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 no, this challenge is to restore the private key from random characters, which is the security foundation of Bitcoin and cannot be challenged

In fact, the painting gives clues to restore the 12 seed words in the correct order, as the author said, this is a simple substitution cypher, it is impossible to restore it by just have the seed plate, and you can't even start guessing with just the painting, only by putting the seed plate and the painting together can you solve the private key.

And as I told the author, the password management tool I have actually used for the past 8 years can also be used for seed word encryption, which allows to publish seed plate and painting at the same time and still be unbreakable 
 @fiatbrecher has been working on brute forcing this and has made it pretty far actually which is crazy 
 Brute force is not feasible for this problem. With the current global computing power, brute force can significantly reduce the search range, but it is still not small enough for luck to play a role in a meaningful time. 
 Tell that to @fiatbrecher