---
title: "Wickex"
description: "Solved the first puzzle on r/bitcoinpuzzles and posted the second one the same night. Then watched the author of the first one solve it."
canonical_url: "https://puzzles.agntn.dev/solvers/wickex"
---
# Wickex

> Solved the first puzzle on r/bitcoinpuzzles and posted the second one the same night. Then watched the author of the first one solve it.

<solver-facts solver="wickex">



</solver-facts>

## 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](https://puzzles.agntn.dev/authors/wickex), so this page is the other half of the same record.

At 22:35 UTC IAMABananaAMAA put up [a GIF with 1 mBTC inside](https://puzzles.agntn.dev/collections/iamabananaamaa), 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](https://puzzles.agntn.dev/collections/wickex). 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

```ts [src/collections/iamabananaamaa/gif.ts]
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" }),
  ],
}),
```


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