great idea anyway, i just hope the ten are careful, lotta scammers and crooks in btc-land. 5000btc could attract some seriously crooked crooks KWIM?
Hey guys! Sorry, buyerY and buyerZ couldn't make it. There was... an incident. Such a shame. But hey, I have their coins so we can still put all 10 together, find the stash, and split it per coin, yeah?
Or, for that matter, TH, who apparently would have some information possibly worth obtaining.
I agree that there's few ways that the 10
coins would have to come together, physically, in order for something to be divined from it that one couldn't via photography or - and only mentioning it because OP mentioned it - getting x-ray scans to check for something inside. Eventually the buyers (or holders) of the coins have to get them physically together and do something with it that they should be able to check for.
Certainly multi-sig with data from all 10 coins CoA's or private keys could work - but that wouldn't necessarily require the physical coins, the hindrance would be in reluctance of the holders to reveal that information when not in physical proximity of those they'd be trusting information with.
It also seems like an iffy setup. All people would have to agree to meet somewhere, and keep their coins safe, as according to the description you need all 10. If a single one would be lost (stolen, fire, whatever), the whole thing falls apart?
Anyway, for those sleuthing, I'd start with the claim of 1,000 bronze bitcoin tokens with individual private keys to addresses with a
BTC5 balance. If this was carefully thought out, it should be nigh-on impossible to find those. They might not even be funded at this time (presuming OP sticks around in the background and waits for an actual search / claim of finding the stash - though that could risk the stash remaining unfunded in case of.... an incident). But if by any chance there were a bunch of
BTC5 transactions grouped together somewhere between approximately November 5th, 2014 and April 3rd, 2015, that could at least give a low level of legitimacy to that particular claim. All other avenues at this point seem to involve badgering the buyers/holders, TH, OP or semi-randomly stumbling into the container.