Solving coin_artist’s first Decred puzzle
This was posted on Decred’s Twitter account yesterday:
First step is to download the rbM.gif file. Inside it there is another gif:
This is 64057r1d3r.gif, showing Decred making a buzz to Bitcoin:
It has another zip inside it. But it is protected by a password:
Let’s crack it:
Password is “Top Gun” in 1337 speak: 70p6un.
This is the 60053.rtf document:
You can use some online decoder like http://www.asciitohex.com/ to convert hex and binaries to:
She flooded the land to enlarge her father’s kingdom
dashbicry sadbyrich cashbyrid
The text and the anagrams are about Charybdis. Searching for it on Google, I found this page: http://www.uexpress.com/tell-me-a-story/2009/8/30/scylla-and-charybdis-a-greek-myth
It has a comment from coin_artist:
Those word are a Decred backup wallet seed. So, we just have to import it on https://wallet.decred.org:
The prize was 40 DCR!