Congrats to them, then.
Angelo aka blackhatcoiner is aware of that as he is a member of that discord channel
I was, but then I left it, if we're talking about that server with the #bulltardia text channel.
Angelo, you also know from our conversations in dms that many times you had to pull my leg to buy patron hints from me, which I only did because you said you wouldn't/couldn't subscribe to Patreon as you didn't want to use fiat. Even then, I was dragging my feet and refused to sell you more when you were basically throwing money at me.
But I did threw money at you and you didn't refuse them. You accepted my 50,000 satoshis 7 times and there was a time when you accepted 200,000 satoshis for a hint of the 9th key. I was literally telling you "Take my money!", because I couldn't subscribe on your patreon. You told me that I can buy random hints for 50,000 sats, and thus I thought that you'd consider it normal to give me 8 hints. But you buddy,
took my virgin with the hints! I tried to be cool, but it seemed that you just didn't want to sell me hints.
If this was a scam, I wouldn't have probably given you such a hard time taking your money...
How do you define scam? To me, scam is a waste of time
garnished with some BS in the end. You may gave the money to someone, but everything that happened after the announcement of the passphrase was a complete chaos that costed every player's valuable time. So I'll recommend you to reconsider that:
If this was
not a scam, you would had probably given a harder time to create the puzzle more carefully...
Yes the hunt was far from perfect and I did mess up on a few occasions. Password, address, and also gauging hints and puzzle difficulty. Some ended up being much harder than I hoped, others way too easy. In the end, there was no promise of a professionally crafted hunt.
You messed up, I get it, that's human. The problem is that you had a lot of chances to correct it and make it professional, but in the end you filled it with a ton of non-sense BS. You knew that everybody was brute forcing the first address, but you decided to change it with a different one that had received 0.1 BTC in the same day! How can this not look suspicious? And after some minutes that you did, the output was spent and ta-da! Hunt was over.
however, everyone was made aware of the issues pretty much at the same time. When the password issue was uncovered, I immediately consulted with everyone and put the outcome to a vote.
You should decide what to do with the password. If you asked only those who paid for hints, you'd read that you should reveal it. If you asked only those who were just searching for fun you'd read that you shouldn't reveal it. It is pretty obvious that if you ask them all, you would see that no one wanted the password revealing and that's because the majority of the people hadn't bought any hints. They money would have been taken instantly from the patreons. We all started a hunt that had no password and people gave you their money believing that they can do it. They didn't pay for a hunt with a passphrase. On the other hand, the ones that didn't pay anything had nothing to lose. So they would ask for another
enjoyable puzzle. So no, it was not fair. Neither democratic. You didn't take votes from people that had the same opportunities.
I was then asked to use iancoleman tool to verify there was no other issue.
When did that "then" occur? In the last day? When everyone was busy?
Still not sure what coinjoin has to do with anything or why it is even relevant here
I tried to explain you what it had to do, but you ~kept keeping the
secrets of the hunt away from me~ and maybe that's why you ignored me. The first address you had posted, the one we're all struggling with brute forcing all that time but in the last minutes you changed it? Yeah that one. It was announced as the *rewarding* address. That address still has 0.1 BTC from a single output. The way I see the structure of the transaction clearly shows that it's a coinjoin. What does that mean: You're establishing a peer-to-peer connection with one or more stranger(s), you sign your inputs and you broadcast a transaction in which there are outputs than are hard to track (if not impossible), because you've literally mix your inputs with him/her/them. This is a benefit if you're a man that respects privacy. On the first address you posted (
gf8), it's pretty clear that it is coinjoin. What is the problem: The outputs lead to some change addresses that cannot be accessed by someone who just has a mnemonic, a password and Wasabi opened. He needs to somehow derive the change addresses hoping that he/she will find the treasure.
In the end, I feel very shitty for working hard to organize a fun game, give out 0.1btc, which is a lot for me, (and no, the few hints that were sold didn't make up at all for it), and in return, get such level of saltiness and being called names.
If you organized a fun game, you'd get in return my respect from letting me be part of it. But that wasn't fun. That was a
chaos.
The worst part is to realize that a few people that pretended liking the comic were here just for the money. Things can get ugly quickly when greed is involved, should have known better not to mix this kind of incentive with my art...
Sorry that you "came down to earth", but that's internet. I didn't pretend that I liked your comic. It was a well-read, but since I read it once, I was there only for the money. You're talented at painting, but once you announce 0.1 BTC reward, you shouldn't expect anything less. In my country, a person has to work an 8 hour job for 6 months in order to get that money. You should reconsider the amount of bitcoins you were giving away.
Angelo, your post is sadly painful, it hurts, but I'm sure you feel the same otherwise you wouldn't have gone in length to write it. Would prefer not to leave it on this sour note and would you feel like it, I am open to talk this through with you, feel free to dm.
Okay, since I read that there was an actual winner, I'll flag it as neutral and not negative.
