Bitcoin Genesis Block Puzzle Remains Unsolved Despite $111 Jackpot

A mysterious puzzle hidden within Bitcoin's Genesis Block has been puzzling blockchain analysts and enthusiasts for months. Created by an unknown individual on August 23, 2026, using information from the Genesis Block, the puzzle was contained in human-readable text in Bitcoin Block 963,629.

The creator of the puzzle used the information to generate a wallet with extremely low entropy, claiming it required no backup. The unusual challenge has since attracted attention, and two questions were posed to the puzzle creator by Galaxy Research X.

The creator answered that the witness script was a multisig and provided hints for solving the puzzle: 'The witness script is a multisig. Two keys, both required. The rest is for you to derive. Both keys use the same Genesis field, and there is no hash. Both keys are derived independently from Genesis.'

Galaxy Head of Research Alex Thorn has been working on solving the puzzle, stating that he had ground over 19.3 billion candidate scripts but ruled them out based on the hints.