I was playing a bit with this and I am afraid it is abandoned. No one is writing about it, I'm also like you not convinced that this 1KWkDsv9VsdwsCWpJ2mu9R5AgUWgSPQHjf is THE address.
What I like is whole terminal stuff. What I don't like is that not all commands work as should. For example you can't pass arguments to functions, ls -a doesn't work. I'm a bit afraid that it is not some sort of shell but simple "paragraph" text input program, you add one space too much or use capital letter and it wont recognize.

So far - dead end. I'm trying to run service.bin somehow.

I include instead of her the link.

(...)

EDIT: I have removed it, it isn't permanent link. Thank you all for help.

EDIT2: I also delete coin_artist post, overall there is no sense in making extra drama.

What's the point in cooperation? You will write your findings, I'll write my findings, and then some dude from secret board will base on them and get the prize. Not happening. I think in few years maybe the bitcoin puzzle thing will be still, but all the forums will go dead. People aren't stupid and they learn from mistakes.

EDIT: More over (I'm really bitter right now), the rules where not to brute force and cooperate. And how this thing got solved? By brute force and lack of cooperation. Just LOL.

Thank you for that summary, I feel the same after reading solution. And all those red herrings!!! So big troll! And how you can tell what is fat, what is skinny? Honestly, like I said before - idea was good but implementation not so. And I think it was meant no to be solve.
Also: answer to your question - after reading this, I gave up on Neon District. If the ytcoin artist created this it is not my type of puzzles. I love labirynths going from clue A to B and her puzzles seems to involve luck and brute force. No thank you.
I also learned that internet is full of trolls and you can't trust anyone except yourself. This is sooo sad
Also I'm sad that not the crax0r and the rest of the guys claimed the prize, their were so close and focusing on real stuff.

Well, it was fun and the begging and pain at the end (fu...ing trolls) but after reading this I am somehow relief, no way on Earth I could solve it. Time to move on to some serious and normal puzzles.

Enough!!!

feedo, white rabbit, amar utuk or whoever your new nick is. JUST STOP! You didn't win, accept it.

I have enough, since you came to this thread everything is a mess, tons of garbage and trolling.

Just stop and leave it. For me, you have ruined a lot of fun from it since January. Just stop and go away.

 

FINALLY!!! End of nightmare.

Now I'm waiting for winner to show solution. Other way it was a scam.

Wow!

That is great, meaningul and logical post. Great reading, thank you!

Please explain. You mean there should be 100 not 98 ?

And offtopic from me, maybe possible reason why people don't write much anymore:
1. because there are still many dead ends and noone moved even an inch and
2. there is so much bull..it posted that you can't image. So many posts since last month, so many bragging and fairy tales (Oooooh, I am so close, everyone give up, I have this worked up but it's a secret) or even encoded messagges. Come on! One big junkyard, nothing really useful. Right now this thread is one big trash, I used to check it every few hours and since few last days I don't.

And my personal opinion after some thinking. This puzzle won't be solved. I don't know if it is on purpose or simple mistake, but think about it. Only one person benefiting from it it is creator and we are all wasting time. 3 years!!! Really?!

Soooo after first clue you are both on different track? So I think this answers my previous question

I have only one question - I hope it isn't big clue to answer. Is it solvable the way I mentioned it before? Like you get first fat clue, clue A, 100% certain, you get it, you know it is the one and the you get to clue B etc? They are solid, distinct, undeniable?

Hi, Merry Christmas everyone!

So, I'll try to summarize what we know.

First - I hope it's logical puzzle - that means clue A guessed properly leads to clue B and then C etc.

That in mind, we have few obvious clues.

1flamen6 - still unsolved (or I missed solution)
6 ribbons on key - we have lead that it means A1, which helps on naming chessboard tiles. From 01 to F9. Which could be good, but I have two problems with it. We don't have value 00 or any letter with 0, like D0. Second, if it would be encoded in hex, we have to visit one tile many times and what with repeated values like BB, CC, AA, etc. So in my opinion it's something, but not quite solid.
white rabbit visible on puzzle after rotating picture - that could show "proper" way of looking on picture. Also it is clue directing to Lewis Carroll

http://www.chessmaniac.com/lewis-carroll-and-chess/
We have White Queen (Alice?) and... Blue Knight, which is odd (in book there is Red Knight). Blue and Red are basic colours, won't get one from another (and negative of blue colour is orange). I think it's worth dig deeper.

