Let it rot in the past. It seems to me that Universa is a thrill seeking experience, an amusement park for the ego. Studying the community, it’s easy to see why many struggle to maintain any sense of what's going on. People are generally not interested in the long-term prospects of a given project, for greed beclouds their thinking. This is what gives birth to untransparent projects like this. Let it be, brother. Move on. Enjoy life. 

There's a dude in the official Telegram Groups called Ivan Nabokikh; an admin. His behavior is that of a twelve-year-old child. Genuine questions that raise suspicion about the project are either left unanswered, swept under the rug as "NDA-protected information", and uncomfortable people are banned. This is a typical totalitarian, dictatorshiplike, and untransparent approach to management you see in mafia, dictatorship countries, and egoistical businessmen. It should raise a giant red flag.

I sugest we gather information and contact the FTC (they have international connections) for investigation of Universa's affiliation with uHodl; a scam that has never come to reality, and their other false and manipulative behavior.

Please, post below as much evidence about Universa's illicit activities (articles, websites, claims, videos, documents, etc.)

Is there any way we get prominent authorities in the industry to take a look at this along with all their other bullshit claims? I'd love to see what they come up with. uHODL was a fraud they engaged in. Not counting in all the "partnership news".

Universa is dead.

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/UTNUSD/fgdpBFog-Universa-Is-Dead/

Hey! No worries, I am still here, lurking in the dark.

Thank you to everyone for your answers. You just confirmed my thoughts in regard to security, transparency and ownership. What I really wanted was an input from a different perspective/niche. That's it. People in the art industry place their answers on certain knowledge, people in the blockchain tech industry place their answers on certain knowledge too. I wanted to see if both sides "tie" somewhere. Although the community I've been building on Instagram is not very different from others (yet), the growing opportunity to leverage a "big knot of people" is something I shouldn't miss. We are talking business here. I could build a simple store and sell products, or I could do something bigger, innovative. The examples I threw at the end of the original post were shots in the dark.

Greetings, Forum.
Relatively soon I will have the leverage to rally thousands of people in the digital art & fantasy industry. With a large community, it is easier to create an original product or reinvent an existent one, but better, or simply start a brand. Ideas range from creating a therapeutic game to more "business-alike" platforms like dating within the niche, marketplace etc.

Let's start a discussion on how blockchain technology could work within the art sphere.

Looks to be correct. That's basically relevant words to the puzzle + most common english ones. I guess I'll have to wait for more poetic puzzles. There's no need to hide my approach now. Here is the overall progress.

If you type "WhyTheCombOfNatashaOtomoskiHas21Teeth? filetype:txt" into Google, a file called big.txt will pop up. That's what I believed the .txt part to be. You can browse it yourself, but here are some basic facts:
1) There is a woman called Natasha Rostova, whom I believed to be Natasha Otomoski.
2) Interesting paragraph: "Too dear!" Natasha remarked. "How pleased the children will be
and Mamma too! Only you need not have bought me this," she added,
unable to suppress a smile as she gazed admiringly at a gold comb
set with pearls, of a kind then just coming into fashion.
3) Natasha Rostova was born in 1792 and married Pierre Bezukhov in 1813. She was 21 years old at that time.
4) At the end of the file big.txt, there is a list of the most common words, and in the file count_big.txt (change the URL) there is a number of how many times they were used.
5) some code at the very very end of big.txt? (That's why I hoped the answer would be big-picture-thinking, not technical, perhaps irrelevant)

My best tries:
TheCombDoesNotHaveTwentyOneTeeth
ItHasOneToothForEveryNatashasAge
NatashaMarriedSatoshiAs21YearOld
OneToothEqualsAYearOfNatashasAge
SheGotMarriageInOneEightOneThree
SheHadMarriageInOneEightOneThree


P.S: Congratulations to the winner, but again, it could be blockladder themselves after seeing a marketplace starting around their riddle (aka me, quoting, selling my half-baked solution). Now you understand why this all seemed like the correct approach, or just one huge coincidence. Reality works in strange counter-intuitive ways. The answer seems... just a bit off.

See you in another life, guys!

What's the Discord group's name? Wasn't me, I would like to see what's the solution and how close I was!

Glad to see you guys still sticking around.

Currently I am running a collider on carefully chosen words, though I do not have high hopes on it. Mainly it's because I want to have a program running in the background while I focus on the main theory. Assuming it's correct, I have got some serious information to give away. There are many ideas to test, many hours to meditate and contemplate upon the question. I have been thinking about it every single day, almost dedicated my time to it.

Eventually I might give up. But I am willing to sell all of my progress and clues for 0.1 BTC for you who value the art of poetic and pragmatic answers to these puzzles. It is a risk. You do not know whether I am correct. Neither whether I am speaking the truth. Please, be aware that I am aware of this inter-being problem too. But if I am correct, this information is basically 50%-75% of the puzzle solved and you are still 0.9 BTC up, assuming you've managed to solve the rest of it. A whole bitcoin is a lot. Even 10% cuts it for me. Take it as a way of cooperation. I can then drop all my effort and focus on other things.

The offer stands. You know how to contact me. Only serious inquiries, as I am not dic*ing around. Make sure you have got a trust in your skills.

For the rest of you, sorry for being a cold-headed selfish dude. It is frustrating and I hope you understand. It has been half a year and nobody has made progress. Until now.

P.S: I am willing to drop the price to 0.05 per person if more people show interest.

I believe I have decyphered the meaning of the .txt part. Other than that, no luck.
I've also tried contacting blockladder on the email address blockladder@yahoo.co.jp, but unfortunately, it's been long disabled. You can send messages to watashi, but don't expect an answer. Though, I believe they are still watching.

I haven't given up yet.

P.S: I'd like to see thinking-out-of-the-box people as Tsuyugushi appear again. It is not over.

P.S.2: I'm getting some serious progress now. Or it's one huge coincidence.

P.S.3: Assuming all I know is true, and hell, this would be a magical coincidence if not, I have also decyphered the whole meaning of the question. What remains a mystery is the logic behind the anagram and a correct combination.

Just tested it. The code works in Windows as well, you just need a C compiler (I downloaded GCC) and ran the results.

blockladder / watashi-kokoto GitHub connection

Looking at blockladder's "project pr" forks, there is a user called bakujo. Not much by itself, but they are following one and only person: our watashikokoto.
blockladder and watashi are perhaps close friends.

No.


I'm saying these two lines MAY not be in correlation. See, everybody's been thinking of the eight words as of solution. But the puzzle doesn't say that. It only states those words are a hint. They may lead to something else; to a completely different set of 32 characters. Assuming the hint points exactly at the solution is, well, an assumption. So stop thinking of the eight words as of the end goal. Stop making them fit your criteria. This paradigm opens whole new possibilities. Let's be open-minded.