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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
mirth23
on 03/07/2014, 21:23:25 UTC
EDIT: http://purviancepyramid.net/Message.html is an interesting link. Look at the bottom. Binary with S's every 8 chars. Consistant until the very last line. Thoughts?

Isn't that just indicating the delimiters in the original circle? It was 8 red/green and then 1 blue, repeating.

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Also, edits don't count as posting, so:

LAST POST NOW, PROMISE.

Ha! You can stop posting any time, I believe you! Wink

So I suspect the binary is a rathole. In the first image, we had morse code that ended into gibberish. That could very well be what's going on here. That said, I don't know what to do with the initial morse code in its long form. We've got weird characters. That raises a red flag for me because, aside from executing hash functions, the solutions to date haven't actually involved complex manipulations. (Side thought: Maybe we can ROT the characters out? Perhaps ROT based on the number of turns in the spiral? I tried this already and it didn't seem to get anywhere but I may very well have done something wrong.)

If you'd like to come back around to my diff idea, you get a 16 character letter-only message to play with. Way friendlier! Unfortunately I can't seem to get any anagrams or anything particularly useful out of it, its ROTs, squaring/rotating it, or playing Numberwang: LMEKWMDEDNEVIWAF