Thank you for a great summary.
ratholes (IMO)
- ignoring the blue dot.
- poetry conversions.
- using brute force on the current complete data set.
- using the imgur id as data.
- taking alice-related hints too seriously (possible exception: Alphabet Cipher)
All good points! I agree.
At this point, I'm the most intrigued as well as perplexed by the transactions, however I think the order of likelihood of meaningfulness is 1. rest of the text in the image, 2. dots, 3. transactions.