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

[xoro]

That article was a good read, but now I’m even more puzzled at the results I’ve got with a flawed (and somewhat convoluted) approach I’ve tried lately. Maybe it’s because I’m still a noob and just underestimated the likelihood of randomly finding anagrams that seemed to be related to the puzzle?

Anyway since my nonsense results still fascinate me, I thought I'd share them. (sorry for the wall of text and possible bad english; tldr at the end)

The first thing I’ve noticed in the flames was the ribbon pattern to the right of the keyhole in the innercolor stream (green/blue sequence), so I’ve decided to start at that position and translate the binary data (6 bits at a time) to a few different alphabets. While most streams still didn’t make sense the start of the length bits in base58 caught my attention which read ‚25MVP252525Vwnnngpn‘.
That ‚MVP‘ was only 2 letters off from ‚ORX‘ but since it’s base58 and that alphabet is missing some letters like capital O it could not be a Caesarian cipher also the end of the string didn’t make much sense either. Even as I was pretty sure that the ORX was likely just a coincidence I’ve decided to run it through Vigenere to see what key would be necessary for that output…. to my surprise the result was ‚YES‘….
After collecting my brain, wich got splattered across the room, I was back to thinking that this still has to be happenstance but just to be sure I’ve run the same algo on each of those streams from every starting position in both directions which gave me strings like „21SIHFTBY22JBDO“ - shift by? still could be random... end of that string does not make sense either again… but then I’ve found ‚YXEHPNIXO‘ (yx phoenix) in the outer flames length stream. Not only that but the starting position was also somewhat funny, as it was the beginning of a 19 bit long match with the inner flames length and the point where the outer flames go around the corner has also been signified by a leaf in the inner flames

https://i.imgur.com/goR7hi2.jpg

There have been a few more strings in the other streams which seemed to make somewhat sense at the time like ‚TBCNIYTRZSUDT‘ (try in btc dust z).

Something else that somewhat stood out to me, that I have not seen mentioned yet, are the numbers on the image: 1000 (dec 8) on the dove’s tail, 11110 (30) on the head of the phoenix and 111 (7) on his hand(?), 44 (also the startpositon of the ribbon pattern next to the keyhole) in the flames above the blue colored E (dec 14), 3E (62) at the base of the queen and of course the pattern from the ribbon 011010 (dec 26)
Except for the numbers on the phoenix all of those numbers are divisible by 6 if you subtract 2 from them.

While it was obviously the wrong approach it still was a lot of fun and the whole puzzle has blown my mind away more than once.

tldr: translating those flames (6 bits at a time) to base58 and applying Vigenere with key ‚YES‘ on the output results in some funny strings.

[1714863699]

1714863699

[1714863699]

1714863699

[YuTü.Co.in]

That article was a good read, but now I’m even more puzzled at the results I’ve got with a flawed (and somewhat convoluted) approach I’ve tried lately. Maybe it’s because I’m still a noob and just underestimated the likelihood of randomly finding anagrams that seemed to be related to the puzzle?

Anyway since my nonsense results still fascinate me, I thought I'd share them. (sorry for the wall of text and possible bad english; tldr at the end)

The first thing I’ve noticed in the flames was the ribbon pattern to the right of the keyhole in the innercolor stream (green/blue sequence), so I’ve decided to start at that position and translate the binary data (6 bits at a time) to a few different alphabets. While most streams still didn’t make sense the start of the length bits in base58 caught my attention which read ‚25MVP252525Vwnnngpn‘.
That ‚MVP‘ was only 2 letters off from ‚ORX‘ but since it’s base58 and that alphabet is missing some letters like capital O it could not be a Caesarian cipher also the end of the string didn’t make much sense either. Even as I was pretty sure that the ORX was likely just a coincidence I’ve decided to run it through Vigenere to see what key would be necessary for that output…. to my surprise the result was ‚YES‘….
After collecting my brain, wich got splattered across the room, I was back to thinking that this still has to be happenstance but just to be sure I’ve run the same algo on each of those streams from every starting position in both directions which gave me strings like „21SIHFTBY22JBDO“ - shift by? still could be random... end of that string does not make sense either again… but then I’ve found ‚YXEHPNIXO‘ (yx phoenix) in the outer flames length stream. Not only that but the starting position was also somewhat funny, as it was the beginning of a 19 bit long match with the inner flames length and the point where the outer flames go around the corner has also been signified by a leaf in the inner flames



There have been a few more strings in the other streams which seemed to make somewhat sense at the time like ‚TBCNIYTRZSUDT‘ (try in btc dust z).

