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Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain ASCII art Updated 2026-08-07
ASCII porn is listed at Section "ASCII porn".
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.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 contains the ASCII art of cat:
/\_/\ ____/ o o \ /~____ = = / (______)__m_m) 
Figure 1. ASCII art of the Winklevoss twins.tx 09a5d5aaecdce1757e6ec713cc8a2201abca9acdb6fbadc7760e831cdad3d680 (2014-10-01) high resolution image of the Winklevoss twins wearing suites. They had a big and later catastrophic involvement with Bitcoin. Followed by the message:TODO locate exact source photograph if one exists. The coin-like image behind them on the background appears to represent the statue of liberty.if you like it, leave a tip: 1MDBHLGV7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9w
The tip address appears to be cropped and is incorrect, ooops. 777db7bfbea2c525d5adb05a8fbf47736e2311492f4614e5d38ab199b4bbfac2 give the likely correct version of it "1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC".The same address that funds this transaction 1Jhf86XdHsAQYKRZjQ1CuJCnyUqVKnasEW later also goes on to directly fund other "if you like it leave a tip" ASCII arts:This was noticed by I____felix____I on Twitter. That same address also funds tx 61e9a034f5bf4f34afb553c0ce041be425d1e38f5026ed32a38a7b2a9516d119 block 325026 (2014-10-12) which contains a quick ASCII message referencing the images:- Figure 2. "777db7bfbea2c525d5adb05a8fbf47736e2311492f4614e5d38ab199b4bbfac2"
- Figure 5. "Warren Buffet" at 0fc0c50e410b62ee3a316135711116db6b4e728841c976f29ab85e2a41e0dcc3
and tx 736026e3a8f41f186690e15168345fec54e19bab6d3127dc27e2976d0c1e11a4 block 324742 (2014-10-10) which contains another message though that one is less clear:That's not, what the blockchain's for - BTC hall of fame. Yeah, yeah, I know. I couldn't help myselfthanks, BM-2cTgtmfRnk9B2eZjZEpiaYoTWHVG1J4wyH G+uWd832gZrF416G64HKJ8tj5Foa95qOc8pmlPI5dRkmLB0PwtfB3U54JIqYs33+gj9+N7DJta2Pf7LsXH3DcM8=- 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. . (2014-10-12). Associated text: Portrait of a young man. TODO identify. Possibly Roger Ver. 1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC was tipped twice so far: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC for 0.00240 BTC and 0.02490000 BTC in 2014. Change was returned down the middle at output 97 back to sending address 1Jhf86XdHsAQYKRZjQ1CuJCnyUqVKnasEW.if you like it, leave a tip: 1MDBHLgv7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wviC
- 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 soulless NFT collection would later be created with that name as well: magiceden.io/ordinals/marketplace/hashlings.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: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.@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
,'``.._ ,'``. :,--._:)\,:,._,.: All Glory to :`--,'' :`...';\ the HYPNO TOAD! `,' `---' `. / : / \ ,' :\.___,-. `...,---'``````-..._ |: \ ( ) ;: ) \ _,-. `. ( // `' \ : `.// ) ) , ; ,-|`. _,'/ ) ) ,' ,' ( :`.`-..____..=:.-': . _,' ,' `,'\ ``--....-)=' `._, \ ,') _ '``._ _.-/ _ `. (_) / )' ; / \ \`-.' `--( `-:`. `' ___..' _,-' |/ `.) `-. `.`.``-----``--, .' |/`.\`' ,','); SSt ` (/ (/ - tx 0913d8125167f728cec1b95d27e6fc62a7a45af35eecfefd3b5000e367ee1468 (2015-02-01) via cryptograffiti.info: ASCII typeface add for an unsuccessful 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"
