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Solved on 2013-12-23 after 2h 29m, key derived from the published recipe. 0.001 BTC on Bitcoin.

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Record

puzzle({
  chain: "bitcoin",
  address: "1DprL7pbKGwj…bPB4AiNJ",
  status: Status.Solved,
  key: wif("L21s1A2LjTL5…SdqWBD66").derived(),
})

Prize: 0.001 BTC
Key material: wif, derived from the recipe
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 and what else they solved; Tryiamabananaamaa/gif in the playground

Address: 1DprL7pbKGwjMKoJ4c6BEKrTmtbPB4AiNJ

hash160 8cae3ce6d5497fa7a9b30e085efd2c972c6e0f81

Balance

asking the explorer

Key

public key · compressed: 03987951b3fa4a6f68ba76bd509a8ac4945b3cb1e14be1eadd5d3210f590313024
WIF: L21s1A2LjTL5WLEfWPJtuKxHKF3PcfJnyiEtjNtPUxwnSdqWBD66

Transactions

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

Files

Fromi.imgur.com/7rXofNv.gif

Techniques

base64puzzlereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/easy_1mbtc_find_the_private_key_in_this_gif
steganographypuzzlereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/easy_1mbtc_find_the_private_key_in_this_gif

Hints

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
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
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
2013-12-23
officialThe zip file name was ATOM :).
Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1thjjq/comment/ce86n19
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