Puzzle: There's 1 Million Sats In This Image \ stacker news ~bitcoin

--.. . .-. --- -... --- -. . --.. . .-. --- --- -. . --.. . .-. --- / ..-. .. -. --. --.. / -.- -. . . / -.. .. -.. / ....- -.. / .- / -.. .-. . ... ... / ..--- --.. / .--. .-. .. . ...

translates to

ZEROBONEZEROONEZERO FINGZ KNEE DID 4D A DRESS 2Z PRIES

0b1010 is binary for decimal 10, so

10 things needed for the address to see prize

They want you to pay for ten lessons, so I guess it's all marketing to get buyers, and the prize cannot be claimed without buying lessons. If so, I don't consider it a nice puzzle.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 9 Mar

They say "hidden on this card is every clue" so I presume that's true.

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scroogey 9 Mar

I sat through the first lesson.

At the top-right (right of the Help button) there is a slide selector.

You can select a hidden extra slide at the bottom:

The slide plays a Rick-Roll video, and after a couple of seconds, there is an overlay of binary numbers:

You can copy the data with the HTML inspector.

Decoding it to ASCII characters gives:

"You found a clue to the hidden treasure of 1 FULL BITCOIN! :) abstract"

First seed word is abstract.

But this is a different prize?

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @bartoli 10 Mar

The real path to the slide is at the end of the video where nixon talks. There is a spider/bat that appears and you get there if you click on it

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 10 Mar

shhh.... dont tell... its a secret :)

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 13 Mar

I tried to follow the rules for building passphrases as used in the example

pick five words from (the image of) the card, lower-case, no blanks, nonsensical
double o's
upper-case k
add ##3 ('to protect bitcoin')

For example:

font knee to what black -> foontKneetoowhatblacK##3

Tried various combinations, no luck so far.

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 13 Mar

Here is a Python script to download all images from the server in full resolution to inspect locally.

I haven't found anything interesting in them so far, but they reveal the congratulation.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 9 Mar

This is way too much work

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @_Bubble_2009 9 Mar

It's very difficult. What attempts have you made?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT OP 9 Mar

I was trying to decode the blue font with the bip39 word list. I saw the yellow morse code on the other side and thought I should probably be doing more productive stuff with my time.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 9 Mar

Sounds fun.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 10 Mar

oh... and Jonny-Impersonator... well played :)

got your email... you do not require that account, but very cheeky :) nothing has been deleted. You are the first to have what you have... but will you be the first to claim the prize... ?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 10 Mar

Thank you for the confirmation!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 10 Mar

DM me in twitter and we can chat, id love to get your experience and feedback. @schoolofbitcoin

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 10 Mar

well well well... what a surprise to see :) its amazing to see you guys trying to figure it out :)

you have gotten further than anyone so far... and yet... the prize remain unclaimed :)

I am glad that you are enjoying this :) Good luck everyone!

Let the Games Begin :) M https://schoolofbitcoin.com/ Bitcoin education that everyone can understand.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Scroogey 18h

Added a passphrase generator and test script (requires KeePassXC) to the tools:

./phrases.py | ./brute.sh
you+hidden+cAn+solve
you+hidden+solve+cAn
solve+cAn+you+hidden
solve+cAn+hidden+you
...

There are 40 words on the card. The lesson suggests 9 rules (one cannot be followed, missing the birth-year).

Picking 4-5 words out of 40 and 2-3 rules out of 9 would take 7411 years to test.

If you pick only 4 words and use only the first two rules, it takes 89 days.

You can try your own hunches/ideas by modifying the word list or the rules in phrases.py.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @bartoli 12h

Slide 21 of 'what is bitcoin' has 7 seed words in the background of the video, but those are probably unrelated

I tried a script looping for combinations that start with abstract and end with those, but stopped after a while of not finding any combination where the last word would be a correct checksum of the rest

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 12h

You mean the aware, interest, consider, trial, satisfy on the pages sticking to the glass (reversed) in

but the sixth reads like loyalty to me, which isn't a BIP39 word?

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @OT OP 17h

https://github.com/gurnec/btcrecover

You might be able to speed up trying these possibilities using this software.

55 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 16h

It can generate passphrase candidates using more advanced rules. But it doesn't speed up the testing (about one try every five seconds) for the KeePass file.

But many of the words on the card are actually in the BIP39 word list. It's possible that the KeePass file does not contain the private key of the Bitcoin address. But instead further hints, required to build the seed phrase of BIP39 words. btcrecover can help check seed phrase candidates by comparing generated addresses with the prize address (which we know). You can also do this manually with e.g. Electrum (Create New Wallet, Standard wallet, I already have a seed, Options, BIP39 seed, enter candidate, Detect Existing Accounts).

The reason I think BIP39 is not out of the question is that the puzzle author has posted on X in the past about helping a friend recover a partial BIP39 seed phrase.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT OP 16h

It's out of my skill range. I just thought you could program it to test all possibilities of those words for the passphrase. Paying for GPU'S might speed up the process too. Or it might end up costing more than the prize...

