[Cryptography] Paper: Collaborative Search for Rare Blockchain Artifacts

[tristan at 0xbadface.xyz]

I am sharing a "paper" draft that proposes discovering and distributing 
new digital "currencies" through large-scale, collaborative mining of 
extremely rare, human-recognizable smart contract addresses (e.g., one 
beginning with a meaningful prefix like 0xBadFace0fBeef1... on 
Ethereum).

The goal is to create Proof-of-Work artifacts on (Proof-of-Stake) smart 
contract blockchains that cannot be produced by any single participant 
at reasonable cost, then distribute the resulting tokenized address as a 
currency proportionally to all contributors, avoiding pre-sales and 
privileged issuance. This approach draws on and extends early 
Proof-of-Work currency proposals, with an emphasis on fairness, 
verifiable effort, and cultural recognizability - and on reducing the 
concentration of monetary creation power.

Full draft:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16734327

Feedback on technical feasibility, share registration mechanisms, and 
economic implications would be greatly appreciated. Benchmarks from 
different GPU models for Ethereum CREATE2 opcode mining would also be 
valuable. While the paper focuses on Ethereum, the concept could be 
adapted to other blockchains and may have broader implications for how 
currencies are created and who benefits from their issuance.

Tristan Badface
tristan at 0xbadface.xyz
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