White Queen and Blue Knight - don't know, look above

Dove and Phoenix - points to poem about turtle-dove and phoenix - solved. And that lines could direct to some sort of sums:

So they loved as love in twain
    Therefore they loved inasmuch as the love in two beings
Had the essence but in one;
    Had the substance and nature compounded into only one;
Two distincts, division none;
    Two separate birds, but inseparable and indistinguishable;
Number there in love was slain.
    Combined as one in love so extinguishing their separate selves.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
    Their hearts were separate, but not divided;
Distance, and no space was seen
    No range nor gap was there
'Twixt this turtle and his queen;
    Between the hearts of the Dove and his Phoenix;
But in them it were a wonder.
    However, their combination was a miracle.

colourful flames around - everyone agrees that they have pure binary information, but we don't know how to read them. 98 inner, 54 outer also 44 with no colour. Very hard to count colourless and sometimes I have trouble with determining height (especially of colourless)

red and blue chessboard tiles still unsolved

17 leaves also unsolved

swirls in corners - direction of flames reading ?


Soooo... it's not much. And we haven't figured out where to start (doesn't get to the point A which could lead to valid point B ) Or am I wrong? What do you think?

I don't see anything in it, I even don't know how we were supposed to get to this :/

Anyway I agree with you in one thing - Merry Christmas everyone, spend this time well!

Nope, it isn't. Like crax0r wrote, it must be in flames somehow. No QR code.

Thanks for replies and @Neantis for good word and encouragement

I want to clarify - when I was writing about new picture I have meant this from 15th of December

https://twitter.com/coin_artist/status/941452262978748417

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRC10xTVoAAjR9w.jpg

Well, still that doesn't mean anything. If you can solve it just solve it and end this mess. You will be famous that's for sure. And rich.

More I think about it more I think it's broken (maybe because of painting technique?)  (that is why she posted new picture - and she says that nowhere she said it was a clue - maybe she gave up on this but it's bad PR to said that people have followed broken puzzle for 3 years).

There isn't no single point to catch first, even 1flamen6 is no good. I'm quite annoyed and tired, probably like a lot of people before me.

If it will not be solved I hope she will leave solution in her last will  (I wish her long and happy life, don't get me wrong! )

But although I'm complaining I thought about it a lot (sic!) and I have few observations and questions, maybe it will help someone.

1) We have 17 leaves, 17x3=51 characters of WIF. WIF is encoded in Base58 (26 letters capital and small and numbers without O, 0, l, I, +, / - so it's smaller Base64).
Could anyone tell me what's the lowest bit number to encode it ? Is 6 bits enough or we need at least 7 ?

2) Notice that queen is not transparent (you can't see chessboard under) except base, where you can clearly see red chess tile (so that you don't mase mistake and assume other colour). Maybe it's important?

3) You say that orange flames are not important. I disagree. If they were not important, she could paint colorful flames more fat? For one thing, they determine the exact place of our 3-coloured friends.

4) What about 6 ribbons on key? Maybe they are some sort of checksum? Like you know, a in Base64 or Q in Base58, when you invented some sort of method to decode chessboard tiles and you stumble apon tile with ribbons on it you can verify?

5) also notice that keyhole along with roots of branches of vines (where they punch through chessboard) are never inside tile, always on borders. Interesting.

That is all for now, I'm going to bed. I have already trouble in work because of this %$#@#$ puzzle, so tomorrow only read some or post but no quality analysis. Fortunatelly I switched off computer during weekend and manage to have a great time with kids, it was worth it.

Hello everyone, could someone verify my data? I'm trying to count this weird colourless flames on the outside (sometimes orange, sometimes yellow?) and my results vary from 44 to 46

Oh that's sooo funny 

OK, I give up for now. I was trying flames length approach once again, but in some cases it's hard to determine is it long or short flame (I really hate right now the way this painting is painted ) And sometimes you don't know is it flame, or branch, should I count it or not

BUT another fact worth notice, maybe it will help someone (I'm too tired and my boss isn't happy too ) - notice that on the outside you have this weird colourless flames. Their number along with colourful flames is... 98 The same as inner flames! That could be something.
Notice also, that those weird colourless flames have one attribute - length. That could lead somewhere.

I give up right now, maybe some time later
Good luck everyone!

PS. I really wonder if the team behind this puzzle test it on someone outside their circle 

Once again sorry for my English, maybe I used wrong word.

When you have classic chess board, you have letters and number which help you determine each tile (such as C2 for example). Now, I was thinking in this picture flames have the same function (group of flames from bottom and group of flames from left identify tile on board).

BUT NO.
2 reasons why not:

1) quality of painting - many times flame is right in the middle between two tiles and you can't tell where it should belong
2) and more important - groups of flame from top/bottom or left/right doesn't match each other when you look at row or column of chess board tiles. You know, in classic chess board you have for example letter D on top and bottom. Here you doesn't have the same group of flames.
So this is dead end

Still trying to decode flames