We are 5 days into Satoshi's treasure hunt now. The 3 keys were given in a clue's last Sunday and the 3 keys have been obtained. The next clues are going live on Sunday from their website
The Plan
We are trying to get as many Steemians involved before Sunday. The discord channel is up and running and all are welcome. The hunt was set up so that 1 person cannot solve this puzzle. The aim of this group is to get as many Steemians trying to solve the puzzle as possible. In my opinion we have the perfect community to achieve this. The community has tech knowledge, leadership , cryptocurrency experts, and great problem solving minds from all over the planet. If we cannot do it nobody can. If we do achieve the 400 keys to unlock the 1 million dollars , the aim would be to keep the BTC in escrow within the Steem community to benefit different projects such as onboarding etc. If we could get as many active Steemians involved I believe we could bring home the top prize. Without the diversity we are doomed to failure from the start. So anyone thinking that they have no skills, that is bullshit. You may be the person who is in a geographical location that there is a clue. You may be the person that knows more about elephant dung than anyone else. It doesn't matter. This is for everyone.
So what am I trying to find?
It is pretty genius really. The company have broken the bitcoin into 1000 keys using a algorithm called Shamirs secret. It is a form of secret sharing, where a secret is divided into parts, giving each participant its own unique part. To reconstruct the original secret, a minimum number of parts is required. This minimum number is 400. So in order to access the wallet with the bitcoin we will need 400 keys. The genius thing about it is that the wallet is live and once someone has all the keys then they can access it. The is great because there is no third party involved. The treasure is there waiting to be accessed.
Who set up the Treasure Hunt.
Lots of people are asking me about this. So here it goes.
A well known crypto currency expert known as Eric Meltzer who is an early investor in bitcoin, Ethereum and Zcash formed a company called Primitive Ventures . The company was set up to promote the use of crypto currency and bring bitcoin to the masses. Gaming is a major strategy in doing this. The treasure hunt concept is perfect way to promote and learn about Bitcoin, keys and the power of this new global currency. Eric banded the idea around with some of his crypto friends and they jumped at the idea and contributed some bitcoin. The hunt would be impossible to be done in FIAT as currencies and countries would have to be involved. It will promote the uses of bitcoin and the power of the tool. It has no boundaries. His partner in the company is a well known crypto expert called Dovey Wan. Many of you know her from Twitter and being spot on in her crypto analysis. On a podcast recently someone asked Eric about the sceptics of the treasure hunt and he replied if he wanted to make a quick buck he would set up an ICO , shill it and disappear into the sunset with millions. Great answer in my opinion.
When did it Start?
Last Sunday a message came down via blockstream about the treasure hunt last Sunday and announced the website to access the clues. The website is satoshistreasure.xyz. The website announced the 3 clues for the first 3 keys.
It gave the locations of the first three keys and where and when to find them. The keys were to be found on 3 different days.
Were the Keys Found?
This is the great part. The first key, the Jade Key , was found in time square. There was a fella reading a book with the QR code on his back. Here he is in all his glory.Sorry about the image.
On his back with the qr code was the word "Orbital" which turns out was the passphrase to unlock the key. The first key was obtained.
So the 2nd key was going to be available the day after and the 3rd key the day after that but a computer expert called John Cantrell had other ideas. He noticed that the url address of the first key was /k1 at the end of the url. He changed the URL to /K2 and the passphrase appear so he was in!! He didn't know the passphrase so he used a brute force algorithm to obtain the passphrase which turned out to be the word Cosmos. Key 2 was obtained.
If you notice at the end of key 2 there is a quote. This has been the subject of debate over the telegram pages. So much so that some people are ringing up rift tech companies in search of a hidden key.
Key 3 was found by a user called Titan who also noticed the URL key and typed /k3 at end of URL. He guessed the passphrase as blackhole from the previous clues and he obtained the 3rd and final key of the clues.
Now the great thing is that John Cantrell found all the keys in under 30 minutes. This surprised the games creaters as they thought it would of taken alot longer than this.
So the 3 keys are public. John mentioned in his twitter that once the game gets harder then he will not be so forthcoming with his code cracking.
