Hive Wallet Social Experiment - 50 HBD Prize

in LeoFinance3 years ago (edited)

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Let's play a game. I created a new account - @hivegiftcard, and sent 50 HBD to this wallet. I will split the private active key for this account into five equal length pieces. Then I will send them to five random people who agree to participate in this experiment. These participants will need to figure out a way to work together and put all the pieces back together to access the account and claim the 50 HBD.

The purpose of this experiment is to remind ourselves and discuss the powerful features of the Hive wallet, and have fun. There are no rules for the experiment. There are no expectations. Any outcome is good outcome. Even if one person figures out a way to trick the rest and keep all the funds to themselves, that is completely acceptable outcome too. Before I tell you more about the details of the experiment, let me tell you about the Hive wallet and awesome features.

Hive Wallet Private Keys, Features & Functions

Hive blockchain offers complete ownership over the accounts created on the network to those who have the private keys to them. Every account comes with wallets. Owners of these wallets have complete ownership and control. With this comes responsibility for every owner of the accounts/wallets to keep their private keys secure.

Each hive account/wallet has several private keys: master key, posting key, memo key, active key, and owner key. Each of these keys have their designated purpose and function. Often times new users make a mistake of using the master key for everything. This is not advised. Best practice is to use keys based on what they are designed for.

While using a Hive.Blog website first time with a master key, the UI will show a warning and give an option to download a pdf file with all the keys. Relying on Apps warning is not a good idea either. Some may show a warning, others may not. Alternatively, all the keys can be seen in the "keys & permissions" section of the Wallet.Hive.Blog website.

Private Posting Key is used to perform social actions like upvoting, posting, commenting. Social actions are usually the most used one, and making a habit of only using posting key for these actions keeps our wallet secure. If somehow somebody got access the posting key, they wouldn't be able to transfer funds because permissions of this key are limited for only social actions.

Private Active Key is used for monetary and wallet related actions like transferring Hive or HBD, powering up or powering down, transferring funds to and from savings. Also, actions like buying selling coins in the internal marketplace, voting for witnesses, and conversions can be done by using the private active key.

When transferring Hive or HBD to other accounts, apps will have a memo field. One of the mistake people did in the past was copy/pasting their keys in the memo field. Wallet.Hive.Blog app will usually show a warning if it detects private keys in the memo field. But again we shouldn't rely on apps and always make sure we are not making our private keys public by accident.

Private Memo Key is used to encrypt the memo we are sending or decrypt encrypted memos we receive. Not all apps support encrypting memos. That's why it is always a good idea to test the feature on the app before sending the actual private encrypted memo to someone. On Hive.Blog we can send encrypted memo by starting our message with # symbol. To do this, first we will need to login with our private memo key on Wallet.Hive.Blog, then when making the transfer it will also ask for a private active key, because some coins are being sent too.

To view the encrypted memo, we will again need to login with private memo key. When we are logged in with either private posting key or private active key, we will not be able to decrypt the memo. In fact, on Wallet.Hive.Blog we won't be able to see any memo. This app hides the memo if it is encrypted and not logged in with memo key. Some other Hive apps show the encrypted message.

Master Key/Password is can do all of these action that are done by posting, active, and memo keys. It is not a good idea to use this key and/or share with anybody. Better to keep it offline.

Private Owner key can be used for resetting all of these keys and generate new ones. If you believe your account might be compromised, using the owner key we can generate new keys and so the old keys cannot be used anymore. It is highly recommended to keep this key offline all the time.

By fully understanding Hive wallet, its features, keys and their functions we can develop better habits and techniques to keep our accounts/wallets safe and use Hive at its fullest potential.

All of this gives us full control and ownership over our accounts/wallets. This enables us to use fast and zero fee transactions, earn interest on HBD in savings, participate in social actions, participate in governance, and most importantly have peace of mind that our funds are safe and secure.

