Nostr Web Client

Hypothetically, if one were to outlive all your family and die without need of care, there could be an estate worth of crypto that a dying person would have no particular target for.

For a moment let us imagine such a person who has a published literary work. A blog and some books at least. They would like for at least some portion of their dying hodl stack to go to the person who pays the most attention to their life's work out of everyone in the next 50 years.

You want 'em to puzzle over your life's output and ideally maybe future-timelocked encrypted private diaries, and whoever solves the puzzle gets the bitcoin.

Like a sort of Ready Player One situation, with people competing to solve the puzzles, but just for some blogger loser who never got any followers but did luck into some bitcoin that might be worth even more 50 years later.

Imagine also that you aren't actually any good at making puzzles let alone cryptography.

Anyone wanna suggest things for a story about that? Or for instructions to an executor or whatever?

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

poe😱 1y ago

I'd probably just publish a book no one would read with 24 chapters all one word.

Make it a multig series 🤣

Pre 1y ago

Or one of your books has the chapters such that increasing prime-number-indexed words are the key-phrase. Or fibinachi instead of prime.

And it swaps books every prime.

But all such puzzles would be solved before you even died, or within moments of the dead-mans-lock expiring.

poe😱 1y ago

nostr:nevent1qqsg5xpwj8lmuc8ehn4h3w5vvgjtdpnmscfdaj49vqankg497wlzntgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygqd4cketawj3ywz02adx64y7cksfdhrlmnld42gyj6cfpcrzdcexcpsgqqqqqqsz4r7qe

Pre 1y ago

Is it even possible to cryptographically lock a file such that it can only be decrypted once a certain block-height is reached? Pass a message that can be unlocked only in the future?

Pre 1y ago

I would guess not possible, because you could always fake a chain with exponentially decreasing difficulty-adjustments.

You could lock coins so nobody would care until they became spendable at a given block-height though. Make people 50 years from now read your damned blog.

Pre 1y ago

Actually, even with existing time-lock mechanisms: How do you protect against a fake-chain with exponentially-decreasing difficulty adjustments?

Presumably whatever keys get spit out at year X also get spit out at fake year X in fake chain?

Pre 1y ago

Ironically, I will never know any way to achieve such a goal because nobody will read this post to suggest a way that might work even though it says a word like month in it for no obvious reason and and maybe that is one of the words?