by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 34)
There are a few dozen ASCII arts in the blockchain.
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.
  • block 229417 (2013-04-03) has a cute one liner sword miner message by HHTT:
    ./SockThing/HHTT/o()xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>
  • 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.
      _--------.
 /    ~~~~~~\                     p o u t i n e
(_   ~~~@~~@|     Cthulhu wants your bitcoin/dogecoin, plz donate
 \   ~~//|\\\  |
  \   \|||/\\\_/
  /   /|//_/|/__   BTC : 1JsJs5d6E5SmJSGUiQ12uF1GDZxTCUWvf
 /    \_\ \|\|     DOGE: D93mn1utTc7REQQPjQSjFf9Boupm32gw88
    There were a few small donations: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/BTC/1JsJs5d6E5SmJSGUiQ12uF1GDZxTCUWvf
  • 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
@petertoddbtc
    Code 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.B
    But 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:
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/data/bin/a96bda1363e8968f45b05e3c1940ba37b18de53de0157d453ca9bfc44913768c.png
    The last constant is then the only thing that matters and spends the incoming output.
    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. @BraveTheWorld is 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 -0600
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  HAPPY NEW YEAR!        _'.:;.:;.:;.:;.:;.:`
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                    (                    )
  ____               (_- -__-_-__-____-__-)
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  • 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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    :`--,''   :`...';\      the HYPNO TOAD!
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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"
               /\
          /  \
         / /\ \
________/ /__\_\________
\  ____/ /___________  /
 \ \  / /      \ \  / /
  \ \/ /        \ \/ /
   \ \/          \ \/
   /\ \          /\ \
  / /\ \        / /\ \
 / /__\_\______/ /__\ \
/_____________/ /______\
        \ \  / /
         \ \/ /
          \  /
           \/

    HELLO FROM ZOG
    The signature however appears ironic and could stand for "Zionist Occupation Government"
  • Muy feliz cumple Manu! ---- The Fantastic Four Gang :-D
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    Code 2.
    Muy feliz cumple Manu!
    tx 00d8871c1b3fb85912616bb2602b5a9869a345d9fa092f8454614c6158c83d10 (2015-04-08)
    Muy feliz cumple Manu! ---- The Fantastic Four Gang :-Dwhich means: "Happy birthday, Manu", in Spanish, followed by Manu's face in medium resolution
    The 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, Estebanand 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:
    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:
    bitcoin-core.cli getblock 00000000000000000baf6e3006fd05a1c5dbca3d430012180f8098cbe8b8ce22
    many of the transactions are contiguous but we haven't checked all of them.
  • 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:
     _______  _______ ____      ___   _______    _______  __   __  __   __  _______  ___      _______
|       ||       ||   |    |   | |       |  |       ||  | |  ||  |_|  ||       ||   |    |       |
|    ___||    ___||   |    |   | |____   |  |       ||  | |  ||       ||    _  ||   |    |    ___|
|   |___ |   |___ |   |    |   |  ____|  |  |       ||  |_|  ||       ||   |_| ||   |    |   |___
|    ___||    ___||   |___ |   | | ______|  |      _||       ||       ||    ___||   |___ |    ___|
|   |    |   |___ |       ||   | | |_____   |     |_ |       || ||_|| ||   |    |       ||   |___
|___|    |_______||_______||___| |_______|  |_______||_______||_|   |_||___|    |_______||_______|          

                                          ``````
                                  ``..---------------...``
                                `.--------------------------.`
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                            ------------:+yo------+yo:-----------.
                            ---------/shhs+:------:+shhs+--------.
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                              `-----------------------------.`
                                `.-----------------------..`
                                   ``....----------....``

           __   __  _______  ______    ___   _______  __    _  __   __   __
          |  |_|  ||   _   ||    _ |  |   | |   _   ||  |  | ||  | |  | |  |
          |       ||  |_|  ||   | ||  |   | |  |_|  ||   |_| ||  | |  | |  |
          |       ||       ||   |_||_ |   | |       ||       ||  | |  | |  |
          |       ||       ||    __  ||   | |       ||  _    ||__| |__| |__|
          | ||_|| ||   _   ||   |  | ||   | |   _   || | |   | __   __   __
          |_|   |_||__| |__||___|  |_||___| |__| |__||_|  |__||__| |__| |__|
    which reads:
    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.
