Quote from: Nonstoptrivia on August 10, 2025, 11:05:22 PM

Hi, I believe Satoshi might have left one more easter egg in form of hidden treasure of 50+ BTC, available to anyone who can crack it. He's already proven to be playful enough to leave one easter egg in form of the newspaper headline in the first block, why would he stop there?! What if one or several wallets he created to receive mining rewards were based not on random numbers but on secret messages (text converted to binary)? It is such a simple idea! Also, the fact that he hard-coded into the blockchain that first 50 BTC ever mined can't be spent, could be a clue that the first wallet ("1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa") is not safe and is based not on a random number but on a secret waiting to be discovered.

I've made a simple python program that takes text prompt, turns it into binary, uses it as a secret exponent to generate a bitcoin wallet and checks its balance. I've tried multiple prompts but had no success, as they all led to unused wallets. It could be a quote from a book/movie that inspired Satoshi for creating Bitcoin, simple statement (like "Satoshi's wallet", "Easter egg", "First bitcoins", etc.), maybe another newspaper headline, or a reference to the whitepaper. The prompt is limited to 32 characters (256bits), so it can't be too long.

Sorry, if this treasure hunt is already ongoing, but I couldn't find any discussion related to it. I want to hear your opinion and ideas. Together we have much better chance at cracking this secret!

P.S. I've made a short Youtube video explaining this theory: https://youtu.be/LgeiuZunGkI

This is certainly a possibility! However I dont think so. Satoshi was so straightforward and serious, I dont see him playing games though. Although I think most artists do love to hide secret messages or meanings in their work, but perhaps one day Satoshi got bored and created this Easter egg you speak of. If something like that ever comes to light of such discovery it would be quite the spotlight spectacle!