WiP: The Great Bitcoin Thrift Store Treasure Hunt

[TheButterZone]

Items will be donated to thrift stores, 1 item per store.

Stickers will be applied to those items with parts of a private key written on them, the part #, and a URL. Clear tape will be applied over each sticker to keep the ink from blotting/blurring.

The website will
1) have a bitcoin intro (or link to another bitcoin for newbies URL)
2) explain the treasure hunt and show pictures of the donated items
3) have hunters enter 3 characters (in brackets on each sticker) of their private key part & their part # in a form, which will be scripted so that they're either validated or rejected as incorrect
4) show an email address form submit after each hunter validates their 3 characters

The prize administrator will double check the form submissions, then email the hunters to arrange splitting the BTC prize evenly with their full private key parts.

There will be multiple BTC addresses for this project. One for each person who donates an item to a thrift store (or donates multiple items to multiple thrift stores), and another to fund the parted out private key.

The scope could either be global, national, or local. If it were just me as prize administrator and no other participants, I would spread my items across San Diego County, CA, USA thrift stores.

Instead of a WIF private key, it could also be BIP38 encrypted, or multisig, but I'm not yet knowledgeable enough in multisig.

local rules: don't quote the OP (as this is a Work in Progress) & don't post nonsense just to boost your post count for ad campaigns

[cloverme]

It's an interesting idea/project, but where do the funds come from?  Are these your bitcoins or ?

[TheButterZone]

It's an interesting idea/project, but where do the funds come from?  Are these your bitcoins or ?

There will be multiple BTC addresses for this project. One for each person who donates an item to a thrift store (or donates multiple items to multiple thrift stores), and another to fund the parted out private key.

[eternalgloom]

I'd be interested in participating in this actually by donating some items. Would cd's and dvd's be of use?
Do you have an ETA on when the website would be finished?

[BellaBitBit]

This is interesting. I will mark this for later.

[cloverme]

I have books to donate to my local library and I was thinking of a similar type of site/game. Why not just just build it or are you looking for someone to build it with you? There's a bunch of people in these topics looking for something to work on that are developers.

[TheButterZone]

I have the items to donate...

[cloverme]

Check this out, you could integrate it into your idea: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1516463.msg15259256#msg15259256
You could use use the "3 words" to give people a way to find items that have been stashed somewhere for the treasure hunt.
Sadly, I'm way too busy to build the site myself but have you had any offers from anyone else to help build the site? This subforum is always getting posts from people looking for a project to work on.

[TheButterZone]

Check this out, you could integrate it into your idea: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1516463.msg15259256#msg15259256
You could use use the "3 words" to give people a way to find items that have been stashed somewhere for the treasure hunt.
Sadly, I'm way too busy to build the site myself but have you had any offers from anyone else to help build the site? This subforum is always getting posts from people looking for a project to work on.

Nice concept. In a BTC context though, I'm reminded of CoinDing, which IIRC never worked. With CoinDing, you were supposed to go to locations on the map where there were GPS-pinned BTC rewards. I went to a few, and no matter what I tried, I couldn't claim them.

Nobody's offered to build the site. Making the private key combination & prize-splitting legitimate, secure & trustless might be impossible, as we've seen with DAO.