Quote from: arranka on March 23, 2021, 06:24:13 PM

Quote from: nullius on March 14, 2021, 07:58:23 PM

I wish that I could give more than 0.001 BTC for this, but I cannot afford to. I expect for that to be worth at least a thousand dollars someday, or perhaps much more! I hodl my BTC—every sat is precious

Anyone could feel free to donate if they wanted to at that address?
so that the balance of that account increases somewhat
or this would be a problem

It would be a pleasure to see that happen.

I did not address this before: If any donations are sent to the puzzle address to increase the prize, I commit that I will move the donated money only if I use it to fund the prize for a new puzzle.

I already have some ideas for new Kitty puzzles. More customary puzzles, with more hints than “it’s hiding in plain sight” and “think like nullius”. I am an artistic perfectionist, and I cannot commit to if or when I will get something new made; if there is enough interest in this that someone funds more prize money, that would motivate me to do it. I also have some other ideas for increased funding for a prize, but nothing definite as of yet.

I am doing this in memory of Lauda, to give people a fun way to play games in her honour. My incentive, and my only incentive to put and keep my own money up for grabs in the prize is to promote that end. I want that, so I made the 2021-03-14 puzzle.

If I do something spectacularly special for the puzzles, and someone wants to pay me for it, then I may take an upfront-stated percentage cut and put the rest in the prize pool. But I will never pilfer for myself any money that others have provided for prizes for puzzles that I made—where I obviously know the secret key. I must make that absolutely clear.

Quote from: The Pharmacist on March 23, 2021, 06:34:10 PM

Nullius, I'm with you on treasuring every satoshi I own, which doesn't amount to much. I keep thinking about how much you could get from faucets about 3-4 years ago when people were saying faucets were a complete waste of time....now, it doesn't seem like such a waste, does it?

As of 3–4 years ago, I think that many of the “faucet” sites were setting impractically high withdrawal limits so that they could make newbies view ads and solve captchas, but rarely or never pay out. Some time before that, yes, hitting faucets and then HoDLing may have been worthwhile for somebody.

I know this because in that timeframe, I once tried to use a faucet for privacy purposes. I had a carefully anonymized UTXO in an amount that needed to be rounded up just a little bit—by not much above the dust limit. Faucets did not help.

Quote from: dkbit98 on March 24, 2021, 09:41:30 AM

I see that nullius is keeping Cult of Lauda alive and well after he became new supreme leader.

In memory of Lauda and all his faithful I created two vanity Lauda addresses and all donations and funds collected there will be used solely for saving cats lives and helping all Lauda Cult veterans dealing with their PTSD.

3LAUDAv3id4CDLC87x6uaR3NjWNRs3NHuP
bc1qlaudahydf4axnjalaf9paz94l2lhh3h4qew0wc

This being the Reputation forum, I will hold you to that.

If money is sent to those addresses, please post evidence that the money was sent on to a verifiable cat-related charity, or sent to the prize pool for Official Cult of Lauda puzzles for therapeutic puzzle-solving. (As stated above, this does not benefit me personally.)

A different kind of Catphish

That got me thinking...

As a pre-emptive strike against Lauda vanity address phishing, I generated the following addresses in a relatively short time on the same ancient CPU that took days to make the 2021-03-14 puzzle tx.

The money sent to these addresses will be used for the purpose of personally enriching me, nullius. Because that’s how phishes usually work; and Lauda is not here to authorize such use of her name. As a practical matter, I have no way to stop others from doing this. Therefore, I will dilute the value of it by doing it more. Such inflation is almost as easy as for banks to make more dollars: For native Segwit alone, there are 2¹³⁰ Lauda vanity addresses!

If you appreciate the time and effort that I have spent on this forum for free, then consider these to be nullian tip addresses. Otherwise, do not send money!

