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DNS Seeds
by
hoba
on 09/02/2015, 16:27:57 UTC
Hello,

I have looked into the bitcoin source code and a question arises:

Is the implementation of the dns seeds still correct? As far as I can see the dns seeds hard coded in chainparams.cpp are not used.
The function ThreadDNSAddressSeed in net.cpp seems to use them, but the invokation of
LookupHost - LookupIntern - SetSpecial or
CNetAddr -LookupHost - LookupIntern - SetSpecial
in netbase.cpp ends up with SetSpecial which handles Onion/Tor-addresses only. And the hard coded dns seeds are no Onion/Tor-addresses.
Am I right?
Would be glad if anyone confirm this or help me to find my mistake.

PS: Does the question fit better to the bitcoin mailing list?
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Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
by
hoba
on 06/08/2014, 11:39:23 UTC
Okay, they should check their algo  Cheesy

http://i.imgur.com/VoMV2SJ.png
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Re: CoinMarketCap.com - Market Cap Rankings of All Cryptocurrencies!
by
hoba
on 05/08/2014, 14:20:22 UTC
Have a look at these charts to consider how trustworthy coinmarketcap.com is.

http://i.imgur.com/oq2x5Rg.png
http://i.imgur.com/9sadeI0.png
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize **Game Over**
by
hoba
on 06/07/2014, 23:11:28 UTC
Well it was nice to play, although it was a really, really bad prepared game, that needs additionally hints most of the times.
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key PRIZE*
by
hoba
on 06/07/2014, 19:31:29 UTC
from OP

the prize awaits you
the final palindrome is key
once small is now tall

so change lowercase to uppercase?
only palindrome i can think of is WOW , is there any others?

palindrome could be also a hint for reversing a string here, but everything I tried doesn't work, so WOW is probably meant by the second line.

get no convincing meaning of the third line till here.
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 05/07/2014, 19:56:49 UTC

the doge pic was a joke, but there was a real dogecoin symbol in the Crops.jpg morse code.


The last morse code after WOW is ..--.  ---, while --- is probably simply accidently a valid morse character and ..--. is not a valid character at all.

Edit: ok, i was wrong, here you can find the code for Dogecoin symbol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 05/07/2014, 17:44:48 UTC
The solution probably needs to involve a dual sha256 too. That hint is still on the front post.

Hint is gone now.
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 04/07/2014, 12:13:40 UTC
The correct overlay (xmp-points scaled [0;1]x[0;1]=>[0;3600]x[0;2974])

My impression is, that the confusingly stroked area (with the SETI signal) is irrelevant, it's also used for the password already. Attention should be payed for the channel number and the 51 bytes headlines and somehow the marked line on the right.

http://i.imgur.com/lUHNUQK.jpg
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 03/07/2014, 13:59:16 UTC
I guess we should think of leet speak now.
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize*
by
hoba
on 03/07/2014, 13:47:21 UTC
New hint:

*PA55WORD

EDIT: From 1st post.

EDIT2: And its gone again now.
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 03/07/2014, 12:18:26 UTC
Files 20-25 all has the same QR code.
The only file left is 16. I can't see anything in it though.

I don't see the QR code in file 20, only in 21-25. And there is no file 16 left after uninstall.

EDIT: File size and bitrate of file 16 was changed in comparison to original game. Old: 30.5 kB, 176 kBit/s, new: 188kB, 256kBit/s

File size of 20-25 is 430 kB for each, bitrate 705kBit/s

Edit: 20_swoosh.wav

File 20 has the same QR: http://imgur.com/3g2UVHu

OK!? With Audacity it was not visible.
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 03/07/2014, 11:41:43 UTC
Files 20-25 all has the same QR code.
The only file left is 16. I can't see anything in it though.

I don't see the QR code in file 20, only in 21-25. And there is no file 16 left after uninstall.

EDIT: File size and bitrate of file 16 was changed in comparison to original game. Old: 30.5 kB, 176 kBit/s, new: 188kB, 256kBit/s

File size of 20-25 is 430 kB for each, bitrate 705kBit/s

Edit: 20_swoosh.wav
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 03/07/2014, 11:03:27 UTC
Has the '7:51' from Hint.jpg been used so far?
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 03/07/2014, 10:24:35 UTC
So where are you guys at?
What is the current quest?
What are the clues?

You can extract a 7z-File from Space.mp4. Take the last 2147129 bytes and 'cesar' shift them by -100, that reveals the file.
The current quest is to get the password for the file.
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Re: ARG Puzzle with 3.5 BTC Private Key Prize
by
hoba
on 02/07/2014, 16:08:32 UTC
just thoughts :
space + odyssey = Space Odyssey ?
if "2.7.1980 09:02:18 timestamp: 331369338" maybe "2147129 timestamp > January 25, 1970 > M*A*S*H premieres"
 : )

Space Odyssey was also my thought in the last minute!