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Ah ok cool! Got it 😊
So greater minds got to it before me 😁
It's a neat concept - how did you work out they were coded messages?
Here's another code system you might be interested in. A cryptographer called Leo Marks, who worked at the Special Operations Executive during WWII for the British devised a means of passing ciphers via steganography.
The idea is that someone would write a letter, how they phrase sentences would determine the number, he called it the "Wind Swept Code". It would go something like this:
Hello, Allia = 0
Dear, Allia = 1
Greetings, Allia =2
etc.
I'm so happy to have received your latest correspondence = 0
I'm so glad to have received your latest correspondence = 1
I'm thrilled to have received your message = 3
etc.
By the time you write out the whole letter no one is the wiser that you have passed on a coded message 😁
Would recommend the book 'Between Silk And Cyanide' which outlines this.
how did you work out they were coded messages?
Well I know a thing or two about cryptography, math, and numbers in general... so once your brain has developed enough of the right synaptic connections, you start seeing patterns in seemingly random sequences :) idk how to explain it effectively, maybe try online version of SET game: IMO one of the best brain exercises outside of mathematics itself. When I binged on it I was able to do it competitively in seconds.
I'm also obsessed with the history of cryptography and unsolved puzzles like the Beale ciphers etc. I mentioned some of that here; being medical-grade paranoid since childhood helps too :) (and ofc you can use LLMs now too lol - they started solving old ciphers)
BTW, if you post your book rec in our Library you'll do a service to humanity ;) at least to the Monero part of humanity ;))
Lol, it’s not that cryptic: I wrote those tweets (the ones I saved in that Substack article; the article itself isn’t a coded message) when I got my first coded message. I didn’t realize it at first; it just looked like a random tip. Then I received several more tips with strange amounts and hints, and it clicked: the tip amount is the code. That’s exactly what you mean by "passing secret messages via the XMR blockchain using numbers to represent words". After that I started posting coded replies in my public posts, like this one.