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quizchain/10

Solved on 2019-04-10 after 1d 1h 23m, key published. 0.007 BTC on Bitcoin.

Story

What the post asked, what the answer turned out to be, and what the chain says happened. The record below holds the data.

Einstein, split in two

"Last block was a broken link. I hope this one goes better." Block 10 went up just after midnight UTC on April 9, 7 mBTC again, with one line of question: "Four words within Einstein." The format is word1 word2 word3 word4.fnw, where fnw is the tail of the block 9 key, the "broken link". German words allowed. Asked about case, the author said normal capitalization.

It sat there for hours. Update 2 splits the word for you: "Break up "within" into "with" and "in"." Update 3 starts with "Damn, this was supposed to be easy." and says to google "with Einstein". Google answers with Joshua Foer's memory book, Moonwalking with Einstein.

So two words go with Einstein and two are in it. With: "Moonwalking with", from the book title. In: "ein Stein", a stone in German. The string is Moonwalking with ein Stein.fnw, then SHA-256, entropy, m/44'/0'/0'/0/0. One commenter didn't buy the capital S as normal capitalization. They had tried a lowercase stein.

The same line break again

After the author posted the solution, two players wrote that it didn't give the right key. The final update says why: "my mistake in hashing block 9 happened in this block too. Again a line break at the end". Almost eight hours after the claim, u/Crypto_Rachel spelled it out in a comment, the answer "with a new line", then the address, the public key and the WIF.

Funded at 00:18:53 UTC on April 9, two and a half minutes before the post, and claimed at 01:42:12 the next day for 679,456 satoshis. The author wrote that the solution went to the closest comment. u/Agelais wrote at 01:39 that they had received the answer, and the claim confirmed two and a half minutes later. Close, but the chain doesn't name anybody, so the record says solved and names nobody.

IDquizchain/1010 / 772019-04-09 → 2019-04-10
Puzzle / quizchain

10

bitcoinp2pkh solved

Record

puzzle({
  chain: "bitcoin",
  address: "14zuee5qyQwy…xY8K9NWj",
  status: Status.Solved,
  key: wif("L28sMk6rGrZe…SgSx6peH").entropy("024220f061e3…1c14880d", source("https://www.…lock_10/")),
})
Prize
0.007 BTC
Key material
wif
Verification
verified
Solved
2019-04-10 · 1d 1h 23m
tx 2
Trail
Explorerblockstream.info
Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/bb1ajr/easy_7_mbtc_quizchain_block_10
Tryquizchain/10 in the playground
Address
14zuee5qyQwypAcAjyexpTNZqaxY8K9NWj

hash160 2bdc094b716e622d5547709afe7bae97f0ca2828

Balance
asking the explorer

Key

public key · compressed
022170ce8d3a1e8387ab5a362f7724ccf07c3b608d69dcf5561f172e07a7accdeb
WIF
L28sMk6rGrZeYMKeXKVnkLgAU4Zc9igbwKcPUo8N6NjnSgSx6peH
entropy hash
024220f061e3ae0e072687bb40999847d6910bd6bda8b157fe00f91a1c14880d

Transactions

  1. funding2019-04-090.007 BTC18c5191722…8fecb7
  2. claim2019-04-100.00679456 BTC4fb23044d1…786292

Files

Hints

  1. undated

    officialQuestion: Four words within Einstein. Format: "word1 word2 word3 word4.fnw". The last three digits from the broken link in block 9 are set as fnw for this block. German words allowed.

    Published answer

    Solution was "Moonwalking with ein Stein.fnw". Explanation: Four words within is two words with and two words in. The two words with are those from the famous book titile that shows up in a Google search, the two words in are just "ein Stein" (a stone in German). Final Update and apology: As several people noted, my mistake in hashing block 9 happened in this block too. Again a line break at the end from copypasting from a draft in a wordprocessor.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/bb1ajr/easy_7_mbtc_quizchain_block_10

  2. undated

    officialBreak up "within" into "with" and "in".

  3. undated