Does anybody remember that cryptic message with the md5 sum and everybody copied it and posted it as a comment?

This seems to have been ages and ages ago, but possibly the time just hasn't come yet.

Anyways, I remember this guy was a respected member of our community here, and said he had information of vital importance relating to either a market or an event that was allegedly about to occur. For security reasons, he was unable to post his findings at the time, but he encrypted his message using some one way hashing algorithm and asked people to post it as a comment, and that in x amount of time, he would post his findings and everybody could verify their authenticity by hashing it themselves.

Did he ever post those findings? Has it not been long enough yet? Does anybody else remember what I'm talking about?


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[7 Points] verbify:

The original thread..

The followup by /u/gwern.

The relevant part:

$ echo 'Sheep Marketplace was founded and run by Tomáš Jiřikovský (random nonce: 19093)' | sha512sum 43a4c3b7d0a0654e1919ad6e7cbfa6f8d41bcce8f1320fbe511b6d7c38609ce5a2d39328e02e9777b339152987ea02b3f8adb57d84377fa7ccb708658b7d2edc

I don't know much about the episode (you can easily google Sheep Marketplace and Tomas Jirikovsky), but Sheep Marketplace shut down and people lost their bitcoins, it is believed by some that Tomas stole the bitcoins.

/u/Gwern does a fair bit of research into Dark Net Markets related stuff - he's 'in the know'. He keeps a site I read every so often, his Dark Net Markets thing is here - http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road.


[5 Points] samwhiskey:

Yep, you missed it. Very intriguing stuff.


[3 Points] joustingthesky:

Basically, it was like this shit's going to go down, but I can't reveal what's going to happen until said shit goes down. Only then can I relay what happened...after said shit goes down. And the guy had trouble decrypting the message or something like that.


[3 Points] _GordonBombay:

Search for Gwern and SMP or Sheep Marketplace.


[4 Points] bennyking3:

pretty sure it was something like "this/one of these marketplace(s) is going to get busted or flee with everyone's money very soon because their code sucks" (can't remember if they named a few or just one marketplace but I think that the/one of the marketplaces that was predicted did end up scamming...tormarket or ??? it seemed like a bit of a lucky guess but maybe it was legit.


[3 Points] Homer_Goes_Crazy:

He named a particular name as the founder of Sheep Marketplace.