BTC treasure hunt

[rheticus]

There is an ongoing treasure hunt for 20 BTC which I have been trying for some weeks now. I haven't seen any mention of it in this forum. There is a hidden private key in an article written by Max Keiser in Bitcoin Magazine (Salvador Issue), at least that's what he says. Has anyone been trying to solve this thing? Would anybody like to join up and try to crack it?!

In the tweet where Max mentioned this there is also a picture of him holding the Salvador Issue of Bitcoin Magazine, and it reads this:

"I hid a private #Bitcoin key encoded in this piece I wrote for @BitcoinMagazine. Nobody’s figured it out yet, but it’s for 20 BTC"  [1]

He also gave a clue about considering "Mirror writing":

“Mirror writing: neurological reflections on an unusual phenomenon”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117809/    [2]

Here is the .pdf of the article in case anyone is interested in helping solve this!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LUozvNCTt1RMwCaN1O5TytE5fBlq1EUr/view?usp=share_link


Here are the reference links mentioned:
[1] https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/1632068898169450497
[2] https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/1632391507008278528?s=20

[drwhobox]

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There is an ongoing treasure hunt for 20 BTC which I have been trying for some weeks now. I haven't seen any mention of it in this forum. There is a hidden private key in an article written by Max Keiser in Bitcoin Magazine (Salvador Issue), at least that's what he says. Has anyone been trying to solve this thing? Would anybody like to join up and try to crack it?!

Sound confusing and too unrealistic! It will be great if you can provide an actual link of the thread you are talking about. I am only interested to look at this just because you mentioned EL-Salvador.

[DeathAngel]

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There is an ongoing treasure hunt for 20 BTC which I have been trying for some weeks now. I haven't seen any mention of it in this forum. There is a hidden private key in an article written by Max Keiser in Bitcoin Magazine (Salvador Issue), at least that's what he says. Has anyone been trying to solve this thing? Would anybody like to join up and try to crack it?!

I saw it advertised somewhere, I’m not even sure if I believe it. Whilst I respect Max Keiser as an uber early adopter & obviously super rich guy, he’s a bit of a grifter. He likes the sound of his own voice, he’s been saying $220,000 is in play for the last 3 or 4 years, he talks crap.

I dunno if this is just a publicity stunt. A bit like his theatre with the El Salvador President.

[Sha256explorer]

maybe this?
https://bitcoinnews.com/max-keiser-10-bitcoins-in-el-salvador/

[rheticus]

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There is an ongoing treasure hunt for 20 BTC which I have been trying for some weeks now. I haven't seen any mention of it in this forum. There is a hidden private key in an article written by Max Keiser in Bitcoin Magazine (Salvador Issue), at least that's what he says. Has anyone been trying to solve this thing? Would anybody like to join up and try to crack it?!

Sound confusing and too unrealistic! It will be great if you can provide an actual link of the thread you are talking about. I am only interested to look at this just because you mentioned EL-Salvador.

Here is the link to where he talked about it and even gave a hint:
https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/1632391507008278528?s=20

I know it sounds maybe too good to be true, but keep in mind that Max is LOADED on btc, plus he would have to be a real douche to even give out hints for something that is not real, right?
If anyone is interested in helping out I can give you the .pdf of the article.

[digaran]

Quoting it would be great, plus we have our own treasure hunt here initiated by Satoshi himself, and he just recently sent 900 bitcoins to the ocean of keys for us to find, and it is also proven that they are real and exist.

[rheticus]

Quoting it would be great, plus we have our own treasure hunt here initiated by Satoshi himself, and he just recently sent 900 bitcoins to the ocean of keys for us to find, and it is also proven that they are real and exist.

Here is the quote

"I hid a private #Bitcoin key encoded in this piece I wrote for @BitcoinMagazine. Nobody’s figured it out yet, but it’s for 20 BTC"[1]

Taken from: [1] https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/1632391507008278528?s=20

And thanks for letting me know about the Satoshi treasure hunt!!! sounds really cool!

