Hackaday Links: April 9, 2023

When it comes to cryptocurrency security, what’s the best way to secure the private key? Obviously, the correct answer is to write it on a sticky note and put it on the bezel of your monitor; nobody’ll ever think of looking there. But, if you’re slightly more paranoid, and you have access to a Falcon 9, you might just choose to send it to the Moon. That’s what is supposed to happen in a few months’ time, as private firm Lunar Outpost’s MAPP, or Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform, heads to the Moon. The goal is to etch the private key of a wallet, cheekily named “Nakamoto_1,” on the rover and fund it with 62 Bitcoins, worth about $1.5 million now. The wallet will be funded by an NFT sale of space-themed electronic art, because apparently the project didn’t have enough Web3.0 buzzwords yet. So whoever visits the lunar rover first gets to claim the contents of the wallet, whatever they happen to be worth at the time. Of course, it doesn’t have to be a human who visits.



Speaking of crypto, it looks like anyone who owns a Macintosh has a copy of the original Bitcoin whitepaper. Mac user Andy Baio claims to have made the well-timed discovery of the easter egg while trying to fix his printer. A PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto’s famous whitepaper, entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” is stashed away in an obscure location and may have been used as a test document of some sort. Andy asked around and found a dozen Mac-using friends who confirmed the PDF on their machines too, so it’s probably pretty universal, a ..

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