collections/IAMABananaAMAA's GIF puzzle

iamabananaamaa/gif

Solved on 2013-12-23 after 2h 29m, key published. 0.001 BTC on a Bitcoin address, 1DprL7pbKGwjMKoJ4c6BEKrTmtbPB4AiNJ. Part of IAMABananaAMAA's GIF puzzle.

IDiamabananaamaa/gif2013-12-22 → 2013-12-23
Puzzle / IAMABananaAMAA's GIF puzzle

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bitcoinp2pkh solved

Record

bitcoinPuzzle({
  address: p2pkh("1DprL7pbKGwj…bPB4AiNJ", "8cae3ce6d549…2c6e0f81"),
  status: Status.Solved,
  key: wif("L21s1A2LjTL5…SdqWBD66"),
})
Prize
0.001 BTC
Key material
wif
Verification
verified
Solved
2013-12-23 · 2h 29m
tx 2
Trail
Explorerblockstream.info
Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/easy_1mbtc_find_the_private_key_in_this_gif
SolverWickex
Tryiamabananaamaa/gif in the playground
Address
1DprL7pbKGwjMKoJ4c6BEKrTmtbPB4AiNJ

hash160 8cae3ce6d5497fa7a9b30e085efd2c972c6e0f81

Balance
asking the explorer

Key

public key · compressed
03987951b3fa4a6f68ba76bd509a8ac4945b3cb1e14be1eadd5d3210f590313024
WIF
L21s1A2LjTL5WLEfWPJtuKxHKF3PcfJnyiEtjNtPUxwnSdqWBD66

Transactions

  1. funding2013-12-220.001 BTC17975f67f8…1a8669
  2. claim2013-12-230.0009 BTC594f82e1a1…eaba50

Hints

  1. 2013-12-22

    officialYou don't need specialized software, no. However, you will (I believe) most likely need a program that basically anybody on the planet has since it has so many wide uses and public options.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce81be8

    Published answer

    images can be 'merged' with ZIP/RAR files, which you can open by renaming the extension of the .gif file to .zip. In there was a file called MEGAN.txt, with a string inside of it.

    2013-12-23reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce86ejm

  2. 2013-12-22

    officialHint: Megan may not be a person, but if she was, she'd be 35 years old.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce8257x

    Published answer

    referring to MEGAN-35, a kind of hash. By decrypting it (google MEGAN-35 decrypter or something similar) I got another string, which turned out to be an ATOM-128 hash. When decrypted, it gave you the private key!

    2013-12-23reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce86ejm

  3. 2013-12-22

    officialJust to save you time, the thing in the bottom right is an error on the gif's part. The creator messed something up when creating it.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce825x4

  4. 2013-12-23

    officialThe zip file name was ATOM :).

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce86n19

  5. 2013-12-22

    communityOh right. It is just a compressed file. This is the output of MEGAN.txt = jZXbm2zukIKdShNxcJnrkuXPm2XRSZGY=M1Gku=9gKGJc/9uju1eoJ=ynhfSjuXPddfvc2n4cJyqlMf2dLD4k2Nvi2refuSI

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce828ht

local record / balance from the explorer

@agntn/puzzles·MIT license· Public data about public puzzles. Balances come from the chains' explorers through the worker, cached for five minutes. Every key here was public before it landed in a record.