Re: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE!
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Are the hashes I used in the picture. Worth a try, but I don't think this will lead to anything. At least not with the transaction hashes.
Are the hashes I used in the picture. Worth a try, but I don't think this will lead to anything. At least not with the transaction hashes.
I think it's the other way around. You would get nothing by finding the transactions in the picture, transactions are already known. The idea would be to get hash in this manner from something that is drawn in the picture, and since the WIF private key format is basically a hash use it to collect the reward. Since his visualizations and hashes are mapped 1:1, and he generates them from hashes, one should in theory reverse his code and get the hash from visualizations. Lot's of work, but interesting possibility. I wounder what is the source of the info the author of the puzzle thank'd Rob Myers for his work and said "Hes one of the ones who 'Made this possible'". Is this true? Link somewhere?
Interesting idea. But I think you need to know exactly what piece of the picture has to be reversed to a hash. Every slightest piece of information will change the hash, so you even need to know the right angle and size of the figure you want to reverse to get a correct hash. Reversing itself won't be that hard.
On the other hand coin_artist's comment on Rob Myers doesn't necessarily mean that she used something he published to make this puzzle. Maybe they exchanged ideas or discussed possibile puzzle-solving-steps and she thanks him for his help. Or he wrote a special piece of code just for this puzzle which was never published.
Thanks again, I didn't get nothing useful, but it was worth trying, another searched path. If someone else wants to check it, now it's clear with your explanations.
It's always fun to see some new ideas in this thread and play around with them
