Greetings Steemit community,

Welcome to a game and social experiment designed to grow Steemit by drawing awareness and new users, promoting connections between Steemit and other platforms, and exploring how blockchain technologies like Steemit impact our offline lives- maybe we'll even discover a critical security issue to fix or a new use case along the way, who knows?

All you have to do is discover my real, offline identity by asking a daily Yes-or-No question.

Sound impossible? Relax, you have a whole year.

Why Play? (Bounty)

Playing not only helps grow Steemit, it earns bounties for those who contribute the most to the search and for whoever ultimately discovers my offline identity.

As of this post, this is a brand new account with 0 account value. At the end of one year or when my true name is guessed, whichever comes first, a bounty based on all earnings this account makes from posts will be transferred to the member who correctly guesses my name.

Day 0: Correct guess bounty earns 100% account value

Day 365: Correct guess bounty earns 50% account value

In other words, each day my identity is not correctly identified the bounty declines by .14% of the account value.

Bounties extend far beyond only the final correct guesser though, since each day upvoted comments will determine the question I answer. The better the research members do and the questions members suggest, the more votes and higher bounties members can earn.

How to Play? (Rules)

The Steemit community has one calendar year- beginning UTC 20:00 September 26th, 2017 and ending UTC 20:00 September 26, 2018- to properly identify my offline identity.

Each and every day I will add a response to the valid question comment with the highest number of votes made on the previous day's post. For example, the comment I respond to tomorrow will be the highest voted comment (in number of votes) on this post at the time I respond. This is to promote an equal playing field, encouraging new participants to join Steemit as part of the game. It also prevents any concerns about the voting system being gamed by any single community member with an unfair advantage (not sure how this would happen, but just in case). In the event of a tie in number of votes, the first tiebreaker is the chronological order of comments (earlier wins), and the second tiebreaker the highest payout. In the rare event of a tie for all three criteria, a random number generator will select the winning comment.

In addition to responding to 1 question comment, I will respond to the top 3 highest rated name guesses. Same rules apply for name guesses in terms of tie breakers.

Yes-or-No questions can be suggested in the form of comments made to each post. Only top level comments with one question that can be answered with Yes-or-No will be valid. Comments replying to other comments, comments with multiple questions, or comments with questions that can't be answered with 'Yes' or 'No' will NOT be eligible for an answer. Full name guesses can also be made in the form of comments made to each post. They must appear as separate comments and must also be top level (not nested) comments. Only top level comments with ONE full name (first and last) guess will be valid.

Please do not combine question comments and name guess comments, to make both post two separate comments.

At the end of one year, if my name has still not been guessed, the community will vote to decide if the game should continue at 50% bounty, or if not, which member(s) should receive the bounty.

I reserve the right to vary the timing of my posts each day within a few hours, to allow for personal schedule changes.

Concerns?

If you're worried about my intentions with the bounty, please keep a few things in mind:

• It is my own best interest to grow the Steemit community by acting with integrity
• Furthermore, the bounty structure is such that it is in my own best interest to act with integrity (lies or conflicting answers will quickly turn people away from this game)
• If this experiment succeeds, it is in my own best interest to eventually be discovered and reveal my identity
• If this experiment fails, it is largely irrelevant/non-detrimental to the community if I try to be an a**hole
• If I am discovered and try to be an a**hole, my crime will by definition not be anonymous
• If I am not discovered and try to be an a**hole, I will have to live with that (in addition to all the above ways I would be sabotaging my own interests)

Current Bounty & Previous Questions

Current Bounty: 100% account value.

This is the bounty earned by the correct guesser if name is correctly guessed in this posts' comments.

For future posts this section will contain a full list of previously asked questions and their responses.

Join the Challenge, Earn your Rewards

Post a comment below stating a Yes-or-No question and/or a name guess you'd like me to answer to start narrowing down the options.  Tomorrow I will post the answer to the question stated in the comment which receives the highest number of votes.

Sincerely,

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