That's weird. Tried to keep the puzzle simple and see if there's interest to continue them.
It shouldn't give any error, but I haven't tried extracting it on Windows though.

Could someone confirm it using Linux?

I actually tried the OpenStego program last night with windows and I got a java error but I didn't have time to troubleshoot as I was playing Santa.  I don't think my brain is working very quickly these days because even after seeing Cyrus' post saying the layout was deliberate and fillippone's post spelling it out precisely and actually attempting to use the OpenStego program, I only made the connection with the OpenStego program when I woke up this morning.  I tried some online programs to decrypt the image as well without a password but they were able to find a message or said a password was required.  I wish I had more time now but we have a lot of visiting to do yet today.  Good luck everyone!

 Merry Christmas!!

So I guess this was one of those smart puzzles from you, but you overestimated our brain capacity to read between the lines this time...
I will engage in decrypting your hidden message only if it contains hidden private key for wallet address with loaded free Bitcoin new year gift.
It's holiday season after all and I think that you tortured us enough this year
Crăciun Fericit! Sărbători fericite!

Cyrus is so uptight sometimes, imagine if he hosted the show  

Here's the link guys and girls, made sure the video is now public as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK4VqHEf8CE

Spread the word if you liked it and most importantly, enjoy your holidays and Merry Christmas!

Not uptight enough apparently!
*Not that they're contribution to the forum is not extraordinary.

They'd better  

Same result. OpenStego keeps asking for a password on Ubuntu 20.10. I also tried embedding a message without password on Linux and extracting it on Windows and it worked fine.

It was so good that I wanted it to be at least a 30-minute video ^{[hopefully, it quickly moves out of the experimental stage/phase and it becomes a regular thing]}

I hope it's the latter one... If I may ask, who's controlling this account?
^{- Only answer if it's not going to lead to the former one}

Cyrus you sneaky fella...!!!

I got the twitter notification for your tweet and saw the image and tried to find any thing on YouTube channel there was nothing.... so I thought this might just be a teaser v2.0.

To be honest I didn't read the description "Someone said it might have something to do with steganography."

Any way just watched the first episode and its awesome... excellent opening I would say and loved the way you highlighted our favorite WO thread.

At first I thought I should take a toilet break and watch it in privacy.... but then i settled for this.

How do you rate my setup to watch the first Episode?




Who's this? I mean someone official related to Bitcointalk show? or Cyrus?

Is it TryNinja?

Anyway, I loved the second video so much that I'm not even going to nitpick the aspects of it that I didn't like, because they're outweighed so much by my liking of it that it would kill the buzz.

I had to chuckle that signature campaigns were mentioned, and for a minute there I nearly slapped my head, anticipating that it might draw in a ton of people intrigued by the idea of getting paid to post--despite the fact that it was noted that campaigns are thought to be responsible for the spam problem.  However, I suppose it remains to be seen how many people actually see the video.  At the time I watched it (about 3 minutes ago) it had 120 views.

And dang:



I's internetz famous!!  If only for a millisecond.  And I think that's the first time I've seen the Chipmixer signature as it's displayed to people who don't have sigs ignored.

Edit:
Ah.  Well that would make sense given Cyrus's position with the forum.  Guess I hadn't paid attention to that custom title.