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

[680cfbb909]

Here is my previous post #691
The quoted texts are from coin-artist twitter account.
i've smelt the scam.

https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/829061915695525888

I would like to point out that via this Twitter interaction on Feb 7, 2017, she said some people are REALLY close to a solution https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/829061915695525888

Hahahahhaa she is clever look what did she say:

there's too much money at stake to give hints :-p I hope it never gets solved.

some ppl are really close to a solution, so I don't want to aid THOSE ppl

as i expected and said before this puzzle made in such a way thats impossible to solve without hints because she wants to become famous, she knows that no one can solve it.

there's too much money at stake to give hints

thats not true because the value of the puzzle was only less than 2000$ in April 2014 so why she didn't give any hints that year?

I hope it never gets solved

yes i know because you want to become famous as long as nobody solves it and the prize value increases and everyone will talk about your unsolved puzzle.

some ppl are really close to a solution, so I don't want to aid THOSE ppl

 
ok its clear now why she doesn't want to give aid, but saying that some ppl are really close to a solution this is a big lie that only stupid followers believe it.  

Never seen someone triggered so Hard. The nerdrage is strong in you. Stop making posts without a Single proof but you're twisted reality.

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[chubbychew]

@ytcoinartist : Thanks for the puzzle. I learned a lot in a very short time. It's like crack cocaine for the curious.

[smracer]

It wasn't Narcelio

Narcélio Filho
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‏ @narcelio
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Me too! I'm eager to see the solution, while wiping my tears of envy. `:^(

[chubbychew]

Looks like the winner has started sharing: https://blockchain.info/address/15x25pXex9ZFUr4kAkTL9ayPCap7VLW8Vx

[narcelio]

https://twitter.com/DMOberhaus/status/959092485799727104

Motherboard journalist would like to talk to the solver, if they're interested!

"Someone solved the mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto, a 3 year old puzzle worth 5 BTC created by @coin_artist

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xwx7z/a-popular-bitcoin-puzzle-has-revealed-an-even-larger-mystery

If that was you, drop me a line: daniel.oberhaus@vice.com"

Congratilations for you Marguerite Christine (or coin-artist), you were able to scam those solvers for more than 3 years in order for you to become famous with those marketing tricks.

And now you've achieved what you want successfully by becoming a "FAMOUS SCAMMER"

If you have no proof you should stop this calumny.

Thank you! <3

There are many winners who have solved my puzzles and taken the prize, prizes of all different sizes. Give the winner a chance to publish a walk thru. I publish walk thrus by solvers consistently. Some solvers are known members of the bitcoin community. This guy has cracked three of my puzzles throughout the years: https://twitter.com/narcelio For past puzzle walk thrus written by solvers see: https://www.facebook.com/ytcoinartist/  

Thank you, coin_artist! I was following this thread since about 2015, when I found this puzzle for the first time and had lots of days of fun (well, sleepless nights, actually). I tryed a lot of things for this one but I'm certain that I couldn't even get near the right path. `:^)

But it doesn't matter at all, because I still learned a lot while walking those wrong paths and it helped me to solve those three other puzzles, besides teach me about Bitcoin, encoding and cryptography.

I'm looking forward to see the solution and the next puzzles!

[ytcoinartist]

Thank you! <3

There are many winners who have solved my puzzles and taken the prize, prizes of all different sizes. Give the winner a chance to publish a walk thru. I publish walk thrus by solvers consistently. Some solvers are known members of the bitcoin community. This guy has cracked three of my puzzles throughout the years: https://twitter.com/narcelio For past puzzle walk thrus written by solvers see: https://www.facebook.com/ytcoinartist/  

i am not talking about the other puzzles with small prizes like hundreds of $ value that been solved in few days.
This one is 5 BTC and it's been here for more than 3 years not solved and was nearly 100000$ in value, this puzzle obviously was for marketing reason so that coin-artist will become famous for nobody was able to solve her puzzle all that time and everybody over cryptocurrency business will speak about you.

even if someone posted the solution, you could easily create that false winner.

I've only had a couple short puzzles with prizes in the hundreds of dollars. If you look at the link, you'll see that prizes are almost always in the thousands. https://www.facebook.com/ytcoinartist/

[smracer]

I've only had a couple short puzzles with prizes in the hundreds of dollars. If you look at the link, you'll see that prizes are almost always in the thousands. https://www.facebook.com/ytcoinartist/

How long will you wait to hear from the solver before you reveal it?  It is driving me insane. 

I feel like this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om5rbtudzrg

[Pan Troglodytes]

I would like to congratulate the winner too!

(if there is a winner, that is)

Well, I am not sure if I should share this, but I have those doubts, it is eating me, and I and so many others invested so much our time in the puzzle, that it had better be cristal clear, and it seems not to be, so maybe I should drop it from my chest... and let others decide.

You see, the corresponding BCH address is not emptied: https://bitinfocharts.com/pl/bitcoin%20cash/address/1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd

But a winner technically savvy enough to solve THAT puzzle must of course realize that about 10% of the prize value is in BCH and about 1% in BTG. Protected by the same private key. The winner must have had a plan to get to all those addresses all at once, before the creators (who know the private key too) could withdraw the founds once they learn one of the addresses is emptied. I know, because it was my plan.

Only a person knowing that nobody else has the key could be reluctant and slow about removing the BCH funds.

So as I said: the situation seems not to be cristal clear. And with so much energy of everybody invested in this puzzle I thought I should share my doubts.

[alphabetacanary]

Congrats to the winner!  I'm looking forward to the walk-thru.

I can't understand the hate from some people.  The solution will be revealed proving that it was possible for anyone to solve it all this time.  I hope you don't infect others IRL with your self hatred, self loathing, blame everyone but yourself attitude.

