Idea about promoting bitcoin and creating a fun experience around the world.

I've seen some posts in this forum about treasure hunt and geocaching. What I try to do is a little bit diferent:

Let's imagine there is a hidden treasure somewhere on the planet. The treasure is going to be a certain amount of bitcoins, funded through participants small fees (0.001-0.01 BTC) and donations.

I am thinking about printing a private key as a metal qr code, so you are looking for a physical and durable object.

http://i.imgur.com/53UZlRg.jpg

An important point is how to ensure a secret treasure position, so even the person who organize the treasure hunt, doesn't know where the treasure is located.

One option is to place the qr code with a geolocation system into a box and attach them to a weather ballon or similar device. The place and the day/hour of the release of the treasure are public announced, but nobody know where the treasure will ends (may be hundred of miles from the starting point, because of wind and altittude reached by the balloon)

http://i.imgur.com/qrucnji.jpg

Players are encouraged to find the treasure, using GPS, radio o even more difficult: only looking at the photos made with a camera inside the device. The treasure can be easy to find (if it falls on the garden of your house) or an extreme adventure (in the middle of Amazonas) .

A couple of things are needed for the project:

The design of the device:
balloon + box (qr code, mobile phone with gps and camera) + parachute?, good insulation (for high alltitudes, extreme wheaters), wind resistant, waterproof.

The project website:

treasure funding
participants inscriptions
calendar of release dates and locations
map of trajectories of launched treasures
hall of fame

To ensure that only participants can look for the treasure, only registered users can acces information about treasure location and password is going to be needed to redeem the treasure amount.

Any suggestions or ideas? Also anybody who wants to help is welcome...

First, I am going to wait for community feedback, and then I will create the website. I don't expect donations just for a draft, but if somebody wants to donate, this is going to accelerate the project:
BTC donating address: 12A6T34USKFCXYbTwbLCFx9xwSV4mxUVEu

unip

Posts

Merits