جمعه, ۲۷ تیر ۱۳۹۳، ۰۳:۵۹ ب.ظ
Mystery Scavenger Hunt Gives Away Bitcoin in San Francisco
Someone is going around San Francisco and leaving small sheets of
aluminium all over the city. No, they are not littering. The sheets are
in fact bitcoin ‘paper’ wallets – part of an elaborate scavenger hunt
that is being carried out by an anonymous and fun-loving donor.
The hunt has its own twitter account, @SFHiddenBitcoin, which carries the slogan: ‘Bringing bitcoins to the people by hiding them. An educational experiment‘.
The account reveals clues as to where the wallets might be found, and
acknowledges when they are found, but it is a mystery as to just who
might be behind the stunt.
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The wallets are neatly designed, black-on aluminium cards,
displaying a bitcoin address, a QR code and the name of the twitter
account. Each one is said to contain 0.0333 bitcoin, or about $20, which
goes to the lucky finder.
Many of the twitter clues reference pop culture icons, movies and TV
shows and are obviously designed to amuse. One is a play on words on the
Facebook movie tagline: ‘You don’t pay $10m for a house without making a
few enemies’, and it is believed the card is hidden somewhere near Mark
Zuckerbeg’s house.
Copycat scheme
@SFHiddenBitcoin claims the scavenger hunt will go on for a month,
with a new wallet stashed away in a new location every day of July. So
far all the cards have been found within a short time of the clue being
released.
The scheme closely resembles the Hidden Cash
scavenger hunt organised by billionaire Jason Buzi in May. Buzi buried
money in plastic toys in several locations in California and elsewhere,
and the associated twitter feed eventually ended up with 700,000
followers.
@SFHiddenBitcoin currently has 219 followers, but media coverage is picking up, even at mainstream news outlets. Business Insider ran a brief feature on the scavenger hunt yesterday, while SF Weekly covered it today.
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