What's Next?
So the Steemit community has 100% of the keys so far (because they are public whoopp) The next clues are going live this Easter Sunday at 1pm EST which is 6PM GMT. Now in order to hit the ground running we need you!! Yep you. Resteem ,tell the big boys that run the place join our Discord channel and get this post trending. I don't care about the upvote. I just want to get the Steem community working together to bring the prize back home so we can then decide how best to spend the bitcoin. At the moment we have around 20 signed up to our Discord but we will need alot more people from all walks of life to get involved in this. Groups are forming in the communities like TRON , Verge and other currencies to bring the treasure home. Lets do this for Steem!! Hurry now. We don't want to fall behind.
Our Discord group is :
https://discord.gg/qaCn6K
No matter what you do we want you helping us!! Thanks to
@cryptoandcoffee,@erikah @paulag ,@heyimsnuffles, @pennsif,@niallon11, @cOff33a @baltcibadger and @odin for your help so far.
Any questions let me know!.
Hey @blanchy!! All this plan and initiative sounds like a good idea worth to try, especially to confirm the true 'community' muscle of our ecosystem. };)
Let's do it!! ¡Resteemed! 👌
Great @por500bolos . Great to have you onboard .
I love treasure hunts. I'm in!
Brilliant ! It will be great to have you @arcange
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This is so much like "Ready Player One". Awesome! I’m in
Great @torrey.blog. Delighted to have you
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First time on my mind as soon as I saw this treasure hunt. 😂
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Brilliant. Discord joined. If I can be useful in some capacity then that’s good 👍🏻
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Great ash thanks a million .we will know more when the next clue goes live
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Awesome idea. Like pokemon go on steroids!
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Steve is onboard with his gaggle of swallows ! 😀😀😀what’s that Toto? You seen a clue while flying over Morocco?? To the swallow mobile! 😂😂😂
😂😂😂I'll pull in whatever help we need!
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I like this kinda stuff. I'll join in the morning. On it
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Nice one!! Thanks . Your drone may be of use!! Where abouts are you in the world?
Maybe! That woulbe fun! East of England.
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I know a shitload about elephant dung so I'm in!
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No pun intended. 😂😂😂😂. Join our discord and tell us you location to the closest city.
how can i serve
Join up to our discord @mistakili and let us know where abouts in the world you are and then you are good to go!
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A friend of mine told me about this a couple days ago. It’s definitely interesting!!!
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How don't I know you with all the football you write about?? Come join us . Where you from?
Edmonton, AB, Canada. I just share blogs from Scorum! It’s a sports blogging blockchain! You should join it as I have!
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Im on it but didnt post in a while. Must go back
Are you under the same name on Scorum?
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I am indeed . Just haven’t posted in a while there .
Interesting. How many set of keys are there in all? This could take ages. I love the fact that it’s built on community and not individualism.
There are 1000 keys in all but it just takes 400 to get the prize. Join us fred!
https://discord.gg/HduaWZp
It's hard to solve that 400 keys
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396 to go. Gotta start somewhere and we have enough talent on here to do it .
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I'm really excited to see the next clue. Can't wait! 😀
So am I @erikah. We have around 15 in the discord group . We need a few communities . Could you work your magic . Would love to get the @krcommunity involved
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Let me see what I can do but I only have access to the cn community 🙂
Perfect .
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Dear @blanchy
I had a pleasure to received your memo and read suggested publication. Thanks for sharing link with me. Appreciate.
It's already sunday so it may be to share this post with others. But I will still share it with few closest friends. Unfortunatelly past few days were very busy and I only had a chance to read your memo now. Sorry for being so slow.
Wish there would be more time to "react".
Enjoy your sunday, upvote already on the way :)
Yours, Piotr
Regards appreciated @blanchy.
I follow your discord channel.
I join the search.
We all have to fight together for Steemit. !!!
Thanks for sharing.
Hello! Sorry for being late
I'd like to help
I can't enter in you Discord group. Do you have any other address???
Please add me to the discord channel
https://discord.gg/qXTfdb
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