The Trading Handbook — The Hunt Hidden

🔒 What's in the Vault

Sealed inside a cloud vault is everything the hunt was built around plus a final surprise for whoever is patient, clever, or blessed enough to reach it.

The 20 BTC Answer 🏆

The complete, correctly ordered seed phrase to the original treasure wallet.

💎 The Second Wallet

A separate wallet, and its seed phrase, holding a further reward and instructions for a subsequent challenge.

The vault's contents are encrypted. Reaching the vault gets you the locked file, and the seed words from the book are the key that opens it. Use only the first three words and the guide.txt file. Easy.

How the Door Opens

The vault lives in a Dropbox account whose only recovery address is an email on this very domain. When the domain lapses and someone new takes it over, they inherit the way in.

1

Wait for this domain to expire

Once thetradinghandbook.com is not renewed, it passes through its grace and redemption periods and eventually returns to the open market. Only then can it be claimed by someone new.

2

Register the domain

Secure thetradinghandbook.com through any registrar. Whoever holds the domain holds the door, keep it lowkey so domain hags don't buy, hold and inflate the price when it expires.

3

Set up the mailbox

Point the domain's email to a mail host of your choice and create the address key@thetradinghandbook.com (a catch-all works too). This is the address the vault answers to.

4

Recover the Dropbox

Go to Dropbox and choose “Forgot password.” Enter key@thetradinghandbook.com. The password-reset link arrives in the mailbox you now control. Reset it, and log in.

5

Open the vault with the book

Inside is a single encrypted file. Decrypt it using the 12 originally hidden words -- the seed phrase the whole hunt was about. The door is the domain, the key is the book.

Still want to verify the original treasure is real and untouched? Check the wallet on-chain →

A Word Before I Go

From Roble Regal.

“

This challenge was a very fun experiment that I genuinely enjoyed sharing with the world. From its conception on a TikTok live with my small but dedicated OG viewers (you know who you all are) to the mild growth outside of our known borders and spillage onto Reddit, mixing financial rewards with cognitive challenges is a quirk of mine manifested through The Trading Handbook. I still believe it'll be solved by and awared to the right person. It's a shame it wasn't solved before my 33rd birthday, but the next challenge has already been made, and is hidden in the solution to the first one. It's now up to whoever solves it to bring that challenge to light, and I'm confident they will be inclined to do so once they open the vault. I appreciate the patience shown by challengers, not only with the challenge itself, but with the logistics of delivering a standardized version of the book. With the PDF print proof version sent to all who purchased a copy, you are now all on equal footing. Where there's a will, there is always a way. In our world of instant gratifaction, may patience be the way. As always, stay blessed, and stay prosperous.

— Roble Regal Author, The Trading Handbook

The hunt is over.The vault remains.