Hi all, first post.
So by now I assume you've heard of the alleged "hack" of Romney's tax returns and the demands for 1 mill USD worth of bitcoins. Recall that the anons said you could donate bitcoins to one address if you want the records kept secret and another address if you want them released. Here are the blockchain.info links for each:
If you want them kept secret:
http://blockchain.info/address/1HeF89wMjC48bWNgWvVo7Wu3RaLW8XVsE8If you want them released:
http://blockchain.info/address/12AP6iCwRNFQqKLStH3A4b4hw3SL6RaNgBFor both addresses there is a string of transactions of amounts that are binary numbers that correspond to ascii characters, so each address received a message through the transactions in ascii. I haven't seen anyone comment on this yet so I translated the binary strings to ascii characters and this is what I found:
If you look at the transactions to the "release" option, the message says:
"prove it"
If you look at the transactions to the "keep secret" option, the message says:
"gnp.fR6k5/moc.rugmi.i//:ptth"
which is "
http://i.imgur.com/5k6Rf.png" backwards.
If you go to that web address you get this image:
http://i.imgur.com/5k6Rf.pngI put up a mirror here:
http://s16.postimage.org/jxr8st6md/5k6_Rf.png2nd mirror:
http://i48.tinypic.com/2n9ml1i.png
And that's it. Unfortunately I am from the stone age so I don't have a smartphone that can "read" this, so if anyone interested can I would appreciate to know what it says.Update: Okay after some astute googling, I used an online QR decoder to read the image. It gives the following:
"0110100001110100011101000111000000111010001011110010111101101001001011100110100
1011011010110011101110101011100100010111001100011011011110110110100101111011010
01"
which with binary-to-ascii converter is
http://i.imgur.com/i which is an image that no longer exists I guess.