[Wiwo]

Quoting it would be great, plus we have our own treasure hunt here initiated by Satoshi himself, and he just recently sent 900 bitcoins to the ocean of keys for us to find, and it is also proven that they are real and exist.

You mean quote the tweet where he mentioned it? Here it is:
"I hid a private #Bitcoin key encoded in this piece I wrote for @BitcoinMagazine. Nobody’s figured it out yet, but it’s for 20 BTC"

And thanks for letting me know about the Satoshi treasure hunt!!! sounds really cool!

The quote above not not done properly and you should try as much as possible to avoid copy and paste directly because the forum rule is against that since it pours plagiarism if you don't reference to the original owner and that could get Your account banned, making a proper quote os something you can learn on your own since you can quote someone comment already and for clarity sake, I will check the link you posted to see how I can quote it here from Twitter if it is difficult for you to do.

I will give you some time to see if you can make the quote yourself if not, I can help out if need be.

[rheticus]

Quoting it would be great, plus we have our own treasure hunt here initiated by Satoshi himself, and he just recently sent 900 bitcoins to the ocean of keys for us to find, and it is also proven that they are real and exist.

You mean quote the tweet where he mentioned it? Here it is:
"I hid a private #Bitcoin key encoded in this piece I wrote for @BitcoinMagazine. Nobody’s figured it out yet, but it’s for 20 BTC"

And thanks for letting me know about the Satoshi treasure hunt!!! sounds really cool!

The quote above not not done properly and you should try as much as possible to avoid copy and paste directly because the forum rule is against that since it pours plagiarism if you don't reference to the original owner and that could get Your account banned, making a proper quote os something you can learn on your own since you can quote someone comment already and for clarity sake, I will check the link you posted to see how I can quote it here from Twitter if it is difficult for you to do.

I will give you some time to see if you can make the quote yourself if not, I can help out if need be.

I have edited the quotes, I apologize for doing it incorrectly, hopefully they are ok now.

[PX-Z]

Well, there's no even a single clue written in that tweet besides of announcing it written on bitcoin magazine. No proof of what wallet address, signed message, or even just cut/crop screenshots of proof that the address is existing with a balance on it.

Besides that anyone can announce that they have the same treasure hunt with XX BTC on any book, magazine, pdf, and you need to buy it first lol. Well, just for promotions.

[sheenshane]

I enjoyed reading replies on Tweet but there's a comment there that I tend to agree with most.
If that's true, would he mind telling us the public key address so that we can verify if that's true so we're not wasting our time?

It could be there are no 20 Bitcoins in that wallet, that amount has a huge value as of now, and it could be doubtful to anyone to try to waste their time or just intended for a pure promotion.

I haven't heard of this particular treasure hunt or seen any mention of it in the forum, I'm sure there are many other Bitcoin enthusiasts who would be interested in joining you to crack the puzzle.  You could try posting about it in some of the Bitcoin forums like "Reddit" to see if anyone else has any information or would like to collaborate with you.

[rheticus]

Well, there's no even a single clue written in that tweet besides of announcing it written on bitcoin magazine. No proof of what wallet address, signed message, or even just cut/crop screenshots of proof that the address is existing with a balance on it.

Besides that anyone can announce that they have the same treasure hunt with XX BTC on any book, magazine, pdf, and you need to buy it first lol. Well, just for promotions.

The clue is to consider "Mirror writing", it's in this tweet:
https://twitter.com/maxkeiser/status/1632391507008278528?s=20

And yes, there is no other proof besides these tweets. Still I think that someone would have to be really scummy to even give hints for something fake, but who knows.

[rheticus]

I enjoyed reading replies on Tweet but there's a comment there that I tend to agree with most.
If that's true, would he mind telling us the public key address so that we can verify if that's true so we're not wasting our time?

It could be there are no 20 Bitcoins in that wallet, that amount has a huge value as of now, and it could be doubtful to anyone to try to waste their time or just intended for a pure promotion.

