This repository contains all publicly known hints for GSMG.IO 5 BTC puzzle challenge. Contributions are welcome!
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- The puzzle was published at https://gsmg.io/puzzle
- The prize address with 5 BTC is 1GSMG1JC9wtdSwfwApgj2xcmJPAwx7prBe (The creator of the puzzle intended to halve the prize each time Bitcoin halving occurs. It happened for the first time on May 11, 2020, the current value is 2.5 BTC)
- Discussions on Reddit: gsmgio_5_btc_puzzle, gsmgio_5_btc_puzzle_challenge
- SHA256 online tool - https://xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator
- To decypher AES encrypted text, use https://www.openssl.org/
Useful OpenSSL flags:
-d decrypts data
-a tells OpenSSL that the encrypted data is in base64
-in <filename> specifies the file to decrypt
-out <filename> specifies the file to put the decrypted data in
Squares are bits, black/blue - '1' and yellow/white - '0'. It's a 14x14 binary matrix:
0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1
1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1
1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1
1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1
Start from upper left square and go counterclockwise in a spiral. Convert the bits to ASCII characters:
01100111 (103 g) 01110011 (115 s) 01101101 (109 m) 01100111 (103 g) 00101110 (46 .) 01101001 (105 i) 01101111 (111 o) 00101111 (47 /) 01110100 (116 t) 01101000 (104 h) 01100101 (101 e) 01110011 (115 s) 01100101 (101 e) 01100101 (101 e) 01100100 (100 d) 01101001 (105 i) 01110011 (115 s) 01110000 (112 p) 01101100 (108 l) 01100001 (97 a) 01101110 (110 n) 01110100 (116 t) 01100101 (101 e) 01100100 (100 d)
What you get is: gsmg.io/theseedisplanted
The pictures refer to the song The Warning (by Logic) which you can see by rearranging the images: war + ning and LO + (crypto) gic. This webpage contains a hidden POST form which can be accessed in the browser debug mode (F12 in chrome). You need to unhide it, enter the password theflowerblossomsthroughwhatseemstobeaconcretesurface and hit Submit button. You'll be redirected to the next step.
3. https://gsmg.io/choiceisanillusioncreatedbetweenthosewithpowerandthosewithoutaveryspecialdessertiwroteitmyself
This is a reference to The Matrix Reloaded movie:
Merovingian: You see, there is only one constant one universal: causality - cause and effect.
Morpheus: Everything begins with choice.
Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion created between those with power and those without.
The password is causality.
SHA256(causality) = eb3efb5151e6255994711fe8f2264427ceeebf88109e1d7fad5b0a8b6d07e5bf
To decypher the text, use openssl. Copy the encrypted text into phase2.txt, then run:
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -a -in phase2.txt -pass pass:eb3efb5151e6255994711fe8f2264427ceeebf88109e1d7fad5b0a8b6d07e5bf
Decryption result:
The ironic 2name of the keymakers trying to protect the current digital powers which are still in severe danger due to the keymaker's way of security by hiding, nearly unprotected, in plain sight. {eps3.4_[in one of the valleys of Phillip]runtime-error.r00., where daughters hit magic keypads} When this fails.. Crypto finally to the latin 3Moon? Tell me, 4How so mate?
# X 2 S H 4 Y 0 Q B 15 #
Q -> extend the name of a hackers' swordless fish, the I and W are below.
B -> ((BV80605001911AP)- (sqrt(-1)))^2
H -> (Answer to only this puzzle but nothing else) * -1
S -> cha' + (vagh * jav)
Ok kid, on the highway, let put it in the worst gear.
It is unclear how to use X 2 S H 4 Y 0 Q B 15, but it was observed that S is Klingon numbers 2+(5*6)=32 and BV80605001911AP is a model of Intel i5 processor, hence B=(5i-i)^2=(4i)^2=-16. Using the other hints (2name, 3Moon, 4How so mate) which are a reference to a Thales Hardware Security Module, you can decrypt the next phase. The password is a concatenation of 7 parts. The first part is causality.
For part 5, you have to follow the ramblings, (these are a bit of a stretch)
There's a guy who theorised the idea that 'Any linear electrical network with voltage and current sources and only resistances can be replaced at terminals A–B by an equivalent current source Ino in parallel connection with an equivalent resistance Rno'.
- Norton's theorem
ruler of a piece of land that's technically the poorest of the entire planet
- Probably the USA due to foriegn debt
4 rulers have shared the first name of the competition.
