Quote from: Traxo on May 04, 2018, 08:25:45 AM

Quote from: Thirdspace on May 04, 2018, 02:18:59 AM

I don't understand this puzzle. I opened the site and was presented an image on that page.
what are we supposed to do with that image? I don't see any peculiar part resembling private key
will there be any clue given after a few days?

My try, hopefully helps someone to get better ideas:

Clues:

Audio
Image
Colors

_Audio_ is looney tunes soundtrack (my guess LTO in lto.mp3 means Looney Tunes Opening)

reverse _Image_ search gives "mess with your brain"
http://cdn.emgn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Pictures-That-will-mess-with-your-brain-4.jpg

The Brain is Looney tunes character.

Bitcore _Color_ is pink.

Pinky and the Brain are looney tunes characters

Additional points:
If original image is Brain, and bitcore is Pinky, then given image on the puzzle site indeed represent Pinky and the Brain.
Also the original illusion image somewhat resembles looney tunes theme (circles around big circle in the middle):
http://www.belcourt.org/sm_files/LooneyTunesweb.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zIRDJLOJyw
Channel logo and name have "CC" - bitcore is on "cc" domain.

So I was thinking that private key would be found on secret url such as https://bitcore.cc/pinky-and-the-brain (or whatever is the password we have to find before private key),
however there are no indicators what url should look like, or even where to input password in case we find one (note I'm not talking about private key here).

(but since I'm stuck, I believe I'm on the wrong path, thus interpreted the clues wrong)

If Jon created the puzzle, assuming he is core dev then I presume he wasn't paying much attention to the image size, just get the puzzle done.
Thus huge image size is probably not a clue.
As well as other numbers such as mp3 length because they seem to lead nowhere.

Afair they claim puzzle difficulty is "medium",
thus I believe password (or private key) is not hidden in the file because not many people know how to use particular softwares for decrypting such clues.
After all we have audio file AND image file, thus much more work required (seeing that noone cracked it yet, I guess I'm correct about this).

Possible clues that lead me nowhere:

25BTX_ori.png - trippy image, what does "ori" mean?
res: 1000x1000
size: 2,2 MB (2156118 bytes)

audio length is 18 seconds

Javascript:
var colors = ["red", "orange", "yellow", "green", "blue", "indigo", "violet", "gray", "black"];
window.setInterval([...], 2000);

css:
transition: background-color 2.1s; //2.1 second transition

Porky is a pig, and pigs are pink.

I am afraid the puzzle is much more crypto cipher than logically looking for the path like you do. Don't forget that when you use binary view and load up the lto.mp3 file, looking on hexa decimal values translated to ASCII, you see at the beginning ID3.....vPRIV....PeakValue....PRIV.... That seems more like crypto cipher clue, right? I was thinking more like looking for some peak values of that .mp3 peak frequency spectogram or something like that... or maybe there is some tool to see some peak values of colours in the image? Just a thought...