If you’re expert at puzzles in addition to familiar with the earth of Bitcoin, you lot may survive interested inwards signing upwardly for the instant circular of the CoinGate Bitcoin Challenge, starting Saturday, July xv at vi p.m. UTC.
CoinGate, the Lithuanian-based bitcoin in addition to altcoin payment center, is asset its instant Bitcoin Challenge to highlight the history in addition to benefits of Bitcoin every bit their response to the ongoing contentious scaling debate.
Like many inwards the Bitcoin space, CoinGate CTO Rytis Bieliauskas is watching with around concern in addition to hoping bitcoiners volition come upwardly dorsum to their roots in addition to think the origins in addition to master copy intentions of bitcoin founders.
Every 2 weeks throughout the summer, CoinGate is publishing a challenge related to Bitcoin in addition to blockchain history. Solving the puzzles speedily requires around cognition in addition to skill, but by in addition to large the challenges are designed to survive “geeky fun” for anyone involved with Bitcoin to around degree.
On Saturday, contestants tin register in addition to access a issue of challenges of varying degrees of difficulty on CoinGate’s website in addition to on /r/Bitcoin here.
In grooming for the instant contest, the Reddit thread is a expert source of examples with answers from the final challenge, which began on July 1.
During the July 1st challenge, at that spot was considerable give-and-take on Reddit with contestants.
“We were actually surprised that participants started sharing their thoughts on our Reddit thread, fifty-fifty though at that spot was solely i prize for each riddle,” the Coingate squad told Bitcoin Magazine. “And in addition to so all the riddles were solved in addition to prizes snapped upwardly inside merely iii hours.
“Our squad is actually happy with the results in addition to the issue of participants [the challenge] attracted. All inwards all, nosotros logged over 800 attempts in addition to to a greater extent than than 600 people who were upwardly to solve the tasks inwards a affair of several hours.”
Contestants received a serial of puzzles to take away from, leading to a Bitcoin private telephone substitution in addition to the address for a wallet containing BTC.
Three challenges of varying difficulty were launched at once, with the most hard taking from 4-6 hours to solve. As is evident on the Reddit comments, around flora the puzzles baffling piece a few seemed to a greater extent than than gear upwardly for the challenge.
In i puzzle, for example, contestants were given a grid of 4 CoinGate logos that seemed identical. H5N1 private telephone substitution was hidden inwards the icon in addition to the participants had to figure out what was hidden in addition to get together the private telephone substitution leading to the reward.
Most of the puzzles involve steganography — extracting of the pregnant of a undercover message hidden inside an ordinary message.
Some of the solutions volition render a private key, piece around others volition render around other method to retrieve bitcoins, for event inwards the shape of a wallet “seed.”
The halt destination of each challenge is to larn access to a Bitcoin address past times finding its private telephone substitution (or otherwise). Depending on the difficulty of the challenge, that address volition comprise a vantage of 0.01 to 0.1 BTC. (The prize volition survive sent to a Bitcoin address merely earlier the challenge.)
CoinGate: On SegWit in addition to UASF
CoinGate CTO Rytis Bieliauskas told Bitcoin Magazine:
“CoinGate is seeking to attract people dorsum to the basics of Bitcoin in addition to blockchain [technology]. Having been involved inwards the Bitcoin earth since 2011, nosotros deeply honey the master copy blockchain in addition to nosotros strongly believe that consensus [on scaling] volition survive reached.”
Bieliauskas is concerned almost the direction Bitcoin is taking in addition to is call for Bitcoiners to think what the master copy essence in addition to intent of Bitcoin was.
Bieliauskas considers himself to survive a Core supporter but is hopeful all parties involved volition come upwardly to a consensus on how to scale Bitcoin.
On the CoinGate blog, he wrote:
“We strongly believe inwards a time to come for Bitcoin. As nosotros accept officially stated previously, our squad strongly supports SegWit every bit the best Bitcoin scaling solution, in addition to nosotros so hold a closed oculus on BIP148 (UASF).”
In an electronic mail from the CoinGate team, a representative explained: “We accept officially expressed our back upwardly for SegWit in addition to UASF dorsum inwards April, though nosotros accept non made whatever comment on the SegWit2x every bit it was coined afterwards the New York Agreement. We strongly back upwardly whatever scaling solution that volition attention Bitcoin grow in addition to choke accessible in addition to useful to people across the globe.
“However, since nosotros are involved with Bitcoin from its technical side, nosotros know that a scaling solution must non solely seem feasible ‘on paper,’ but likewise undergo rigorous testing earlier it tin survive launched across the network.”
Regardless of what the time to come brings, CoinGate has expressed that it is hither to stay:
“[W]hatever the changes inwards the Bitcoin landscape, our squad is gear upwardly to conform to whatever technological developments. In the end, our destination has e'er been to brand cryptocurrencies accessible, elementary in addition to convenient for both businesses in addition to individuals.”
CoinGate is a payment gateway/processor for bitcoin in addition to to a greater extent than than twoscore altcoins including Litecoin, Ethereum, Zcash, Monero, Dash, Ripple in addition to Golem. According to CoinGate, it is non an substitution because although the site offers customers ways to purchase in addition to sell bitcoins, it does non connect customers to each other.
Those interested inwards applying to play tin sign upwardly here.
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