Trustless Custody vaults rely, in part, on the security guarantees of the ssss software. For this reason, we have created a public bounty available to the first person who can demonstrate the ability to crack the key system created by the software.
We have split the private key of a Bitcoin address (address bc1qft4cr3ft529zjfkph3pkghjs092m4jvkg4e5lr) using the ssss software. If you were able to crack the encryption on this split, you could instantly access all of the Bitcoin it holds it. You can see the current bounty amount and value at the block explorer page.
Of course, we fully expect that nobody will ever successfully crack this encryption, doing so shouldn’t be possible until around the heat death of the universe. You are welcome to contribute to the value of this bounty by sending BTC to this address. By doing so, you inherently agree to forfeit any rights of ownership or otherwise to the BTC.
The private keys for this wallet were generated on an offline machine. In the event that a security flaw is found in ssss, we will move the coins to a new address and again split the private key using the latest version of the ssss software.
Below are two shares of the secret. There are 5 total shares, four of which must exist for the data to be decrypted:
1-d4db45c3964569b4cc124434acebbe410290bf86e2671ea992f8bd9856f8d3e3fb77570c4a810a09584e05612da827c65eb01d53
2-aef3180064404f9162c62e02ddf4ab58de9dd65e7480a9e702f67da522e37721decbb6cb43d3ea16a63b2e49ced69efa7c85f34a
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