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[sirichj]

Where are you satoshi?

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Really if they intended Kayserberg to never be revealed as the pic location, It may be that 6 degrees is the only approach they intend on us using.

I wouldnt discount other methods, but lets follow that line of thinking.

I would say in the information age we just need to push out his face to every corner of the earth.

TV is a good option. Public TV, or even popular TV stations, for instance Tech TV.(ZDTV) ... this the bigger the viewing audience the better, of course. Of course getting something on TV usually takes cash. But it wouldnt hurt to offer the concept to the techie shows, they like this kind of stuff. I know each country has its own station system. We would need to hit many of them to get a real result.

Next is the Internet. We are already working on this. But perhaps another mailing is in order? Despite its lack of legality... the B2O-Virus was an idea. A Bad one... but an idea. a little window that popped up with Satoshi
and asked "do you know me?" and a link to the page. Of course we could do the same in a pop-up ad. Course spyware or virus, its still forcing people to look at something they arent interested in. Which isnt really very cool.

Making the chain letter easier to forward might be a good idea. I had an idea. Put a link in the email, that forwards you to a page that allows you to send out an email from that page. Some chain letters use that method. No forwarding, you just go to a page put in your email, the email of the person you want to send it to, and off it goes. And in that email is a link for that person to do the same thing. It makes the whole process idiot proof.
The problem... you end up having to run your own email server. Of course you could allow people to host mirrors, put them all over the place and then split the processing load up to several servers owned by us players.

That way its all automated, no one pays a ton of server bandwidth costs, and we can really start to pump out the emails to the world. It would also give us the opportunity to tally the email addresses weve sent out. Once we start to approach 1 million emails and up to 10 mil emails, we would really start to see how far we have spread Satoshi's image around. Hell you could even watch the IP's and get a general map of how far weve spread the Satoshi Sickness ... It would also give us holes in our search and show us where we still need to infect.

Myspace has a nice world wide IP tracker, you just slip a small piece of code into the page you want to track and it gives you IP listings and a map of hits on the earth. Very easy to use. No link right off hand. Sry.

Just a few ideas. ... back to work.

[ixalon]

We've done something similar to the email idea:
http://www.billion2one.org/?lang=en&o=email

However the trick is getting people to forward it (even the promise of money doesn't seem to be working)... So far the fall-off is dreadful...

Level Percent Total Unique
1 24.96% 178 100%
2 66.2% 472 97.25%
3 8.84% 63 100%

Let's hope someone who finds the cube and claims the $100,000 is keen on finding Satoshi

[sirichj]

Surely MC must have known how difficult this would be, if we all email 5 people what's the likelihood they will, what is their incentive?

What do you usually do when you receive an email that says, "pass this on to 5 of your friends etc", well I normally delete it lol so if we are going to use the SDOS approach then basically we're screwed lol.

The people we email will probably have no idea about what we're trying to do and will not get anything out of it, so why do it ? That's the problem

[jaikaiman]

Yes, the six degrees of seperation theory is a problem. Sending out any form of communication unsolicited is considered as spam these days. The six degrees may well mean us to personally ask people that we know and show them the photo...people who live in areas that might possibly be his home location. I personally think he lives in London. He probably runs a chinese restaurant (No offence is meant to be taken) down the road from Mind Candy offices. I do believe that the only way we will find this man is either by accident, or by involving the media. Has anyone approached a radio or magazine with this puzzle? (Puts on list of things to do)

[poozle]

I don't know if anyone saw http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=32499&in_page_id=34 but it seems slightly similar to what we are doing (hunting for a random man) maybe the metro would take our story? They ran this one (and it worked!)

[sirichj]

Satoshi

[Cabbage]

[sirichj]

Buddha? I'd love one lol

[uk_judgement]

Here's a thought

[sirichj]

Re: Here's a thought

[jaikaiman]

This could be taken up by one of the "lads mags", or possibly SFX magazine "very sci fi and fantasy". Might be worth firing off an email or two...or even a few posts in their forums might get the interest up.

[sirichj]

Full name?

[Shaded Spriter]

Well it looks like because of Digg I have gotten back into ARGs again...Damn you digg.

I saw this picture on the Find Satoshi project and thought you guys would already be right on here with this...

I have two places which I think we should try looking.

1. the Perplex city leader board...yes it is a long shot but he could of been chosen at random from the leader board (he could still be on there or his name/picture could of been removed if he was...but it is worth a shot.)

2. The way people want us to try and figure this out is by e-mailing everyone we know...and then getting them to e-mail everyone they know...chain letter without all the c- style to try and find him 3/4 connections away from us.

thank you for throwing me back into this crazy crazy world...30 hours before an exam.

[sirichj]