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50 sats \ 10 replies \ @Scroogey 9 Mar \ parent \ on: Puzzle: There's 1 Million Sats In This Image bitcoin

Reading those from top to bottom and adding them to the address (URL) gives

https://schoolofbitcoin.com/$$_____007/

Clicking on the treasure box downloads a Keepass database file.

The text hints at secrets from the first three free lessons.

The secret from lesson one is abstract (see comment in this post).

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0 sats \ 9 replies \ @jasonb 9 Mar

So it looks like your original guess about needing to do the lessons was right then.

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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @jasonb 9 Mar

Oh wait, a DIFFERENT puzzle. This is deep.

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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Scroogey 9 Mar

It would have made sense to me if the passphrase for the .kdbx would have been froogsliKetoowearpink##1 from the lessons, but that isn't it.

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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @Scroogey 10 Mar

However, you can log in on https://proton.me/ as thepurplequeen54@proton.me with password froogsliKetoowearpinK##1 (I forgot to capitalize the second K).

But there's no obvious hint, besides the indication that the author expected someone to try this (playing Johnny)

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10 sats \ 4 replies \ @ch0k1 11 Mar

I am not able to login with the credentials from the lesson 3 (part 2).

Have you really been able to do it?

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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scroogey 11 Mar

Yes, briefly. Notified the puzzle author and asked if this was part of the puzzle. Left a link to this SN thread. They replied in #908967 and changed the password.