One of the tests participants had to work with was working with blockchain in-order to create the framework for a dead-man's-switch for whistleblowers, which looking back on that today plus the other things Cicada 3301 seemed to be about it has a lot of similarities to Q.

Was Flynn still serving then? Could that have been the beginning of the whole digital soldier programme? It would make sense that they’d look for digital “officer” class to help build a digital army...