Soooo... it's not much. And we haven't figured out where to start (doesn't get to the point A which could lead to valid point B ) Or am I wrong? What do you think?