Hive Wallet Social Experiment

I have created @hivegiftcard account and sent 50 HBD to this account. I will split the private active key for this account into five pieces of the equal length. I will send these five pieces of the key to five different accounts that agree to participate in this experiment.

If you would like to participate, please leave a comment stating that.

Normally, Hive wallet private keys begin with number "5". The private key you need to gain access to @hivegiftcard also starts with the character/number "5".

The total length of the private is 51 characters. Since first character - "5" is already know to us, I will remove this character. Now we are left with 50 characters long key.

By splitting it into five pieces, we get five separate ten character long alphanumeric text. I will randomly choose five accounts who express interest to participate 12 hours after publishing this post. If there are less than five participants than I will wait longer until there are at least five people.

After the pieces of the private key are sent I will add an "update" at the bottom of this post with the names of the accounts who received these pieces in the memo.

I will send memos in an encrypted form. So you will need to use your memo key to be able to see the actual memo.

Now participants can decide on how to approach this experiment, how to cooperate in putting the pieces back together so they have the full key to access the account. Final outcome doesn't matter. There are no expectations on how they choose to split or use the funds.

Important thing to note is that the five separate pieces will not be sent out in the correct order. Participants will need to figure out the correct order in which all pieces should be put together.
Find the correct order, add "5" in the beginning and you will have the full active key.

They can split equally among themselves, they can give away to someone, or chose one person to receive everything. Any outcome is ok.

I would also like to offer a "Double or Nothing" opportunity too. If the 50 HBD is sent back to me, I will add 50 HBD making the new amount 100 HBD and announce a new experiment. While funds will increase, participant may not be the ones who are randomly chosen next time though. In this situation there will be a restart of the experiment, everybody will have an opportunity to participate again, but it is not guaranteed that same participants will be randomly selected.

If consensus is not reached and funds are not moved out of @hivegiftcard account within seven days after this post is published, nobody will get the funds. I will reset the private keys at that point.

Just to make sure I am not deceiving as well, I have sent the full private active key ("first character 5 removed") as an encrypted memo to @hivegiftcard. In the case someone will need a proof that I sent the real pieces, I will share the private memo key so they can see that I did send the correct data.

Let me know in the comments if would like to participate and if I need to clarify anything.

UPDATE: The game/experiment has started. Because many showed interest, it has been expanded to 4 teams of 5 and prize increased to total of 200 HBD. Details on the updates can be found in the following post.

https://leofinance.io/@geekgirl/hive-wallet-social-experiment-update-or-200-hbd-5-hive-prize

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Fun! :D Would love to see how this goes, I added 5 HIVE just because I felt like it :-) Good luck players! :-)

Thanks so much ❤️ I really hope I get to join in 🙌

wow, awesome. Thank you @soyrosa!

would you like free money? every hiveian : duhh :))

actually, i would prefer the money I would earn with my decent labour (of hands or intellect )))

Lol... You are fabulous, Thoughtful, creative and Adventurous.

I'm not so good with such brainy stuff, but I'm all in 😂.

"I Want To Participate" ✌️

You are in. Twice! :)
I didn't realize that you mentioned interest to participate in two separate comments, and I ended up writing your name down twice.
I have expanded the game to 4 teams of 5, because many showed interest.
You are in two teams.
Please read my latest post on the updates.
Good Luck and Thank You.

P.S. I sent the memos in the order of teams. So the first memo you received from me should be for the first team you are part of and the second memo should be for the other team. If it doesn't make sense let me know, I can verify which one is for which account. Thanks.

Okay... I got the two. And I really didn't mean to leave two Comments and cause this issue.

The first was a reply to someone that tagged me and the second was a reply to the post itself.

As for the memo, I got the two and it's upto 130 alphabets or thereabout. I hope that's the right thing. Or not?

😳🤦‍♀️🙆‍♀️😏😏

I would love to participate, thanks for doing this ❤️
@rosellie13 @kenechukwu97 @kemmyb @amberkashif @dreemsteem @sunnyag @tattoodjay come help me with this, all you need to do is say you want to join in, after you read the post. It's 50 usd in Hive for us to share if we win ❤️

This sounds like fun... I'm in. Thanks @wrestlingdesires for the tag. I hope we get selected to play.

