It seems that satoshistreasure.xyz was supposed to be a massive 1 million USD hunt but in the end they only gave a fraction of the bounty or the company didn't deliver.
Does anyone know anything? Most I can find is this with some clues answered: https://suhailvs.github.io/treasure/
The reason I ask is because I'm making some simple bitcoin riddles and going through the history of things that have been done previously.
Really curious about it, will tip anyone with information not available on the interwebs :)
Thanks!
Yeah, we had a team back in the day. It started pretty interesting, but it quickly devolved into unfulfilled promises and people largely gave up. I think the organizers realized it wasn't really a wise move to just give out 1M worth of Bitcoin at that particular point in time. Specially without a clear monetization idea.
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I remember when it launched, you had to gather all the parts of the treasure to win, but it was basically impossible. And I think they didn't even had all the riddle figured out at the time. It was supposed to be a mysterious thing but soon the company that was behind it appeared and I think they were going to come up with new riddles as the time passed, which sounds scammy to me (as they can make it last a long time or make it harder or easier depending on what they were seeing from the community).
I say it was impossible because they would put hints in multiple countries and you had to go the places to get them, which they say was to incentivize formation of teams. Some teams were formed, but I highly doubt teams would be stable and that people would be trustworthy enough, specially since the team you're forming is with random people from the internet you don't know at all (who by any chance knows trustworthy longtime friends from dozens of countries?).
Cost too high, rewards too dubious, I didn't look anymore after the 3 first hints, but I would guess everybody gave up and the company stopped giving out the hints.
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Ah, I see, interesting. I read somewhere that people were "scammed" as in the company Primitive Ventures took money from people, or that only 1 BTC was distributed when it should have been much more.
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Not sure about the authenticity of this, but apparently the founder died.
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