The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure

What a great story and what a shame that people try to ruin it. I wold have been glad for the finder if he had managed to stay anonymous.

I&#x27;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;intothefor.rest" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;intothefor.rest</a>)<p>I personally believe the main reason the finder won&#x27;t release the location is because he found it on federal land (probably Yellowstone). But hopefully some day we&#x27;ll know closer than just &quot;Wyoming&quot;.

America: The Land of Litigation

&gt; 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&#x27;s about the journey and not the treasure itself.

There&#x27;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&#x27;t understand why it&#x27;s not just revealed, given that there&#x27;s no treasure there anymore), and what was in it. Don&#x27;t really care about who found it.