Something else that somewhat stood out to me, that I have not seen mentioned yet, are the numbers on the image: 1000 (dec on the dove’s tail, 11110 (30) on the head of the phoenix and 111 (7) on his hand(?), 44 (also the startpositon of the ribbon pattern next to the keyhole) in the flames above the blue colored E (dec 14), 3E (62) at the base of the queen and of course the pattern from the ribbon 011010 (dec 26)
Except for the numbers on the phoenix all of those numbers are divisible by 6 if you subtract 2 from them.

While it was obviously the wrong approach it still was a lot of fun and the whole puzzle has blown my mind away more than once.

tldr: translating those flames (6 bits at a time) to base58 and applying Vigenere with key ‚YES‘ on the output results in some funny strings.

Well, nothing really happened on Dec. 14, 2017, except this --> https://blockchain.info/tx/90566d0c25472a26b349f1bd0729edc609bfe694a4907702c1fa019b3f746052 

[xoro]

Sorry that 'dec' was supposed to mean decimal

[YuTü.Co.in]

Sorry that 'dec' was supposed to mean decimal

Exactly - Dec[decimal point]14  

BTW, 12 (month) + 14 (day) = 26[full stop, not decimal point]

Dude, if you're not gonna think outside the box, at least keep the flaps closed, for the air conditioner is running. 

[a_dizzle]

In case anyone wanted to see how to solve it, I have written a python script using the solution posted here that decodes the flames.

https://github.com/ynohtna92/1FLAMEN6

You can test it here by copying and pasting the code into the online shell https://www.python.org/shell/

[RealOnTheMF]

First off, thanks to CoinArtist and Rob Myers. I had lots of fun and met many new friends! I will enjoy your future work.

2. crax0r figuring out that the pacemaker was just the artefact of the 0s on each second flame length xored by the key-string 011010
...
What crax0r had wrong was that the xoring by the key-string 011010 was not restricted to length only, but it went in a kind of circle throughout all bit streams, but it could be figured out as per the observation 4 and moreover one was able to see that in that way the 0x1x1x pacemaker was preserved too.

That was actually my work, but I was working with crax0r and others. We even figured out that the 0 is probably the MSB of the reassembled data... on Jan 2! Kind of kicking myself on that one, because we knew what it meant but didn't fully explore it. Kind of lost sight of it afterwards in favor of chasing down other possibilities.

https://i.imgur.com/1aaSJyF.png

You'll note that the keyfile message & code I posted was a distant variation of the actual solution. We tried both xor-ing the streams sequentially and reassembling all flame bits first. We were incredibly close in some of our attempts, as were many others. I actually had code that would've brute forced the actual solution, except we had excluded the blob data track. If we had included that track the search would've found the key. Beyond that, the biggest misstep for us was putting any stock whatsoever in the rest of the clues. It turns out that virtually everything in the puzzle was a red herring. Literally every clue, except the key, was completely pointless.

