The Bitcoin Treasure Hunt Comes to Campus This Fall

Satoshi's Treasure, the $ 1 million worth of bitcoin treasure hunts, will take place this fall in nearly two dozen college campuses.

The game is operated by a small mysterious society based on a tropical island (learn more about the game itself is part of the call) and is sponsored by Primitive Ventures and other leading investors. Eventually, there will be hundreds of cryptographic keys around the world, surrounded by puzzles and riddles, and the first team to compile 400 key fragments will be able to claim the prize.

According to co-creator Eric Meltzer, over 100,000 people are now on the mailing list for updates and announcements related to these clues, of which 40 have been published to date.

BlockVenture Coalition partners Tyler Wellener and Philip Forte kick off a tour of the North American campus with 20 universities, holding educational meetings and mini-hunts to help students join gambling.

"Many of these students want to know more about blockchain and crypto, but their universities have not yet caught up," Wellener told CoinDesk. "We seek to provide resources for many of these different student groups."

Smaller rewards will be associated with campus scavenger hunts and personal guard workshops starting in mid-September, although organizers are still working on the details.

Image of Tyler Wellener (left) and Philip Forte (right) via BlockVenture Coalition

IDEX President Alex Wearn told CoinDesk that his exchange would also sponsor campus-based workshops focused on Bitcoin portfolios and decentralized exchanges.

Jonathan Calso, head of the blockchain group at the University of Michigan, told CoinDesk that these organized meetings benefited the student body by providing practical learning opportunities on campus and by giving students clubs increased credibility with the university. faculty. His college is one of the many examples cited by Wellener - those who lack formal Bitcoin courses and resources.

"It helps us get more visibility from engineering, economics and IT departments," said Calso, adding:

“The clues incentivize you to discover new websites and tools … to play around with a bitcoin wallet a bit, to see what the technology can do.”

Global Networks

At the same time, Jessica Wang, co-founder of Satoshi's Treasure, told CoinDesk she had helped groups of students from several Chinese and Australian universities participate in the fall session campaign, including at the University. from Shandong.

"Students are the future of this industry, so we're going to put small prices, like a bitcoin, into this game to attract more students," she said. "We will hide more physical location puzzles on a global scale."

According to Google Analytics, according to data from the main gaming website, about 60% of the traffic comes from the United States and Canada, followed by Russia, France and Indonesia. As such, these custodial seminars in North America will also aim to connect students from around the world.

"We are going to have a key element in one university in Asia and another in an American university. They will therefore need to network, "said Wang.

Thanks to a small grant from the Tezos Foundation, Satoshi's Treasure organizers will also hire cryptography experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as external foundations, to meet the increased demand for keys by speeding up the break-creation process. -head.

"Foundations and high-level cryptography teams will create more riddles," Wang said. "We want the ecosystem to bring more stakeholders into the game."

Eugene Leventhal, former president of Carnegie Mellon University's blockchain club and a current member of the university's CyLab Security & Privacy Institute, told CoinDesk that these campus-based seminars and scavenger hunts could also help attract more large number of students. CMU Blockchain Group events have generally attracted about 30 students each in 2018, with the highest participation rate being about 80 students.

"On the social sciences side, we hope that this will help to involve more students," said Leventhal, adding:

“I’m interested in maximizing the activities and touchpoints for students, so they can get involved.”

Buried bitcoin via Dmitry Demidko on Unsplash

This article is republished from dailycoin.info.