I've posted this before, but I thought myself GIS to help find the treasure and wrote a webapp to narrow down the search area (<a href="https://intothefor.rest" rel="nofollow">https://intothefor.rest</a>)<p>I personally believe the main reason the finder won't release the location is because he found it on federal land (probably Yellowstone). But hopefully some day we'll know closer than just "Wyoming".
> With that in mind, he has decided to leave the profession before becoming a practicing doctor, and may move into equities investing next.<p>Prediction: this is going to end badly.
Are there any cryptographic tools that would let you prove that that specific treasure has been found and not by the original hider?<p>You could store a private key in the treasure and use that to verify a signature, but how do you prove that the original hider no longer has a copy of that private key?
Reminds me of the Ready Player One story. The relationship between the treasure hider and treasure finder. It's about the journey and not the treasure itself.
There's a ton of padding in this article to be honest; the tl;dr is that the guy that found it revealed his identity because of impending lawsuits, notably one who claimed her text messages and e-mails were hacked to spy on her ideas of where the treasure might be.<p>The rest of the article is just a ton of fluff, repeats, and padding. I for one would just like to know where the treasure was located in the end (and I don't understand why it's not just revealed, given that there's no treasure there anymore), and what was in it. Don't really care about who found it.