Bitcoin Puzzle Unlocked: Cryptographer Links Genesis Block to Wallet

A cryptographer has created a puzzle wallet linked to Bitcoin's Genesis Block, mined in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. The code is hidden in an oversized transaction that contains more than half of the total size.

The transaction, which cost only 250 satoshis (0.60 sat/vB) in miner fees, was discovered by Galaxy Research analysts in block 963,629. The message is embedded through the OP_RETURN field and occupies 255 bytes of space.

The author of the puzzle abandoned traditional seed phrase generation and instead used publicly available information from the Genesis Block to generate the wallet's source data.