Good luck, I'm impressed by your perseverance!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 13 Mar

Here's an analysis of the KeePass file. In short, it looks valid, if slightly large. Brute-forcing the password is futile.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 13 Mar

The X history contains the front side of the card

https://xcancel.com/schoolofbitcoin/status/1848344095095505242

Nothing interesting there.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scroogey 12 Mar

Has anyone found anything by zooming in on details, like the help text suggests?

How do you zoom in on desktop with Firefox? Ctrl-+ doesn't work.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @bartoli 13 Mar

On the cold wallets slide, there is a qr code that outputs the first part of something encoded in 'universal resources' format. But I couldn't find anywhere the second part

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 13 Mar

Yes, the same image can be seen on other sites:

https://www.bol.com/be/nl/p/foundation-passport-batch-2-signing-device-hardware-wallet-bitcoin/9300000134992408/

Picture 15 of 19 is identical.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 13 Mar

You mean the image of the Passport device?

I'd assume that's simply a press kit image from the vendor.

UR:BYTES/1-2/LPADAOCFADTYCYSAHNBKLKHDWDHKADTTKGCPJEIHKKJKJYJLJPIHCPFTCXKGCPIAJEIAIAHEKSJOKPIDCPFTCXCPKSJOKPIDENFXIEEYHTGDFEHSKTECESJSKOEEJEKPEEGTGTEYIYFGFDIYIOFYJOJPKSHKIOETEEECFWETGDFEFEJPHGJEEMGDHKGYIEGYJEIEIAHDJYFPGTFXGUETFEEHESHTJYJLENJLGYGMGDGOJTHGENGEFPISHKIHJTINIAJEJNFDGSGOEYGEKPGRJKGUFWHDGOIYEEESHDENFXKOEMJSGOKNIHCPDWCXCPKSJOKPIDCPFTCXCPKNJOKPIDENJPFDHTFPINHSGMFEGUFEJLIAIYESETIMEEKOFDECGMGOIOEYFPEMJEJSJTIYEMJYGEFYHTKSEYEYIEFLJEJKESIHIAFGJKFGKTKTIYETFDIYGOGOHKESFWESGDFXIEKOECIHEYJYGMKKIEEHIAJKJLBALNYNGH

That's page 1 of 2 from an animated QR code. I assume that's what their "Envoy" app reads.

Looks like base26, but decodes to binary gibberish:

00000000  49 e5 6c 34 a1 89 94 90  af 3d e6 1f f7 51 d4 87  |I.l4.....=...Q..|
00000010  0c 3b ba cd e3 15 72 89  6d 9d 1e e5 a4 96 d9 0b  |.;....r.m.......|
00000020  b4 40 a2 72 d9 8c fc 85  1e 68 22 99 c5 8b 14 60  |.@.r.....h"....`|
00000030  cd f7 87 1a 9f d6 e8 a6  f6 1c b6 b3 26 f1 10 cc  |............&...|
00000040  ff da d6 f7 88 30 db 6b  bc 59 9d 6b c8 86 8d e9  |.....0.k.Y.k....|
00000050  e2 56 41 14 d3 58 28 49  66 6a d3 16 c7 62 12 c7  |.VA..X(Ifj...b..|
00000060  99 3a 80 f7 e9 60 96 a2  f4 fc 1e b2 b3 d9 bf 68  |.:...`.........h|
00000070  54 db f0 f0 5a f2 9e cc  ed 4c 01 ad c9 cb 81 8c  |T...Z....L......|
00000080  18 9f 58 eb 92 7c 56 0b  e8 0e 9d 88 d4 57 f5 4c  |..X..|V......W.L|
00000090  39 36 ef 45 0c f0 54 22  c6 d8 51 05 13 e2 a5 c4  |96.E..T"..Q.....|
000000a0  f1 b8 3c f7 b0 2c 9e c9  91 30 a6 a2 85 15 b9 df  |..<..,...0......|
000000b0  19 6d 57 a0 36 a3 5e b0  c0 03 35 54 c3 3b d6 8b  |.mW.6.^...5T.;..|
000000c0  83 e4 cc 10 94 73 0e 96  de aa bf 87 ff 0f 0e 01  |.....s..........|
000000d0  52 5e 53 b9 a5 63 36 27  c2 38 a6 b2 6c 95 aa 63  |R^S..c6'.8..l..c|
000000e0  5a f6 75 7c a2 da 5a 79  d6 da e7 2f 5d 8e 7c 78  |Z.u|..Zy.../].|x|
000000f0  de 29 45 8f a6 87 ee 13  6e 6c 6e 51 91 ec d6 cf  |.)E.....nlnQ....|
00000100  a7 75 a5 52 3e de 3c 85  46 25 0e 59 74 d2 bf 7f  |.u.R>.<.F%.Yt...|
00000110  a1 3d bc 07 4d c2 4a d6  3d 31 7d 4e 68 83 e1 a0  |.=..M.J.=1}Nh...|
00000120  ee be 6c 36 ad e4 36                              |..l6..6|
00000127

It could be a key file for KeePass, in addition to the passphrase. But that's very far-fetched, IMO. :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @_Bubble_2009 12 Mar

Any news here??

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 10 Mar

I don’t have proof of work or time for this one, lol