Congratulations 🎉
I’d love to have feedback. We’re trying to find the right level of difficulty to encourage as many people as possible to participate!
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Here is my feedback, I think the level of difficulty was good, I had a lot of fun!
At first I thought you were hiding the words in your questions, so I started writing keywords down that I took away from your questions, until I noticed the 3rd word riddle that was shown on screen. At that point I still thought it could be a mix of both, but started paying attention to the videofeed itself.
Once I figured out where the riddles were, it was not that hard to find all the riddles hidden on screen, by paying attention. You got a 100% watch retention from me, I even sat through the sponsored segment, thinking you'd definitely hide one in there. 😅 (Actually way over 100% because I had to rewatch the first part).
So for watch retention, I think this tactic is quite smart!
The hardest part was actually figuring the riddles out, for the first one I for example figured:
- huge/giant/large/great/immense/vast
Then for every other riddle where you doubt, you start multiplying possibilities.
I tried around 100 combinations, of which around 8 gave me a valid checksum, but were not the right combination. Then I gave up for a while.
In the end it was the riddle about Fashion that was hardest to figure out. I spent way too long trying trend/style/brand.
I did everything by hand though. I know it would be possible to write a simple program that would check all possibilities, but I put in the work. I actually had a lot of fun even though it took me 2 or 3 hours!
Is there a way I can thank you both for the fun challenge and reward? 😊
Wow! This is incredible feedback.
I love hearing about your process, especially the part where you had a valid checksum but no sats in the wallet. This tells me to be sure to share the address so you can verify your work.
Your time and effort represent an immense show of appreciation. If you think this is a good way for beginners to learn about self custody / wallet recovery, share your experience and episodes 🙏
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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 😅
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 😊). It's weird maybe, but you and uncle will be living in a strangers head for a long time with a warm feeling 🧡
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 😉 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 😊
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! 😅