1BTC - Bitcoin Treasure Hunt - Can you crack the code? [competition now closed]

[Bardman]

Why are you using curly brackets and mentioning a 5 year-old-mathematician is beyond me Do you picture Tony Stark ?

Direct clues have been in curly brackets all along

Not worth a red cent then... just making a funny.

Less value than a bit coin?

I have no idea what this means

{its not worth more than a b} not worth more, must be less than.

http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/not+worth+a+red+cent.html

if something is not worth a red cent, it has no value.

Oh I see, look at post by astagarth who was on the right track

If a calculation is needed to be thrown in the bin, and a calculation by a 5 y.o. at that, would suggest some decimal number cause 5.y.o can't work out variables, how come there are letters after the 'binning'? Also letter 't' becomes a number at least at base-36.

you need to ask 4 the key, i guess that has to do with the letters after the "bining"

[1714911619]

1714911619

[steveturk]

If you don't ask 4 the key there will be no point in bining

[Racey]

Is this part of a clue Steve, Dont ask dont get, as they say.

it took almost two weeks to put together and test (without giving away the answer)

[steveturk]

Is this part of a clue Steve, Dont ask dont get, as they say.

it took almost two weeks to put together and test (without giving away the answer)

No this is not, I was just mentioning that it took the team 2 weeks to come up with and verify all the possible outcomes for the treasure hunt.

[AT101ET]

Can someone please post the 3 clues in one post? Thanks

[olcaytu2005]

i guess we need to find a same point between Alonzo Church, Alan Turing and Charles Babbage. We need a thing that it is related with them.

[steveturk]

Can someone please post the 3 clues in one post? Thanks

Which 3 clues are you referring to?

[steveturk]

i guess we need to find a same point between Alonzo Church, Alan Turing and Charles Babbage. We need a thing that it is related with them.

Just put them together

[olcaytu2005]

i guess we need to find a same point between Alonzo Church, Alan Turing and Charles Babbage. We need a thing that it is related with them.

Just put them together

rough-and-tumble 

[TGBEX]

Hurt our heads here at TGBEX trying to solve any of the clues, but know Steve put a lot of thought and effort into this and the bitcoin awaits the winner…

[AT101ET]

Can someone please post the 3 clues in one post? Thanks

Which 3 clues are you referring to?

Are there more than 3?
I'm confused...
I thought there were 3 clues that were meant to direct us to the 9 digit password.

[olcaytu2005]

" Dance like a butterfly, sting like a b "  clue 1
" you want the solution before you ask 4 the key and bin it" clue 2
" glad to see the you have managed to get alan turing, charles babbage and alonzo church working together on this" clue 3

and we have ;

AC 100
AT 001
CB 000

[locopao]

Just writing down some thoughts...

i guess we need to find a same point between Alonzo Church, Alan Turing and Charles Babbage. We need a thing that it is related with them.

Just put them together

Ok, so we have:

STEP 1 (puting them all together)

A(lonzo)C(hurch)A(lan)T(uring)C(harles)B(abbage)
=
ACATBC


STEP 2 (the key)

ask 4 the key probably means a substitution like the good old ciphers when you needed a key (4 in our case?)

so ACATCB would become EGEXGF

then we have some other elements like:

1) the numbers 001 000 100 (no idea if we have to use them though)
2) the "1BTC"
3) the 1BTCTGBEX (which is 9 characters by itself and could be the password)
4) We need one "B"
5) Most IMPORTANT: Order of the elements (coins) does not matter

and then in

STEP 3 we have to put everything in the "bin"

(trying to figure out what the bin means exactly)

[The Young Turk]

The deleted of my post was not scam dude.

I've posted it because of a clue.

0111011101101000011000010111010000100111011100110010000001110100011010000110010 1001000000110101101100101011110010010000001110011011101000110010101110110011001 0101110100011101010111001001101011001111110010000001100011011000010110111000100 0000111100101101111011101010010000001110000011011010010000001101101011001010010 000001110000011011000110010101100001011100110110010100111111

that's binary form of: "what's the key steveturk? can you pm me please?"

because of the clue: "" you want the solution before you ask 4 the key and bin it" clue 2"

[Racey]

The deleted of my post was not scam dude.

I've posted it because of a clue.

0111011101101000011000010111010000100111011100110010000001110100011010000110010 1001000000110101101100101011110010010000001110011011101000110010101110110011001 0101110100011101010111001001101011001111110010000001100011011000010110111000100 0000111100101101111011101010010000001110000011011010010000001101101011001010010 000001110000011011000110010101100001011100110110010100111111

that's binary form of: "what's the key steveturk? can you pm me please?"

because of the clue: "" you want the solution before you ask 4 the key and bin it" clue 2"

Just translated this

http://binarytranslator.com/

;�0������H�^H����.��Mg����you pm ���please?

[The Young Turk]

The deleted of my post was not scam dude.

I've posted it because of a clue.

0111011101101000011000010111010000100111011100110010000001110100011010000110010 1001000000110101101100101011110010010000001110011011101000110010101110110011001 0101110100011101010111001001101011001111110010000001100011011000010110111000100 0000111100101101111011101010010000001110000011011010010000001101101011001010010 000001110000011011000110010101100001011100110110010100111111

that's binary form of: "what's the key steveturk? can you pm me please?"

because of the clue: "" you want the solution before you ask 4 the key and bin it" clue 2"

Just translated this

http://binarytranslator.com/

;�0������H�^H����.��Mg����you pm ���please?

use this one; http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp

[Racey]

Text to binary AC AT CB

01000001 01000011 01000001 01010100 01000011 01000010

[locopao]

WHEN YOU HAVE ELIMINATED THE IMPOSSIBLE, WHATEVER REMAINS, HOWEVER IMPROBABLE, MUST BE THE TRUTH

so the password is....

BINARY100

 

[steveturk]

Here is an updated list of the wrong answers: http://pastebin.com/ntDatjH7

So what I am thinking about now is this:

The clue was "{you want the solution before you ask 4 the key and bin it}". So I think we should do something with the base-4 binary system.
The problem here is that a letter doesn't fit in.

Another problem is the calculation. Which calculation should we use? I am currently thinking about 100+001+000 = 101 or in binary 4+1+0=5 or in base-4 binary: 16+1+0=17. Also it isn't clear here how to use a letter.

Edit: steveturk, it is not that I don't trust you, but can you do this for me:
Put the answer with a random string of letters and numbers in sha-256, so we can check if this ended if you didn't change the outcome to let someone win.

I am already in a position to do that, changing the answer is impossible due to the clues already given, I thought of this, so have made provision in case someone can't get the answer and starts with the scam acusuations (for example, the 3 virtual coins was uploaded to tinypic in sequence in advance, in case someone thought I would change out the coins).

{glad to see the you have managed to get alan turing, charles babbage and alonzo church working together on this}

Try repeating this post out loud

[Racey]

you want the solution before you ask 4 the key and bin it

Gets me this hash string


1b49f28d08f9270ffb17204d5fefc62e46fef637c55c1db3ff820573bf7d36f9

Which get me these, I put them in a calc xorbin.com

vynevynej
gypydazeq
remyqyhev
numyqumer
paqatunum
gatasemeq
rymatuduh
qegajejub
qequnygut
murabupad