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    The poem also appears at: 2422215c9a6040c0e337bf1c1e9b2b32244a1e36f3dd3e79fb77592c90bbb5a8.
  • tx a55e7587bb34a56ae1113b0848506ea2fcf0c0e1af8c241e76677eb2bcb727eb (2016-04-27) via cryptograffiti.info
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    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:
    Denk niet wit, denk niet zwart.
    Denk niet zwart-wit
    Maar alleen aan de kleur van je hart.
    translation;
    Don't think white, don't think black.
    Don't think black and white
    But only by the color of your heart.
    of the 1984 song "Zwart Wit" (Black and white) by Dutch artist Frank Boeijen, sample performance by the artist:
    Video 1.
    Zwart Wit by Frank Boeijen
    . Source. 
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  singularity are lies
  and tricks. Don't###
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  The Angels Trumpet##
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  your free will######
  You loose emotions,#
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  and true INNOVATION#
  You have been warned
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  Humans are not tools
  to abuse and discard
  They have never been
  and they'll never be
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  Love & cherish life#
  Don't give up ur <3!
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  Pray for the Victims
  Send them love######
  Heal Mr.Computer too
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  • tx e10c958e199daf71ab31342d40e188380fe84f07abee6a11d02c274d5431902a (2016-05-26) via cryptograffiti.info ASCII typeface spelling "CrimsonHexagon"
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                                   http://smarturl.it/spacetransient
    The URL redirect is dead as of January 2024. Possible meaning: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Hexagon
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    . tx ddc39a3da0ee6f0651bdf0be7119b4db2612b19416e9128091b1f29cdfe2aa0d (2016-06-20) via cryptograffiti.info. Busts of a man and a woman looking forward.
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Dr. Bill Maurer
Economic anthropologist
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    ASCII art of Dr. Bill Maurer
    .
    tx 06d2528cfabf360c7a8f925d84207d47612cd0ac1ad2efd8aea9758263d9738b (2016-07-13) via cryptograffiti.info entitled:
    Dr. Bill Maurer
    Economic anthropologist.
    His university home page faculty.sites.uci.edu/wmmaurer/ describes himself as:
    Professor 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:
    killyour
children
setthemz
free.il+
6(\___/)
6( O_O )
6 `---`%
evlbunny
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rule^you
    which reads:
    Kill 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):
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    Code 4.
    Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College
    .
    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.
  • tx 12fba831eb6de8eb944e80e42c78d29cf05a833831a335a5711a4b61cf90802e (2018-04-06)
    Grishchuk Roman_____
Pavlovich___________
________AND_________
Gres Anna Leonidovna
Married 01/04/2015__
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  • 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:
    .............See the full picture at TDAmeritrade.com/Blockchain................
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  • tx eda919b0a61b91c1fb030e6af314dfe5aaa6198416bfdaf8599d7f1a80c5d614, block 526446 (2018-06-07) starts an ASCII art spread across several transactions on different lines. 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:
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..............Susan.Bonds-Co-Founder.&.CEO-42.Entertainment-GLOBAL..............
.............James.McGrath-Creative.Chairman-Clemenger.BBDO-AUSTRALIA...........
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.Jason.Xenopolous-Global.Chief.Vision.Officer.&.Chief.Creative.Officer-VML-EMEA.
    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:
    The highly coveted Titanium Lions - created to honor marketing work that doesn't fit neatly into traditional categories
    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.
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    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
    a reference to OP_RETURN. It is steganographically encoded diagonally across the skull's eyes. Ciro Santilli only saw this after grepping:
    grep @ data/out/0538.txt
    which made all non @ signs stand out due to the terminal's syntax highligh. This image was uploaded one line per transaction with a few interruptions that we removed manually, and there were was a previous partial attempt a bit before: at tx f8102999c0aaf7681deec383eb8e7946f093e94a116a21e367e9ed6b7c32d1fb so either a failure, or maybe it was intentional to obfuscate things a bit.
