{"id":5333,"date":"2023-01-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02b5da07000026bb"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:38:16","slug":"hunting-sats-contest-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/hunting-sats-contest-announcement","title":{"rendered":"Announcing \u201cHunting Sats,\u201d A Bitcoin Wallet Cracking Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wasabiwallet.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wasabi Wallet<\/a>, along with 12 other bitcoin projects and companies including Blockstream, BTCPay and Trezor, are working together to organize a Bitcoin world treasure hunt called \u201cHunting Sats.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For a full week starting on January 23, 2023,, the entities involved will be revealing seed words of a bitcoin wallet that contains 3,454,811 sats. The companies invite all Bitcoiners to attempt to crack that bitcoin wallet and claim all of its sats. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement sent to Bitcoin Magazine describes how brute forcing will be the method that will allow participants to crack the seed, saying \u201cFor this game, brute-forcing a bitcoin wallet means finding the seed words and a passphrase, in this case, arranging them in the right order and using the resulting backup as a way to recover the wallet\u2019s funds. There are many ways to achieve this and general knowledge about bitcoin wallets, script types, derivation paths, checksums, passphrases and BIP-39 seed words will be helpful \u2026 As more words are revealed, brute-forcing gets easier, so time is ticking as people from around the world compete to crack the wallet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 12-word, passphrase-protected bitcoin address (BIP39) generated <a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/address\/bc1q7kw2uepv6hfffhhxx2vplkkpcwsslcw9hsupc6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a BTC address<\/a> which now holds the sats up for grabs. Each word from the wallet, including the passphrase, were shared with the 12 partners. Over the week starting with January 23, each partners will share their word using the hashtag #HuntingSats. At the end of the week, if no one has successfully accessed the bitcoin, more hints will be shared. <\/p>\n<p>The partners involved include: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/btcpayserver.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTCPay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trezor.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trezor<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptosteel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cryptosteel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blockstream.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blockstream<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bullbitcoin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bull Bitcoin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hodlhodl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hodl Hodl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin Reserve<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/coinkite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coinkite<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swanbitcoin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swan Bitcoin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoin-takeover.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BTCTKVR<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mempool.space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mempool.space<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wizardsardine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wizardsardine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For all general information regarding the contest, including updates about the words that have been revealed to the public, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/huntingsats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuntingSats.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadowy super coders and sat stacking anons from all over the internet are welcome to try and crack a wallet containing millions of sats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"featured_media":4227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1218,218,93,1626],"class_list":{"0":"post-5333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-events","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-wasabi"},"author_data":{"id":2730,"name":"BtcCasey","nicename":"casey","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jn_tjlo_400x400.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/satoshi-guy-fawkes-coding.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}