Lol... It's free money, but we've got to add brainwork to it.

I'm ALL In.
Thanks for the tag.

Lemme leave a comment Below

I think it would be fun but I didn't understand that encrypted memo thing. Perhaps, I need to read it again. If you are in @wrestlingdesires , I will support you if both of us are selected. Hehe

You wouldn't have to do anything technical at all - like I told Sunny, we would get in Discord and share our parts. We put it together, then share it equally ❤️

Thank you, I would love to do this but I think I am not technically prepared :)

All you would need to do is share your part of the key, after we agree how to split it :) No technical knowledge needed.

hello sir,yes,i want and love to participate..thank you very much sir.♥️♥️

Thank You for the interest. Teams were selected already before I saw your comment. Maybe next time? Feel free to see my latest post on the update to this experiment.

I'd love to see her have a chance in the next one 💓Maybe give first timers priority when you do the next one? 🙌

Awesome. Thank You.

My pleasure :) I would have tagged more if I had known we would have enough slots 😂

That's a very interesting experiment. I'm not savvy enough to play along and try to figure it out with others but I'm interested in how it turns out in the end and how people work together (or against each other) to solve the problem. Very cool idea. Good luck to the participants.

You don't like to participate in these experiments. I need to come up with the one that you will one day. :)

I'm always afraid that I'll mess it up somehow. Lol. I'm not great with technical stuff and blockchains and all that and I'm not a regular user on Discord. So I feel like I would be the guy who messes it up for everyone else lol. I did take part in the torch experiment though. That should count for something.

I was joking. :)

You participate best in one of the most important participation activities on Hive. You are the top commenter on Hive, I think. You always have the best words to say, meaningful thoughts to share, and useful feedbacks to give.

Your posts are the most amazing!

Yes, in torch you did take part.

Thank You.

Thanks for the kind words 🤗

great original idea :)

Thank You

It's nice but won't be an easy game to play

I think it is easy. Thank You.

Very interesting idea, and a welcome one. I will take one seat in this ride for sure.

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Thank You @thedd. Read my latest post on the update for the experiment. Good luck.

thanks

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Very interesting, but I would be probably the weakest link 😉

Thank you. No, you would be the strongest link.

cool experiment, count me in :)

Awesome, thank you. Read my latest post about the update on the experiment/game. You are in!

oh cool, like squid game on hive :D is the doubling prize rule still valid for all teams?

I wish I had much more HBD so that I would join this event.

You don't need HBD to participate.

Count me in.

That is great. Please see the update post. Thank you.

An interesting experiment) I'm participating!

Thank you for participating. Please read my latest post about the update.

Ok, 🙏

I would love to participate in this..

Great, you are in. I posted an update on the experiment. Read it when you get a chance. Thanks.

You're the only one we're waiting for :D see your notifications.

I'm interested, but I've a question?

Q. Those five users you will be selecting randomly. For them to interact and figure out the correct key, will you create a special discord group for them, or the 5 users will decide on how to do it (maybe create a group so they can come together and figure out the correct key)

I await your kind reply 😊

Hi @mistural. Thank you for the interest. Randomly selected participants will need to figure out how they will communicate. It would be best if done here on the blockchain. But there are no rules and people can decide what they would like to do. I will not be involved.

I will run a list randomizer shortly. Thank You.

You are in. Please read my latest post on the update for this experiment. Thank You.

An Interesting experiment will be interesting to see how it works out,

Lets throw my hat into the experiment and I am in

Thank you. You are in. Please read my latest post about the update to this experiment/game.

👍🙂👍

I will like to participate, this is giving me some squid game vibes, but the hive @geekgirl version.

Thank you. You are in. Please read my latest post about the update to this experiment/game.