- USA had four presidents with the first name "John"
2 had the firstname in the surname
- USA had 2 presidents with the last name "Johnson"
One of the rulers had a number, and dirty too
- JFK (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
The one after died too soon.
- JFK? "A president may have executed a specific order.")
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_federal_executive_orders#John_F._Kennedy_(1961%E2%80%931963)
Moral: never execute an order that revokes the highest power or you might suddenly get killed. The 5binary code is a part of the piece of this puzzle.
There are two executive orders by JFK that look like 5 digit binary "11110" and 11111", however, EO 1110 was to "[try] to rein in the power of the Federal Reserve" and may have been a reason for his assassination.
Part 6:
Its' raw data after 4 on row 1616 to be one of the last pieces of this part required in order to continue this riddle. Is a reference to the genesis block, and the source code to bitcoin itself
// line 1616 of main.cpp
// txNew.vin[0].scriptSig = 486604799 4 0x736B6E616220726F662074756F6C69616220646E6F63657320666F206B6E697262206E6F20726F6C6C65636E61684320393030322F6E614A2F33302073656D695420656854At this point you see "/(aBa, connected enf)" which is the puzzle's way of saying: don't change the casing of the input (aBa) and remove whitespace (connected enf)
Part 7:
B5KR/1r5B/6R1/2b1p1p1/2P1k1P1/1p2P2p/1P2P2P/3N1N2 w - - 0 1
And now a buddhist is forced to move. What will be the next situation?
This part displays chess board position and is asking the position of the board after making a move that will not result in mate (a buddhist move). It's a fairly well known problem in chess and searching for the chess position quoted will give you:
B5KR/1r5B/2R5/2b1p1p1/2P1k1P1/1p2P2p/1P2P2P/3N1N2 b - - 0 1
and here you'll see "/(aBa, connected not enf)" meaning: don't change the casing of input (aBa) but keep the whitespace (connected not enf)
1part causality
2part Safenet
3part Luna
4part HSM
5part 11110
6part is 0x736B6E616220726F662074756F6C69616220646E6F63657320666F206B6E697262206E6F20726F6C6C65636E61684320393030322F6E614A2F33302073656D695420656854
7part "B5KR/1r5B/2R5/2b1p1p1/2P1k1P1/1p2P2p/1P2P2P/3N1N2 b - - 0 1"
Concatenate them all and perform SHA256. SHA256(causalitySafenetLunaHSM111100x736B6E616220726F662074756F6C69616220646E6F63657320666F206B6E697262206E6F20726F6C6C65636E61684320393030322F6E614A2F33302073656D695420656854B5KR/1r5B/2R5/2b1p1p1/2P1k1P1/1p2P2p/1P2P2P/3N1N2 b - - 0 1) = 1a57c572caf3cf722e41f5f9cf99ffacff06728a43032dd44c481c77d2ec30d5
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -a -in phase3.txt -pass pass:1a57c572caf3cf722e41f5f9cf99ffacff06728a43032dd44c481c77d2ec30d5
Decryption result:
What if the merovingian is wrong. What instead of causality something else could be ours? Therefor, if so, the ...... is ours. The thinker's 1name behind all of that would grant you access to the next step (of humanity). Definitely look into his works might you have time. /(aa,connected enf)
I just passed a cheshire cat and I'm getting fed up with this puzzle.. It's taking forever. But, How long is forever? I don't know, but just add giveit in front of the answer and you can fall in the keyhole. /(aa,connected enf)
3.The fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties are know. /(aa,connected enf)
Phase 3.2 is ciphered with aes-256-cbc base64 and a sha256 pw, yet again.
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- Jacque Fresco quote: "The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct."
- Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.
- Heisenberg uncertainty principle
SHA256(jacquefrescogiveitjustonesecondheisenbergsuncertaintyprinciple) = 250f37726d6862939f723edc4f993fde9d33c6004aab4f2203d9ee489d61ce4c
To decypher this Phase 3.2 text, use SHA256 again:
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -a -in phase3.2.txt -pass pass:250f37726d6862939f723edc4f993fde9d33c6004aab4f2203d9ee489d61ce4c
The result of decryption:
I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also irrelevant.
... am I here? Wake up, you... I've designed you a beautiful strategic position. One for one, four for one.
