Bitcoin millionaire shares his advice for people hunting his $2 million treasure
Bitcoin millionaire shares his advice for people hunting his $2 million treasure
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Exclusive: Entrepreneur Jon Collins-Black tells Kevin E G Perry about putting $2 million of his own money into the treasure hunt contained in his new book ‘There’s Treasure Inside’. In 2016, Jon Collins-Black set out in search of treasure hidden by the art dealer Forrest Fenn. He never found Fenn’s fortune, a pirate’s treasure chest of gold coins and jewels buried for a decade. But Collins-Black fell in love with the thrill of the pursuit.
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“I had the experience of what it was like to try to solve clues, to go out in nature and get away from the cell phone and the TV and just be out searching for something,” he tells The Independent. “I realized just how enlivening that was.”. Fenn’s treasure was eventually found in 2020 somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, around the time the world went into lockdown during the Covid pandemic. Stuck at home, Collins-Black began to dream about creating his own treasure hunt, something that would pull people away from their screens and get them exploring the planet around them.
“We’re in a digital world and what I’ve put together is an analog adventure,” he says of his new book There’s Treasure Inside. “All you need is a book, some water and some shoes.”. The treasure Collins-Black has assembled far outstrips the cache of goodies Fenn created. Collins-Black commissioned five unique puzzle boxes, which have been scattered across the United States, four of similar sizes and then one larger box containing the lion’s share of the fortune.
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