It might be safe to theorize the 2 groups could have its similarity of some sorts. These puzzles look for the most intelligent people and insist you solve some things in order to prove your enlightenment or something along those lines and I suggest maybe its for a high end security and crypto-currency developers because well they do go hand in hand with one another. Just to add the whole mysterious and anonymous look didn't give it away I don't know what I'm doing or looking at anymore. We will dive head first into the Decentralization Agenda and goals of many groups and how some things overlap in this investigation.
The emergence of CICADA3301 and the rise of Cryptocurrency share a distinctly parallel timeline.
There is an obvious spike in cryptographic concerns/topics/efforts as we grow more and more aware of our lack of anonymity.
The shadowy nature of Bitcoin's origin is almost as strange as the identity of the cicada organization.
Some have claimed that Cicada 3301 is a secret society with the goal of improving cryptography, privacy and anonymity.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1zevaq/the_rise_of_bitcoin_and_cicada3301_does_anyone/
Well if it was working who would tell us everything? Well our good friends 
https://steemit.com/crypto/@fortified/cicada-3301-or-a-binary-quantum-encryption-model-based-on-dna
By the looks of things and how things was explained it appears to be somewhat of a good idea!
When we want to talk about more Decentralizing other things we can look at Bitcoin.
Some people even Suggest the elusive mystery group is behind Satoshi Nakamoto.
https://steemit.com/conspiracy/@satoshimoto/cicada-3301-the-creation-of-bitcoin
We find this image in the archive of Cicada 3301 image in 2014 telling solvers to invest in bitcoin like they said in 2012 and 2013 and never have financial problems again which they would of been right all along and even got 10 times better since. Also note the "Expect us" as a hint to the anonymous connection I would like to say literally.
If we want to look deeper into the Decentralized part of things then this is another project to give notice and it is called "Cicada" . Seems like a lot of stuff going on here and maybe a group to look into if it isn't Cicada 3301 it's pretty close. We also note that the use of " I AM" and "A.I" reversed at the beginning in the website name along with "Cicada".
http://iamcicada.com/cicada-deep-dive/
We can find an article with the owner and how he claims he isn't in the group but confesses resemblance.
https://hackernoon.com/song-of-the-cicada-project-and-the-mystery-of-cicada-3301-9ce93184f3dd
Here is the Cicada Whitepaper from "the laughing monkey", that wasn't a joke but sure does look like it.
https://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform/blob/master/Cicada-WhitePaper-2016-10.13.GA.1.pdf
Now lets take a look at some of there technology claims and how they line up so well with Cicada and Bitcoin symbolisms and ideology .
A decentralized, people-controlled universal ID, called the HUID
An "Info Wallet" linked to the HUID returns control of personally identifying information (PII)
The HUID can make large-scale data breaches a thing of the past.
One beautiful side effect of the system is that it provides **a workable ** universal basic income (UBI).
The DPoW is also incredibly energy and storage efficient, able to run on a cell phone without draining the battery.
As the system matures, the HUID will make it trivial to apply for a new job, sign up for a website, or simply buy things in person or on the web.
The Cicada platform also includes a robust, end-to-end verifiable, direct democracy voting system.
The voting module gamifies voting by giving voters incentives for constant participation.
A citizen proposal filtration system keeps crazy ideas from ever coming to a national vote by routing them through ever-larger layers of people.
Cicada also uses an encrypted messaging system that has the potential to end the crypto wars forever. It builds on David Chaum's idea for PrivaTegrity, but takes the idea much further.
Cicada functions even if all centralized communications infrastructure fails.
Lastly, Cicada takes malware writers' tricks and uses them against them, protecting the binaries on everyone's cell phones with checks against a software blockchain.
It could be all a show or its all well played and just goes good either way I'm not here to pick sides or say who's right or wrong or who Satoshi Nakamoto or Cicada 3301 is but we are sure they are "Anonymous" for the most part that's a mystery we can solve at least. I'm just putting some pieces together I seen laying around and I hope you had fun putting the pieces together and reading my article about it more in depth and my perspective on the subject more.
Interesting thing about Cicada's is they hide for a while before emerging which is another thing Bitcoin and Cicada 3301 seem to have in common as well as other high technological Projects.
The cicadas are a superfamily, the Cicadoidea
Most cicadas are cryptic, singing at night to avoid predators.
The periodic cicadas spend most of their lives as underground nymphs, emerging only after 13 or 17 years, which may reduce losses by starving their predators and eventually emerging in huge numbers that overwhelm and satiate any remaining predators.
That's all we have for now and the mysterious stay hidden until they come out some more. I tried to show you what I can and make it interesting and a good fun learning experience for the reader. Be sure to stay tuned for more posts and upvote, comment and resteem this if you found it interesting and useful! Thanks again I really appreciate it and I wish to have many many more great Steemit posts in the future for all you followers and newcomers!
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