The game sounds like a lot of fun.
I live the kind of security hive platform gives to its users. However, one can't be too careful so users also have to be careful about their keys.

Thank you. Yes it is important to be careful with private keys all the time.

Great explanaton of all of the keys and what they are used for. Interesting experiment too. I look forward to seeing how it turns out.

Thank you.

You're welcome, @geekgirl! Have a great day! 😀



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That sounds like an awesome experiment. Best of luck to everyone who participates! I hope that they end up being good representatives of the blockchain!

that's like throwing an apple of discord and watching the games beginning :))

The game has started.

Very interesting idea. I'm participating! 😁😁😁

Thank you for participating. You are in. Please read my latest post on the updates.

Thank you a will read it

Cant wait to play .... Lets give the brain some work

Thank you. You are in. Please read my latest post about the update to this experiment/game.

I wish that I had the time to participate. I like puzzle style games.

It doesn't take a lot of time. :) Maybe next time?

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Interesting experiment. I would like to participate as well.

Thank you. You are in. Please read my latest post about the update to this experiment/game.

Good luck to all participants. Sounds like fun.

Another social experiment lol, you're incredible @geekgirl... looks like a great social situation where we will see how Hiveans do behave. I'm quite sure all will be smooth and better than more would expect.

I don't know if there's room for me but would love to be in.

I saw your comment as I was finalizing the list. You are in. Please read my latest post on the update. Thank you.

Hey! I like te experiment Cant wait to play. My brain need some work, add me. Grettings

Hi. Unfortunately teams are full now. I saw your comment after finalizing the list. Maybe next time? Feel free to read my latest post on the update. Thanks.

Sure amiga, I will be watching for the outcome and how this experiment develops, thank you. Blessings.

Seems to be a cool game lol, I dig the idea of joining in, I hope it's not too late xd

It's late for this one. Maybe next time? I wrote an update post on the experiment. Feel free to read it when you get a chance. I actually ended up expanding the experiment for more people.

Sure I'll stay tuned, it will be interesting to see how the experiment will end up anyways lol I can't wait to see the results

intresting, and looks like fun! 12+ hours passed - did you get 5 volunteers needed for it?

Yes. There were many more who showed interest and I decided to expand the experiment to 4 teams of 5. So 20 people participating. Actually 19. One person ended up in two separate teams, because of my mistake. Feel free to read my latest post on the update. Thanks.

I really love this experiment and the way you explained everything about it. I am excited to hear and see the ways this gets accomplished and what the outcome is. Deep inside of me, I feel a war of attrition over the whole amount is about to come.

Great post!

Thank you. The game has started. I wrote another post with details on the update.

Has anybody here watched Golden balls on tv? Because I think we might see a golden balls situation here.

I received a piece of the key. Now do we challenge one another to mortal kombat?

Cool, I'd be free for this experiment.

Interested to play along. :)

Wow, @geekgirl I did not know the use of the keys, so many numbers confused me, I have learned a little about the keys. I love challenges and I would like to take it on.
I am not an expert, but I would like to invite @thekittygirl you, it would be helpful.

Thank You. Unfortunately, the game has started already. Maybe next time? I wrote an update post. Feel free to read it to see the updates when you get a chance.

This is a shame, I'm late to participate, maybe next time. Thank you very much, you shared very valuable information.


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I know I'm late to join the game but I find this idea very interesting so I'll just follow the experiment to see how it goes

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This is lovely, using attractive topic and introduction to get the attention of the audience is a very good skill to have. Thanks for the post.

Lol this is amazing, it will be teamwork so we can solve everything, I would like to participate but I see that all the teams are already there, I will be attentive for the next event you organize, greetings and very good idea. !LUV

Seguro fue genial participar en estos experimentos y juegos

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I tagged some people for this too, hopefully we can all get a turn to play if she finds the experiment fun :)

My pleasure :) What fun is a team effort without some old and new friends?

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Thank you. You are in. Please read my latest post about the update to this experiment/game.