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

[LordSonjai]

this is stupid. and you are nerds.

[zonkism]

It's OK.. We all float down here.....

[itod]

GAMES ARE FALSE.
RULES ARE BENT.
WHAT LIES BENEATH,
IS H3AVEN SENT.



Beneath the rabbit, as seen in the picture above and many other images from the gif is a Game of Life pattern called:
glider [pattern]
Mathuselah [pattern]
spaceship [pattern]
oscillator [pattern]
Conway [pattern]
R-pentomino [pattern]
rabbit [pattern]

Alas, the following list of passphrases http://pastebin.com/J8BzSJHA doesn't yeild to a warpwallet for two known bounty addresses, nor gives anything in OS/12 MCP console.

[alphabetacanary]

This is one of the images behind the bunny.  It depicts Charon crossing the river Styx by G. Doré

[itod]

The orangeish letters in the poem spell @WHITB3RI4B7 (a jumbling of WHIT3R4BBi7?)
The blueish letters spell $BEWARE.

Looking a bit closer at this again, I don't think blueish letters spell $BEWARE, just BEWARE, $ is not highlighted. Jumbled @WHITB3RI4B7 may hint @whit3r4bbi7.com if BEWARE@whit3r4bbi7.com is an e-mail salt for some warpwallet passphrase.


Also emphasizing punctuation with newline after the dot, not to miss some meaning in the poem:

THE LEGEND OF $ATOSHI N@KAMOTO

RIVERS COME, RIVERS GO.

WHEN SHE ARRIVES, YOU WILL KNOW.

GAMES ARE FALSE.

RULES ARE BENT.

WHAT LIES BENEATH, IS H3AVEN SENT.

NO TICKET HOME.

FOR CHARON, RIVERS COME, RIVERS GO.

THAT W4S LIFE, A GAME CREATED.

IF YOU LOSE YOURSELF, GODSPEED TO THE BELA7ED.

[micaman]

I believe there is something hiding in the sound of alpha and beta, but i can't figure it out.
As i'm NOT an experienced sound editor/analyzer, forgive any misused concept or description.

After extracting the sound from both videos to WAV format, and I checked their spectogram.

This is a print from the top used frequencies of alpha.
I find those top 3 lines pretty intriguing, as it does not start as soon as the others, and I really couldn't notice any sound added when it shows up.





This is a print from the lowest frequencies used by beta.
I couldn't get a clearer view of what I believe is some kind of message.




Both alpha and beta contain a LOT of white noise, but i can't make good use of it.
Maybe they decode each other...
Maybe they don't.

Maybe there's nothing there...

[kingscrown]

http://fuk.io/who-is-satoshi-nakamoto-the-truth/ also check this posted by me yesterday.pretty solid info why satoshi is nick shabo

[rock_collector]

Interesting, Micaman! I can't remember if the content of either alpha or beta mp4 moved us forward. OP put a lot of creativity into them, so it would be good to revisit.

Indeed, I think we have a lot of loose ends from earlier stages... [and I'm really intimidated by the Game of Life challenge ]

For one, did anyone find the private key to the QR code found in the Banksy notes https://blockchain.info/address/1BZ3wRijRMcZ5u85fkPUgtpX3gbqBSEvQJ )? 0.3 btc is still there, I'm assuming no one has claimed it.

What about that fuzzy (text?) image in the alpha video?

As a diversion, I tried to do something with the audible notes in the Philip Glass scores on both alpha and beta, thinking about both morse and binary (Glass has been keenly aware of the binary quality of his compositions http://www.thefader.com/2012/05/01/new-music-an-interview-with-philip-glass ). On beta, it just sounds like 101010101010 for 8 bars.  On alpha, the notes go 001 011 (or 110 100)  for, I think, 30 bars. I looked at his musical scores for notes. I got nowhere with this line of thought. Perhaps OP just wanted to use a binary-sounding score for the videos--clever!. Micaman's spectrograms may hold more promise.

I also played for a while with the 404 string f8bf41177a5f5e808a7ccb648b51080b031f15ca8018d91a576263d6cc626eb6  and the .gif string  c524c32c714f1ffbbdcffd76bb3dbd7e3abe012a11bb81f2c4936018a6fd2490   but all conversions led to valid private keys to addresses with 0 bitcoin. (an educational exercise nevertheless)

Itod: on my screen, I see various blue hues behind $ATOSHI FALSE B-E-W-A-R-E.

alphabetacanary: Good find. I love those Dore illustrations. And thanks for the 3-D bunny from the stereogram. Wonder if the 3-D indicates something going forward.

Charon was the ferryman in Greek myth and Dante's Divine Comedy, charged with transporting newly deceased souls across the rivers Styx and Acheron to the afterlife. In Dore, he is pictured beating those in the river who are delaying their journey.  OP: "if you lose yourself / Godspeed to the bela7ed"

Uh Oh, that's exactly what I've been doing...