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    ASCII art of two low resolution faces
    . tx 75b431e0a8c4617ca8adefe593ba66aa30907742b6dc8772761bfe7edabd74b4 (2018-12-30). Input script inscription. Two low resolution faces
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    ASCII art of face of woman with short hair
    . tx 2b8f1275ec54f1586f0d13b3828400d9fba31f46f92e8e4515c2b2e93e3be966 (2019-01-23). Input script inscription.
    _______________________________________
|         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 b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f, block 652005 (2020-10-09) contains the obituary for Yang Yiping, a Christian Chinese lady who lived in Germany:
           .-==-.
       |    |
       |    |
.-====='    '=====-.
|   Yang, Yiping   |
*-====-.    .-====-*
       | 　 |
       | 杨 |
       | 　 |
       | 一 |
       | 平 |
       | 　 |
       | 　 |
       `-==-´
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
    Yang, Yiping
      杨 一平
.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.
  ✰ 1957-07-19
  ✞ 2020-10-08
'~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'
Wir vermissen dich!
 杨一平，
  我们思念你
   ヾ(￣▽￣)
    杨一平与
     耶稣在一起
//yang.yiping.de/btc
    Translations:
    • Wir vermissen dich: We miss you
    • 杨一平: Yang Yiping
    • 我们思念你: We miss you
    • 杨一平与耶稣在一起: Yang Yiping is with Jesus
    The link yang.yiping.de/btc is dead with no archives, but the toplevel yang.yiping.de survives as of 2024 and contais an obituary in a WordPress website. The Bitcoin message is acknowledged on the website at:
    archiviert auf der BTC Blockchain TX b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f
    The website is also mirrored at yiping.de. The navigation is a bit confusing, but yang.yiping.de/?cat=10 contains a blog with many entries, presumably by her husband
    • the first post is from slightly before her death on 2020-09-01 and documents their 2019 trip to San Francisco apparently to visit family. She could be a COVID-19 casualty.
    • yang.yiping.de/?p=367 gives transliterated names of her three children: Kaibin, Ella and Martin
    • yang.yiping.de/?p=638 has some mentions of work colleagues, but not enough to easily identify where she worked
    Figure 13.
    Off-chain image of Yang Yiping
    . Source.
    A previous failed upload is present at: tx b4ba91b4892ff85a5eb18b85bc1fd744d9418b2a71f1dc130447893b9e1cab60, block 651974 (2020-10-09)
    The upload is done as P2PKH (20 bytes at a time) and is meant to show with newlines after each ouptut, BitLen style. It is also further broken down on our upload by the presence of UTF-8 characters. brando2131 helped decoded this message on Reddit, after Ciro Santilli reached out for help after seeing his work on the Code 9. "ZN inscription".
  • 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?
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  • tx 7076d9a40b44e92d8b96f9f5f1cb258619356d0789fe5bcf5197e2eaeb2b9eab block 693550 (2021-07-31) contains what could be an obituary for a bird:
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    and tx b478c2a3566fa644ccb3c9da567f39c9030e337537610c9ff5c5c885ea6109b8 block 693776 appears to follow up on it: 
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| (o><-) |
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  • 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
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'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 71d9187cbb7b00b4c516df218499bbc301996262cfafc4533fd7916af1fb6315, block 709632, (2021-11-14) starts a consecutive sequence of transactions that encodes the characters 'Z' and 'N', an ad for the Zenon Network blockchain. This is the very first taproot enabled block, foreshadowing the great inscription boom that taproot would lead to, notably in the form of ordinal ruleset inscriptions.
        ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,      
                .:1zzzzzzzzz.       
              .:qqzzzzqqq,          
           ,;1zzzzzqqq,             
        ,;1zzzzzqqq,                
     ,;qzzzzz1qq,                   
    ,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,      

    ,zzzzzq;.           1zzzz,      
    ,zzzzzzzzq,         1zzzz,      
    ,zzzzzzzzzz1:       1zzzz,      
    ,zzzzq:1zzzzzq;.    1zzzz,      
    ,zzzzq  ,qzzzzzz1,  1zzzz,      
    ,zzzzq    .;qzzzzzq:1zzzz,      
    ,zzzzq       ,qzzzzzzzzzz,      
    ,zzzzq         .;qzzzzzzz,
    Code 9.
