Ciro Santilli The following almost certainly contain ASCII art but we were not yet able to decode them. Puzzle solvers from the Internet, we need your help!
- tx b4ba91b4892ff85a5eb18b85bc1fd744d9418b2a71f1dc130447893b9e1cab60, block 651974 (2020-10-09) The link yang.yiping.de/btc is dead with no archives, but the toplevel yang.yiping.de is an obituary to a Chinese lady called "Yang Yiping" (杨一平). The Bitcoin message is acknowledged on the website at:
archiviert auf der BTC Blockchain TX b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f
She apparently lived in Germany as the website is bilingual German/Chinese, the text:Wir vermissen dich
means:We miss you
TODO decode properly. It is encoded as P2PKH keys (20 bytes at a timt) but also contains its own newlines and trailing spaces. Maybe a start:Could it be across? She's apparently Christian based on the website..-==-. `-==- | | | | | Yang, Yiping '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' *-====-. .-====-* *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* .-=====' '=====-. .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. //yang.yiping.de/btc Wir vermissen dich! | Yang, Yiping |~tx b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f, block 652005 (2020-10-09) also contains some related content with her name, though not identical. Perhaps they are meant to be assembled together somehow? - tx 71d9187cbb7b00b4c516df218499bbc301996262cfafc4533fd7916af1fb6315, block 709632, (2021-11-14 ) starts a consecutive sequence of transactions that seem to encode an ASCII art. Each line is encoded with OP_RETURN, is 38 bytes long, and starts and ends in 6 spaces, leading to 26 non-whitespace characters per line. In block order we have:
The strings:
;4Fdzw1k=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz; ,zzzzzq;. 1zzzz, ,zzzzq ,qzzzzzz1, 1zzzz, ,;qzzzzz1qq, ,;1zzzzzqqq, ,zzzzq .;qzzzzzq:1zzzz, ,zzzzq:1zzzzzq;. 1zzzz, ,zzzzq .;qzzzzzzz, ,vtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw==. ;BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q==; ;tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY; ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, ,zzzzzzzzq, 1zzzz, .:qqzzzzqqq, ,zzzzq ,qzzzzzzzzzz, ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,seem like Base64 encoded data due to thevtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw== BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q== tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY 4Fdzw1k==sign padding, but nothing human readable comes out of them.