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

[dpc123]

Nice summary mirth23

I can't ignore the .1138 transaction going into 1TLSNYAx5P6Yjie3cF97fZh9U4B5UZ7PF (THX 1138 movie reference?).  Following that back hasn't yielded anything yet.  Maybe I'm just finding significance where there is none.  347 also makes me want to substitute 7 with 3 in a private address.  Not sure which one to try though.  Family is calling.  No more time to play.

[micaman]

Nothing to do with the puzzle, but also related, coming across this transaction I realize this can be a dangerous thing to do.

https://blockchain.info/tx/59bd7b2cff5da929581fc9fef31a2fba14508f1477e366befb1eb42a8810a000

Code:

<script>window.alert("If this were an actual exploit, your mywallet would be empty.")</script>

Please don't attack us...

[rock_collector]

In the original message, OP says "Take a W@@@lk with me" --

YTCoinArtist (OP) says in post #18: "As far as the twitter option: @@@ looks more like addresses in a row? Why not just say "w@lk with me,' if we were to look at twitter?"

Is it possible that "@@@" signifies a blockchain transaction that involves 3 parties, as in multisig? Even if this is a misguided suggestion, it's still an interesting exercise in exploring the blockchain. (One of the purposes of ARG's is to learn, right?)

Can someone tell me if this is what a multisig transaction looks like on blockchain.info?

https://blockchain.info/address/1GoNR15KUWkqTyZfKTDsKeEacjLqJYJW15   note the "Escrow" and 3 inputs

Scroll down to the tx on 8/13/2014. If you use blockchain.info's tree chart visualizer, here are the transactions that lead up to the multisig tx:

https://blockchain.info/tree/61562788  Click on the orange circles to see the chain of transactions that lead up to the tripartite 1GoNR15KUWkqTyZfKTDsKeEacjLqJYJW15 transaction.

You will notice in this tree chart that 1FoLLow is all over the place...

I still don't know at this point what we're looking for and what to focus on next.  But it has been fun to play around.

[shorena]

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Can someone tell me if this is what a multisig transaction looks like on blockchain.info?
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No they start with 3, e.g. 31oSGBBNrpCiENH3XMZpiP6GTC4tad4bMy (Dark Wallet devs)

[rock_collector]

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Can someone tell me if this is what a multisig transaction looks like on blockchain.info?
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No they start with 3, e.g. 31oSGBBNrpCiENH3XMZpiP6GTC4tad4bMy (Dark Wallet devs)

Thanks--I had no idea what multisig looked like on the blockchain

edit: now I see that the escrow transaction I reference above is a Counterparty transaction. "–CNTRPRTY" is even embedded in the output script. Cool.

[rock_collector]

If, like me, you're following the bitcoin addresses that have sent to the bounty address https://blockchain.info/address/1TLSNYAx5P6Yjie3cF97fZh9U4B5UZ7PF , don't bother with the last .2 and .02 amounts.
They were contributed: https://twitter.com/bitcoinmom/status/508480312750669825

Bounty total now is 3.33391001 BTC

[RCHumphrey]

I didn't make a single post in the last one but really enjoyed it as an observer.

As to this one I looked over the Twitter feeds in a bit of detail so I had a couple of thoughts, which are highly likely to be wrong, but that is part of the fun...

1)

347 is the number which keeps appearing everywhere. The #347 at the end of the posts could however be an allusion (in combination with Ghost Rider allusion from Top Gun) to an edition of a comic book, i.e. number 347. We know that coin_artist and the OP is nerdish in tendencies having used extensive game related puzzles before so a comic book seems credible.

Ghost Rider as a character is in #347 of Fantastic Four apparently. If anyone has a huge comic book collection may be worth checking through that for more clues...

2)

I can't find anyone mentioning the Matrix so I'll throw it out there, the white rabbit is quoted in the Matrix (used to awaken and enlighten people) by the character Trinity ==> TR3N47Y. I guess this is quite obvious but worth spelling out as the film has "Wake up, Neo.  The Matrix has you.  Follow the white rabbit." as such a memorable moment may as well mention it. Is this  hint to a mathematical Matrix ?

[rock_collector]

Interesting tweet by @N3v4Le7 (retweeted by @PO347) on July 29...

One minute after @PO347 tweets "Negative Ghost Rider the pattern is full...#347"

@N3v4Le7 tweets "Eight, six, seven, five #347"

https://twitter.com/N3v4Le7/status/494300587425804288

I found this explanation for what "Negative Ghost Rider the pattern is full" means:

"When aircraft are queuing up to land they fly around in some kind of well defined, circular pattern to avoid collisions. There are rules about minimum separation between planes so only so many can fit in the pattern before it's full.

