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quizchain/2

Solved on 2019-04-07 after 34m, 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.

A sentence to recase

The post gives one sentence, the first line of the top post in a subreddit the author follows: "I posted A similar message to the Basecamp, but had to also come visit you all here on Reddit." The capital A is one letter of the post author's family name. Capitalize the rest of that name the same way and you have the answer.

The solution the author edited into the post says the name is Yang, so it reads "I posted A similar messaGe to the Basecamp, but had to also come visit You all here oN Reddit." Yang again, the name inside the favorite address of block 1.

The chain part

Append the last three characters of the block 1 private key, Uzp, SHA-256 the string, use it as entropy. That's the link that makes it a chain: you can't do block 2 without the key of block 1, and that key was public by then. The post says "Ian Coleman brain wallet tool", but the address comes out of the BIP39 tool at m/44'/0'/0'/0/0, the same route as block 1.

Half an hour

Funded at 06:57:24 UTC, posted at 07:03, swept at 07:32:15 for 682,539 satoshis. The thread has no comments. The author edited the post instead: "Someone has solved block 2 and the funds have been taken", the solution and the WIF.

IDquizchain/202 / 772019-04-07
Puzzle / quizchain

2

bitcoinp2pkh solved

Record

puzzle({
  chain: "bitcoin",
  address: "1JP2qF74zzgz…7aYCAMHc",
  status: Status.Solved,
  key: wif("Kz6upYXvTYY7…w2TLihBF").entropy("e743564b041b…742e600d", source("https://www.…block_2/")),
})
Prize
0.007 BTC
Key material
wif
Verification
verified
Solved
2019-04-07 · 34m
tx 2
Trail
Explorerblockstream.info
Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/badtpz/easy_7_mbtc_quizchain_block_2
Tryquizchain/2 in the playground
Address
1JP2qF74zzgz6FMzsmk7nxUeYd7aYCAMHc

hash160 bea4d18e2d7861e23df06c8d4a7ab51a05a12a48

Balance
asking the explorer

Key

public key · compressed
031c4dc0e046216624b8b932ece5c6eadd13f746f0a549c48b329fb150a0e1269e
WIF
Kz6upYXvTYY7r8uYZsRuuyyhbcRvXe6tKDFusRKco31Vw2TLihBF
entropy hash
e743564b041b97e4d61897cb41f90b83b38105298ccbd36899786b0c742e600d

Transactions

  1. funding2019-04-070.007 BTCdd09d3f542…52620a
  2. claim2019-04-070.00682539 BTCccc30669f3…bb7ba5

Files

Hints

  1. undated

    officialQuestion: The following sentence is the first in the top post of a certain subreddit I am following. One of the letters in the family name of the author is changed from lower to upper case. Change the other letters in his name in the same way for the solution.

    Published answer

    I posted A similar messaGe to the Basecamp, but had to also come visit You all here oN Reddit.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/badtpz/easy_7_mbtc_quizchain_block_2

  2. undated

    officialThen append the last three digits from the private key of the solution to block 1. Do a SHA 256 hash on that and use as entropy in the Ian Coleman brain wallet tool.

  3. undated

    officialSentence: I posted A similar message to the Basecamp, but had to also come visit you all here on Reddit.