• 1FLAMEN6 - means nothing
• Phoenix, dove, knight, queen - nothing
• Chess board - nothing
• Leaves - NOTHING!
• Weird flames - nothing
• Mirrored bits - nothing
• Tweets from coinartist - nothing
• Spirals - mostly nothing (small indication of order)
• Poem by coinartist - nothing
• Blue squares - nothing
• Flames on chess board - nothing
• Phoenix spikes - nothing
• Dove tail - nothing
• Weird queen bottom - nothing
• Melting queen - nothing

Overall I'm a little disappointed in the solution. It appears there was no trail of clues or anything to lead you to the answer. You simply had to guess at how to decode it. Looking at the number of combinations to find the correct solution, assuming you knew that the puzzle was created like this: flame_split(xor(WIF+string,011010)) and making no assumptions about the path, direction, value of flames, or order of the flame bits, you get this:

• Order of bits - 4!
• Flame 1/0 value =  2*2*2*2
• Order of segments - 8!
• Direction of segments 2^8

Combinations: 3,963,617,280

And that's if you KNOW the solution method but make no other assumptions. It's not very surprising why it took 3 years to solve. Add the part where you don't know the actual solution, all the red herring clues and thousands of possible methods to encode a private key. That turns the number of combinations well into trillions. Without legitimate clues leading to the solution it seems kind of arbitrary.

Oh well, onto the next thing. Looks like everyone is working on neon district?

[smracer]

In case anyone wanted to see how to solve it, I have written a python script using the solution posted here that decodes the flames.

https://github.com/ynohtna92/1FLAMEN6

You can test it here by copying and pasting the code into the online shell https://www.python.org/shell/

Very nice.  I see flame 37 you have listed as fat.  If you put it as skinny it makes a space instead of a NULL character.  I'm guessing that was a a mistake in the painting?

[x2225963]

In case anyone wanted to see how to solve it, I have written a python script using the solution posted here that decodes the flames.

https://github.com/ynohtna92/1FLAMEN6

You can test it here by copying and pasting the code into the online shell https://www.python.org/shell/

Hi,

How did you interpret the width channel?
See post #1410 for my problem (also quoted below).

The flame width mentioned by smracer in previous post is one of the 4 flames I had trouble with.

In fact, now that I see the output of your code, I also had the very first flame wrong, for me it is narrow.

Hello,

I just read the solution article and even with it I had troubles finding the private key. Either there are mistakes in the flame width channel or I did not understand which part of the flame is supposed to be narrow or wide.

I bruteforced the message I found with random permutations until it contained a valid WIF private key. I had 4 bits which did not match in the flame width channel. Here are the 4 flames to which they correspond.

https://i.imgur.com/QH1aSpq.jpg

I've written next to them what they are supposed to be, but I had the opposite value in my dataset. Can someone please explain why these flames are supposed to be narrow/wide? Especially why the two top ones are supposed to be narrow? Isn't it the width of the inner color which matters?

EDIT: the wrong flames were circled in the first posted image

[smracer]

In case anyone wanted to see how to solve it, I have written a python script using the solution posted here that decodes the flames.

https://github.com/ynohtna92/1FLAMEN6

You can test it here by copying and pasting the code into the online shell https://www.python.org/shell/

Hi,

How did you interpret the width channel?
See post #1410 for my problem.
The flame width mentioned by smracer is one of the 4 flames I had trouble with.
In fact now that I see the output of your code, I also had the very first flame wrong, for me it is narrow.

I was counting the size of the inner flame 0 for skinny and 1 for fat.  I did have the same problem with flame #102.  I counted it as fat and it's needs to be skinny.

I had listed the other 2 correctly I believe.  Here are the data streams I posted before.

Here is the data I have from the flames.  The order is inner top/inner right/inner bottom/inner left/outer left/outer bottom/outer right/outer top.

Outer Color Yellow - 0  Outer Color Orange - 1   Inner Color Purple - 0  Inner Color Green - 1  Inner Color Skinny - 0 Inner Color Fat - 1 Short Flame - 0 Tall Flame- 1

Outer Color - 0001010100101101110010110000000010111011100011110000101011100001110001011111110 1011100111101001100101001101100110001111000110000101110101100011101110010
Inner Color -  0111001011010100001111000100100000100110111101001011111100110010001110011101010 1100001101111110001011011101000000000100111100000010110100100101101010111
Skinny Fat -   01001100001100011101011100011100001110001101011100010000111111000110011000100011010000011001001101001100011000101001011100111111110100111011011000111100
Tall Short -    0110110110100010110110110011110111110110110111110010100011100010110111110111110 1111100111001101101101101101000101101111100101000111100101100111001101100