I haven't heard of this particular treasure hunt or seen any mention of it in the forum, I'm sure there are many other Bitcoin enthusiasts who would be interested in joining you to crack the puzzle.  You could try posting about it in some of the Bitcoin forums like "Reddit" to see if anyone else has any information or would like to collaborate with you.

Thank you!, I will also post on Reddit, this is a good suggestion. And yes, I would also like to see a public key or something, but I don't think Max has given this out (if it actually exists).

[SamReomo]

I think this sounds like a marketing tactic rather than a actual 20 BTC treasure because with such tactics the greedy fellows will buy the magazine and they will tell their friends to buy it as well. This way the publisher of the magazine will most probably share some of the revenue to Max Keiser.

Why would someone put 20 BTC worth of treasure in a magazine and even they have done such thing then why have the announced it publicly via news that there is a hidden treasure in that magazine? That sounds like professional tactic to psychologically take advantage of those greedy fellows who will always do their best to crack such things, and unfortunately will never be able to do so.

[digaran]

Where is the link to the actual article? Because all I found was tweets and a scientific article on neurology, is he the writer of that, is he a scientist?
If not could someone give a link to the said article containing the puzzle.

A not to @Satoshi, we are not betraying you man, lol we are just curios to see what this is, we will get back at our lovely puzzles in a few minutes.

[rheticus]

Where is the link to the actual article? Because all I found was tweets and a scientific article on neurology, is he the writer of that, is he a scientist?
If not could someone give a link to the said article containing the puzzle.

A not to @Satoshi, we are not betraying you man, lol we are just curios to see what this is, we will get back at our lovely puzzles in a few minutes.

There is no link to the article. But I have a copy and can share it with anyone who wants to help out

[digaran]

There is no link to the article. But I have a copy and can share it with anyone who wants to help out

I'm sorry but we are a community and we do things together here (sarcasm), you either share the information publicly or else we have no private sharing of things.😉
I'm sure who ever solves it here will share some of it with you since you brought it up around these woods. Good luck though.

[rheticus]

There is no link to the article. But I have a copy and can share it with anyone who wants to help out

I'm sorry but we are a community and we do things together here (sarcasm), you either share the information publicly or else we have no private sharing of things.😉
I'm sure who ever solves it here will share some of it with you since you brought it up around these woods. Good luck though.

Alright, I'll put up the link in the top comment.

[Wapfika]

The quote above not not done properly and you should try as much as possible to avoid copy and paste directly because the forum rule is against that since it pours plagiarism if you don't reference to the original owner and that could get Your account banned, making a proper quote os something you can learn on your own since you can quote someone comment already and for clarity sake, I will check the link you posted to see how I can quote it here from Twitter if it is difficult for you to do.

I will give you some time to see if you can make the quote yourself if not, I can help out if need be.

Nah, The post that you reply regarding direct copy paste of someone tweet is not enough reason to accused him for plagiarism because he clearly didn’t own the statement and just reply it to the folks that ask for it. The source is already on the OP and it’s not necessary needed to paste the sources every time he post it on same thread which the source is already available.

Even if someone reported him and moderator accidentally ban him. I’m sure his appeal will be approved easily since it’s too obvious that he is not owning the quoted statement from twitter.


20BTC is too good to be true. I’m sure some random guy will able to claim it later on and turns out it’s his alt account. No matter how rich and generous he is, No one will or it’s very rare someone throw 20BTC for just a game.

[Accardo]

20BTC is too good to be true. I’m sure some random guy will able to claim it later on and turns out it’s his alt account. No matter how rich and generous he is, No one will or it’s very rare someone throw 20BTC for just a game.

I see it as a click bait to his article and nothing else, how will a person detect the right combination of the private keys he embedded on the piece of article. It'll only pull traffics to the article, now everyone is sharing the link on different forums and social medias. You may be right, his alt account will come shouting that he got the funds, or nobody will claim it at all. He owns the clout, so the views and responses won't be new to him anymore, but he must be finding this funny too, how everyone is more interested in a free bitcoin.