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Re: New Bitcoin ARG, The legend begins here.... 4.33 BTC BOUNTY!!!
by
RussHarben
on 21/09/2014, 21:22:18 UTC
Props to alphabetacanary and MAD PROPS to rock_collector for getting us through the last couple of puzzles in the last 24 hours.  We were definitely stuck on the warp text for quite a while.

Looking over the new poem, there is a possible interpretation that goes back to something mentioned earlier in the game by dpc123.  Specifically, the resemblance of the whiterabbit "grid" (as seen here: https://twitter.com/WHIT3R4BBI7) to a pattern from Conway's Game of Life.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life  

“I'm_going_to_have_to_put_you_on_the_game_grid”!

http://[Suspicious link removed]/nra6fkl  *edit* //tinyurl dot com/  This takes you to a Conway's Game of Life Simulator that starts with the image from @WHIT3R4BBI7  *end edit*


These lines from the poem seem relevant:

GAMES ARE FALSE.
RULES ARE BENT.
WHAT LIES BENEATH
IS H3AVEN SENT.
...
THAT W4S LIFE.
A GAME CREATED.

IF YOU LOSE YOURSELF,
GODSPEED TO THE BELA7ED.

Conway's Game of Life has the following "rules":

1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
2. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
3. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

One possible interpretation of the poem is to modify the Game of Life rules in some way (CHARON reference = change the "death" rules?), apply it to an input pattern (H3AVEN SENT?) and run the Game for some number of generations to produce an output pattern (WHEN SHE ARRIVES, YOU WILL KNOW - perhaps a QR code?).  

Or this whole line of thought could could be WAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY off base.  Actually, I hope someone does comes up with a better idea because mine sounds like a lot of work.