Peculium's $100,000 Challenger's Diary # 1: The Beginning....
Dear Diary,
Today I came across this banner. Peculium's Secret Challenge with a bounty of 10 million Peculs as reward! Curious as always, I started digging into the details starting with what is Peculium?
Peculium is a blockchain-based savings fund for cryptocurrencies, combining machine learning, artificial intelligence and smart contracts to ensure reliability, flexibility and transparency... First impressions? Great! Interesting project, ambitious one. So, I joined their slack channel.
https://peculium.slack.com/ (with invite https://goo.gl/ptbYNM)
There I came to know that some more members have already started working on the challenge and each PCL = 0.01 euros. (The reward is effectively 100,000 euros!... whaaat ? ? )
100,000 EUR BOUNTY!
Time to take this bounty seriously.
I asked on slack channel #general
"Hello....? Does anyone know what the secret is??"
I know I know. That’s not how I will be able to find the secret. Hmm.. What now? The Peculium slack has only 2 channels.. That’s odd. Click on the "+" sign and viola.. A channel named #secret_channel. So far there are only 6 people in there. Alright, not so many people know the channel. May be this is where it all starts. May be..
But the mystery remains. What is the SECRET!
Time to board on to this train, to the mysterious journey on platform 9 3/4. I don't know the destination. But soon...
Good night diary;
-Secret Challenger
On the Journey of life
The challenge is still ON
You can win $100,000
Join us at https://www.peculium.io/slack
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