IAMABananaAMAA

Who this is

A Reddit account. I Am A Banana, AMAA. The record knows the handle and what it posted, nothing more.

On December 22, 2013 the account opened r/bitcoinpuzzles. The welcome post set the one rule: hide a private key in a video, an image or a text, and put at least 1 mBTC on it. Then came the GIF puzzle, and less than a minute later a post on r/Bitcoin inviting everyone over.

The puzzle said easy. The author spent the evening in the comments from a phone, admitting it should've been medium and dropping hints. After the solve, Wickex described the chain as "Part recognition, part trial and error!" The author's reply: "Mostly trial and error..

What the record says

Two facts, both from the author's own posts that day. The welcome post gives the rule. The r/Bitcoin post gives the timing, 51 seconds after the puzzle. Everything about the solve lives on the collection page, because it's the solver's comment, not the author's.

The record

static readonly author = party("IAMABananaAMAA", {
  key: "iamabananaamaa",
  kind: PartyKind.Person,
  about: "Started r/bitcoinpuzzles in December 2013 and put a puzzle up the same evening: a GIF with 1 mBTC inside. Marked it easy. Took that back within the hour.",
  profiles: [profile("reddit", "https://www.reddit.com/user/IAMABananaAMAA/")],
  facts: [
    fact("Opened r/bitcoinpuzzles with a welcome post: hide a private key in a video, image or text, and put at least 1 mBTC on it.", WELCOME, { date: "2013-12-22" }),
    fact("Announced the subreddit on r/Bitcoin a minute after posting the GIF puzzle.", ANNOUNCEMENT, { date: "2013-12-22" }),
  ],
});