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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
itod
on 03/07/2014, 20:20:30 UTC
Considering G (green) seems fairly common, lets just call it 0, R 1 and [] the wildcard. This creates:

Code:
00000 01110 00000 10 01110 10000 00000 0111 10 0111 0100 10 01110 11100 01111 100 000 100 11001 000 01100010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110010 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01000110 01000001 01001100 01010011 01000101 00100000 0110011101101001 01100110 01110100 01110011 00100000 00100110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101001 01110010 00100000 01000010 01010010 01001111 01001011 01000101 01001110 00100000 0101 0000 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001001 01010011 01000101 01010011 00101110 01001101 01110101 01100011 01101000 00100000 01010000 01000001 01001001 01001110 00100000 011000010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00101110 01000*10* 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000101 01010110 011001*00101 00101110 0101011 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01000111 01001111 01001111 01000100 00100000 01101111 01110101 011110100 00100000 011110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 001011110 01010111 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110000 0111 0000 01101111 01110011 01100101 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000011 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00101110 01000011 01101111 011011110 01100100 011110101 01101001 011110100 00100000 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010011 01001001 01001110 010001111 00101110

Now, straight up converting that into something readable isn't quite as straight forward as one would like. It's not divisible by 8. Selecting a few sections and converting will dump you quotes from

Quote
Beware the bearers of FALSE gifts & their BROKEN PROMISES. Much PAIN but still time. BELIEVE: There is GOOD out there.We OPpose DECEPTION. Conduit CLOSING ?

Is capitalization some sort of a clue?

(B) FALSE BROKEN PROMISES (M) PAIN BELIEVE (T) GOOD (W) OP DECEPTION CLOSING

Notice the space before the question-mark. Why is it there?