Wickex

Who this is

A Reddit account, and one of the two people who made December 23, 2013 probably the best night r/bitcoinpuzzles ever had. Wickex is also an author, so this page is the other half of the same record.

At 22:35 UTC IAMABananaAMAA put up a GIF with 1 mBTC inside, marked easy. At 01:01 Wickex posted the address, about two and a half hours later. The prize moved within minutes. Asked how, Wickex explained: the GIF has a ZIP file glued to it, the ZIP has a text encoded twice, MEGAN-35 and then ATOM-128, and at the bottom of that is the key. The author's hint about a Megan who'd be 35 years old if she were a person suddenly made a lot of sense.

And then

Solving it made posting the next one only fair, so at 02:22 Wickex put up their own puzzle. Hex, a YouTube video with Morse in it, a second video, a brainwallet. The first account to crack it was IAMABananaAMAA. Two accounts, one night, each one solving the other's puzzle. You couldn't script it better.

What the record says

Two facts on the solver side, both Wickex's own comments under the GIF: the address, then the method. The author side, with the reason the second puzzle exists, lives on the author page. Same key, same party.

The record

solver: party("Wickex", {
  key: "wickex",
  kind: PartyKind.Person,
  about: "Solved the first puzzle on r/bitcoinpuzzles and posted the second one the same night.",
  profiles: [profile("reddit", "https://www.reddit.com/user/Wickex/")],
  facts: [
    fact("Posted the prize address as the answer, about two and a half hours after the GIF went up.", comment("ce846u3"), { date: "2013-12-23" }),
    fact("Explained the method: a ZIP hidden in the GIF, then MEGAN-35 and ATOM-128 decoding down to the key.", METHOD, { date: "2013-12-23" }),
  ],
}),