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The Kryptos Key Is Going Up for Sale
Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the elusive solution to K4, the outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters.
Ever since artist James Sanborn unveiled Kryptos, an outdoor sculpture that sits at CIA headquarters, amateur and professional cryptanalysts have been feverishly attempting to crack the code hidden in its nearly 1800-character message. Remember when Martin Shkreli, who likely made a fortune by jacking up the price of a medicine he controlled, was the high bidder for the single copy of a Wu-Tang Clan recording? After Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud, the record was seized by the US government, and it was eventually sold to people who planned to carefully release sections of the album as NFTs.
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