collections/Wickex's YouTube puzzle

wickex/youtube

Solved on 2013-12-23 after 46m. 0.001 BTC on a Bitcoin address, 1LhQZc57j9i3xofj5poayd6PnakN7xHwDA. Part of Wickex's YouTube puzzle.

IDwickex/youtube2013-12-23
Puzzle / Wickex's YouTube puzzle

youtube

bitcoinp2pkh solved

Record

bitcoinPuzzle({
  address: p2pkh("1LhQZc57j9i3…kN7xHwDA", "d80eb2723684…57092259"),
  status: Status.Solved,
})
Prize
0.001 BTC
Key material
none published
Verification
unverifiable
Solved
2013-12-23 · 46m
tx 6
Trail
Explorerblockstream.info
Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/medium_1mbtc_find_the_private_key
SolverIAMABananaAMAA
Trywickex/youtube in the playground
Address
1LhQZc57j9i3xofj5poayd6PnakN7xHwDA

hash160 d80eb27236847fae88418ce952444a4657092259

Balance
asking the explorer

Key

public key · uncompressed
04f84646d641306db5209da72a4f7ce6386404fb4035a296b38467a39406a6bac7b85b541eab98b8b217245a7ba0f9dfca5549a659470d69abb3544d7772d5c684

Transactions

  1. funding2013-12-230.001 BTC57252340e3…bd9c8c
  2. claim2013-12-230.0009 BTC5575a2365c…0fd28b
  3. increase2013-12-230.001 BTC8c0dad0787…a70072
  4. claim2013-12-230.0009 BTCd800bb1584…f5e785
  5. increase2014-02-010.00027486 BTC53326fec15…938a3d
  6. sweep2014-02-010.00017486 BTC730ee0ff5d…129d9d

Hints

  1. 2013-12-23

    officialI'll start you all off with the following code: 68 74 74 70 3a 2f 2f 77 77 77 2e 79 6f 75 74 75 62 65 2e 63 6f 6d 2f 77 61 74 63 68 3f 76 3d 71 59 78 38 46 76 58 39 69 62 30

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/medium_1mbtc_find_the_private_key

    Published answer

    Hex -> Text -> Youtube URL

    2013-12-23reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce87ss1

  2. 2013-12-23

    officialThe morse-output should be all-caps by the way!

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce86ukc

    Published answer

    I personally loaded the Youtube video into Audacity to make it more clear, but it was morse code -> text.

    2013-12-23reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce87ss1

  3. 2013-12-23

    officialIt's case-sensitive and all caps.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce86v8h

    Published answer

    That was a bit.ly which went to the second video. That video was loaded into Sonic Visualiser and that had a string encoded into the sound.

    2013-12-23reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce87ss1

  4. 2013-12-23

    officialThe image is meaningless. You're one step away, Brainwallet.org!

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce86xa9

    Published answer

    That string in Brainwallet.org was the private key.

    2013-12-23reddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce87ss1

  5. 2013-12-23

    communityAny hint on the image? I have the text (I dont want to spoil it here, but "STI...I5Z") but I don't know about that.

    Sourcereddit.com/r/bitcoinpuzzles/comments/1ti0uw/comment/ce86vnj

local record / balance from the explorer

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