Willing_Astronaut430 tracks BCH transaction in under 12 hours and collects XMR bounty
Willing_Astronaut4301 has succesfully tracked a Bitcoin Cash transaction ID2 in less than 12 hours and collected the associated $20 XMR bounty2 from fatalglory3:
Ladies and gentlemen… we have a winner! DM me an XMR address to claim your prize. The answer was d9c4ec5129eea9c58e28d3e5b646065f2e26808bc1dcd19f6484e7ae9b7fa62f.
That’s alarming. It took less than 12 hours for someone to win it! I would be MOST appreciative if you could tell me what led you to the right TX?
According to the winner, it took a lot less than 12 hours to accomplish this:
I found it with I would say less than an hour of my time. And really it’s more about the community than the money I wouldn’t mind if I wasn’t paid.
He assures the community that more details about the methods he used to find the correct transaction ID will be released soon:
It’s was relatively easy and simple and I must say I’ve never worked with the BCH blockchain before. I perhaps cheated in a sense it was not purely chain analysis. I will post a more detailed guide of my working tonight [..]
UPDATE: Willing_Astronaut430 shared4 his details about his detective work today.