It took me exactly 20 seconds to get the email address behind this ... and I'm not a professional rebus solver. I just happen to know how a base64 and hex encoded string looks like.
when you say 20 seconds did you reach for a bash command ? interested knowing which.
so much for import base64!!
curl -s http://blog.balancedpayments.com/balanced-payments-operation... | html2text | grep -P '[^.*]=$' | head -n 1 | base64 -d | sed 's/../0x& /g' | xxd -r -c 100 | rev
I really wouldn't hire someone who wants to use grep to parse out html[1] :P
Then again, I would not like to work for a place where engineers don't understand this ;)