The 1 million USD in Bitcoin Treasure Hunt Dubbed The Satoshi's Treasure and How You Can Contribute To Find It!
Last Sunday, Blockstream satellite broadcasted a cryptographic message revealing a treasure hunt for a 1 million USD in bitcoin prize. The message challenges those who come across it to find Satoshi’s Treasure. In order to find it, series of challenges of ever-increasing difficulty need to be surmounted by those who desire to claim it.
“If you are reading this, something has led you to search for things which bring excitement to an otherwise predictable world.”
“The treasure which will belong to the most successful Hunters and their clan is neither gold, nor jewels, nor pieces of worthless paper that pass for money in this sad age; instead it is Bitcoin, a digital treasure forged from deep mathematical truths, in an amount equal to 1 million USD,” stated the message.
The treasure is contained within a bitcoin address, and those who can figure out its private key will gain access of the funds. Creator hints that this private key is shattered into 1,000 fragments of which 400 are necessary to piece it back together.
“I have shattered this Bitcoin treasure into one thousand pieces, using the splitting magic of the wizard Shamir. To reassemble it, you or your clan must find exactly four hundred of the pieces, and meld them back together using Shamir’s spell of recombination. Once you have done so, the treasure will be irrevocably yours.”
The message is referencing Adi Shamir, an Israeli cryptographer and “Shamir’s spell of recombination” is the secret sharing algorithm he invented. The algorithm allows a message to be divided into parts, and if a certain threshold is met (in this case 400) the secret can be solved.
“Some keys will require deep knowledge of a certain subject–others will simply require the ability to travel to remote locations, or perform feats of strength. The difficulty will increase until I am satisfied that I’ve found a group of hunters worthy of taking the prize,” the broadcast continued.
The challenge itself is so difficult that it is said that not one single person can claim it through their efforts alone, but they rather need to collaborate with other enthusiasts in order to have a chance of obtaining a prize of roughly 200 bitcoins.
For that reason, @blanchy launched a campaign on Steem to surround himself with people of necessary skills to take this prize home and use it for the betterment of our beloved chain of blocks. Ingenious move I must say, and one that could potentially not only bring us 1 million dollars worth of funding for a wide range of different Steem initiatives and projects, but it could also serve as a gateway to a huge number of crypto enthusiasts, programmers and cyberpunks joining the Steem blockchain after ripples of our victory make their way through the intangible world we like to call the internet.
If you possess the necessary skills in programming and cryptography, or you just want to witness the progress made on the treasure hunt in real-time, join the discord channel created for this purpose.
I don't have any such skills but I'll try to help by mentioning some users who might have the skillsets needed for this treasure hunt. Hopefully some of them will see this, lend you a hand.
If you know a skillful Steemian that might be able to help, don't hesitate to tag him in the comments down below!
@yabapmatt, @themarkymark, @good-karma, @lukestokes.mhth, @roelandp, @someguy123, @gtg, @therealwolf, @thecryptodrive, @ausbitbank, @timcliff, @aggroed, @blocktrades, @anyx, @smooth.witness, @followbtcnews, @drakos, @cervantes, @jesta, @clayop, @xeldal, @fyrstikken, @liondani, @emrebeyler, @riverhead, @pharesim, @bhuz, @pfunk, @abit, @stoodkev, @reggaemuffin, @arcange, @kevinwong, @patrice, @holger80, @nextgencrypto, @fulltimegeek, @guiltyparties, @steemed, @dragosroua, @ura-soul, @klye, @quochuy, @roundbeargames
Show em' what you got fellas!
Thank you for sharing our project @runicar. And the great thing is that we tokenised the hunt so if we win we will be buying our token back for steem!
That's an awesome idea, wish you the best of luck and may you bring that treasure home successfully!
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