Author: Cookie

When you click into this article, there may be two reactions - did the editor UC come back from further studies? Did the editor make a mistake due to shaking hands? However, the story I want to tell you this time is completely consistent with the title. This magical story happened last Sunday.

Last Sunday, November 3rd, at 5 am, Rodarmor, the founder of Ordinals & RuneProtocol, tweeted a short three-sentence message.

Before he gave further clues, many players in the comments had already realized that this is a limited 8-hour puzzle game, which is also the last sentence of the tweet. And the prize is exactly the first sentence of the tweet 'cactusseeds'.

Let's start by introducing the prize. 'cactusseeds' is one of the sub-collections of 'Dia De Pixales,' which is the 0th inscription personally engraved by Casey (the first inscription since the birth of the Ordinals protocol). 'Dia De Pixales' is an original art series by Casey, which can be seen showcased on Casey's personal website.

It can also be said that 'cactusseeds' is the sub-inscription of inscription 0, which is the grandson inscription. From the following figure, we can see how the 'parent-child inscription' mechanism completely establishes a collection of Non-fungible Tokens on-chain in a decentralized manner on BTC without Smart Contracts.

The top-level inscription here is the 0th inscription, which can also be a TXT text inscription for other projects to represent the name of the collection. The second-level inscription can be the logo of the collection. The second season's inscription here is actually a GIF animation, displaying the 9 'skulls' of the 'Dia De Pixales' collection in rotation, and the last layer of inscription is the specific content picture of each Non-fungible Token. Through such a hierarchical connection, even without the collection listing in the trading market, a Non-fungible Token collection can be organized and presented to users on-chain in a very intuitive way.

As for why Sun Mingwen is called 'cactusseeds'? That's a question for Casey. However, here we can also see how to name a specific single Non-fungible Token in the collection, which is intentionally looking for a corresponding name Satoshi.

Back to the point. Here comes the question, what is the second sentence of the puzzle, "25138 / 29746"? Six hours later, at 10 a.m., Casey gave the answer:

The answer has been solved here - '25138/29746' is a set of coordinates in Minecraft, go to the 2b2t server and find Casey! Casey himself also made it clear:

The first to find me, 'cactusseeds' is yours.

This is not a simple task. 2b2t, known as the 'oldest anarchy Minecraft server'. This server, established in December 2010, is known for its lawless and highly destructive subculture, and the extreme destruction brought about by complete freedom has made 2b2t a 'beautiful hell'.

For new players entering 2b2t for the first time, it is already difficult to leave the 'spawn area', not to mention reaching the coordinates specified by Casey. These difficulties include but are not limited to -

• "Rebirth Zone" has been heavily damaged and filled with traps left by old players.
• To reach the coordinates specified by Casey, you need to collect enough resources, otherwise you will "starve to death" long before you get halfway there.
• The "Spawn Zone" may have old players constantly ravaging new players.

Take a look at the rendering of the 'Rebirth Zone' below. This image is from four years ago, and the 'Rebirth Zone' is filled with magma, extremely scarce resources, and can be described as 'hell'...

Close to 1 hour later, the winner emerged, @Rhynohowl1 became the first person to find Casey in the 2b2t server, and Casey immediately transferred "cactusseeds" to him.

In fact, this player may have spent less time finding out about Casey, because it can be determined that he didn't know what Ordinals were before, and may not even be a Crypto player. These conclusions and inferences are drawn from his tweet content, because after he referred to the received 'cactusseeds' as 'Non-fungible Token', Ordinals players corrected him in the comments—this is not a Non-fungible Token, it's an inscription! In addition, his past tweets are also very few, and there is no content related to Crypto at all.

He also specifically tweeted in response to the comments from Ordinals players - Sorry, it's not Non-fungible Token, it's Ordinals

How did someone know that Casey was giving such an important inscription? Was it 'rat trading'? No no no, because the information was passed on to a streamer named riths who specializes in playing the 2b2t server.

Why did this information end up with a 2b2t streamer who only goes live on Saturdays and doesn't have a large number of fans? This is because the co-founder of the BTC Non-fungible Token project INK, @Brunno_UTXO, went to this live channel to convey this information. He also expressed his willingness to immediately spend 1 BTC to buy 'cactusseeds' in the live channel to @Rhynohowl1.

This is also after the event, it is generally believed that @Rhynohowl1 directly earned 1 BTC from a direct source. In fact, @Rhynohowl1 listed the inscription in Magic Eden for 10 BTC, and the highest offer received so far is 0.33 BTC. He will list it for 10 BTC, probably because Casey said in the reply:

"10 BTC, or shattered"

In his video, another KOL@cbspears expressed willingness to buy 'cactusseeds' for a price of 5 BTC.

Life is always full of surprises and unexpected events. For @Rhynohowl1, it could have just been an ordinary Saturday (in our time zone, it was already Sunday) before something happened. He turned on his computer, opened Minecraft, and joined the 2b2t server to play while watching and chatting on riths' Twitch live channel. Suddenly, a message appeared and he began to search for the founder of Ordinals & runeprotocol in this virtual world of Minecraft. When this prominent figure from another virtual world appeared before him in what might have seemed like an ordinary Minecraft avatar, he received 1 BTC.

Starting with the release of rune 'MEMENTO•MORI', Casey has become more active and has been making attempts to promote the rune ecosystem. After this puzzle game ended, Casey posted a long tweet early yesterday morning, stating that they do not want to crazily promote specific coins like other ecosystems' 'chief sales officers', and they hope to hear everyone's opinions and have some good methods to help promote the rune and even the Ordinals ecosystem.

After Casey's statement, 'MEMENTO•MORI' saw a maximum surge of 45%. BlockBeats previously introduced the rune (related reading: Ordinals protocol founder releases new rune, as expected?), as a rune personally released by Casey, the market cap briefly fell below 10 million USD after minting, which even led players to make helpless jokes - Casey is too pump, 'inferior to' Vitalik's dog. After Casey's statement, players' views on 'MEMENTO•MORI' also warmed considerably as the price regained momentum.

Will rune get better? Time will prove it. And this story of 'Playing Minecraft for 1 hour and earning 1 BTC' is far from over. Similarly, time will show us at what price 'cactusseeds' will be sold as the ecosystem and BTC develop.

But now, this story is already exciting enough.