[a_dizzle]

In case anyone wanted to see how to solve it, I have written a python script using the solution posted here that decodes the flames.

https://github.com/ynohtna92/1FLAMEN6

You can test it here by copying and pasting the code into the online shell https://www.python.org/shell/

Hi,

How did you interpret the width channel?
See post #1410 for my problem.
The flame width mentioned by smracer is one of the 4 flames I had trouble with.
In fact now that I see the output of your code, I also had the very first flame wrong, for me it is narrow.

I was counting the size of the inner flame 0 for skinny and 1 for fat.  I did have the same problem with flame #102.  I counted it as fat and it's needs to be skinny.

I had listed the other 2 correctly I believe.

Yeah the width is the inside flame (purple or green part). Sometimes it is hard to tell what is suppose to be so I just keep running the script trying different combinations till I got a valid private key address on the flames that looked in between.

[x2225963]

I was counting the size of the inner flame 0 for skinny and 1 for fat.  I did have the same problem with flame #102.  I counted it as fat and it's needs to be skinny.

I had listed the other 2 correctly I believe.

Thanks, so I guess we agree there are at least two mistakes in the width channel.
The two near the central horizontal line on this picture.

I was just surprised that everybody seemed to find back the correct message by reading the solution article but I had to bruteforce like crazy to find which bits to flip.

[cryptologyone]

Ouch, alphabetcanary provided the order, smracer provided the near-perfect data set https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000.msg28003100#msg28003100, and some others provided the method... these guys deserve some of the prize at least.

[YuTü.Co.in]

I was counting the size of the inner flame 0 for skinny and 1 for fat.  I did have the same problem with flame #102.  I counted it as fat and it's needs to be skinny.

I had listed the other 2 correctly I believe.

Thanks, so I guess we agree there are at least two mistakes in the width channel.
The two near the central horizontal line on this picture.

I was just surprised that everybody seemed to find back the correct message by reading the solution article but I had to bruteforce like crazy to find which bits to flip.

Given that, wouldn't the puzzle been impossible to solve unless by trial and error or a lucky guess?

@the artist: Perhaps consider selling limited addition giclée reproductions, numbered and signed. I'll admit that the piece is 634u71ful, especially when eloquently flamed framed.

Ouch, alphabetcanary provided the order, smracer provided the near-perfect data set https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000.msg28003100#msg28003100, and some others provided the method... these guys deserve some of the prize at least.

May I also suggest that if following through with the quality reproduction idea, split some of the profits with those mentioned above. Myself, I desire nothing. FWIW, my posts are not meant as trolling. I'm a white hat dude in this space, albeit my donkey, Hank, thinks he's a horse and ain't afraid to try to prove it each and every time we come across a mare in heat on the trail. "Hank, calm down. That ain't a mare." <note to self: at the end of the trail, Google to see if horses can be transgender>

[itod]

I was counting the size of the inner flame 0 for skinny and 1 for fat.  I did have the same problem with flame #102.  I counted it as fat and it's needs to be skinny.

I had listed the other 2 correctly I believe.  Here are the data streams I posted before.

Here is the data I have from the flames.  The order is inner top/inner right/inner bottom/inner left/outer left/outer bottom/outer right/outer top.

Outer Color Yellow - 0  Outer Color Orange - 1   Inner Color Purple - 0  Inner Color Green - 1  Inner Color Skinny - 0 Inner Color Fat - 1 Short Flame - 0 Tall Flame- 1

Outer Color - 0001010100101101110010110000000010111011100011110000101011100001110001011111110 1011100111101001100101001101100110001111000110000101110101100011101110010
Inner Color -  0111001011010100001111000100100000100110111101001011111100110010001110011101010 1100001101111110001011011101000000000100111100000010110100100101101010111
Skinny Fat -   01001100001100011101011100011100001110001101011100010000111111000110011000100011010000011001001101001100011000101001011100111111110100111011011000111100
Tall Short -    0110110110100010110110110011110111110110110111110010100011100010110111110111110 1111100111001101101101101101000101101111100101000111100101100111001101100

Those few errors are not important from this perspective, because once you get the string with few error characters:

Code:

B34u7y, truth, andrarity5K8HiK2TP874KWF8Vhxov7tbgbttniB2gxqxP8KMU9TwK8odA18

its' obvious that you are on the right track and have to look up for questionable bits.

