Anonymous Coder Hides Bitcoin Wallet Puzzle in Satoshi’s Genesis Block
TL;DR:
- Transaction detected on the network: A 255-byte message was recorded in the OP_RETURN output within Bitcoin block 963,629.
- Low wallet entropy: The author claims to have derived the private key using exclusively public parameters from the Genesis block mined in 2009.
- Clue mechanism: The transaction paid a 250-satoshi fee to miners and included an interactive clue system to crack the access.
On Saturday, August 22, an anonymous developer published a Bitcoin wallet puzzle by embedding a readable message directly into the blockchain. The creator claims the wallet’s private key was generated using public data from the Genesis block created by Satoshi Nakamoto.
The discovery was identified by Galaxy Research analysts following the mining of block 963,629 by the Foundry USA pool at 19:45 UTC. Within this 500-byte transaction, the sender utilized a 255-byte OP_RETURN output—a size researchers described as unusually large for direct on-chain text storage.
Two questions have been asked to the puzzle creator questions and he’s answered them.
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