Collin Mutembei collinmutembei

Today (April 16th 2019 at noon) the first major clues to discover key #1 was set to be released in a few cities. A QR code with the words 'orbital' were found at these locations and looked like this: (https://imgur.com/a/6rNmz7T). If you read the QR code with your phone you will be directed to this url: https://satoshistreasure.xyz/k1

At this URL you are prompted to input a passphrase to decrypt the first shard. An obvious first guess was to try the word 'orbital' from the QR code. Not suprisingly this worked! This reveals a congratulations page and presents the first key shard:

ST-0001-a36e904f9431ff6b18079881a20af2b3403b86b4a6bace5f3a6a47e945b95cce937c415bedaad6c86bb86b59f0b1d137442537a8.

Now, we were supposed to wait until April 17th to get clues from the other cities for keys #2 and #3 but that wouldn't stop me from digging around with all the new information we had. All that time "playing" notpron (http://notpron.org/notpron/) years ago was going to help me here.

The first thing I noticed was

Short link to this page: caseywatts.com/quicktime

Other gists & tricks: http://caseywatts.com/gists-and-tricks

Unrelated update: my book is out! Debugging Your Brain is an applied psychology / self-help book

Quicktime + Hangouts Recording

Scenario: You want to talk with someone over google hangouts (like for a user study), and you want to record BOTH:

A Gopher Rising

Inspired by Maya Angelou's Still I Rise

You may walk through my GitHub history,
With it’s non idiomatic and fragal lines,
You may value me less than dirt,
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

	# whatsapp_server.py

	import os
	from typing import Annotated

	from pydantic import Field, BeforeValidator
	from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict
	from twilio.rest import Client as TwilioClient
	from twilio.base.exceptions import TwilioRestException

	apiVersion: apps/v1
	kind: Deployment
	metadata:
	labels:
	app: traefik
	name: traefik
	namespace: default
	spec:
	replicas: 1
	selector:

	# Instruct the interpreter to create a network request and create an object representing the request state. This can be done using the urllib module.

	import urllib.request
	import tarfile
	thetarfile = "http://file.tar.gz"
	ftpstream = urllib.request.urlopen(thetarfile)
	thetarfile = tarfile.open(fileobj=ftpstream, mode="r\|gz")
	thetarfile.extractall()

	# The ftpstream object is a file-like that represents the connection to the ftp server. Then the tarfile module can access this stream. Since we do not pass the filename, we have to specify the compression in the mode parameter.

	# https://goo.gl/NO38hO

	# add in Vagrantfile
	config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => "sudo rm /etc/localtime && sudo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Africa/Nairobi /etc/localtime", run: "always"

	# replace `Africa/Nairobi` with the timezone you would like to set

	import speech_recognition
	import pyttsx

	speech_engine = pyttsx.init('sapi5') # see http://pyttsx.readthedocs.org/en/latest/engine.html#pyttsx.init
	speech_engine.setProperty('rate', 150)

	def speak(text):
	speech_engine.say(text)
	speech_engine.runAndWait()

	#!/usr/bin/env node
	// run with: node sequencehunt_server.js
	// info page: http://localhost:8080/info
	// correct values: http://localhost:8080/check?val0=4&val1=12&val2=77&val3=98&val4=35

	var http = require('http');
	var url = require('url');

	var TimingAttackProtectionSeconds = 3;

	import exifread

	# based on https://gist.github.com/erans/983821

	def _get_if_exist(data, key):
	if key in data:
	return data[key]

	return None