In the hindsight, we new that the bitstreams are correlated from their distribution, but if I remember correctly vast majority of solvers decoded them separately for some reason. I know what the reason was in my case: I believed there is no skinny/fat bitstream. Enough to fail.

[nmtnbj]

• 1FLAMEN6 - means nothing
• Phoenix, dove, knight, queen - nothing
• Chess board - nothing
• Leaves - NOTHING!
• Weird flames - nothing
• Mirrored bits - nothing
• Tweets from coinartist - nothing
• Spirals - mostly nothing (small indication of order)
• Poem by coinartist - nothing
• Blue squares - nothing
• Flames on chess board - nothing
• Phoenix spikes - nothing
• Dove tail - nothing
• Weird queen bottom - nothing
• Melting queen - nothing

After i read the final solution.. i was shocked.. Was that really that easy?

I can't believe how i went wrong.. I was more than sure that the key is to find a right chess game which was visualized by the image.

I found game between Henry Edward Bird vs Joseph Henry Blackburne from 1886

And all suggested that it is it!

• The first player was called Bird
• The second player was called Blackburne
• The game was started with Bird Opening
• The game is quite famous and it has a dedicated name "Bird without a Nest" - there is no nest in the picture
• The game has 17 moves - number of leaves in the picture
• The key move in the game was to capture White Bishop with the Black Knight - the same as in the picture
• The above capture was taken on F2 squere - exactly as in the picture
• The final move in the game includes chess motive called Phoenix Attack
• Leaves suggested knight moves (L shape)

And please tell me, that it is nothing about this game ...

If i could improve the puzzle, i would encrypt information about how to assign bits value e.g. outer collor yellow = 0, skinny = 0, somewhere in the image, so that this solution wasn't only about a pure luck and juggling with countless permutation.

Nevertheless, congratulation to the winner.

[ytcoinartist]

I was counting the size of the inner flame 0 for skinny and 1 for fat.  I did have the same problem with flame #102.  I counted it as fat and it's needs to be skinny.

I had listed the other 2 correctly I believe.

Thanks, so I guess we agree there are at least two mistakes in the width channel.
The two near the central horizontal line on this picture.

I was just surprised that everybody seemed to find back the correct message by reading the solution article but I had to bruteforce like crazy to find which bits to flip.

Given that, wouldn't the puzzle been impossible to solve unless by trial and error or a lucky guess?

@the artist: Perhaps consider selling limited addition giclée reproductions, numbered and signed. I'll admit that the piece is 634u71ful, especially when eloquently flamed framed.

Ouch, alphabetcanary provided the order, smracer provided the near-perfect data set https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=766000.msg28003100#msg28003100, and some others provided the method... these guys deserve some of the prize at least.

May I also suggest that if following through with the quality reproduction idea, split some of the profits with those mentioned above. Myself, I desire nothing. FWIW, my posts are not meant as trolling. I'm a white hat dude in this space, albeit my donkey, Hank, thinks he's a horse and ain't afraid to try to prove it each and every time we come across a mare in heat on the trail. "Hank, calm down. That ain't a mare." <note to self: at the end of the trail, Google to see if horses can be transgender>

Anyone can print the image in any manner they wish. I've also said that if people wish to sell the image they may do so. I don't need percentage of sales. People can do this already with or without my permission because I released the high resolution tiff. Someone on twitter has already been selling prints -> https://twitter.com/coin_javis
 Image file: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1x6IgeIwK9AaXQoXhMzw9WH7Px-_Xt5U7

[feedo]

There is still one mystery which is bigger than the puzzle itself and no one solved it!
What is the relation between coin-artist and the white-x-rabbit? do they know each other?
why they went in a bad discussion and what coin-artist did? why she is angry from white-rabbit?
any why the rabbit said: "You know what you did. But one day you will fall over your leg" ?!!

