Wow congrats, I was following this back in the day but never got even close to solving this. But I did spend some time on it.

Glad someone managed to solve it. I can only wait for the solution once found, and hope someone writes and explains it. LOL

Keep up the good work CoinArtist!

Wow. My path was definitely wrong. But yet, there are images to be found in all the crazy photomanipulation I did. There were often distinct. Were they an elaborate red herring, or set of Easter Eggs?

I’m glad I wasn’t closer, to be honest, but there was so much detail...

Okay, I give, where did I say or alluded to that you ruined the mystery?

Meanwhile, re Justin Tobin aka JTobcat ...

http://rev.vu/nERkb?utm_campaign=Issue&utm_content=share&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The+Mystery+League

Man I was so close.  I was in the process of writing a perl script to XOR the 8 different possibilities of the data streams with 011010.  I had it right though on my first guess.

Outer Color Yellow - 0  Outer Color Orange - 1   Inner Color Purple - 0  Inner Color Green - 1  Inner Color Skinny - 0 Inner Color Fat - 1 Short Flame - 0 Tall Flame- 1

I had posted the above a while back.

After writing the script I would have run a word attack on the results and I had created a word file with words from the poem.  Here is a sample of that list.
wonder
shine
right
Flaming
sight
Property
Reason
division
compounded
twain
concordant
dove
chorus
tragic
THRENOS
Beauty
truth
rarity
Grace
simplicity
cinders
Death
nest
loyal
breast
eternity
posterity
infirmity
married
chastity
Truth
repair
prayer


Yep, there is truth and rarity right in there.  heh.  So close.

Part Two of my exploration of the Rabbit Hole (wrong approach) is up. There are some images that I think even the biggest skeptics would find hard to dismiss.

I obviously know I was on the wrong path, but there are some very real, and very cool images in this puzzle. I don't think I've even scratched the surface.

https://yetzirah-games.squarespace.com/blog/2018/2/3/the-legend-of-satoshi-nakamoto-part-2-the-rabbit-hole

as I said before it is definitely not my thing and I would not have followed, but surely I am impressed. But I shared your images with my wife who is an artist and she just cannot believe the beauty of it all.

Having said that, I really must admit I can see the queen and the cheshire cat and all those things really are in there.

Pan Troglodytes: For some reason when I try to quote anyone, I'm unable to. However, thank you for acknowledging that there was something to find. I'm crazy, for sure, but hopefully in a "productive member of society" kind of way.

But as for that beauty, working through this puzzle, even if I was on the wrong path, was often sublime. I've had so-called mystical experiences (I'm an agnostic, so don't put much weight on them), but this puzzle shows that coin_artist knows her stuff.

I'm not talking directly to her because I think she'd prefer that we explore it all on our own without dragging her in. The fun really is in the exploration, and a true artist prefers to let others do the interpretation.

If your wife wants to explore the image, I'd recommend the tiff version. The jpeg worked fine, but became pixellated a few dozen steps in, and the detail in the tiff is worth a slow computer.

Not really, I think that after the first few steps, there are a lot of different directions to go. And I don't think of the images as my art. I think of the image as interactive art.

Excuse me, why is it in that exact order? the beginning is because the rabbit looks at that side, right?
It would be great for someone to do a step by step with images haha PS: The best puzzle.

what the fuck have i just read! is this the solution to what so called The legend of satoshi nakamato?!!
@ytcoinartist Really?! seriously?! are you kidding us?!!


Thanks God that i didn't invest time and effort in this big troll shit (just a few hours though)
but after i read that solution i knew why all those genius solvers were not able to find the right way,
because simply you were trolling them with that image filled with clutter and symbols!

What about those 17 leaves and their directions and placement on the chessboard?!
what about that 7×9 Fuckboard?!
what about the queen? the knight? the phoenix and turtle dove? the blue color tiles? the transparent bottom of the queen? the vines and all those characters and symbols scattered everywhere includig that BIG E in the middle? what about all of this image?!!

this puzzle turned to be nothing more than decoding flames and nothing else needed!! just the flames!
you can give this biggest troll ever made other names like: FUCKING HEARTS, TROLLING HEARTS,
HEARTS OF COIN-ARTIST... anything except legend of satoshi nakamato!
is this puzzle a legend?!

what kind of stupidity is that to use just the flames to encode the key?
That stupidity and the trolling effect of all this image and symbols is the real reason why it lasted more than 3 years,,, not the difficulty at all.
the previous puzzle with much much more complexity took only few weeks for the genius who solved it, but this one is the most stupid thing i've seen!

of course i am not talking about your art, the painting itself is really of a great quality, its a masterpiece, i was really thinking to buy something like this if it was in limited quantities or something like collector edition.

and of course i am not talking about your other works, this is my first experience in puzzles and i don't have that much knowldge in ciphers and programming to success, but this puzzle is just for someone lucky! nothing needed more than luck, just luck!

i would say congratulations for the lucky winner who won the lotto!
i am sure there were many genius guys who have tried their best from the beginnig and invested too much time and effort in this Troll, i feel really sorry for them, i imagine if i was one of them i would feel like breaking down this painting over your head!

if you read some of the posts you'll see how far you troll the solvers in your rubbit hole all that time.
look for example these posts:  post  #1370   #1406  #1305

Those guys are genius!, i am really amazed by how far they've reached and how they think out of the box to solve a puzzle supposed to be a legend with too many elements and deep thinking, but they failed just because of the stupidity integrated in this puzzle and only one way that needeed luck!

i sent merits to those guys and i encourage anyone here to read their posts and sent them merits, they deserve a little reward!

i apologise for that guy (kreeoz) as i called him scammer because i was skeptical of that 1st feb date.
i am sorry dude, and your way of thinking was really amazing, in fact the puzzle should be created in the same way you showed us!

i also apologise for @ytcoinartist herself calling her scammer, obviously you are not, and i don't have any proof, but you really have been trolling those genius solvers all that time with this puzzle so be sure in the future to think carefully before you make such a thing.

i am not that bad guy, i really feel sorry for all you guys, i'll be sure to delete all those posts.
i was trolled by that White-x-rabbit and that image about WR in the first post of this topic, but it wasn't just my mistake, the puzzle itself was trolling us, his claims that he knows the author and all that trolling stuff he posted and even without any response from coin-artist or the real author.
they can simply step in and tell us that he is trolling us and they don't know him.

anyway, i would say again that i am so sorry for any mistake and all the bad stuff that i've made.