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quizchain2/74

Solved on 2019-07-23 after 3d 1h 46m, key derived from the published recipe. 0.011 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 long time ago on a planet near to us

July 20, 2019, 11 mBTC. The hint came first, a day early, as a Wattpad chapter called "Waking Up". No question in it. The author funded the address half an hour before the post, just in case somebody solved it from the chapter alone. Nobody did.

The question sounds like Star Wars. A long time ago on a planet near to us. Digits c65, and later 04 for the solution alone.

PETM

Guesses went everywhere. u/Quantris said the whole thing must be leading up to a reboot of Dinosaurs. Then they tried first singularity TOMI wattpad chapter. No dice.

The 24 hour hint never came. "Yes, forgot about that one", the author admitted. The next hint would come in the second stage of block 77. A day later, still no hint. "This time I did not forget about it."

Three days in, u/puzzleponky got it. PETM TOMI second time now. PETM is the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a warming spike some 55.5 million years ago. "Never heard of it until it was mentioned in the last chapter on Wattpad." A long time ago, on this very planet, it got hot. Second time now.

The claim confirmed at 05:30:04 UTC on July 23. "I couldn't find the TOMI part", wrote u/JDScreesh. Honestly, who could?

IDquizchain2/7474 / 772019-07-20 → 2019-07-23
Puzzle / quizchain2

74

bitcoinp2pkh solved

Record 

puzzle({
  chain: "bitcoin",
  address: "1P1BFMU7vnpz…eMgYtmPY",
  status: Status.Solved,
  key: wif("L5FNDLpbFyJk…reCxZDRz").entropy("c65cb6a1680a…d74ad7e9", source("https://www.…euj5k1u/")).derived(),
})
Prize
0.011 BTC
Key material
wif, derived from the recipe
Verification
verified
Solved
2019-07-23 · 3d 1h 46m
tx 2
Trail
Explorerblockstream.info
Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/11_mbtc_quizchain2_block_74
Tryquizchain2/74 in the playground
Address
1P1BFMU7vnpzsaUtQCAvArVKQyeMgYtmPY

hash160 f15b5246f062a29081aef3dd1ac5aeb3ff513f4a

Balance
asking the explorer

Key

public key · compressed
03fe4d3f4476813e446c6f2043ef98eb28f5d1fcfadaa2c73dffc5d8b0736f2dc8
WIF
L5FNDLpbFyJkKY3JgHaFHKhRpXkiNkhCVDd9fRUiJZBZreCxZDRz
entropy hash
c65cb6a1680a40c8990882efd74ad7e9

Transactions

  1. funding2019-07-200.011 BTCf2623d2b46…cf1854
  2. claim2019-07-230.01085984 BTC31df04e8bc…1551bc

Files

Techniques

  1. md5-to-bip39-entropypuzzlereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/comment/euj5k1u

Hints

  1. undated

    officialQuestion: A long time ago on a planet near to us

    Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/11_mbtc_quizchain2_block_74

    Published answer

    PETM being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum never heard of it until it was mentioned in the last chapter on Wattpad

    Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/comment/euj5k1u

  2. undated

    officialFormat: [solution] TOMI [TOMI]

    Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/11_mbtc_quizchain2_block_74

    Published answer

    Solved! solution was "PETM TOMI second time now".

    Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/comment/euj5k1u

  3. undated

    officialFirst three digits of MD5 hash are c65 (copypasted).

    Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/11_mbtc_quizchain2_block_74

  4. undated

    officialI posted a hint for this block yesterday as an update to the Wattpad story, may be difficult to solve without that context.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/11_mbtc_quizchain2_block_74

  5. undated

    officialUpdate: First two digits of solution only hash are 04.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/Grycoin/comments/cfhi1e/11_mbtc_quizchain2_block_74

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