Re: The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato, FINAL STEP PUBLISHED.... 4.87 BTC GRAND PRIZE!
First off, thanks to CoinArtist and Rob Myers. I had lots of fun and met many new friends! I will enjoy your future work.
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Overall I'm a little disappointed in the solution. It appears there was no trail of clues or anything to lead you to the answer. You simply had to guess at how to decode it. Looking at the number of combinations to find the correct solution, assuming you knew that the puzzle was created like this: flame_split(xor(WIF+string,011010)) and making no assumptions about the path, direction, value of flames, or order of the flame bits, you get this:
Combinations: 3,963,617,280
And that's if you KNOW the solution method but make no other assumptions. It's not very surprising why it took 3 years to solve. Add the part where you don't know the actual solution, all the red herring clues and thousands of possible methods to encode a private key. That turns the number of combinations well into trillions. Without legitimate clues leading to the solution it seems kind of arbitrary.
Oh well, onto the next thing. Looks like everyone is working on neon district?
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- 1FLAMEN6 - means nothing
- Phoenix, dove, knight, queen - nothing
- Chess board - nothing
- Leaves - NOTHING!
- Weird flames - nothing
- Mirrored bits - nothing
- Tweets from coinartist - nothing
- Spirals - mostly nothing (small indication of order)
- Poem by coinartist - nothing
- Blue squares - nothing
- Flames on chess board - nothing
- Phoenix spikes - nothing
- Dove tail - nothing
- Weird queen bottom - nothing
- Melting queen - nothing
Overall I'm a little disappointed in the solution. It appears there was no trail of clues or anything to lead you to the answer. You simply had to guess at how to decode it. Looking at the number of combinations to find the correct solution, assuming you knew that the puzzle was created like this: flame_split(xor(WIF+string,011010)) and making no assumptions about the path, direction, value of flames, or order of the flame bits, you get this:
- Order of bits - 4!
- Flame 1/0 value = 2*2*2*2
- Order of segments - 8!
- Direction of segments 2^8
Combinations: 3,963,617,280
And that's if you KNOW the solution method but make no other assumptions. It's not very surprising why it took 3 years to solve. Add the part where you don't know the actual solution, all the red herring clues and thousands of possible methods to encode a private key. That turns the number of combinations well into trillions. Without legitimate clues leading to the solution it seems kind of arbitrary.
Oh well, onto the next thing. Looks like everyone is working on neon district?
Thank you for that summary, I feel the same after reading solution. And all those red herrings!!! So big troll! And how you can tell what is fat, what is skinny? Honestly, like I said before - idea was good but implementation not so. And I think it was meant no to be solve.
Also: answer to your question - after reading this, I gave up on Neon District. If the ytcoin artist created this it is not my type of puzzles. I love labirynths going from clue A to B and her puzzles seems to involve luck and brute force. No thank you.
I also learned that internet is full of trolls and you can't trust anyone except yourself. This is sooo sad
Also I'm sad that not the crax0r and the rest of the guys claimed the prize, their were so close and focusing on real stuff.
Well, it was fun and the begging and pain at the end (fu...ing trolls) but after reading this I am somehow relief, no way on Earth I could solve it. Time to move on to some serious and normal puzzles.