LOL, Meow:

bc1qlaudamekjgcrdzp6q353xj0flvc454z3sjvg3d
3LaudaMejyvrMV6Lnm1GGUhx74eSAdyoXb

Awesome native Segwit:

bc1qlauda0wsvv6wwdd9e8zz3vwtmyzfawprp55kqq
bc1qlauda2g0e06v6h9qed7v5agead4vyl6jengdu5
bc1qlauda2yqfyrva8gxyatmq5eqq42y7r28u8z0j7
bc1qlauda3kma7uy3ge0vmhvurmaat2fvczfds4q0l
bc1qlauda55kyzvum6tfh8wm48qlhufczzcyerpqt4
bc1qlauda5xewf5lzkk9n3t6pl08mgzl659uuujcke
bc1qlauda65pztk06ukv4f9zy30m680v34hq57juj8
bc1qlauda7hwxqvneefuak333t4e4sf7z4nnxl40ah
bc1qlauda9e8eslh5p7lwjuktvtr7dq4rs5x0thn49
bc1qlauda9gyrlc7xt0d2lqm4x8wpaz7dwmku2an25
bc1qlauda9syuk5wpxkzva27qneulju6turpks35px
bc1qlaudadyfptjgtlznzemscrl9yadd5edt5568m4
bc1qlaudaevv2p7vp0l0xpn0sq6zu4xy9tnsjn08kj
bc1qlaudaeyax47myvn2d2r3t9aptt7tks4wulmf0s
bc1qlaudaf0kg2tnh93j8ey093y87h3p7t4pz3hyz7
bc1qlaudafgqzvp5zlaqhgfdrrdnvadjrjcfpwvt5e
bc1qlaudakv9c9w45nlsuf3qw8nx4jz7d43805vnrd
bc1qlaudalrxzptvqga8sa9hxnj9k3jjw6f2w826cc
bc1qlaudamqqj8xaewvrh5kz3ymhr7cwqzrrex3tr7
bc1qlaudanhp4x5jcsthtay8etqdlptc8s9nexjwjd
bc1qlaudanyt2x4zc4egyzw5vd58ssp59jf53t2vn8
bc1qlaudarfggg59jeg4l3clhteynh7cpa205kcmhe
bc1qlaudascsgmvu0lu4yhyeudruyl53rw9kph7yul
bc1qlaudaswtncklhw6vemkzhrkys6znsq6wrhk6xp
bc1qlaudavk0yjr24l9vunrlynh4fad5lhjc3dqu0j
bc1qlaudavnqz3rzlg70srcekwgq4cp4yyc94wde24
bc1qlaudavxuzz255uvv97q5te3qhk5seygz99s28e
bc1qlaudaw9qh9p70tjng9680tx6mjl3upznhj6jzk
bc1qlaudawsaeg2wmwef8q8zgsg2ej3k5l0lxg9zyy
bc1qlaudaztnwwrhhqnzu83j6sp0wg2q96qlnp0udm

Obsolete nested addresses, for receiving money from n00bs who don’t know how to choose a good wallet:

3LAUDAenR4LYZ9MR5Q4wt9AC5WFNmMenJ2
3LAUDA2RukXRiAHskR7kLUENjqjaNzPf7H
3LaudaAGhnVcUcDKHJQsH8iNvZ9szE8fUE
3LaudaNGf1QZCMK5GQzDvDfYVbbTiKXG13
3Laudanu3r17xupp2qPUWfFAoEaqumxzwR
3Lauda8HoacSKZEsmFkXxNwQ6eeunTJhtc
3LaudaH2Y3tpJyzTpbQjLquxMfHtx7pEme
3LaudaBU5RYbHxDbrX7xdvnvRDUSbofFGU
3LaudaH34dsYzSSKXCvuNQKBykAhmTg5Pr
...

Quote from: icopress on March 24, 2021, 10:12:07 AM

You are no doubt correct that after Lauda left, nullius is responsible for all the lost sheep of the cult, but I would not say that he can be called the Supreme Leader. As far as I know, he is only the Great Prophet of the Cult.

No, my title is the Grand Prophet! Cult leaders are fussy about titles—even the NULL non-leaders of nonexistent cults. :-)

Quote from: Cryptotourist on Today at 07:53:54 AM

Quote from: icopress on March 24, 2021, 10:12:07 AM

You are no doubt correct that after Lauda left, nullius is responsible for all the lost sheep of the cult, ~

My doxxie*:

*. Doxxed by a selfie.

The magical result:

This image took me way too long
to get pixel-perfect.
I should make of it an NFT.