pogo

Who this is

For years, just a handle in someone else's write-up. ZorenX wrote up the whole Arweave series and names pogo as the solver of Puzzle 01 and Puzzle 02. That was the entire trail. Then the launch tweet of Puzzle #1 turned out to have a reply.

Solved! The solution was "5 7 10:01 18 90 Dead Sea Bd6 Apple 039". Thank you very much for this puzzle, hoping more will come!

PogoB posted it on May 23, 2019 at 20:14 UTC. The prize wallet had moved at 19:53. Who else would have the full answer twenty minutes after the claim? ZorenX's write-up came a year later. So the record no longer guesses about a handle.

And the speed is the fun part. Puzzle 01 got its first AR on May 22. The page hit the chain the next afternoon, and Tiamat tweeted it at 18:33. Eighty minutes later the prize was gone. Seven riddles, logos included, typed in the exact format the page wanted. Puzzle 02 went up a day later and lasted under twelve hours. Two puzzles, 2250 AR. Good week.

What the record says and what it doesn't

Three facts now: the reply, plus one per write-up. The Twitter account goes in as a profile and PogoB as an alias. The key stays pogo, the name ZorenX used. Is Pogo Bounce a real name? Nobody says, and the record doesn't either.

There's also a pogo writing puzzle write-ups on Medium around the same years. Tempting. But nothing on either account points at the other, so the record keeps them apart.

The record

solver: party("pogo", {
  key: "pogo",
  kind: PartyKind.Person,
  aliases: ["PogoB"],
  about: "Twitter user who solved the first two Arweave puzzles, each within two days of going up, …",
  profiles: [profile("twitter", "https://twitter.com/PogoB")],
  facts: [
    fact("Replied to @ArweaveP twenty minutes after the claim: …", SOLVED, { date: "2019-05-23" }),
    fact("ZorenX's write-up of Puzzle 01 names pogo as the solver: …", WRITEUP),
  ],
}),

weave/2 carries the same key and kind with its own fact, and the registry joins the two. The reply itself is archived in assets/sources/weave/ with a screenshot, since tweets have a habit of disappearing.