Pascal Boyart
Pascal Boyart
PBoybitcoin
Paris street artist who signs as PBoy and once hid a Bitcoin wallet in a wall in the 19th arrondissement.
- Puzzles
- 1
- Prize recorded
- 0.28916308 BTC
- Still unsolved
- 0 · -
- Channels
- websitepboy-art.com
- redditreddit.com/user/Pascalboyart
- twitterx.com/pascalboyart
- Address
- 1KKFT9Q9BWWMFtrDnfKuaDp32CZQ9Jd7Fg
Techniques
Log
Painted the mural for the tenth birthday of the genesis block and posted it to r/Bitcoin with the address, crediting Alistair Milne for the funds.
reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/adc601/street_art_treasure_hunt_with_a_bitcoin_puzzleAsked for Bitcoin donations to 1KKFT9Q9BWWMFtrDnfKuaDp32CZQ9Jd7Fg, the address that paid for the project.
pboy-art.com/single-post/2019/01/06/Fresque-Libert%C3%A9-guidant-le-peuple-2019Noted on the same page that French authorities painted over the mural in February 2019, and that a set of 100 NFTs followed in September.
pboy-art.com/single-post/2019/01/06/Fresque-Libert%C3%A9-guidant-le-peuple-2019Who this is
A painter from Paris who signs as PBoy. In January 2019 he took Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People and moved it to the yellow vest winter. Same composition, same flag, new crowd. Then he hid a wallet in it.
The puzzle went up for the genesis block's tenth birthday, at 156 rue d'Aubervilliers. Coloured strokes, a black on black line, fluorescent ink you only see with a UV torch. Part of it worked from a photo. The rest wanted you on the pavement after dark. Street art that makes you go outside. Nice.
Talking to the hunters
He answered a lot of comments under the r/Bitcoin post. Short replies, lots of emoji. Where is it? "Paris intra muros. And it's not very hard to find". Can I do it from home? "You can solve a part from your home". The day it was claimed he still didn't know who did it, and asked the winners to get in touch. That same evening the solution was up, in French and English.
What happened to the wall
French authorities painted over it in February 2019. It stood for a few weeks. The hunt took six days of them. In September 2019 the mural came back as a set of 100 NFTs, according to his own page.
The record
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1KKFT9… is the donation address he printed on both pages. It's his by his own word, not by anything on chain.