That remains a big mystery here!

She knows what she did.

And it's not about SCAM.

The main thing is that she knows. You do not know what's going on and you want to receive information. She has behaved badly.

Moderators can confirm the specifications of my logins and distinguish them from these other accounts, I do not have a multi-account

I understand that you do not know what's going on. But she knows what she did.

But I know it, it's not my fault that someone asks questions. You know what you did. You really can not guess who I am?

You know what you did. But one day you will fall over your leg.

I think that one possibility for what happened between them, is that the white-x-rabbit is one of the original author of this puzzle, he was the first one to work with coin-artist to make this puzzle (there are 3 developers mentioned in coin-artist original post on twitter.

in his first post he put his address and asked us to donate in order for him to make puzzles in the future, this was a hint that he is in the business of making puzzles (developer, programmer...)

that author (white rabbit) decided to use both the flames and many elements in the image as part of the solution (including steganography), if you read his few posts you can get an idea
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1442276;sa=showPosts

it was clear that some kind of steganography was embedded there in the first place.
see for example this clue posted by the rabbit about (EA OEM 011)

Look now at my selection (red color)

(Marked very quickly)

But it's a curiosity. You managed to hit, even though the interpetation, think again

https://i.imgur.com/yR0ZXL7.jpg

it was clear that (big blue colored E) was supposed to be part of the solution as steganography.
and the yari cogi board and those pieces (queen+knight) was suggested by the rabbit as part of the solution besides many other symbols embedded in the image (17 leaves, The rabbit if you rotate the image, 1000 on the dove's tail, 11110 on the phoenix head, the mirrors, the blue tiles, 4 blocks in the corner) those were the rabbit ideas when he was working on the puzzle with coin-artist.
if you read his posts you can see his ideas for the puzzle.

But for a reason that we don't know they separated and coin-artist decided to complete that puzzle with another developer, and this way they decided to encode the key only in the flames!!
What a stupid idea!! only the flames and luck were needed to solve it and they called it a legend of satoshi nakamoto!! shame on you guys!

but i think they forced to do that because if they use all the image as part of the solution, then, in this case it would be easy for the rabbit to solve it.

so that rabbit decided to revenge in another way by trolling us here in this forum by his clues that were supposed to be as part of the solution!

and i think coin-artist read his posts and watched his trolling activity in the forum but didn't respond or warn us about him!, he also mentioned that he knows the authors and still no response from coin-artist!

both white rabbit and The silent coin-artist trolled the solvers in this puzzle, they both hold part of the responsibilty of what happened.

To the white-x-rabbit: please tell us the truth, what happened? what she did? why you were trolling us? is that was a revenge?

[ytcoinartist]

There is still one mystery which is bigger than the puzzle itself and no one solved it!
What is the relation between coin-artist and the white-x-rabbit? do they know each other?
why they went in a bad discussion and what coin-artist did? why she is angry from white-rabbit?
any why the rabbit said: "You know what you did. But one day you will fall over your leg" ?!!

That remains a big mystery here!

She knows what she did.

And it's not about SCAM.

The main thing is that she knows. You do not know what's going on and you want to receive information. She has behaved badly.

Moderators can confirm the specifications of my logins and distinguish them from these other accounts, I do not have a multi-account


I understand that you do not know what's going on. But she knows what she did.

But I know it, it's not my fault that someone asks questions. You know what you did. You really can not guess who I am?

You know what you did. But one day you will fall over your leg.

