Do you still remember Satoshi's Treasure? Three years ago, a treasure hunt game inspired by Ready Player One that had a final prize of 1M USD worth of BTC caused a rush for clue hunting all over the globe within the crypto community. The game design is that if you can obtain 400 out of the 1,000 fragment keys, you would be able to claim the final prize and those fragment keys were released one by one protected by riddles and clues that some of them must be obtained physically in some corners of many cities or crypto occasions.
你還記得中本聰的寶藏這個三年前的尋寶遊戲嗎？總獎金一百萬美元的比特幣，受到一級玩家這本小說所啟發的，加密貨幣圈當時引起全球加密社區尋寶狂熱的遊戲...需要蒐集1000個密鑰中的400個，才能找出這比特幣所在以及獲得的方法。這些密鑰則是隨著時間以謎題的方式發布，常常涉及需要在全球許多城市或實體活動中才能獲的的提示才能解開。
The hunt lasted for a really long time and many hunters around the world teamed up and tried to win this race and money. There were some teams formed on Hive (then Steem) but I wasn't in any of them as I found it too attractive to be a part of it. I did have some involvement that will be explained later but gradually I totally forgot about it and did not know how the hunt unfolded. Today somehow I think of it and wonder what happened in the end. Who won the money? How com I had no impression of any news related afterwards? It can't be still on going, right? Can it?
這個尋寶遊戲時間很長，慢慢全球形成許多團隊來合作尋寶，畢竟常常涉及全球不同城市的線索。當時的Steem也形成了一些團隊，我沒參加任何一個，因為太有趣了，我可不想被搞得無心工作啊~~~ 但今天我突然想到這件事，覺得後來似乎都沒有聽說任何消息，很奇怪，如果有人拿到一百萬的比特幣，應該會有大新聞才對啊！該不會還在進行吧！？不可能吧！
You can check the following link to see many Hive (then Steem) posts with the #satoshistreasure tag including some of mine. People were excited about how we as then Steemians can have advantage over other teams since it's easy for us to form global hunt team with trust and they got a point.
你可以利用下面這個連結，看看當時社區上使用 #satoshistreasure 這個標籤發文的文章，裡面也有幾篇我的。當時社區的人很開心可以利用我們社交媒體區塊鏈社區的優勢很快組建跨國界的強大團隊來尋寶，這是很有道理的，似乎後來成績也不錯的。
At that time, a talented member of the CN community and a friend of mine, 
當時，CN區的才子阿鹽
See the clues above!? Those are geographical coordinates! I had to look it up on google map, physically go to the pinpoint and look for any clues around. How cool is that!? Talking about crypto gone real huh!? It was harder than I thought. First there were other competitors even in Taipei and secondly the weather wasn't so good that I had to find clues in the rain sometime. In the end I found some clues but it was too late to help my friend, but it was fun and great experience for me.
看到上面的Taipei 101線索了嗎？都是經緯度，我得從地圖找出地點，然後親自到那個點去，四處看看有什麼線索，像個偵探一樣，哈哈哈，真有趣！但是比我想的要難，因為我動作已經不算太慢了，竟然還是比別人慢了一步，沒能幫到阿鹽他們。不過我還是找到了一些線索，基本上就是貼在電線杆或是牆壁上的黃紙條。而且那時候天氣不好，我還有次在雨天趕過去，腳都濕了，哈哈哈，回憶無價。
So what happened? Twitter has barely any information and the website http://satoshitreasure.xyz/ is now out of service. The sign isn't good and I was thinking about something like a rug pull (but there was no coin!) or a hack might be there. If not, a project with such an influence should continue to make a noise if not a lot.
所以，到底後來怎麼了？推特幾乎沒有訊息，原先的官網也已經關閉。看起來不太對勁。我心想或許是被駭客給拿走，或是項目方跑路之類的。但又沒發幣，跑什麼呢？這麼有聲量的項目不太可能突然消失的啊，充滿疑惑...
Finally, I found an announcement by Eric Meltzer, the ST project co-founder, on Medium published in March 2021, two years after the project launch. It was a really sad ending. The other co-founder, Adam Walter Dupré, passed away at a young age that and the rest of the team finally decided to shut it down. What a tragedy and a loss to the wider crypto community. I can relate to the author as I was once involved in this hunt and the experience is part of me.
最後，我找到了某位共同創辦人在2021年3月的公告，他說，另一位共同創辦人，Adam Walter Dupré，在2020年3月因為憂鬱症而過世了，最後團隊決定把項目結束掉，把錢還給投資人，尋寶團隊則按照成績給予一些獎勵以茲補償。這真是一個很令人傷心的結局，由於我自己也曾經參與過一點活動，感受到那種全球共同行動的脈動，對於這位年輕創辦人的過世，也感到感同身受的難過。
You can imagine if Adam, the core designer of the game, is still with us, how he can shine on the stage of NFTs and GameFi or DAOs... With momentum already built by the Satoshi's Treasure, there is really A LOT to be explored. The world should really pay attention to depression that has took so many young lives.
你可以想像如果不是這個意外，這位ST遊戲的核心，創辦人Adam還在的話，他身後蓬勃發展的NFT、GameFi、DAO等等，會讓他有多少可以發揮的空間？更別說中本聰的寶藏本身已經建立起的能量與影響力，可以創造後續多少新的東西呢？唉，逝者已遠，但願大家更重視憂鬱症的可怕。
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R.I.P. Adam. Thank you for creating Satoshi's Treasure for the world.
安息吧，Adam，謝謝你為世界創造了中本聰的寶藏遊戲。
