Wallet of Satoshi Speedrun Bounty 0.21000000 BTC Live frame countdown
Wallet of Satoshi presents

The Super Mario Bros.® perfect speedrun bounty: 21,000,000 sats, paid in Bitcoin

Wallet of Satoshi has put a real Bitcoin prize pool on the line: 21,000,000 sats seeded, live on-chain, and growing with every contribution. It goes to the first person who plays Super Mario Bros. perfectly: a fastest-possible run, flawless to the thousandth of a second, that a computer can hit but that no human has ever pulled off, not in the forty years since the game launched in 1985.

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Frames from perfection

Super Mario Bros. Any% is all but solved. The current world record sits agonisingly close to the tool-assisted (TAS) ideal - a run with no human-possible time left to give. Here's how close we are right now.

6about 6 frames at launch
WORLD RECORD4:54.365 TAS-PERFECT4:54.265

One NES frame is about 0.0166s. Most levels lock to 21-frame "framerule" boundaries, but the final level does not, so records now fall a frame or two at a time, and every frame the record drops pays out.

Forty years in the making

The game everyone knows. The record almost nobody can perfect.

In 1985, Super Mario Bros.® shipped with the Nintendo Entertainment System and showed the world what a video game could be. Forty years later it is still the game almost anyone can picture from memory: run to the right, clear the gap, grab the flagpole. That universal familiarity is exactly what makes its speedrun so gripping. Everyone understands the goal, and everyone can feel how absurdly hard it has become to do it any faster.

The "Any%" category means finishing the game as fast as physically possible, warps and all. It has been chipped away for well over a decade, one frame at a time, where a frame is just one sixtieth of a second. The run is now so refined that the entire world record is a five-minute string of near-flawless, frame-perfect inputs.

Today the gap between the human world record and a tool-assisted run, a computer playing every input perfectly, is about six frames. A fraction of a second, spread across five minutes of play. Closing it means a person matching a machine, beat for beat. It is the four-minute mile of Super Mario Bros., and the first runner to reach the tool-assisted time will have played one of history's most famous games about as perfectly as the hardware allows.

  1. 1985
    Mario arrivesSuper Mario Bros. launches on the NES and becomes one of the most played games ever made.
  2. 2018
    Sub-4:56Kosmic breaks 4:56 (4:55.913) with a new wall-clip into the World 1-2 warp zone.
  3. 2021
    The four-minute mileNiftski breaks the 4:55 barrier at 4:54.948, a milestone the community calls historic.
  4. 2023
    "Lightning 4-2"A new technique in level 4-2 drops the record to 4:54.631.
  5. 2025
    Down to the wireThe record falls deep into the 4:54.4s. One improvement took 490 days of attempts to find just four frames.
  6. 2026
    Six frames awayBy mid-2026 the record sits roughly six frames from the tool-assisted limit.
  7. GOAL
    4:54.265The tool-assisted perfect run. The finish line this bounty is built around.
490 days

is how long the community ground out attempts to find the four frames of the 2025 world record. Every frame from here is harder than the last, and only a handful now separate a human from a flawless, machine-perfect run.

Two ways to win

Beat the target. Or shave a frame.

GRAND PRIZE

The whole pot

0.21000000 BTC

Be the first to land a community-verified Any% run that matches the TAS-perfect time. The entire live prize pool - seed plus every contribution - is yours, paid to your Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Address.

FRAME PRIZE

1,000,000 sats per frame

+1,000,000 sats / frame

Every verified new world record after launch earns 1,000,000 sats for each frame shaved off the official Any% time. Drop the record by two frames, collect 2,000,000 sats. The chase pays as it goes.

How it works

A public pot, three simple rules.

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1. Anyone can add

Send any amount of Bitcoin to the public bounty address. Every valid contribution grows the pot and rolls into the winner's payout.

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2. Tracked live

The balance is read straight from the blockchain and refreshed on this page, so runners and viewers watch the prize climb in real time.

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3. Run to win

Records are judged against the official speedrun.com Any% leaderboard. Land the run, verify it, and the sats are sent over Lightning.

Fund the pot

Stack the prize. On-chain, in the open.

Drop sats into the bounty and you're part of the chase. The address and its balance are fully public - verify it yourself anytime.

BOUNTY ADDRESS (BITCOIN)

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Live standings

The current Any% top times.

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Every frame here pays

These are the live Any% standings from speedrun.com. The time at the top is the world record this bounty is chasing.

After launch, every frame a new verified record shaves off that time pays 1,000,000 sats, and the whole pot goes to the first run to reach the tool-assisted perfect time.

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The fine print

Bounty terms, the short version.

  • Runs must be Super Mario Bros. (NES) Any%, under the official speedrun.com ruleset.
  • Grand prize: the first verified speedrun.com Any% run with an official time at or below the tool-assisted reference time of 4:54.265 claims the full pot. If a faster tool-assisted run is later published, the reference time shown on this page when the run is completed governs.
  • Submit clear VOD evidence. Raw capture, input display, or hardware proof may be requested before a payout.
  • The pot is the live balance shown on this page - the 21,000,000 sat seed plus all valid public contributions.
  • Frame-prize tracking starts from the verified speedrun.com Any% world record at official launch; the bounty pays 1,000,000 sats per frame of verified improvement.
  • Payouts are made to a Wallet of Satoshi Lightning Address.
  • Final determinations, tie-breaks, eligibility, and dispute resolution rest with Wallet of Satoshi. Void where prohibited; taxes are the winner's responsibility; compliance checks may apply.
  • Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Nintendo.