I think that one possibility for what happened between them, is that the white-x-rabbit is one of the original author of this puzzle, he was the first one to work with coin-artist to make this puzzle (there are 3 developers mentioned in coin-artist original post on twitter.

in his first post he put his address and asked us to donate in order for him to make puzzles in the future, this was a hint that he is in the business of making puzzles (developer, programmer...)

that author (white rabbit) decided to use both the flames and many elements in the image as part of the solution (including steganography), if you read his few posts you can get an idea
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1442276;sa=showPosts

it was clear that some kind of steganography was embedded there in the first place.
see for example this clue posted by the rabbit about (EA OEM 011)

Look now at my selection (red color)

(Marked very quickly)

But it's a curiosity. You managed to hit, even though the interpetation, think again

https://i.imgur.com/yR0ZXL7.jpg

it was clear that (big blue colored E) was supposed to be part of the solution as steganography.
and the yari cogi board and those pieces (queen+knight) was suggested by the rabbit as part of the solution besides many other symbols embedded in the image (17 leaves, The rabbit if you rotate the image, 1000 on the dove's tail, 11110 on the phoenix head, the mirrors, the blue tiles, 4 blocks in the corner) those were the rabbit ideas when he was working on the puzzle with coin-artist.
if you read his posts you can see his ideas for the puzzle.

But for a reason that we don't know they separated and coin-artist decided to complete that puzzle with another developer, and this way they decided to encode the key only in the flames!!
What a stupid idea!! only the flames and luck were needed to solve it and they called it a legend of satoshi nakamoto!! shame on you guys!

but i think they forced to do that because if they use all the image as part of the solution, then, in this case it would be easy for the rabbit to solve it.

so that rabbit decided to revenge in another way by trolling us here in this forum by his clues that were supposed to be as part of the solution!

and i think coin-artist read his posts and watched his trolling activity in the forum but didn't respond or warn us about him, he also that he knows the authors and still no response from coin-artist!

both white rabbit and The silent coin-artist trolled the solvers in this puzzle, they both hold part of the responsibilty of what happened.

To the white-x-rabbit: please tell us the truth, what happened? what she did? why you were trolling us? is that was a revenge?

STAHP.

[feedo]

• 1FLAMEN6 - means nothing
• Phoenix, dove, knight, queen - nothing
• Chess board - nothing
• Leaves - NOTHING!
• Weird flames - nothing
• Mirrored bits - nothing
• Tweets from coinartist - nothing
• Spirals - mostly nothing (small indication of order)
• Poem by coinartist - nothing
• Blue squares - nothing
• Flames on chess board - nothing
• Phoenix spikes - nothing
• Dove tail - nothing
• Weird queen bottom - nothing
• Melting queen - nothing

After i read the final solution.. i was shocked.. Was that really that easy?

I can't believe how i went wrong.. I was more than sure that the key is to find a right chess game which was visualized by the image.

I found game between Henry Edward Bird vs Joseph Henry Blackburne from 1886

And all suggested that it is it!

• The first player was called Bird
• The second player was called Blackburne
• The game was started with Bird Opening
• The game is quite famous and it has a dedicated name "Bird without a Nest" - there is no nest in the picture
• The game has 17 moves - number of leaves in the picture
• The key move in the game was to capture White Bishop with the Black Knight - the same as in the picture
• The above capture was taken on F2 squere - exactly as in the picture
• The final move in the game includes chess motive called Phoenix Attack
• Leaves suggested knight moves (L shape)

And please tell me, that it is nothing about this game ...

If i could improve the puzzle, i would encrypt information about how to assign bits value e.g. outer collor yellow = 0, skinny = 0, somewhere in the image, so that this solution wasn't only about a pure luck and juggling with countless permutation.

Nevertheless, congratulation to the winner.

Please read my post above, this was a big mystery in this troll.

[feedo]

STAHP.

after that all you say "STOP"?! you didn't reply, you are hiding the truth with that rubbit!
It is better for you to tell hurtful truths than to hide them.
After posting that solution, it was clear that this puzzle was a big Troll and a big Disapointment for all.
we want to know the TRUTH.
is Speaking Truth that Hurts?!