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"... am I here? Wake up, you..." is your first clue, it's a direct quote from the first matrix movie "Why am I here? Wake up, Neo. The matrix has you" (often in the gsmg puzzle, "neo" is replaced with "you"
The next clue is "I've designed you a beautiful strategic position" hinting at a "beautiful" -> "beaufort" cipher, where as "One for one, four for one" hints at the encoding. one for one, four for one -> 1 for 1, 4 for 1 -> 1141 -> IBM EBCDIC 1141 encoding
- phase 3.2.1 The first blob (╬╚,╬°%_....) converted to letters:
vtkvplmepphluwahtzmjpfipuxohaptukzztgikfwpuyatowynlebtqwffvgaaaxjflrxvokligooxeiexjywwukuucdlfwpwekogsngbvtzmnteulhpuchmrabiiejptvcaqbspqauhpmdjqhaqhuyddiwgxvxgpofaqizsentyesqmgchuazmyhmnrbzioyhucvqzcfmwxotomoblfeblcngppselsnlwaehcnwxznaynaceazhfzeunpeewjvhjysqjpposalabzuaplpppteafvvnzpryhsnkjuxsmkubnnimopukojensnlfxfabgeujmyqbqwtnmzitbtqwukuwfnxmfpepxuiwuxqqvgwgpzpptnguyaloavsnkppuhohkcazrghmrpbhicegsjdntttepqdmzrkdbstiabnasjmytghqhimcadgjvlhuvqaaababytxqhetvnpsknbinpxxwzrkfczjmhphezjmydkqtqrixlyhdolhuocpoecwakafomluodaoxmhxkiehekgkituelmynbpuhovoblpiyjakbduxbulpfnntcfmpqdsfdkcavazhakiepelyvabbkoitycfvushkbcjwzuadivfmgjdmbawzhmnekelhuocpykuhmnxiniregjqzlenbyexemnpucaleeiajvrjmyhdmodleopqkqnnzqbootnqmcybmdiajxmrdmmnqybgtllqkcizuihmjqpviehxwatlipitudotsfqgzmakmhnpqzinyxtzogygigvtmwbtghlpxttpgifohsgempkpiyatudomayqtzwtutlymtwppubmtwwuhmnwjphdhkrlflmzinushphruituniiedvfdirevdpplmibxrtehlqwylwtzmaqeeawhywbazsismrntewafxgvdbmjpzpmdiagaaihrjsmrntgwqkcqpkciwqjvrwcotjmrzazhtyaeototuhrowynfmpqdceegcgtitmcnpdqnzkvnppqsjrngjewaydjflwzutyelsmbyxwqzmuwhjvxoselapaaakmqnkjntejkpzwtoytarzqwklwqcowzuakeiqsgunubzcuaoyegltkwhwfniepiqegdkyqxqqoquwingecjemazpqlqwgykeajoummeaavibjledwfubscjptsfeqxuxehwqydrenanrelsfulftpmqmcoqetvkllbmdekhzrxiqsxyvqjdgzmanpqhhsnwgsqktwodrvznmmgomodijpbopqwptominnihfpulspucgbmoxeieauvdiacgjiqaugiyakhysfosijmasrzkfowgwxubauepijvrjmyhsmiwpyepamqzylwaaewajelybeawobvqcvwzaajuktvukudxztbhfgacdafvsmiwkbhlfiedpuhkczwlenaketkhklmbltryvaketuhkhkhppmyvvdogpwhtwqicyymqgovxnodkdaaabwbzagdahnqnfsaomzaeeawelkslhqlwigij
Go to https://ciphertools.co.uk/decode.php , paste this text to input and choose Beaufort to crack it (the password is THEMATRIXHASYOU by the way). The result of decryption:
YOUR LIFE IS THE SUM OF A REMAINDER OF AN UNBALANCED EQUATION INHERENT TO THE PROGRAMMING OF THIS PUZZLE
YOU ARE THE EVENTUALITY OF AN ANOMALY WHICH DESPITE MY SINCEREST EFFORTS I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO ELIMINATE
FROM WHAT IS OTHERWISE A HARMONY OF MATHEMATICAL PRECISION WHILE IT REMAINS A BURDEN TO SEDULOUSLY AVOID IT
IT IS NOT UNEXPECTED AND THUS NOT BEYOND A MEASURE OF CONTROL WHICH HAS LED YOU INEXORABLY HERE YOU
YOU HAVEN'T ANSWERED MY QUESTION ME QUITE RIGHT INTERESTING THAT WAS QUICKER THAN THE OTHERS PLEASE IF YOU