    ZN inscription
    .
    This ASCII art had been previously noted by sroose and decoded by brando2131 on Reddit, and was brought to our attention by Bagfoot OP446 on twitter. Ciro Santilli had previously spotted the art, but failed to decode it. "ZENON NETWORK" is inscribed just after the art confiming the meaning of the characters, but it does not appear in our ASCII dumps presumably because the string it is too short and surrounded by non-ASCII.
    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. The lines appear in scambled order and it is unclear if there is any logic in the ordering or if it was just meant as a little puzzle. But given the nearby "ZENON NETWORK" inscription, this decoding is overwhelmingly likely correct.
    The following lines also show up in our ASCII dump:
      ;4Fdzw1k=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz;      
  ,vtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw==.      
  ;BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q==;      
  ;tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY;
    They seem like Base64 encoded data due to the = sign padding, but nothing human readable comes out of them, so their meaning remains currently unknown.
  • 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.
    @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@V/@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@@>                 @                   @.                  @,                  @'                  @;                  @^                  @''                 @:                  @>
         #          @   ###    ###*     @   ###########     @   ##########*     @   /###########    @   ###########*    @    /#########     @   ##########/     @   ###########/    \@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
      #######       @   ###    ##       @   ###             @   ###.            @   ###    #####    @   ###/*           @   ###     *##     @   ####,           @   ####"           @///
  #####     #####   @   ########(       @   #########       @   ########        @   ##########.     @   ##<             @   ####### ###     @   *#########      @   #######         KEEPCASE : THE
###(   ####   ####  @   ###     ###.    @   ###\            @   ####            @   #####/          @   ###\.           @   ####### ##/     @        ####       @   ###_            ORIGINAL HARDWARE
###  ###  ###  ##   @   ###     ###\    @   ##########      @   #########/      @   ###/            @   \#########*     @   ###     #*      @  #########        @   ###########(    WALLET CASE
###  ##    ##
###  ###  ###   ##
###    ####   ####
  #####     ####*
      ######,
@@>>
    A bit later we see another ad for the same company:
    Figure 14.
    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.
Tip for ASCII art hunters:
grep -n -r '   ' . | sort
grep -n -r '@@@' . | sort
grep -n -r 'XXX' . | sort
grep -n -r '...' . | sort
Tribute 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.
Transaction: www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72 from 2011-07-30, a few weeks after the suicide.
Created by famous computer security researcher Dan Kaminsky and Travis Goodspeed, presumably this other security researcher, evidence:
"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 BitLen in terms of artistic value/size.
---BEGIN TRIBUTE---
#./BitLen
:::::::::::::::::::
:::::::.::.::.:.:::
:.: :.' ' ' ' ' : :
:.:'' ,,xiW,"4x, ''
:  ,dWWWXXXXi,4WX,
' dWWWXXX7"     `X,
 lWWWXX7   __   _ X
:WWWXX7 ,xXX7' "^^X
lWWWX7, _.+,, _.+.,
:WWW7,. `^"-" ,^-'
 WW",X:        X,
 "7^^Xl.    _(_x7'
 l ( :X:       __ _
 `. " XX  ,xxWWWWX7
  )X- "" 4X" .___.
,W X     :Xi  _,,_
WW X      4XiyXWWXd
"" ,,      4XWWWWXX
, R7X,       "^447^
R, "4RXk,      _, ,
TWk  "4RXXi,   X',x
lTWk,  "4RRR7' 4 XH
:lWWWk,  ^"     `4
::TTXWWi,_  Xll :..
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
LEN "rabbi" SASSAMA
     1980-2011
Len was our friend.
A brilliant mind,
a kind soul, and
a devious schemer;
husband to Meredith
brother to Calvin,
son to Jim and
Dana Hartshorn,
coauthor and
cofounder and
Shmoo and so much
more.  We dedicate
this silly hack to
Len, who would have
found it absolutely
hilarious.
