most of you guys if not all think that the Rabbit is troll, not only i disagree with you but now i am sure that he is one of those behind this puzzle.

34 pages here and many other groups talking about this puzzle but nothing interest me other than those few rabbit posts (now most of them deleted!)

i understand now that This puzzle is 100% impossible to solve without some clues and hints and that was for a clear reason so that coin-artist will become famous as long as this puzzle not solved and its btc value going up (there are 3 other guys behind this art but nobody mentions or remembers them).

maybe one of them decided that its time to give help and solve this puzzle (of course not coin artist because she hopes that no one could solve it for another 10 years)

the useful clues is from the rabbit, just focus on them.. he posted 8 times but there are 2 posts out of them deleted, the first post maybe deleted by the mod but the second one deleted by the rabbit himself, i don't know why?! maybe it hides important clue.

If we omit the pattern which we know can't be part of the private key, that leaves 380 bits.  However, the color encoding part contains 304 bits which is just enough to encode 38 bytes (the right number for an compressed wallet import formatted key). 

Here is the high definition image with my markings:
i am sure there are letters on the cross (phoenix neck)
download the image and zoom in to see the numbers and letters in the markings

https://imgur.com/a/m4i4l

If I were able to get a 256 raw key made of 0s and 1s out of this picture, how would I convert that to a private key to import into blockchain.info?

She then encrypted the key using BIP38 and got something similar to this.

the painting isn't just about colors and flames, we have many elements, but if there is a start position for flames then i believe that it should be the lower left G swirl for many reasons: firstly this is the only G that has fire inside it and the flames to the right (bottom edge) is longer and bigger, whereas on left side edge becomes smaller and fewer even they can't cause any harm to the 2 leafs, notice that we have 2 leafs inside left edge and only one inside top edge, in right edge one leaf just touches the edge, and no leafs inside bottom edge, and we have that queen piece melting as the flames in the bottom edge are stronger.

lastly i can clearly see number 2 on the upper edge of the lower right G swirl (after zoom in) which refers to the order of G swirls and direction... ((lower left G is the first then lower right then upper right then upper left))


other than the flames direction i found some letters and numbers, i see 4 or 4A or 42 in the middle of upper edge (its clear even without any zoom)... on the phoenix neck there is a cross and after zoom in you can see 4 or 5 letters BA and YR (inverted) on the cross (maybe it refers to colors) to the right i see Ld and to the left of the cross i see Y2Kc or Y21 (above the red spot)

there is F8 on the Dove's wing which refers to the chess square position (F vertical) + (8 Horizental)

we have two keys not just one, the second key with 8 or 9 blue ribbons, and in the white square above the key i see numbers (2822) and even letters 1 c z 2 @ the lower edge of the square.

i don't know why (egg easter) is the name of this painting (there is no egg!!)

coin artist put a hint yesterday on twitter:

here is a pdf copy of that book (Loves Martyr):themathesontrust.org/papers/audio/mysticalpoetry/phoenix-lovesmartyr.pdf

and here is the wiki link to that story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Chester_(poet)

Good Luck!

No, I count 152 flames in total.  If you look at my post #518, I provided the dataset I am working with.  That probably accounts for the disruption of the pattern in your dataset.  I went over my numbers four times and they always check out for me.

An observation:

Traverse the flames in this order:

   outer top, outer right, outer bottom, outer left
   inner left, inner bottom, inner right, inner top

If you number the flames starting at 1, then every even numbered flame's length produces this consistent pattern all around the image:

0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 ....  (short = 0, tall = 1)

The 011 pattern repeats 25 times but only for the lengths.

The odd lengths (the bits between the 011 pattern) seem random and all color bits seem random too.

So the information encoded in the lengths cannot possibly be part of a private key (at least not the even numbered ones).  

This suggests to me that the bits of the private key have been interleaved in the inner/outer colors of the flames.  Perhaps the pattern is there to indicate how to rearrange the bits back into order?

Also note that if you take the first 6 lengths of the outer top in this
order:

 2 4 6 1 3 5

You get: 0 1 1 0 1 0

Which is the same pattern we see in the lengths of the 6 ribbons in the image. (2 4 6 5 3 1 would also work)  In fact, the ribbon pattern also has the 0 1 1 pattern for it's even numbered ribbons.

This suggests a length of 6 is significant.

I count 456 bits of information in total (98 inner flames + 54 outer flames each flame carrying 3 bits of information : length, outer color, inner color)

But 456 bits is much more than is needed for a private key.  You need either:

 1) 256 bits for a raw key; or

 2) 296 bits for a wallet import formatted key (uncompressed); or

 3) 304 bits for a wallet import formatted key (compressed)

If we omit the pattern which we know can't be part of the private key, that leaves 380 bits.  However, the color encoding part contains 304 bits which is just enough to encode 38 bytes (the right number for an compressed wallet import formatted key).  
 
My guess is the lengths are there to show how to un-jumble the color bits back into place.