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Re: == 2024 Bitcoin halving tribute puzzle - Challenge to win 10,000,000 sats! ==
by
Ginux
on 19/04/2024, 19:39:09 UTC
I appreciate your effort, but frequency analysis won't work well here because this isn't a simple Caesar Cipher, and also, since this seed phrase satisfies BIP39, there shouldn't be words outside of BIP39's seed words list.

To solve the puzzle and derive the substitution rule for converting plaintext to ciphertext based on the given plaintext (seed phrase S1) and ciphertext (C1), we'll follow the steps outlined earlier:

Analyze Letter Frequencies:
Count the frequency of each character in the ciphertext C1:
yaml

Character: Frequency
U: 1, R: 1, Y: 2, w: 3, L: 1, E: 7, ~: 3, T: 4, 1: 1, A: 1, &: 2, f: 1, 4: 2, Q: 2, n: 1, v: 1, H: 1, J: 2, Y: 1, r: 1, 5: 1, 4: 1, w: 1, C: 1, 2: 1, >: 1, l: 1, &: 1, K: 1, I: 1

...

treat53 teeth recentS tests the<on teeth setupwD teNteA [length< teeatf
This partial plaintext seems to be coherent and contains meaningful words. We can assume that our mappings are correct.

The complete plaintext S2 derived from ciphertext C2 is:

treat teeth recent tests then teeth setup with length test
So, the solution to the puzzle is:

S1: arena brisk seminar tool risk cat despair repeat seat property cattle later
S2: treat teeth recent tests then teeth setup with length test
Also I found in that seed a 100 Satoshi that is moved to another wallet I don't know why hahahaha