Quote from: nomachine on June 06, 2024, 02:02:10 PM

Quote from: RainLarcade on June 05, 2024, 12:33:44 PM

all the clues together create quite a lot of confusion.

Besides, it is probably unsolvable. There are already many unsolvable puzzles. Even if they are solvable, who would bother brute-forcing all possible passwords for 0.01 BTC, like in the case of the Corey Phillips puzzle?

For Corey's puzzle, I tried multiple non-common passwords or keywords from the puzzle in both Ian Coleman's BIP39 tool and his BitImage tool. I even hashed them with sha256, double hashed, RIPEMD hashed them, created new BTC addresses from the hashes, tried usual password combinations like (lowercase, uppercase, number and special characters) but still couldn't find it. Huh

He literally made it a password guessing game. Now, this in itself is a great demonstration of much security an additional passphrase can add to the wallet, but if he wants us to crack it as a challenge, I believe there should at least be some hints.

Some people have even created issues in his Github repo (https://github.com/coreyphillips/bitimage/issues) asking for hints, but obviously received no response.
I personally reached out to him on X as well, which I have never done to anyone, asking for a hint but received no reply there either. Undecided