Monday, July 14, 2014

@SFHiddenBitcoin: A Treasture Hunt for Bitcoins

If you missed out on the Hidden Cash treasure hunt last May, never fear. @SFHiddenBitcoin has arrived, transforming San Francisco into a gigantic bitcoins beta test. No one knows who is leaving the shiny bitcoin "wallets" around the city and posting tantalizing clues on Twitter (TWTR). But the buzz is building for the daily crypto-currency scavenger hunt.

The wallets look like small sheets of aluminum with a QR code, a bitcoin address and the hunt's Twitter handle. Each wallet is reported to contain 0.0333 bitcoin, or about $20, which goes to those clever enough to figure out the clues. They can be discovered by following the hunt's Twitter account: @SFHiddenBitcoin.

@SFHiddenBitcoin posts the slogan: "Bringing bitcoins to the people by hiding them. An educational experiment." The tweets claim there will be a new wallet in a new location (one's been spotted at Mark Zuckerberg's house) every day of July. Whoever's behind the hunt may need a new clue writer -- all of the cards have been located shortly after the clue was released.

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