I love this idea and would love it to be fully developed .
I remember seeing this thread a while back and it caught my eye.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/crypto-goes-to-geocaching-5216753
Is this the sort of thing you were thinking about OP?
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This would be amazing though it is a bad timing right now.
With the pandemic happening right now, I don't think people would be travelling somewhere without having a doubt though it is something from the past as far as I know.
How about something like a facebook video where people would be sharing the video and they will earn Bitcoin if they are the winner. Though it would be just a simple lottery but still, with people right now mostly in their houses, that is the best thing they could do now.
With the pandemic happening right now, I don't think people would be travelling somewhere without having a doubt though it is something from the past as far as I know.
How about something like a facebook video where people would be sharing the video and they will earn Bitcoin if they are the winner. Though it would be just a simple lottery but still, with people right now mostly in their houses, that is the best thing they could do now.
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It might end up not meeting the primary goal which is mainstream adoption if you put up coordinates which are close to impossible to even translate into a specific place.
Phemex's Satoshi-Maze Puzzle comes to mind first. The competition ended without anybody solving it. The puzzle was too hard I am sure there was only a handful who attempted and had fun trying to solve it.
Why not reduce the coordinates to a simple degrees, minutes, and seconds format so that a lot of people will join? But the first few locations would only reveal a clue and another set of coordinates for another clue and coordinates until the prize is found.
This was done in 2015 - 2016 I believe, by a group that also wanted to spread information and awareness about bitcoin. Sadly it never took off that much, and the project was scrapped. There was an ANN thread here as well if I remember correctly. The idea is to make it look like you're treasure hunting, and they lined up the ANN with the revelation of the then-talked about Pokemon Go to make sure the hype is up. The problem with this is that not a lot of people will join and the venture would be purely charity, to which the question arises on who would fund the project.
I want to spread mainstream adoption of Bitcoin by doing something called "geotagging". For instance, you can look for a location on the map and "pin" it for other people to go there using their phone's GPS and do some "treasure hunting" for Bitcoin. If made possible, this could greatly increase the adoption of Bitcoin and crypto worldwide like never before. There doesn't seem to be an "app" for that nowadays, but maybe I'm missing something here.
If you happen to know of a way to do "Bitcoin Geotagging", please let me know. Any help, suggestions, or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
If you happen to know of a way to do "Bitcoin Geotagging", please let me know. Any help, suggestions, or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Hey, the idea is great, and as you say, there no app today to make this. If these were in my hands i would use coordinates and not a digital map, this way the project doesn't depend on google maps. And you can use a social network to post those coordinates.
For example, a tweet with the next information:
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16°48'16.8"N+99°50'11.2"W/@16.8046791,-99.8386437
Another option is to make a web page where any user could register and post a place where he leave some BTC.
I want to spread mainstream adoption of Bitcoin by doing something called "geotagging". For instance, you can look for a location on the map and "pin" it for other people to go there using their phone's GPS and do some "treasure hunting" for Bitcoin. If made possible, this could greatly increase the adoption of Bitcoin and crypto worldwide like never before. There doesn't seem to be an "app" for that nowadays, but maybe I'm missing something here.
If you happen to know of a way to do "Bitcoin Geotagging", please let me know. Any help, suggestions, or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
If you happen to know of a way to do "Bitcoin Geotagging", please let me know. Any help, suggestions, or recommendations will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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