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Locations
Topic: Flagship application “Bleed”| Link Text: “secrets that bleed”
Topic: Block Collider Security & Auditing| Link Text: “w22w22”
Topic: Blockchain Literacy| Link Text: “Jed”
Answers
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Hint 1, Difficulty 9, Supports BCE1
Hint 1 began as a Tweet and message on https://www.t.me/readyblockone (the Evangelists hint channel). While the message included meta data about the participation and timing of the event it was abruptly ended with the following three part message:
“Weaving spiders come not here” — 200901032015053020180412 — “w00w00” — Freedom through cryptography.
The first part “weaving spiders come not here” has been hidden in plain site for several weeks above the logo on the page the link was to be hidden on (you can still see it if you scroll to the bottom: https://blog.blockcollider.org/registered-for-the-block-collider-genesis-event-read-this-first-b5549865d6da).
The second part is not a series of numbers but as most presumed the dates of the launch of Bitcoin 20090103 2015053020180412, Ethereum 20090103 20150530 20180412 and Block Collider 2009010320150530 20180412. The important thing here is that the Ethereum launch date is 2 months early.
“w00w00” was a notable security group which specializes in messaging. If you also add 2 to each integer you would get w22w22 which is what the timeline above needs to be correct and is a direct string referenced in the blockchain security documentation page. To have succeeded at this stage was very unlikely even if you had scoured the documentation and blog.
Hint 2, Difficulty 8, Supports BCE1 & BCE2
Hint 2 was a Tweet and a message on https://www.t.me/readyblockone. The message contained both a text caption and a photo.
“Niels knows honeyd…he fathered steg but not Mt. Gox” — Block Collider manages multiple timelines from parallel timelines so offsets can be both errors and helpful identifiers. — Speculators weave on by, spectators welcome https://t.me/readyblockone
The “Niels” in “Niels knows honeyd…” is a reference to w00w00 team member Niels Provos. Honeyd which could have been construed as a typo was a reference to his project “honeyd” which presented at USENIX and assists in creating false servers to capture dark agents. Next the “…he fathered steg but not Mt. Gox” part suggests two things in one part. The first says he is not the father of Mt. Gox, the real father of Mt. Gox while it was still for Magic The Gathering Cards was Jed McCaleb. “steg” in this case refers to the second major software contribution Niels made called “StegDetect” which is a tool for detecting stenographic content in images.
If you zoom in on the image (you had to be coming from Twitter) you would see imperfections in the photograph.
Closer inspection still would reveal 2’s and 3’s all over. If you understood Block Collider’s multichain one of the core components is how the chain includes forks (briefly) of both kinds. These timeline errors actually assist in identifying the uniqueness of a given chain.
Assuming the importance of “2” from the last tweet if you removed all the “3”s or simply plotted a line between all of the “2”s you would end up with this:
For people who downloaded the photo if they investigated the lower corner would be met with a heavily granulated lat-long coordinates.
If you followed the coordinates you would be taken to a non-existent post office outside of “Area 51” (it exists but for agency purposes and not as a post office). There is one 5 star review of the post for ghosts from…
Stellar is the current crypto currency of which Jed is the founder. You may see this image again because there is one more hint buried in this photo but we will leave that to BCE2.
At this point keep in mind you were not expected to have known the answer. Surprisingly we received more than a dozen ideas and a few were right. A few were very well researched and wrong. A few were conspiracy theories.
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Hint 3, Difficulty 7, Supports BCE1
Hint 3 was posted to expand on hints 1 and 2.
“when you have the full perspective and focus on only offset timelines (months) the answer becomes more clear” — https://blockcollider.org/w00w00-2000.png
This of course suggested timeline offsets were important, to provide a high rest version of the image to help with parsing 3s from 2s, and finally the time period “months” to make sure days was not used the offset of interest between the right Ethereum launch date and the wrong one.
— — — — — — — — — — — — LINK LEAKED
We must protect and respect the hours of research hundreds of users putting in to studying the documentation and blog in readiness for the event. This means we prepared a contingency hints and links in the event someone posted the current links to a public forum. After that we freeze the old link registrations and enable only registration through the new hidden links.
Hint 4, Difficulty 4, Supports BCE1
Hint 4 required users to have studied the flagship applications of Block Collider deep within the documentation.
“Block Collider focuses on immutability even if you are not around to do so yourself.”
This somewhat morbid statement implies that the user is unable to enforce or ascertain the execution of the state of some transaction. This certainly would suggest “Bleed” Block Collider’s version of whistleblower protection app.
Hint 5, Difficulty 4, Supports BCE1 and BCE2
Hint 5 continued on the same line of thinking as Hint 4. This could arguably be more difficult but this hint includes some underpins of next Evangelist Event.
“You deserve to live in a world not run by validators, you own your past financial data, and you should own your future data forever even you are not a part of it.”
Really amazing support and genuine study from the community. Imagine a world where hundreds, even thousands know every line of the inner workings of Block Collider; bright future with a bright community.
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