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RE: Could this Letter Hold the Key to Satoshi's Wallet? A Letter form Marcel Mellish to Charlie Shrem

in #story • 8 years ago (edited)

Sorry to disappoint you, but no private keys are hidden here :(
It is just some sort of a simple code using first letters after double space, first part to be read as follows:
"If I had (or "I have") all last VPNs"

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     8 years ago (edited)
    • From the mistaken Yiddish words he forms a sentence: "Thief troubles begins"
    • "It's too late for Chiropody--the vultures are already circling:---- (and there it is "-- ----" = "24" (hours)) to:
    • call this street phone in CA "(310) 939-4827"
    • He just waited there on 1/30/14 (the letter is posted few days before)
    • @liondani is right, Marcel Mellish triggers "marshmallow" (probably with fire)

    It was just a ransom letter from an ex military gamble addict....
    P.s. Last known address for Caesar Kimmel is in a small French village (probably just waiting the end of the world :D), the letter is written in this house: http://on.trulia.com/2bMGKlM
    P.s.s.: I am sure there was some additional info under the stamps too ;)

    Cheers

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     8 years ago (edited)

    pump, I think you have the best guess so far. Also it's simple.
    It is statistically improbable that letters after double spaces would form an intelligible phrase like that.
    There is no reason for anybody to send Charlie a secret message that specifically mentions Bitcoin if there is no other things at the end of the string. Doesn't mean that this is the only string though.

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     8 years ago 

    Whoa!

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     8 years ago (edited)

    in the original letter there is a difference:
    "If i had*, AI of (or a(n) IO) VPPs"
    -VPP= Vector Packet Processing
    -the number "8" in [s] "Ru8tgers" could be intentional (because of the hand added comma, or just a u+8 tupo)

    • (double dots = you get two spaces (3 words) after the dots)
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     8 years ago 

    Your explanation doesn't match your demonstration. You are taking arbitrary single letters, multiple letters or whole words (haven't explained the rational about doing that). You are cutting words in two and taking a letter inside list "most" or "tray-bearing" etc. Again no explanation. With arbitrary rules, I too can make that text say anything of my liking. Please explain your reasoning.

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       8 years ago 

      Double spaces in the OCR version don't seem to match the double spaces in the scanned image, I am getting tiiamiuopp, way less interesting.

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