Hello everyone,
Im working on an investigation involving a mystery linked to the Bitcoin blockchain, and Im looking for technical help and collaboration to make progress.
Background:
Bitcoin Block 218 (a very early block) contains a public key that appears non-random, which is highly unusual for that era. This anomaly might hide a private key or secret data that, once decrypted, could grant access to a Bitcoin wallet or reveal a hidden message.
Technical details and hypotheses:
The suspicious public key might be decrypted using a two-step XOR process.
The first XOR key identified is DEV, which might represent entropy or a cipher key.
A specific sequence, 73925, is used as a cyclical positional pattern to extract hidden messages from hex strings linked to Block 218.
Repeated application of this pattern extracts bytes (positions 7th, 3rd, 9th, 2nd, 5th, etc.), which when converted to ASCII form intriguing phrases such as:
reveal the path. begin at genesis. UserID2 holds the truth.
Other blocks (220, 267, 412, 521, 618, 73925, 848256, 848263) seem involved in this cryptographic puzzle and are currently being analyzed.
Block 618 is nicknamed burn fire key and might be linked to a key step in decryption.
Block 848448 contains an OP_RETURN with the value ash = 72, possibly a timestamp or marker.
Goals:
Confirm the decryption method of Block 218s public key (particularly the XOR and DEV key).
Understand and automate the application of the 73925 sequence to extract hidden messages from hex data in the relevant blocks.
Determine if these hidden messages lead to a private key or Bitcoin wallet access.
Cross-reference these clues with other suspicious blocks to see if this is part of a larger puzzle.
What Im looking for:
Expertise in hex analysis and applied Bitcoin cryptography (especially key formats and public/private key relations).
Ideas on decoding methods (XOR, positional sequences, permutations, etc.).
Collaboration to build tools/scripts to automate these decryptions.
Any experience or leads on non-random keys in early Bitcoin blocks.
Thanks in advance to the community for your help and insights. I can provide more technical details upon request.
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