Authors

Corey Phillips

Bitcoin mobile developer who wrote BitImage. Hash a photo of a kitten and you get a seed. He funded two of them and one still waits on a passphrase.
IDcorey-phillips05 / 18person · 1 collection · 2019-06-28 → 2019-07-03
Subject

Corey Phillips

coreylphillipsbitcoin

Bitcoin mobile developer who turned photographs into BIP39 seeds with BitImage and funded two of them.

Puzzles
2
Prize recorded
0.01097033 BTC
Still unsolved
1 · 0.010019 BTC
closed 1 / 2

Log

 

The GitHub bio reads Software Developer at Synonym.to, with pinned work on the Bitkit wallet and its Lightning bindings.

github.com/coreyphillips
 

Published BitImage in July 2019 as part one of a series on turning photos into private keys and addresses.

corey-lyle-phillips.medium.com/part-1-3-turn-your-photos-into-bitcoin-private-keys-addresses-57669771cf7a
 

Ran a separate audio puzzle in January 2020. Its prize was swept four days later.

corey-lyle-phillips.medium.com/a-bitcoin-audio-puzzle-61174b9849ce
 

Also wrote Moonshine, a React Native Bitcoin and Litecoin wallet first released as Bitbip.

github.com/coreyphillips/moonshine
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Who this is

Corey Phillips writes Bitcoin wallets for a living. His GitHub bio says Software Developer at Synonym.to and the pinned repositories are Bitkit and its Lightning bindings. Before that he wrote Moonshine, a React Native wallet that started life as Bitbip. BitImage is a side project from 2019: a web page that hashes any file into a BIP39 seed. He published it as part one of three, funded a kitten photo to prove the point, and the two puzzles are that photo with and without a passphrase.

There was an audio puzzle too, in January 2020. It lasted four days.

What the record says

The GitHub profile is the source for what he does now, the two Medium posts are the sources for the two puzzles he ran, and the Moonshine repository is the source for the wallet. He publishes under his own name everywhere, so the record does too. The alias is the X handle, which drops a letter of the middle name.

The record

src/collections/bitimage.ts
static readonly author = party("Corey Phillips", {
  key: "corey-phillips",
  kind: PartyKind.Person,
  aliases: ["coreylphillips"],
  about: "Bitcoin mobile developer who turned photographs into BIP39 seeds with BitImage and funded two of them.",
  profiles: [
    profile("github", "https://github.com/coreyphillips"),
    profile("twitter", "https://x.com/coreylphillips"),
    profile("medium", "https://corey-lyle-phillips.medium.com/"),
  ],
  facts: [
    fact("The GitHub bio reads Software Developer at Synonym.to, …", "https://github.com/coreyphillips"),
    fact("Published BitImage in July 2019 as part one of a series …", "https://corey-lyle-phillips.medium.com/part-1-3-…", { date: "2019-07-09" }),
    fact("Ran a separate audio puzzle in January 2020. Its prize was swept four days later.", "https://corey-lyle-phillips.medium.com/a-bitcoin-audio-puzzle-61174b9849ce", { date: "2020-01-05" }),
    fact("Also wrote Moonshine, a React Native Bitcoin and Litecoin wallet first released as Bitbip.", "https://github.com/coreyphillips/moonshine"),
  ],
});

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