MetaNeer Labs

Who this is

A software studio with one developer, going by metaneer.com. Zero to one, mobile and web apps, three clients at a time. Not much of a puzzle profile. Except for one repository.

metaneer/seed-phrase is the source of seed-phrase.com. Its CNAME names the domain, and GitHub Pages serves the site straight from it. The site itself never signs a name. It talks about "the organizers". The repository is the closest thing to a signature, so the record files the puzzle under the organization that owns it.

Why the repository matters

Because it's a diary. After the launch, each clue went up as its own commit, "Clue 2024071401", "Clue 2024071601", and so on through August 2024. The favicon arrived two minutes before the clue that says "web favorite icon". The prize increase got a commit too.

So the record doesn't have to trust a page that could change tomorrow. Each hint points at the commit that added it. Handy, right?

And then?

The last commit is from August 15, 2024. Nothing since, on the site or in the repository. The 0.01 BTC is still on the address. Waiting for someone, apparently.

The record

static readonly author = party("MetaNeer Labs", {
  key: "metaneer",
  kind: PartyKind.Organization,
  aliases: ["seed-phrase.com"],
  about: "Software studio of one developer whose GitHub organization publishes seed-phrase.com. Put 0.005 BTC behind a recovery phrase in July 2024, doubled it in August and has added no clue since.",
  profiles: [profile("github", "https://github.com/metaneer"), profile("website", "https://metaneer.com")],
  facts: [
    fact("Publishes seed-phrase.com from the metaneer/seed-phrase repository, whose CNAME names the domain. Each clue after the launch went up as its own commit.", REPO, { date: "2024-07-12" }),
    fact("Raised the prize from 0.005 BTC to 0.010 BTC on 2024-08-14, with a second deposit to the same address.", INCREASE, { date: "2024-08-15" }),
    fact("The policies on the site warn that there will be red herrings and that the organizers may change the rules without notice.", SITE),
  ],
});