Genesis Block Wallet Puzzle

The Genesis Block Wallet Puzzle is an unsolved Bitcoin challenge announced on August 22, 2026. Its anonymous creator says everything needed to generate the wallet is in Bitcoin's first block. Public data. Extremely low entropy. No backup needed.

Sounds like a friendly warm-up. Then the hints say there are two keys, and you need both. Nice little catch.

Two keys and a very old block

The announcement sits in an OP_RETURN output in block 963629. That's a message written into a Bitcoin transaction, not a private conversation or a disappearing post.

The target is a P2WSH address:

bc1qfkhx02v89u2qyyyljeczw6hu9sr437y44t7ae5yf09thrdukfqesnjg2wj

According to the replies, the wallet uses a 2-of-2 multisig. Both keys come from the same Genesis block field. Later clues mention BIP39 with twelve words and a passphrase, followed by BIP48. So the puzzle points back to 2009, but the wallet uses much newer conventions.

Those are the author's claims. The witness script and public keys are not recorded here, and a clue is not a verified recipe.

Nineteen OP_RETURN messages, not nineteen answers

The record includes nineteen messages through September 19, 2026. Some narrow the puzzle. Others explain how to buy another hint. Bitcoin support tickets, apparently.

The useful turns in the conversation include:

• The Genesis field: both keys use the same field and are derived independently.
• The newspaper: one reply says The Times can stand in for the Genesis block.
• The wallet format: later replies name BIP39, twelve words, a passphrase and a BIP48 account number drawn from Genesis data.
• The passphrase: the author asks who received the first transaction, then says it is a name.
• The entropy: a September reply calls it a 128-bit digest, not raw sixteen-byte data.

Wait, wasn't an earlier answer "there is no hash"? Yes. Both messages stay in the record. Smoothing that apparent contradiction away would make the story cleaner and the evidence worse.

Read the full texts with their dates and transaction links:

puzzles hints genesis/block

Is the Genesis Block Wallet Puzzle solved?

No verified solution is recorded here. The dataset marks genesis/block as unsolved, with no key or claim transaction. A headline saying someone "deciphered" something isn't enough to change that.

The start date is the announcement's block timestamp. The record includes the initial 20,000-satoshi funding and the announcement's 5,000-satoshi deposit, not every later hint payment. preGenesis marks that earlier funding. The address kind is p2wsh. Knowing that format still doesn't give us the missing witness script.

How much bitcoin is in the puzzle wallet?

Hint payments accumulate at the target address, so a fixed prize figure gets stale. The record leaves that amount unset. Check the address on mempool.space or ask the balance command:

puzzles balance genesis/block

The message offering paid hints promises better hints for larger payments. That's the author's offer, not a guarantee or a recommendation to send money.

Sources behind the Genesis puzzle clues

floflo777's research folder collects the dialogue, research and original coverage. Its author-posts transcript explains how the replies connect through change outputs.

The nineteen messages here were checked against confirmed transaction bytes. Earlier replies spend change outputs linked back to the announcement. The September 19 message uses the announcement's input address again. Each hint carries that evidence. Player questions, including relayed ones, are not quietly promoted to author hints.

Galaxy Research reported the announcement. crypto.news and U.Today covered it on August 23. Useful context, but the transactions are the source for the actual clues.