Three smart winners successfully cracked a puzzle created by Larva Labs, creators of a popular non-fungible token (NFT) projects CryptoPunks and Meebits, to obtain a 64-bit string that turned out to be an Ethereum (ETH) private token. The key contains ETH 0.025 ($64) and the address of Meebit #2858.
Andrew Badr is a programmer. He revealed on Twitter how they solved the puzzle.
Earlier this year, the Proof Collective, a private collective of 1,000 NFT collectors and artists, announced the formation of an NFT consisting of 20 artworks by 20 anonymous artists. One of them, called Grail #11, an Autoglyph (a form of generative art) from Larva Labs, immediately made the NFT the most valuable piece in the series.
Someone pointed out the strange pattern of the L on the top of Grail #11 and speculated if it meant anything.
"His message caught my attention immediately because that part of the image does appear to be separate from the main part of the artwork," Bader said "These Ls don't have any rules."
Unlike the other lines, the top line consists of regular and inverted L-shaped characters. Using American Information Exchange Standard Code (ASCII), Badr converted these characters into 0s and 1s and decrypted the message, which read "The secret is in the pig's number, LL."
He then recruited a few friends to help.
The secret lies in the pig numbers appearing to be clues to hidden treasures—and, it turns out, that's exactly what it turned out to be," says Bader. Given that this information comes from Larva Labs, "the 'pig' reference must be referring to pig Meebits. . "
After probing the pigs' NFTs, the team noticed that the pigs were wearing jerseys, each with a number on them. They started exploring various options for interpreting the numbers on the pig's jersey, including mod 2, spacing between IDs, ASCII, base 32, and Caesars cipher, but none of these worked.
"In the end, what worked was to concatenate the hexadecimal strings in the 64 jersey numbers and interpret it as an Ethereum private key," Badr said, adding that there was a pig Meebit prize in the corresponding account and ETH 0.025.
A pig is NFT known as Meebit #2858 recently received a bid of 10.01 ETH ($25,670).
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