[FableOfTheBees]

https://i.imgur.com/IId5FLN.gif

I'm very curious about this frame from the latest gif. Is there a message hiding here?

[itod]

Itod: on my screen, I see various blue hues behind $ATOSHI FALSE B-E-W-A-R-E.

There's a misunderstanding: I've said $ sign doesn't have blue hues behind like the rest of the letters have.

[itod]

I'm very curious about this frame from the latest gif. Is there a message hiding here?

Black & white squares are the only uniformly colored ones, the rest have (intentionally) different hues:

[RussHarben]

https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/514298659971018753

Please send warm thoughts coin_artist's way.  I figured if there is any group of people who can express how much she is appreciated, it's this one.

She is our whit3r4bbi7, and we have all been enriched by following her into wonderland.

[dagi]

and
https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/514321242502234112

"They look like strong hands. Don't they? I always thought that's what they were. The nothing pulled them right out of my hands. I failed."

Its a quotation from The NeverEnding Story http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088323/ (?)

[RussHarben]

I think we should leave interpretation aside for the moment and simply let her know she is in our thoughts.

[alphabetacanary]

At the center of frame 6, there is an image of what appears to be some sort of machine.  Table? Box?



Also, this frame's background image is another sketch but I can't find its source.



This could all be meaningless, of course....

[rock_collector]

Glad you posted, alphabetacanary. Same questions about those frames.

OP put an astounding amount of art, intelligence, heart, and soul into this puzzle. And it has been a wild ride so far. We can show her our support by continuing to follow the path, see how far we can go. We may eventually get stalled and need some hints. But we can most certainly wait for those, as long as it takes. There's no hurry. The fun is in the journey, not the destination.

[FableOfTheBees]

I'm very curious about this frame from the latest gif. Is there a message hiding here?

Black & white squares are the only uniformly colored ones, the rest have (intentionally) different hues:

https://i.imgur.com/3FGdT8U.png

Interesting...

https://i.imgur.com/7VWVKsq.png

Still not sure if I'm going in the right direction here...

[deephouse]

I'm very curious about this frame from the latest gif. Is there a message hiding here?

Black & white squares are the only uniformly colored ones, the rest have (intentionally) different hues:

I am on the move right now and accessing this via mobile. Maybe it's something's in Braille language.

[alphabetacanary]

I think I found something.

I added the signed short values in the beta audio stream (which apparently is different than just merging left/right into mono) and looked at the spectogram.



Bar code? I tried to clean it up but the left/right start/end bars are not present.  Not sure if its really a bar code or something else.  Maybe they represent numbers according to their relative widths?

You can hear a short 'shhh' sound before the music starts and that's what things would sound like if you are encoding information with audio.  

It also jives with the 'Bring it on' video that calls attention to 'stereo'.  

This is the code I used.  Perhaps its not doing the right thing.  I'll leave this to the community to explore (I have a job/family to attend to .

Code:

public class Reader {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        File f = new File("beta.pcm");
        FileInputStream is = new FileInputStream(f);
        DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(is);

        File out = new File("mono");
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(out);
        DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(fos);

        try {
            while (true) {
                short left = dis.readShort();
                short right = dis.readShort();

                dos.writeShort(left+right);
            }
        } catch (EOFException e) {

        }
        dos.close();
    }
}

This is how I extracted the audio from the file (which is in signed 16 bit stereo format):

Code:

mencoder beta.mp4 -of rawaudio -ovc copy -oac pcm -o audio.pcm

DISCLAIMER : This could be nothing....

[RussHarben]

Did anyone else notice the face in Frame 10 of the gif?

https://i.imgur.com/HP5onhg.png

I played around with the Game of Life a couple of days ago using this tool to try various changes to the game rules:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/.  My overall takeaway was that I could find no obviously "interesting" patterns that naturally emerge from the initial whiterabbit state using any combination of game rules that don't immediately explode into endless growth or immediately disappear.

Also, I think I have to discount the general idea that you can predictably identify a GoL input state that will lead to an "obvious" output state (like a QR code or other non-trivial design).  After doing some more reading, it appears that GoL is similar in many respects to a hash function in that it is computationally unfeasible to compute the input needed to produce a specific output, which is what you would have to do in order to create a puzzle where you were trying to generate a "designed" end state.  (See http://nbickford.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/reversing-the-game-of-life-for-fun-and-profit/ )

It seems clear that GoL is a key component of the puzzle.  I think that an alternate possibility is that "what lies beneath" the gif frames might reveal a key for encoding / decoding data into GoL cells, maybe using some form of coordinates.  Anyway that's my best guess for now.