Wasabi Walletalong with 12 other bitcoin projects and companies, including Blockstream, BTCPay, and Trezor, are working together to host a global bitcoin scavenger hunt called “Hunting Sats.”
For a full week starting January 23, 2023, the entities involved will reveal the keywords of a bitcoin wallet containing 3,454,811 sats. The companies invite all Bitcoiners to attempt to crack this Bitcoin wallet and claim all of its sats.
The announcement sent to Bitcoin Magazine describes how brute forcing will be the method for participants to crack the seed, saying, “For this game, brute forcing a bitcoin wallet means finding the seed words and a passphrase, in In this case, arranging them in the correct order and using the resulting backup as a means of recovering wallet funds. There are many ways to do this and general knowledge about bitcoin wallets, types of scripts, derivation paths, checksums, passphrases and BIP-39 seed words will come in handy…people from the world are competing to crack the wallet.
A 12-word bitcoin address protected by a generated passphrase (BIP39) a BTC address who now holds the sats up for grabs. Every word in the wallet, including the passphrase, was shared with all 12 partners. During the week beginning January 23, each partner will share their word using the hashtag #HuntingSats. At the end of the week, if no one has successfully accessed bitcoin, more clues will be shared.
Partners involved include:
For all general information regarding the contest, including updates on the words that have been revealed to the public, visit HuntingSats.com.
