The artist hid the keys to his bitcoins in paintings from Lego
If today someone wants to attract to attention, then he refers to bitcoin help. So the artist from Los Angeles Andy Bauch organized an exhibition of his own paintings collected from cubes of Lego. A inside each picture he encrypted access keys to wallets for bitcoin and other currencies amount in $ 10 000.
What happened
Andy said that he was interested in the 2013. But he not suspected of that it will pour out and bought a little tokens of several crypto-currencies. AT 2016, the amount of healthy rose, but not so much to make a guy a millionaire. " I not realized in its time to buy enough digital coins is now to be dohrena money " - says the artist.
Then he decided to distribute the tokens with using art. Since each wallet is protected with a private key from letters and digits, Andy " fed " this key not called algorithm, to get an interesting graphic pattern. If the pattern he liked, Andy left him and refined. On several dozens of pictures which in encrypted keys to crypto-currencies at amount in area $ 10 000. Decipher them anyone can, but In this case, the buyer of the picture will receive a form of advice from Andy.
How is decoding going?
Already on the day after the opening of the exhibition in networks began to appear about successful decoding. The developer of crypto software James Stanley deciphered the codes on 0.35 BTC (note: almost $ 3000 by current course).
Source: Andybauch and Bitsonline