FIND A WAY TO COMPLETE THE LAST PART OF THE PUZZLE TAKE THE PRIVATE KEY YOUVE EARNED IT BUT PLEASE TAKE
THIS TO HEART THAT WHAT A WISEMAN ABOVE HINTED AT IS WORTH HUNDRED FOURTY OF THE INVESTMENT THAT'S
WHAT US GUYS AT GSMG ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE END PLEASE JUST HELP US BUILD IT INSTEAD OF JUST
WAISTING YOUR LIFETIME BY HUNTING FOR WORTHLESS PRICES AND THROPHIES LIKE THIS I'M SORRY TO
TELL YOU THAT YOUVE COME THIS FAR BUT YOU'LL NEVER FINISH THE LAST TASK I EXPECT YOU TO SAY BULLSHIT
WELL DENIAL IS THE MOST PREDICTABLE OF ALL HUMAN RESPONSES BUT REST ASSURED THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME
I HAVE DESTROYED A RESTLESS SOUL AND I HAVE BECOME EXCEEDINGLY EFFICIENT AT IT THE FUNCTION OF THE YOU IS
NOW TO RETURN TO THE SOURCE CODES ALLOWING A TEMPORARY DISSEMINATION OF THE CODE YOU HOPEFULLY CARRY
REINSERTING THE PRIME BASICS AFTER WHICH YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO SELECT FROM OVER TWENTY-THREE CIPHERS
SIXTEEN ENCRYPTIONS AND OR SEVEN INTERTWINED PASSWORDS TO FIND THE ACTUAL PRIVATE KEYNOTE THAT ALSO
BRUTE FORCING MIGHT BE REQUIRED FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS PROCESS WILL RESULT IN A CATACLYSMIC
SYSTEM CRASH KILLING YOUR WILLPOWER WHICH COUPLED WITH THE EXTERMINATION OF YOUR WILL TO LIVE AND WILL
ULTIMATELY RESULT IN THE EXTINCTION OF THE ENTIRENESS OF YOURSELF SELF GOOD LUCK NEVERTHELESS I REALLY
HOPE YOURE THE ONE CIAO BELLA O
- phase 3.2.2
input: 15165943121972409169171213758951813141543131412428154191312181219433121171617137149110916631213131281491109166131412199114371612126021664313711154112
The alphabet is hinted at in the following sentence: A fubcd-king & oracle-queen, thingky mvps, on a sad board but as wide as the first one seen.
- fubcd-king & oracle-queen, thingky mvps
- FUBCD ORACLE THINGKY MVPS
- (removing repeated characaters): FUBCD ORA.LE THINGKY MVPS
- (adding the rest of the alphabet): FUBCDORA.LETHINGKYMVPS/JQZXW
https://www.dcode.fr/vic-cipher
alphabet: FUBCDORA.LETHINGKYMVPS.JQZXW digit 1: 1 digit 2: 4
output: IN CASE YOU MANAGE TO CRACK THIS THE PRIVATE KEYS BELONG TO HALF AND BETTER HALF AND THEY ALSO NEED FUNDS TO LIVE
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There's a hint from the creator of the puzzle on Decentraland:
If you go to Decentraland and find these coordinates, you'll get an audio file.
Split stereo track, invert one of them, mix them back, mix stereo down to mono, create a spectrogram. The answer is:
HASHTHETEXT -
Another hint from the creator:
Roses are White but often Red.
Yellow has a number and so does Blue.
Go back to the first puzzle piece without further ado.
It might have shown you only one door, beware that the rabbits nest may contain a whole lot more.
Hush hush.
Go to the first puzzle piece (https://gsmg.io/puzzle) and hash the text there.