The quote comes from the Movie "Top Gun" after the Tom Cruise character requests permission to fly by the [airfield's control] tower. The callsign for his aircraft was "Ghostrider" so the quote translates to:

No, you may not fly your aircraft past the control tower because there are many other aircraft nearby waiting to land."  http://www.answers.com/Q/What_does_negative_ghostrider_the_pattern_is_full_mean

[rock_collector]

There seems to be specific formatting embedded in this in the form of spaces (09 in hex), linefeeds (\n, 0a in hex) and tabs (20 in hex). Check out the following snippet:

Code:

                                      B58Check->Text           B58Check->Hex
18hJpcE7w51A7GpMU4QkVk1h5V6Ryj61XK - The rabbit has a seC   - 5468652072616262697420686173206120736543
1BRsa17vaULT26ZNViz1d4Fyjhxgfig77k - ret,                   - 7265742c09200920200920092009202020202020 	 	      
1qFZqzT8jEMPiaHap7qwop3UGrsMWetQ6  - \nLittle sound         - 092020202020200a4c6974746c6520736f756e64
13xGwVghnbk7A9ZSVq18Hk5WDgaqnVAwiU - does she make,         - 20646f657320736865206d616b652c2020092020
13vs11q9CG6FrhK8cqS7kguFXwkZb23Dut -                        - 2020092020202020202009202020202020200920
13vs11q9CG63KcwpwELwkWXUXTVwEd7TGb - \nShe keep             - 20200920202020092020200a536865206b656570
1BVjY5gqRgvUdnC5B4LULo5UeFKB9MiDcL - s it.                  - 732069742e200920090920200920202020092020
13vs7EUivYX1NvZ264ty3mvaXTz1ibLoiX - \n                     - 2020200920092020202009200a09200920200920
13vs7FtkimiJExAmyqw24Lj5FPaJsX4MmF -                        - 2020202020200920202020200920202020200920
13vs11q9CF8vhPzj2FBWdD2bzWDGRefBEN - \nThe sno              - 2020092020200920200920200a54686520736e6f
1BrtE1p8WFYqVPCKEUHZmbLsN72JAdpzQn - w falls in silence,    - 772066616c6c7320696e2073696c656e63652c20
13vs7FtkimiJExAmyrN6Ry1HXznWq3vudV -                        - 2020202020200920202020202009202020200920
1qFZqzT8jEZEsYCrjafP66wgLyivifLHa  - \nA s                  - 092020202020202009202020202020200a412073

I tried to extract the series of 20s and 09s that made up the padding to see if I could make it into binaries to find a hidden message but haven't had any luck with that so far. e.g,.:

Code:

18hJpcE7w51A7GpMU4QkVk1h5V6Ryj61XK - The rabbit has a seC   - 5468652072616262697420686173206120736543
1BRsa17vaULT26ZNViz1d4Fyjhxgfig77k - ret,                   - 7265742c09200920200920092009202020202020
1qFZqzT8jEMPiaHap7qwop3UGrsMWetQ6  - \nLittle sound         - 092020202020200a4c6974746c6520736f756e64

=> 0920092020092009200920202020202009202020202020
=> 101001010 100000010 00000 or 010110101 011111101 11111
=> nothing that translates cleanly into ASCII

It does seem strange that there's two different types of padding characters used seemingly arbitrarily and somewhat invisibly - a secret falling in silence with little sound?

Here's a complete binary representation of the padding for anyone else who wants to play with it (tabs=1, spaces=0).

Code:

The0rabbit0has0a0seCret,10100101010000001000000
Little0sound0does0she0make,001000010000000100000001000100001000
She0keeps0it.010110010000100000101000010
101001000000010000010000010001000100100
The0snow0falls0in0silence,0000000100000010000101000000010000000
A0sentRy0of0concealment,000000010001100001000000100000010000000
She0Yields0it.0100100100000100000010001000100
1100000001000000010000100000010100010000000
The0hunter0and0the0Prey,1000010001010000010000000100
Wounded0where0she0lay,0010010000001000000100010000001000000
She0seeks0iT.011000100000001000100001000011000000
001011000010000001001100010001000000
Enlightened0warriOr0don0the0armor00100000010000100000001000000010000
Crafted0in0her0honor010000001010000001000000010000110000000
You'll0need0it.0000001000000100000100000001000000100000001000100000
0000100100000110000100000100000001000101000000
There0is0hope0in0the0white,100100010000000100011
Look0to0the0rabbit,0the0axiom,10000000100101100000010
Who0reveals0it.00000100000001000000100010000100000001010000000
0000001000001000000010110000011000010000000
-0J.S.100001000010010000100001000000100000001000
1

@TR3N47Y is tweeting a screen shot of this post. Mirth23 and Micaman on the right track! https://twitter.com/TR3N47Y/status/509018960365232128

Also this: https://twitter.com/TR3N47Y/status/509020284196626432

And this: https://twitter.com/TR3N47Y/status/509021822600224768

[Darkstone2]

I guess there's a moorse code hidden in there somewhere.

