Our poor mongoDB is getting hammered with signups. People are forming teams, talking strategy, speculating on the value of keys and where the next clues will show up… and our hypothesis that Bitcoin and cryptography enable a new type of online/offline game experience seems to be getting validated. Others figured out how to brute force the encryption we used and solved the clues without having to travel (something which we hoped would happen, but thought would take weeks-in reality it took 30 minutes.) People showed up to the 10 spots we indicated around the world where keys would appear en masse-some drove over 3 hours to get to a spot. The response has been absolutely overwhelming. Long story short, we assembled an amazing team, and yesterday sent out the first clue (via the Blockstream satellite, shoutout that kicked off a global hunt for 1 million dollars in BTC. The more I played around with it, the more I wanted to use it as the basis for a game, an epic hunt for Bitcoin that would be spread around the world. In the course of exploring custody solutions for Primitive with Dovey, I learned about Shamir’s secret sharing, an algorithm that allows you to take a secret string of text and split it into m pieces, of which n are required to reconstitute the original “secret.” Invented by Adi Shamir (the “S” in “RSA”) in 1979, SSS is a time-tested piece of pretty simple cryptography, but it enables a lot of cool things.
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