That's another good one, sharing the addresses. It just so happened that this 8th wallet didn't update the past UTXO's properly (my fault). But I did check addresses and recognised one of them!

Also the ability to check if the sats were still there helped to motivate me to try again after a couple hour break ๐Ÿ˜…

Even having to look up words on the bip39 word list could lead you down a rabbit hole if you've never heard of a seed phrase before. Depends a bit on the target audience of course, not sure if your audience is people who don't know about self custody. But even checking a bitcoin address on mempool.space is already very interesting if you never did that! (That's actually how I learned about UTXO's!). It took me quite a while to go from self-custody to understanding what a UTXO is for example.

For me, it was just a very exciting treasure hunt. And actually a meaningful prize (I'll share why in a DM if you like ๐Ÿ˜Š). It's weird maybe, but you and uncle will be living in a strangers head for a long time with a warm feeling ๐Ÿงก

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Thank you for this detailed write of how the treasure hunt went.

It's incredible how much the incentives of 42K sats to explore things about Bitcoin you never tried!

Those epiphanies will be with you forever ๐Ÿ˜‰ and you made Bitcoin learning!!

Oops, sorry for not being clear enough. I learned about UTXO's some time ago, when someone posted 'consolidare your UTXO's while fees are low' . And I was so confused.

I since went down the rabbit hole.

But I that moment was also the first time I opened mempool.space and for the first time I understood what Blockchain actually meant.

My feedback was trying to say, please keep putting the bitcoin address in there and show people a link to a mempool/blockchain explorer. That has been my biggest tool to study Bitcoin in the past ๐Ÿ˜Š

And that it will motivate other people as well to start digging down that rabbit hole, who haven't done so yet

You did just incentivice me to start writing more, because that's one thing I apparently suck at nowadays! ๐Ÿ˜