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quizchain/6

Solved on 2019-04-08 after 19h 8m, key derived from the published recipe. 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.

Two words, no hints

The post asks "Do you know another two words?" and this time spells out the format: the two words in normal capitalization with a space between them, then a space, then the last three characters of the block 5 key, KPb. SHA-256, entropy, m/44'/0'/0'/0/0, same as before. The author called it fairly difficult and gave no hints.

Nobody got it that day. The first update says "No one came up with the two words I was looking for" and gives up only the last three characters of the key, MQz, because block 7 needed them to go on. The prize stayed up for whoever cracked it first, "obvious in hindsight".

The words were "Thank you". The author's last edit admits the joke: every block from 7 on opens with those two words, so the answer sat in plain sight in the next question. The string that derives the key is Thank you KPb. The spaces count, and so do the capital T and the lowercase y.

Claimed before the answer

Funded at 16:18:11 UTC on April 7, three hours after the post, and claimed at 11:26:31 the next day for 666,438 satoshis. Fourteen minutes after the claim a commenter wrote "Thank you" from someone called PonkyPink, and the author answered "You are welcome :)". The edit with the words came after that. The record says solved, because the answer is public, and names nobody, because the chain doesn't say who PonkyPink is.

IDquizchain/606 / 772019-04-07 → 2019-04-08
Puzzle / quizchain

6

bitcoinp2pkh solved

Record

puzzle({
  chain: "bitcoin",
  address: "1FNJM8cABfhC…FaNw85AB",
  status: Status.Solved,
  key: wif("L2Z1rzCuFPhH…vhDciMQz").entropy("8d00e61b8c3e…42285a95", source("https://www.…block_6/")).derived(),
})
Prize
0.007 BTC
Key material
wif, derived from the recipe
Verification
verified
Solved
2019-04-08 · 19h 8m
tx 2
Trail
Explorerblockstream.info
Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/bafyoo/hard_7_mbtc_quizchain_block_6
Tryquizchain/6 in the playground
Address
1FNJM8cABfhCEgVGKneVT8dnhaFaNw85AB

hash160 9d98fa0ef687dd2701fc392558a710ad07d72401

Balance
asking the explorer

Key

public key · compressed
03df2f84cb1a3f49cfdab70808b73626e687802ce33f712e8d7781512e02c776fd
WIF
L2Z1rzCuFPhH9HBkKjHhBhQw3YULpnGTwWjvVJAf2m2AvhDciMQz
entropy hash
8d00e61b8c3ee3e8dbf990c104f1e719be79e76ec8466b8278828e0e42285a95

Transactions

  1. funding2019-04-070.007 BTCd3a9586c10…eb6c5f
  2. claim2019-04-080.00666438 BTCf7d3842301…83a545

Files

Hints

  1. undated

    officialDo you know another two words?

    Published answer

    The two words I was looking for were "Thank you". Please note that these two words are the first in all blocks from 7 on, so I actually got away with disclosing the answer right in the next block question.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/bafyoo/hard_7_mbtc_quizchain_block_6

  2. undated

    officialThe two words need to be input in normal capitalization and a space between them. And there should be a space between the second word and the last three digits of the private key for block 5.

  3. undated

    officialHere are the last three digits of the private key, so I can move on to block 7. They are MQz.