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"I then started the tracker. After about an hour, it peaked at about 1.7 million distinct torrents across 3.1 million peers!"
This is not real encryption, it picks only one byte of shared secret and XORs it into the plaintext. Therefore, there are only 256 possible decryption keys to check, which is trivial.
Instead, you'd want to use the shared secret as a key to something strong and symmetric like AES.
Naming Baritone after Fit is actually a coincidence / joke, the repo github.com/cabaletta/baritone was the result of random brainstorming for something untaken. We only later realized it described Fit and thus added that to the readme :)
The reveal of the script is actually time-delayed. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Pay_to_script_hash
Essentially, you "send" the Bitcoin to the hash of the script, then whenever a transaction spends those coins it must reveal the script (whose hash must match), as well as some data (normally a digital signature or two) that fulfills the script's conditions.
So, the block explorer doesn't get to deal with it until the coins are spent, up until that point all it knows is a hash, which is represented as beginning with a "3", to differentiate it from the simple single-key addresses that begin with a "1".
When it's spent, a block explorer could show the revealed script contents if it wanted.
Perhaps the issue was that Philip Roth was unable to sufficiently demonstrate his identity? Of course, Wikipedia can't take a random editor's word when they say "I am this person and this is the truth", then anyone could say anything. There has to be some citation, for example I've seen someone cite a tweet for simple biographical information (e.g. "today is my birthday").
