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Famous Virtual Easter Eggs : Happy Easter !!!

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Did you get a visit from the Easter Bunny today? Did you get any chocolate Easter eggs?

The other type of Easter Egg - the ones where hidden code pops up within an application - can be fun to find and play around with too. There are some famous ones out there - and still a lot more that need to be discovered.

Microsoft Easter Eggs

Microsoft developers have long since hidden Easter eggs in older versions of Microsoft and Microsoft Office.

Some of the more famous ones include Word 97 where you could play pinball, or Excel 97 where you could use a flight simulator to fly over the names of the programme developers that were carved into a virtual cliff. In Excel 2000 there was a motor racing game.

Boo Hiss to Bill Gates as now this has been officially outlawed by Microsoft under the Trusted Computing Initiative because of security implications.

But I bet a lot of you who are reading this have a smile on their faces at the memories of these Microsoft Easter Eggs!

Google Easter Eggs

Not to be outdone by Microsoft, Google have also included some Easter Eggs.

Go on - go to google.co.uk or google.com and type in "Do a Barrel Roll" or "Askew" and hit return. The Barrel Roll is obvious, whilst Askew is more subtle.

There are a lot more to explore... but you will have to google these for yourself! :-)

The First Easter Egg

The first Easter Egg was attributed to Warren Robinett. In 1979 he built a secret room in an Atari video game ("Adventure") which contains a script with the words "Created by Warren Robinett". It is also said to be the first action-adventure game ever made.

Crypto Easter Eggs

What surprised me is that there have also been Crypto Easter Eggs in the past. There has been :

Bitcoin hidden in DNA. In 2015 Nick Goldman gave a presentation at the World Economic Forum about using DNA to store information. After his presentation he handed out tubes of DNA, which contained an encoded private key to a bitcoin wallet with one bitcoin. This was eventually solved by a student from Belgium who then claimed the Bitcoin in the wallet.

Bitcoin hidden in Art. The artist Marguerite Christine created a series of artwork called “The Legend of Satoshi Nakamoto”. There were four paintings that contained hidden keys, all of which have now been solved and claimed. More recently Andy Bauch created a series called ‘New Money’ using around 100,000 LEGO pieces. Inside these artworks about $10,000 worth of bitcoin and other currencies is hidden. Some have been publicly claimed, but some may still contain some BTC.

Bitcoin hidden in Video Games. The MonteCrypto video game depicts a mathematical treasure hunt by searching for crypto clues in a futuristic environment. The goal of the game was to find a 24-word private key and the allocated prize was 1 BTC. It took two months for a team of players to crack the code and get the bitcoin.

These almost feel like the pre-cursors to NFT's - where you can hide messages, files, info, and even crypto money inside an NFT for only the owner to see.

Do you know of any other Easter Eggs that Crypto has been hidden in that are still "live" and to be found? Why not share on Leo / Hive and see if the power of many can help?

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