By According to Eric Meltzer, Satoshi’s Treasure co-creator of Primitive Ventures, as many as 60,000 users have signed up for notifications related to the international scavenger hunt for $1 million in Bitcoin (BTC).
On Saturday 11 May, Melzter and his team revealed yet another clue at the Magical Crypto Conference in New York: a series of cryptic images as well as other hints hidden on business cards which were handed out at the event.
Furthermore, as revealed to the press, a group of early crypto investors have also pledged an undisclosed amount for the funding of future contests and campaigns. Notable names who have sponsored include Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Mark Pincus, Andrew Lee, IDEO CoLabs Ventures, Nic Carter, Matt Walsh, Meltem Demirors, Li Xiaolai, Jehan Chu and Sam Engelbardt.
Carter stated:
“I’d say Satoshi’s Treasure is so exciting because it’s the pure joy of a treasure hunt. It’s global, and anyone can participate.”
On the other side of the spectrum, many have formed online teams (does this not remind you of Ready Player One’s clans?) to collect the 400 key fragments which are required to move the prize from the contest bitcoin wallet, stated Meltzer. However, it must be noted just how different the bitcoin gaming community is compared to that of other online gaming fraternities. For example, John Cantrell, a software engineer, managed to crack the code for one of the first key fragments and quickly took to Twitter and Github and shared detailed instructions on how he achieved it.
Cantrell told the press:
“For me, it’s really all about education.”
Since his success, Cantrell also joined several teams and created a free tool called Ordo to help teams organise clues and credit contributions to the hunt in a fair manner, which of course will come in handy to the winning team when they need to divide up the winnings.
Cantrell added that so far, the largest team using Ordo has as many as 600 members.
Furthermore, another large team dubbed the Magellan Clan told the press via email that it has 100 members from 30 different nations. This clan has gone as far as creating a unique token to reward users beyond the team who provide helpful tips.
As a result of so many players signing up to take part in Satoshi’s Treasure its become clear that Cantrell isn’t the only one creating tools & services for players.
ToshiCiphers, an 18-person clan, for example, launched a merch store for teams interested in creating t-shirts and other swag.
While many players in the game are veterans like Cantrell, the contest has also attracted some gamers for its collaborative nature as opposed to the prize itself. Clues to the award are littered around both the physical world and online which requires entrants to utilise a range of diverse skills and languages.
Kramer stated:
“We have a couple of people who are new to cryptocurrency, didn’t know much about blockchain, but they were brought in by the hunt.”
Kramer’s teammate, Yann added:
“I think we are playing the first Great game of the Augmented Reality Era.“
Sign up for your chance to hunt – visit
https://satoshistreasure.xyz/
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