Hi ytcoinartist, I'm from the Pineapple Fund. I can't PM you, so I'm writing publicly. Hope you come across this!---
Hello ytcoinartist!
I'm Pine from the Pineapple Fund, the largest cryptocurrency philanthropy project donating ~5000 BTC. The recent media articles reminded me of your puzzle that I came across years ago, and I'm curious if you'd be interested in a collaboration!
I'm sorry to see all the negativity and FUD on bitcointalk in regards to the puzzle, by the way.
For the remaining 100 BTC of the Pineapple Fund, I would like to leave it up to the community to choose which registered charities receive it. I was thinking of making a reddit post, but that is prone to being gamed.
A puzzle artwork could be created where a number of tokens are hidden in the image. 50 BTC of the last 100 BTC could be dedicated to the puzzle, and each token could say allow you to choose where 10 BTC goes. (It'll have to be a registered charity).
Alternatively, there could just be X different private keys of 1 BTC hidden inside, and who can solve the puzzles would be able to have a reward for themselves. It'd be an answer to all the people sending begging emails to the Pineapple Fund.
Let me know if you are interested in working on a collaboration! My email is
contact@pineapplefund.org Hey, Pine, you and others may not know this but it was I who founded the first ever crypto charity - Bitcoin 100 (now defunct) - where not a single satoshi was misappropriated nor any of its volunteers paid, again, a single satoshi for the literally thousands of hours put in over the course of its existence, not to mention our own moneys put in as donations and keeping the site running. Not bragging, per se, but do like your site. The Water Project did receive donations from us. I like that one.
Apologies for the aside, all.
Bruno
PS: This site is still running slow on my end, but much improved since earlier.