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BT’s Metaversal Album Treasure Hunt Solution

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Intro

The musical artist known as BT recently launched his 14th album as an interactive NFT experience on the Arweave blockchain called Metaversal. Part of this experience was a multiple day long puzzle treasure hunt.

Metaversal:
https://btmusic.com/metaversal/

The beginning of the treasure hunt:
https://twitter.com/BT/status/1443318319235444738

The whole experience involved a matic airdrop, three days of puzzles leading to 11 NFTs each day, a geocache treasure hunt in real life, and a final puzzle involving the NFT game Neon District.

We assembled a squad and dove in to solve the BT puzzles:

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coin_artist 50k Follower Puzzle – Write-up

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The infamous crypto puzzle artist coin_artist just launched a new NFT airdrop for hitting 50,000 followers on Twitter. As with all coin_artist related announcements and products, we immediately dusted off the magnifying glass and started to seek for a puzzle. We quickly saw that she tweeted #1347 which is her bat signal that there is a puzzle to be found. It did not take long for us to find the trailhead!

Solvers:

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coin_artist – 34700 $coin Puzzle Write-Up ($20,000)

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Solvers:

A few of us recently participated in another puzzle and managed to be victorious, collecting 34700 $coin (est $20,000 at time of solve) prize. coin_artist of Blockade Game and Bitcoin fame recently launched a new crypto currency called $coin. She had the idea of having the coin's original value backed by the purchase of NFTs that cost several Ethereum.

There was a clever stipulation involved though, anyone who owned one of these original $coin NFTs would be able to solve a puzzle with a $coin reward once launched. Cloverme of Age of Rust (Space Pirate) purchased a few of these NFTs and gifted one of them to us. This gave us the chance to participate and attempt to solve her puzzle.

With the launch of $coin, it unleashed a new puzzle designed and created by Lee Sparks (motive).

Let's dive into it.

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JosieBellini’s Yours Truly Puzzle Walkthrough

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We recently participated in the Yours Truly puzzle created by Josie Bellini (@josiebellini) and managed to secure a victory by being the first to solve the entire puzzle series. Here is a walkthrough of all the puzzles and how to unlock Josie’s Yours Truly puzzle wallet.

Team:

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Montecrypto – ARGSS Write-Up

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Montecrypto: The Bitcoin Enigma

A solve diary & challenge-by-challenge walkthrough by the crew who cracked it

ARG Solving Station: Luigy, en, JTobcat, ziot, motive, Askin, lucifers_cat
Special thanks to: Austin, nsnc, pipecork

Meet us and learn more in ARGSS https://discord.me/arg_solving_station

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DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge

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Authors: image Brett Buerhaus, image Jason Thor Hall

Original Post: http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/126411303994/defcon-23-badge-challenge

Brett, Jon, and I teamed up with Council of 9 and won this years badge challenge after having great success in the DEFCON 22 Badge Challenge. Over the last year we have studied a huge number of cryptographic methods and ancient languages to prepare for this. We also released our own crypto-challenge website for the community to follow along and have fun challenging themselves. With our new knowledge and a great team in tow we headed out to DEFCON.

Here is the entire adventure as we experienced it with all of the puzzles, their solutions, and the steps to solve them. Understand that this document contains MASSIVE spoilers so if you do not want to ruin it for yourself please stop reading now.

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DEFCON 22 Badge Challenge

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Authors: image Brett Buerhaus, image Jason Thor Hall

Original Post: http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-22-badge-challenge-walkthrough

Brett, Jon, and I recently went to DEFCON and completed the Badge Challenge put together by 1o57.  Here is the entire adventure as we experienced it with all of the puzzles, their solutions, and the steps to solve them.  Understand that this document contains MASSIVE spoilers so if you do not want to ruin it for yourself please stop reading now.

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