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A 3-Year-Old, $50k Bitcoin Puzzle Solved
- realPubkey 9y agoOr did the creator used his secret backup of the private-key to cash out?
- 45h34jh53k4j 9y agono, the finder person came forward and explained how they did it. was not a scam.
- Lev1a 9y ago>[...] the creator used his [...] >The puzzle centered on a painting created by @coin_artist >When @coin_artist saw [...], she knew the puzzle had finally been solved—almost three years after she created it. Just saying.
- chatmasta 9y agoNice story. I was expecting some sort of steganography in the actual bits of the image. Really cool how the author was able to encode binary in the actual content of the painting rather than the pixels themselves.
- glastra 9y agoDamn, I remember spending 3 or 4 hours on this some months ago. Apparently I had everything that was needed to get the key, except considering the width a variable... Upon closer inspection of the painting, I am still unable to decide whether some of the flames are actually wide or narrow.
- everdev 9y agoWith price fluctuations maybe we should start saying: "5BTC puzzle solved"
- smaps 9y agoAgreed, because it's only a $36,000 Bitcoin puzzle as of right now.
- loceng 9y agoIMHO all references to how much of a crypto-asset someone owns should be in reference to the total BTC (or the names of the smaller units), otherwise it's just feeding into purposeful misappropriation of the word currency.
- UncleEntity 9y agoI worked on this thing for about a month around Christmas time and apparently was sort of on the right track -- missed the width bit it seems. Kind of figured the key was a literal key and could throw enough python at it to get somewhere but unfortunately not the right somewhere.
- gmemstr 9y agoThis story reminds me a bit of Ready Player One, but on a much smaller scale.
- daredevil_kohai 9y agoIt's really good to see when someone say something like "told me in telegram chat". Looks like telegram is getting acceptance in spite of all those blames it is getting