Sheesh.  Taylor Swift was right....haters gonna hate ('cause that's all they know, I guess)

[TimtheYoutuber]

Hopefully we will see how it was solved. Really cool. 5 BTC is a very nice prize!

[OccaMocca]

 The flames consist of two parts of different meanings. Part1 are the flames on the outer border clockwise top to left, then inner left top down to the dove's tail. Part2 is the rest of the flame continuing on the way CCW to inner top. This obeys the size bit sequence of 0x1x1x.
 The six ribbons attached to the key handle define how to interpret the three bit attributes "inner width", "inner color", "outer color", given that they need to match the first to flames. There are only 2 possibilities, one being very counterintuitive.
 Interpret the part1 flames as 3-bit values indicating directions while creating a knight's path through the 9x7 board. Must start on white.
 Flame values are to be used as follows:
 - Define a starting point on a white field
 - Use a separate "dial" of the eight knight's target fields, number them 0-7 in CW fashion.
 - The first flame has value f1, so make a first move in direction f1.
 - Next flame value f2 must be used to select one of the remaining available directions (excluding blocked ones) - if f2 > the number of possibilities, round robin. Starting point for counting will be your last used direction. If doing it manually, a marker on the "dial" will help. Rinse and repeat.
 - For each pale flame passed for flame x, add one to its flame value.
 - Guess the right flames at the spaces where leaves point to empty spaces in the outer border (top outer, left inner).
 - Ignore the two flames pointed at (2x left outer). Ignore their preceding pale flames.
 - Eventually, paths evolve, but leaving three fields open. They can be completed unambiguously.
 Given a knight's path K, and a maeander path M, construct a mapping like:
   - If input integer s (in 0..63) is taken as the step s of K, it indicates a board field.
   - That field has a step number s_m on M.
   This is the mapping s -> s_m, K->M.
 Always do it twice (learning of the last riddle): Combine two mappings using two different maeander paths. This gives you K->M,K->M' / K->M,M'->K / M->K,K->M' (silly) / M->K,M'->K.
 Now interpret the part2 flames pair-wise, yielding 6 bit values of 0 - 62 (how convenient!). Map the values according to the mapping of choice, also counting the number of different leaves touched on the two transient board fields.
 Only take mappings into account that touch all 12 board leaves. When mapping the values, omit those which touch two leaves. The remaining base63 values are to be decoded into an integer or hex value. Keep those of length 32.
 Collect all those integers and xor them with the dbl_sha of a string concatenation of the very prominent objects in the center. No rabbit there for me. Two of the xored 32-byte values were PKs to "1FLAME..." addresses:
  1FLAMEXP5QJ4gghnDTLSTqRLeNCVovE9k6
  1FLAMEULgbZKFH6ve9N8AVg3wxpouwNHQc
 
 And that's how far I got - not far enough; not enough times to get all the bugs out of my 1000 lines of python; still too many assumptions, too many parameters spanning the solution space. After having invested ~250 hours since early December, disappointment is huge. The riddle has the fascinating quality of being obvious (once you "saw"), being ambiguous where it (probably) doesn't matter, being truly crypographic (the knight's path is beyond brute force for example). And its difficulty was very much in line with the reward.
 
 To me, the storyline of the puzzle authors revoking the reward because it had gotten far too valuable seems plausible. This forum (being my only lurking place) did not show any progress at all, so someone solving out of the blue? Being faster than me? Incontheivable :-)
 
 Be it as it may, the doubt will remain. As it will with all crypto"currencies", no matter how hard the cheerleaders wiggle.

[smracer]

Maybe they are waiting for their BCH and BTG wallets to resync after importing the private key before they release the solution.  I would.

[alphabetacanary]

Maybe they are waiting for their BCH and BTG wallets to resync after importing the private key before they release the solution.  I would.

That's what I was thinking too.

[Pan Troglodytes]

Maybe they are waiting for their BCH and BTG wallets to resync after importing the private key before they release the solution.  I would.

That's what I was thinking too.

well I had all tools prepared before I even started with that puzzle. But you may be right. The very fact that you yourself didn't have all the tools ready either is a very strong defence that all is legit, I definitely have to agree.

I just wanted to get my doubts out from my chest. I did. So there is nothing I would like to add here, for or against what I said. I am glad it is getting clarified.

[smracer]

Maybe they are waiting for their BCH and BTG wallets to resync after importing the private key before they release the solution.  I would.

That's what I was thinking too.

The BTG is still there as well.

http://btgexp.com/address/GYB5mMh3qgdUuq63QiXQcbYARojXUE3Pmx

[SanderM2]

what a coincidence!
right at the day BTC is going down very hard, and many people are (panick)selling.
at that exact day the 1FLAMEN6 puzzle got solved?

[sini]

Congratulations to who solved it! Now publish a solution I need to see how close I was.

[RealOnTheMF]

- For each pale flame passed for flame x, add one to its flame value.
 - Guess the right flames at the spaces where leaves point to empty spaces in the outer border (top outer, left inner).
 - Ignore the two flames pointed at (2x left outer). Ignore their preceding pale flames.

Too many fudge steps I think. You may have part of a solution, but many of those steps seems way too far fetched. Who knows, probably putting my foot in my mouth right before the solution gets posted. FYI, getting a "1FLAME" address doesn't indicate you were close to a solution, just random chance and likely the result of a brute force search. Changing one bit in the PK will result in an entirely different address.

[ghoom2]

https://btcdiv.com

0.79088785 BTC with 1FLAMEN6rq2BqMnkUmsJBqCGWdwgVKcegd

[OccaMocca]

@RealOnTheMF: Sure thing with the 1FLAME, but imagine my millisecond excitment when my (sloppy) success criterion activated...