The message and the weird padding wasn't that hard to find on my own, but i'm stuck what the padding means. It could be a cipher for something, and CRYPTO being it's key. That would explain the 'false satoshi' and 'white noise' part of the message.

[Damnyo]

You can win this faster working in McDonalds.

[Darkstone2]

I know. Working in McDonnald's isn't nearly as fun though 

[micaman]

I don't get why "they" retweet both my and Mirth23's posts... If Mirth23 is right about something in the spacing/padding, which it might be, why retweet my wrongly decoded message?

What i think about the 3 msgs:

Follow the white rabbit
- can't think of anything besides we should follow the 1WTR4Bt(...) which leads us to one of the tx's that hide the message.

Beware the false satoshi
- It could refer to the tx that hides a message, for not being a "real" bitcoin transaction;
- Something about Dorian (but, nothing pointing to this);
- Some "double-spend", some tx with an unreadable output address (but, nothing pointing to this);.

Lost in the white noise
- Could mean that Mirth23 is right about something hidden in the white spaces (noise);
- Could be sound related, like a song/sound file hidden in the blockchain.


Or they just retweeting active clues to "bump" the topic...

[TR3N47Y]

You can win this faster working in McDonalds.

Blue Pill.

I know. Working in McDonnald's isn't nearly as fun though  

Red Pill.

[TR3N47Y]

Lost in the white noise
- Could mean that Mirth23 is right about something hidden in the white spaces (noise);

[micaman]

Lost in the white noise
- Could mean that Mirth23 is right about something hidden in the white spaces (noise);

Well, way to go Mirth23!

[mirth23]

Lost in the white noise
- Could mean that Mirth23 is right about something hidden in the white spaces (noise);

Well, way to go Mirth23!

Thanks. I'm back from my move/various other things. I'll fiddle around some, I have some ideas. Morse is definitely one direction to check, although the structure didn't seem quite morse-like at first.

Also, given the clues we just got, I assume the "hope in the white" in the last verse applies to whitespace. So we need to reveal it with "the rabbit, the axiom".

[rock_collector]

I don't get why "they" retweet both my and Mirth23's posts... If Mirth23 is right about something in the spacing/padding, which it might be, why retweet my wrongly decoded message?

What i think about the 3 msgs:

Follow the white rabbit
- can't think of anything besides we should follow the 1WTR4Bt(...) which leads us to one of the tx's that hide the message.

Beware the false satoshi
- It could refer to the tx that hides a message, for not being a "real" bitcoin transaction;
- Something about Dorian (but, nothing pointing to this);
- Some "double-spend", some tx with an unreadable output address (but, nothing pointing to this);.

Lost in the white noise
- Could mean that Mirth23 is right about something hidden in the white spaces (noise);
- Could be sound related, like a song/sound file hidden in the blockchain.


Or they just retweeting active clues to "bump" the topic...

Could the "false satoshi" be a misleading "00000001" hidden in the code Mirth converted? To be disregarded in order to decipher the message in the padding?

[Darkstone2]

Good idea. It could be the the 'false satoshi' is actually an false bit. I've tried dropping the first bit of the data but no success.

I can at least verify that the padding does not contain a vigenere cipher with either 'rabbit', 'axiom', 'cipher' or 'white' as keyword with either 5, 6, 7 or 8-length bytes.

If anyone else wants to play with it here is the binary data hidden in the padding:

1010010101000000100000000100001000000010000000100010000100001011001000010000010 1000010101001000000010000010000010001000100100000000010000001000010100000001000 0000000000010001100001000000100000010000000010010010000010000001000100010011000 0000100000001000010000001010001000000010000100010100000100000001000010010000001 0000001000100000010000000110001000000010001000010000110000000010110000100000010 0110001000100000000100000010000100000001000000010000010000001010000001000000010 0001100000000000001000000100000100000001000000100000001000100000000010010000011 0000100000100000001000101000000100100010000000100011100000001001011000000100000 0100000001000000100010000100000001010000000000000100000100000001011000001100001 00000001000010000100100001000010000001000000010001

The binary data does not include the spaces that are part of the message. Tabs=1 spaces=0.

[rock_collector]

Another 1 btc added to the prize from this address: https://blockchain.info/address/1DsxvZfQJp26kU6ertifiRSpXUJJSCWycM

Total prize amount is 4.3btc   https://twitter.com/TR3N47Y/status/509172647847276544