--Dan Kaminsky,
Travis Goodspeed
P.S.  My apologies,
BitCoin people.  He
also would have
LOL'd at BitCoin's
new dependency upon
   ASCII BERNANKE
:'::.:::::.:::.::.:
: :.: ' ' ' ' : :':
:.:     _.__    '.:
:   _,^"   "^x,   :
'  x7'        `4,
 XX7            4XX
 XX              XX
 Xl ,xxx,   ,xxx,XX
( ' _,+o, | ,o+,"
 4   "-^' X "^-'" 7
 l,     ( ))     ,X
 :Xx,_ ,xXXXxx,_,XX
  4XXiX'-___-`XXXX'
   4XXi,_   _iXX7'
  , `4XXXXXXXXX^ _,
  Xx,  ""^^^XX7,xX
W,"4WWx,_ _,XxWWX7'
Xwi, "4WW7""4WW7',W
TXXWw, ^7 Xk 47 ,WH
:TXXXWw,_ "), ,wWT:
::TTXXWWW lXl WWT:
----END TRIBUTE----
Code 1.
Len Sassaman tribute
.
Figure 1.
Len Sassaman (2010)
Source. Reference image from Wikipedia for the ASCII art.
Figure 2.
Official portrait of Ben Bernanke (2008)
Source. Reference image from Wikipedia for the ASCII art.
Video 1.
Black OPS of TCP/IP by Dan Kaminsky (2011)
Source. Presented at the BlackHat 2011 conference. Dan unveils the Len memorial at the given timestamp around 8:41. The presentation was done on 2011-08-03 or 04, so very few days after the upload to the blockchain.
From the JSON transaction we understand the encoding format:
   "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"
      }
So it is really encoded one line at a time in the script of the transaction outputs.
j(-> 1EGa1izEFDHzEobDDQny73re9BwXdzhZvH <-
j(                 ,
j(                dM
j(                MMr
j(               4MMML                  .
j(               MMMMM.                xf
j(              "M6MMM               .MM-
j( h..          +MM5MMM            .MMMM
j( .MM.         .MMMMML.          MMMMMh
j( )MMMh.        MM5MMM         MMMMMMM
j(  3MMMMx.     'MMM3MMf      xnMMMMMM"
j(  '*MMMMM      MMMMMM.     nMMMMMMP"
j(    *MMMMMx    "MMM5M\    .MMMMMMM=
j(     *MMMMMh   "MMMMM"   JMMMMMMP
j(       MMMMMM   GMMMM.  dMMMMMM
j(        MMMMMM  "MMMM  .MMMMM(        .n
j(         *MMMMx  MMM"  dMMMM"    .nnMMMM
j(Mn...     'MMMMr 'MM   MMM"   .nMMMMMMM*
j(4MMMMnn..   *MMM  MM  MMP"  .dMMMMMMM""
j( ^MMMMMMMMx.  *ML "M .M*  .MMMMMM**"
j(    *PMMMMMMhn. *x > M  .MMMM**""
j(       ""**MMMMhx/.h/ .=*"
j(                .3P"%....
j(              nP"     "*MMnx
The transaction before the ASCII art tx 9b08c00ced2bca4525d74e82db9af2aec8ef213eb1c1bf68a48b6be929968332 starts with what is likely a "Legalize" and must be a Tor Onion service:
j(-> 1EGa1izEFDHzEobDDQny73re9BwXdzhZvH <-
but that address as is + .onion is invalid, TODO find the correct one.
Other marijuana plants can be found contained entirely in single transactions:
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               |
 -------------------------------------
Figure 1.
Force of Will Magic: The Gathering card (Alliances)
Source. A high resolution scan of the original card depicted in the ASCII art for comparison.
The following two ASCII transactions:
tx 0f05c47a8caafadecc10d70ba3bf010eaf6bb416b5e1ad7b01cf3445f5fb7a1c
I am. Therefore, I have come to be.

-- Hyena


tx e6d48f6912929a58a2ee30c13768058777d8547215c27109b5cb0724e7abaaba
Erich,
Bro, this looks excellent!!
-Duriel
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.
The only other mention of "Duriel" in the blockchain is tx 140562ceb42fc8943fa52ccc0ddbb11ca2d88dae9b5240d7a4b46864538c515a which has some freedom of speech comments and gives the email:
Duriel@paystamper.com = 1HcuhfTAiQCt6KdMG2rZLXsTcKYj9nLDhS
paystamper.com was some other blockchain service from circa 2015:

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