Announcing “Hunting Sats,” A Bitcoin Wallet Cracking Contest

1 year ago

Shadowy ace coders and sat stacking anons from each implicit the net are invited to effort and ace a wallet containing millions of sats.

Wasabi Wallet, on with 12 different bitcoin projects and companies including Blockstream, BTCPay and Trezor, are moving unneurotic to signifier a Bitcoin satellite treasure hunt called “Hunting Sats.”

For a afloat week starting connected January 23, 2023,, the entities progressive volition beryllium revealing effect words of a bitcoin wallet that contains 3,454,811 sats. The companies invitation each Bitcoiners to effort to ace that bitcoin wallet and assertion each of its sats.

The announcement sent to Bitcoin Magazine describes however brute forcing volition beryllium the method that volition let participants to ace the seed, saying “For this game, brute-forcing a bitcoin wallet means uncovering the effect words and a passphrase, successful this case, arranging them successful the close bid and utilizing the resulting backup arsenic a mode to retrieve the wallet’s funds. There are galore ways to execute this and wide cognition astir bitcoin wallets, publication types, derivation paths, checksums, passphrases and BIP-39 effect words volition beryllium adjuvant … As much words are revealed, brute-forcing gets easier, truthful clip is ticking arsenic radical from astir the satellite vie to ace the wallet.”

A 12-word, passphrase-protected bitcoin code (BIP39) generated a BTC address which present holds the sats up for grabs. Each connection from the wallet, including the passphrase, were shared with the 12 partners. Over the week starting with January 23, each partners volition stock their connection utilizing the hashtag #HuntingSats. At the extremity of the week, if nary 1 has successfully accessed the bitcoin, much hints volition beryllium shared.

The partners progressive include: