Since the artist James Sanborn presented the crypos, outdoor sculpture, which is in the CIA headquarters, amateur and professional crypanalitics, frantically, tried to break the code hidden in almost 1800-farm message. While they decoded 3 out of 4 encryption panels in the field of S -shaped copper, the final panel, known as K4, is still opposing the solution. Only one man on earth knows the message of K4: Sanborn. But soon someone else will join the club. Sanborn raises the answer to sales.
“Auctions from the 97-farm K4 text, which is the secret of cryptos,” tells me Sanborn. He even throws a curved metal plate, which he used as a cutting sample for the panel, which is now in the agency.
Sanborn suggested that it was secret at the auction, recently in a March interview he had conducted with me. At that time, he was frustrated by idiots triumphantly and inaccurately claiming that they broke the code with artificial intelligence.
But why now? “I wanted to have a healthy mind and body when it happened, so I could somehow control it,” says Sanborn, who is 80 years aged when the auction starts in November. He could also operate the money. As a working artist, he does not have a huge retirement account and is particularly concerned that if he or his wife suffered stern disability, they will have to face significant financial challenges. He says that part of the income will go to programs for the disabled. The offer will be served by the RR auction and the reserve, he says, should be around USD 300,000.
It is his hope and the assumption that the winning bidder, after experiencing the thrill associated with seeing the solution, will take over dealing with the alleged responses of the still dynamic community of people trying to break the code. Although the questioning of the query was an intensive work (Sanborn Fields from 30 to 40 letters a week), the artist believes that it may soon be easier – with the facilitate of artificial intelligence. After my wired article in March last year, Sanborn said that a well -known character in the AI field contacted him. (He will not say who.) This person outlined how Sanborn can operate artificial intelligence to answer the fans of crypos, which is humorous, because a lot of irritation results from the answer to incorrect answers from people using AI. “Irony is not lost to me,” he says. Sanborn himself is not interested in working in a tandem with a winning bidder to respond to a stream of would -be solutions, “I would prefer to end it,” he says. “I am tired of it at the moment.”
But everything can happen. If some wise billionaire Bitcoin Prankster will catch the code, the whole thing could blow up very well. Do you remember when Martin Shkreli, who probably earned a fortune, raising the price of the drug he controlled, was a high bidder of a single copy of the Wu-Tang clutch recording? It was a fiasco! After Shkreli was convicted of fraud related to securities, the record was taken over by the US government and eventually sold to people who planned to carefully release the album sections as NFTS. But Shkreli kept his own copies and briefly began to send them stream. Experience showed how a bad owner can violate the artist’s vision. Nevertheless, Sanborn claims that its sale is without conditions.