Wickex

Who this is

A Reddit account with posts back to 2011. The record knows the handle and one night of it on r/bitcoinpuzzles, nothing more.

On December 23, 2013 at 01:01 UTC, Wickex posted the address of IAMABananaAMAA's GIF puzzle, two and a half hours after it went up. The prize moved three and a half minutes later. At 02:22 came their own puzzle: hex, a YouTube video with Morse code, a second one with a string in the spectrogram, and a brainwallet. Then Wickex stayed in the comments and dropped hints until it was taken.

What the record says

Two facts, both from Wickex's own posts that night. The solve comment on the GIF puzzle, and the post that says why the next one exists. Everything about the puzzle and who swept it lives on the collection page.

The record

static readonly author = party("Wickex", {
  key: "wickex",
  kind: PartyKind.Person,
  about: "Solved the first puzzle on r/bitcoinpuzzles in December 2013 and, to keep it fair, posted the second one the same night: hex, a YouTube video, Morse code and a brainwallet.",
  profiles: [profile("reddit", "https://www.reddit.com/user/Wickex/")],
  facts: [
    fact("Solved IAMABananaAMAA's GIF puzzle and posted the address two and a half hours after it went up.", GIF_SOLVE, { date: "2013-12-23" }),
    fact("Posted the subreddit's second puzzle because solving the first made it only fair to create the next one.", THREAD, { date: "2013-12-23" }),
  ],
});