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

[alphabetacanary]

I created an image out of the warp text.  Colors are arbitrary.

I'm not sure if the binary 118 betwen the 1st and 2nd DISABLE was mentioned already.  

[itod]

I'm not sure if the binary 118 betwen the 1st and 2nd DISABLE was mentioned already.  

More intriguing than that 1110110 are those dots between second and third DISABLE.

[luckyknc]

Nice! We can use some ideas for our project https://bitcoinstarter.com/projects/982 thanks!

[itod]

Regarding "0.3.19" and "DISABLE" in the picture, what's announced to be disabled in that version, in referenced Satoshi's last post on this forum, is "safe mode":

- Removed "safe mode" alerts
"safe mode" alerts was a temporary measure after the 0.3.9 overflow bug.  We can say all we want that users can just run with "-disablesafemode", but it's better just not to have it for the sake of appearances.  It was never intended as a long term feature.  Safe mode can still be triggered by seeing a longer (greater total PoW) invalid block chain.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2228.msg29479#msg29479

[goose20]

Some interesting reading of satoshi's earliest posts.

In one (a discussion with The Madhatter) he writes:
"I see, that would happen with multiple nodes using the same NAT or VPN or some ISP that funnels everyone through a few proxy servers.  I just committed a fix to SVN for this.  If it gets "433" name already in use (it was error 433, right?), it'll retry with a non-address random username".

Is the 4.33 btc bounty some how conected with this error 433 or are there clues in his discussions with The Madhatter?

[mirth23]

I'm not sure if the binary 118 betwen the 1st and 2nd DISABLE was mentioned already.  

ascii(118) => "v" ... perhaps for v0.3.19

More intriguing than that 1110110 are those dots between second and third DISABLE.

aren't those dots just the locations of the characters that turn into the sourceforge address?

[rock_collector]

I fixed the formatting of the ASCII, I see a face:

 
[/quote]

Nice!  The face can be viewed in two ways. As a profile, it looks like our friend Ramses from whiterabbit.mp4.

[shorena]

Since I am basically at the sidelines this time: Wow!

[RussHarben]

Is the 4.33 btc bounty some how conected with this error 433 or are there clues in his discussions with The Madhatter?

A clarification...the bounty in 1TLSNYAx5P6Yjie3cF97fZh9U4B5UZ7PF is currently 4.34734734 BTC.

RussHarben you are right, I've got it:

http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/

Also, I assume this was covered in the IRC channel last night, but can anyone explain how decoding the printer steganography dots led to finding http://www.whit3r4bbi7.com/warp?

[zonkism]

This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information.  I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

[RussHarben]

This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information.  I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

Right...that gets you this... https://i.imgur.com/aqPJDJB.png ...but how does that lead you to http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/ ?

[micaman]

This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information.  I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

Right...that gets you this... https://i.imgur.com/aqPJDJB.png ...but how does that lead you to http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/ ?

Add the first serial number to the url, http://whit3r4bbi7.com/428697, it will redirect to /warp/.

[RussHarben]

This will allow you to decode those dots into the printer serial number. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
This is a great way to encode information.  I have never seen it used in a puzzle before.

Right...that gets you this... https://i.imgur.com/aqPJDJB.png ...but how does that lead you to http://whit3r4bbi7.com/warp/ ?

Add the first serial number to the url, http://whit3r4bbi7.com/428697, it will redirect to /warp/.

Perfect, thank you.  I figured it had something to do with the serial number.

[frisco]

Perfect, thank you.  I figured it had something to do with the serial number.

Yup whiterabbit twitter hinted us about using the serial and the print hint appeared in the fruits with the server url.

[mirth23]

Perfect, thank you.  I figured it had something to do with the serial number.

Yup whiterabbit twitter hinted us about using the serial and the print hint appeared in the fruits with the server url.

What was the tweet? I didn't see it.

Incidentally, I am working on a document similar to what shorena did last time around. It's already to 11 pages, and I haven't even put in any of the jpegs/pngs yet.

[frisco]

Perfect, thank you.  I figured it had something to do with the serial number.

Yup whiterabbit twitter hinted us about using the serial and the print hint appeared in the fruits with the server url.

What was the tweet? I didn't see it.

Incidentally, I am working on a document similar to what shorena did last time around. It's already to 11 pages, and I haven't even put in any of the jpegs/pngs yet.

https://twitter.com/WHIT3R4BBI7 -> #GTIN -> Barcode/Serial...

[mirth23]

General working theory: we are looking for another whit3r4bbi7.com page, and need to use the capital letters in the poem to make a pointer.

here's what we have to work with:

Code:

SATLOFSHITNAKAMAATOGBOOFDBYEFRIENDBIWNF    [full string]
SAT O SHI NAKAM  TOG OO DBYEFRIEND         [hidden message]
   L F   T     AA   B  F          BIWNF    [extra letters]

Possible additions:
- O: missing from SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
- GET/GIVE: finish the trailing 'For' word in the poem
- a: there is an extra 'a' in mislead, based on the rhyme scheme
- k: ASCII value of the dangling 107 in the col 15 of DocuColor dots
- v: ascii value of the binary in the puzzle (might just be for v0.3.19)
- DISABLE (from the graphics)

it's generally accepted that 0.3.19 must point at the v0.3.19 of bitcoin, where disabling 'safe mode' is discussed. see more:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2228.0
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Changelog#0.3.19.5B22.5D
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/26744510/

Some possible words to add from 0.3.19:
DOS
SAFE MODE

Other random note: the timestamp in the DocuColor output is off by 8 hours from the time that the first Bitcoin block was mined. That might be some kind of hint to shift something by 8.

If anything, we have too much to work with rather than too little. A lot of us have been paying special attention to the short set of "extra" letters, looking for anagrams and applying ROT, but nobody's come up with anything yet as far as I'm aware.

[cryptoqueen]

Possible additions:
- O: missing from SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
- GET/GIVE: finish the trailing 'For' word in the poem
- a: there is an extra 'a' in mislead, based on the rhyme scheme

Satoshi Nakamato a clue about the false Satoshi?

This was the first article that came up when I searched "Nakamato." http://www.news.com.au/finance/small-business/who-is-sotashi-nakamato-the-founder-of-bitcoin/story-fn9evb64-1226768142364  

Tomaeto, Tomahto? Alternate universe Satoshi?

EDIT: What happened to the Satoshi hacker? Could this be related? That'd be so crazy if Satoshi had a hand in this...

[mirth23]

EDIT: What happened to the Satoshi hacker? Could this be related? That'd be so crazy if Satoshi had a hand in this...

That came up earlier in the thread and someone determined that the game started before Satoshi's email got hacked, so it's probably just happenstance.

[cryptoqueen]

EDIT: What happened to the Satoshi hacker? Could this be related? That'd be so crazy if Satoshi had a hand in this...

That came up earlier in the thread and someone determined that the game started before Satoshi's email got hacked, so it's probably just happenstance.

Unless some hacker was involved, doubt Satoshi would be directly involved. Then it's a matter of coordination. The hacker surfaced, and then just vanished? The warning and the hack were only 4 days apart. The warning came from the puzzle and then we had someone pretending to be Satoshi? I can't believe it'd simply be a coincidence.

EDIT: Wasn't the OP accused of being a hacker in the last game?
EDIT: OP twitter even says "1337 haxor" https://mobile.twitter.com/coin_artist