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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: New Bitcoin ARG, The legend begins here.... 4.33 BTC BOUNTY!!!
by
mirth23
on 18/09/2014, 22:06:01 UTC
General working theory: we are looking for another whit3r4bbi7.com page, and need to use the capital letters in the poem to make a pointer.

here's what we have to work with:
Code:
SATLOFSHITNAKAMAATOGBOOFDBYEFRIENDBIWNF    [full string]
SAT O SHI NAKAM  TOG OO DBYEFRIEND         [hidden message]
   L F   T     AA   B  F          BIWNF    [extra letters]

Possible additions:
- O: missing from SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
- GET/GIVE: finish the trailing 'For' word in the poem
- a: there is an extra 'a' in mislead, based on the rhyme scheme
- k: ASCII value of the dangling 107 in the col 15 of DocuColor dots
- v: ascii value of the binary in the puzzle (might just be for v0.3.19)
- DISABLE (from the graphics)

it's generally accepted that 0.3.19 must point at the v0.3.19 of bitcoin, where disabling 'safe mode' is discussed. see more:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2228.0
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Changelog#0.3.19.5B22.5D
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/26744510/

Some possible words to add from 0.3.19:
DOS
SAFE MODE

Other random note: the timestamp in the DocuColor output is off by 8 hours from the time that the first Bitcoin block was mined. That might be some kind of hint to shift something by 8.

If anything, we have too much to work with rather than too little. A lot of us have been paying special attention to the short set of "extra" letters, looking for anagrams and applying ROT, but nobody's come up with anything yet as far as I'm aware.