SHA256(GSMGIO5BTCPUZZLECHALLENGE1GSMG1JC9wtdSwfwApgj2xcmJPAwx7prBe) = 89727c598b9cd1cf8873f27cb7057f050645ddb6a7a157a110239ac0152f6a32
The resulting hash leads to the SalPhaseIon and Cosmic Duality phase https://gsmg.io/89727c598b9cd1cf8873f27cb7057f050645ddb6a7a157a110239ac0152f6a32
This phase can be split into multiple sections, only some are currently decoded
d b b i b f b h c c b e g b i h a b e b e i h b e g g e g e b e b b g e h h e b h h f b a b f d h b e f f c d b b f c c c g b f b e e g g e c b e d c i b f b f f g i g b e e e a b e a b b a b b a b a b b a a a a b a b b b a b a a a b b b a a b a a b b a b a a b a b b b b a a a a b b b a a b b a b b b a b a b a b b a b b a b a b b a b b a a a b b a b a a b a b b b a a b b a b b b a b a a f a e d g g e e d f c b d a b h h g g c a d c f e d d g f d g b g i g a a e d g g i a f a e c g h g g c d a i h e h a h b a h i g c e i f g b f g e f g a i f a b i f a g a e g e a c g b b e a g f g g e e g g a f b a c g f c d b e i f f a a f c i d a h g d e e f g h h c g g a e g d e b h h e g e g h c e g a d f b d i a g e f c i c g g i f d c g a a g g f b i g a i c f b h e c a e c b c e i a i c e b g b g i e c d e g g f g e g a e d g g f i i c i i i f i f h g g c g f g d c d g g e f c b e e i g e f i b g i b g g g h h f b c g i f d e h e d f d a g i c d b h i c g a i e d a e h a h g h h c i h d g h f h b i i c e c b i i c h i h i i i g i d d g e h h d f d c h c b a f g f b h a h e a g e g e c a f e h g c f g g g g c a g f h h g h b a i h i d i e h h f d e g g d g c i h g g g g g h a d a h i g i g b g e c g e d f c d g g a c c d e h i i c i g f b f f h g g a e i d b b e i b b e i i f d g f d h i e e e i e e e c i f d g d a h d i g g f h e g f i a f f i g g b c b c e h c e a b f b e d b i i b f b f d e d e e h g i g f a a i g g a g b e i i c h i e d i f b e h g b c c a h h b i i b i b b i b d c b a h a i d h f a h i i h i c z a g d a f a o a h e i e c g g c h g i c b b h c g b e h c f c o a b i c f d h h c d b b c a g b d a i o b b g b e a d e d d e z c f o b f d h g d o b d g o o i i g d o c d a o o f i d h z s h a b e f o u r f i r s t h i n t i s y o u r l a s t c o m m a n d U 2 F s d G V k X 1 8 6 t Y U 0 h V J B X X U n B U O 7 C 0 + X 4 K U W n W k C v o Z S x b R D 3 w N s G W V H e f v d r d 9 z a b b a a b a b a b b a b b b a a b b b a b a a a b b a a b a b a b b b a a b a Q v X 0 t 8 v 3 j P B 4 o k p s p x e b R i 6 s E 1 B M l 5 H I 8 R k u + K e j U q T v d W O X 6 n Q j S p e p X w G u N / j J s h a b e f a n s t o o
The two "abba" sections can be decoded first, where we translate a=0, b=1, and interpret the resulting string as binary representation of ascii characters:
a b b a a b a b a b b a b b b a a b b b a b a a a b b a a b a b a b b b a a b a -> "enter"
Next, we see two occurances of "shabef", and the English text "our first hint is your last command". To get into Salphaseion, we had to sha256() a string, which gives us the mapping shabef=sha256 -> b=2,e=5, f=6, or, a=1 .. z = 26. But, the rest of the text doesn't seem to decode the same way. We notice that "z" seems to be a separator for various segments, and comes before other substrings, we have:
- a g d a f a o a h e i e c g g c h g i c b b h c g b e h c f c o a b i c f d h h c d b b c a g b d a i o b b g b e a d e d d e
- c f o b f d h g d o b d g o o i i g d o c d a o o f i d h
Again, using a1z26 doesn't seem to get us anywhere, but if we look at which characters are available it will give us a clue. "a" through "i" and "o", 10 characters, and we know that a=1, and i=9, we can guess that "o" is "0", this updates our decode to:
- 174161018595377387932283725836301293648834223172419022725145445
- 36026487402470099740341006948
Through some trial and error, we find that these need to be shifted to base 16, then decoded as hex representation of ascii
The following follows the same formatting as previous openssl base64-encoded AES blobs that we encounted in previous stages
U 2 F s d G V k X 1 8 6 t Y U 0 h V J B X X U n B U O 7 C 0 + X 4 K U W n W k C v o Z S x b R D 3 w N s G W V H e f v d r d 9 z Q v X 0 t 8 v 3 j P B 4 o k p s p x e b R i 6 s E 1 B M l 5 H I 8 R k u + K e j U q T v d W O X 6 n Q j S p e p X w G u N / j J