/\ / \ / /\ \ ________/ /__\_\________ \ ____/ /___________ / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \/ / \ \/ / \ \/ \ \/ /\ \ /\ \ / /\ \ / /\ \ / /__\_\______/ /__\ \ /_____________/ /______\ \ \ / / \ \/ / \ / \/ HELLO FROM ZOG Muy feliz cumple Manu! ---- The Fantastic Four Gang :-D ~?O8O7?I$O8888OOZZ$$$7?=~::::::::::::$$8ODZZZ7I,.....,8D88O88O88$I?=7ZO88DDDNDNN 7888DD888888888OOZZZ$$I+=~:::::~IONNNNNNMNNNMMNMN8~:.,:+888D88O$$$Z$OZOO8DDNNNNM 88DDDDD8D88888888OZZZZI?=~::~+ODNMNNNMNMMMMMMMMMMNNND~,:?D8D88Z$$$7Z$ZZO8DNNNNNN 8DDDDNDDD8888OOO8OOOOZ7?=~~+DDDND8NDD88NNNMNMNNNMMMMMND?ODDD888ZOOOOOO88DNNNNNDD DD8DDDDDDD88O8O8OOOOOO7?++DDDDD8DDDDD8DDND888NDDNNMMMNMNZ$8DDDDD8DDDDDDDNNNNNNND 88D888888D88888O88O8OZ$7O8DD8DDNNNDDDDDND8888NDDDNNMNNNNDDO8888DD8DDDDDDNNNNNNND 88D888888888888888888OZZO88DNDDDDD8D88OOOOO8DDNDNDNNNNNDDDOI+?$88D88D8DDNNNNNNNN 88D8888D88888888D8D8DO$O8DDNDZ77I???+?++++++IZO8O8O888OOD8D$,,,~Z8OO888DDDNNNNDD DDD8888888DDDDDDDDDD8ZO8DDD8$I??+++===~~~~::~~=+===+?I$Z8888=..,7$OOOZO8DDNNNNDD 888D88DDD888DDDDDDD8ZO8DDDDO7?+++++=~~~~~:~:::::::::::~~+$8D$..:78OOOZO88DDNNDDD 88O888D88OOOO8DD8DD$888DDNDZ7?+?+?++==~~~~:::::::::::,::~=88DI,+88888OOO88DD888O O88888DDOOOOOO88DD8Z88NDNNOZ7???+++===~~~::::::::::::::::~$O88OO8888DD8O888OZZZO 88O8D8888OZZO8O88DOODDNDDD8OI????++===~~:~::::::::::::::::?ZOOOOOO8OD8DDDDOOOZ7$ 88O8O888O8OOOO88DDO8D8NNNN8O7III?++===~~~:::::::::::::::::?ZOZOZOOO8DDDDDD8877$Z 8O8888D8O8DDDDDDDDO8NDDDNNZ7I???+===~=~~~~~::::::::::::::~?OZZZ888D8D8888888$$$$ 8O8D88OO88DDDNNNNDZDNNDDN87I?????I$7???++===:~~~~~~::::,:=IO$$O88DD8D888D8DDZ$$$ 8888OOZZZO88DDDDDDO8NDDNDZII??7Z8O88NNNDOI?++=++++++==~::=$8ZZ88DDN8DD8DDDHACKER DD88O$$7$ZOOOO88D87ODDDND7??I7$$7777$OOO8O$?+=+$88DDD8O7:~$8$$88DNDNNNDDNNNNNNND DDD8O$77$$ZZOOO8DIOZZ8DNZ???7$ZODDNMMI8$8ZI=~:+IZOZ7II+=?=78$$O8NDNNNNNDNNNNNNDD DDD8OZZ$ZZOOOO8ODI$7$O8D????III7ZZ$$7IIII77=::+?7OZNDOZ=?~IO7Z8DDDDDDNNNDNNNNDDD DNDD88OO88DD88DDNI$?I$OZ??????????+++?+??II+~:==?77$7???+~=$+7DNDDDDDDDDNDDDND88 NNDNNDDDDNDDNDNDD$I?O8IIII??++++++++===+??I+:::~=++=++~~~:=77ZNNDDDDDDDDDDDDD888 DDNDDDDNDDNDDDDDNNII77I?II???+====~=~==+???=::::~:~~=~~:::=$+NNDDDDDNDDDDDDDDD88 NNNNNDNNNNNDDDDDDD??+7??I??I??+==~~===+I??+~:::~::~:~~::::~?=DDNDDDDDNNDDDDDDD8D NNNNNNNNNNDDDNNDDN$?I?IIIIIIII??=+=+?I$I+I?=~~::==~::::::~=~NDDNDDDDNDDDDDDDD888 NNNNMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNO??I$I?II777I?+??777$8D8$?+NO=+=~::::~~~?NNNNNDNNNNNNNDDDD8O8 NNNNMMMMMMNNNNNNNNDNN8$ZI?II7$$7I7I77?I7ZZOO$I+==++=~~:~=~:MMNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDD8OO NNNMMMMMMMMNMNNNNNNNNDO7??III7$777I7I7IIII$$$?+=~=?====~~:+MMNMMMNMMMMNNNDDD888O NMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMNNNNDI??IIII$7I?I$$77$7I+=~~~~=?I==+==+?MMMMMMMMMMMMNNDDD8888O NMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNND??IIIIIIII?+?8O+I~=~I=IZZ?I$?+=+=8MMMMMMMMMMMMMNNDD888888 NMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMNN??I7777I77I=+?III+~:~:,~+?+I+++==MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMDDDDDDDDD MNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNN?I777777I7I??++?I?++=~~=~:~+=+++IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNMMMM MMMMNNNNNMMMMMMMMMMMNMM?I77777II77I???++?IIII+~~:~===++MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN+II7$7$$77III???++++===~~~~=+++MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMNMMMMMMMNMMMMMMN??I77$7$$7$7I?+++==~~~~~~~~=+?MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMZ=+??II77$$$$77777I+==~~~~~:~~=+?MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMNNNMMMMMMMMMM:+?II???II77$ZZZ$$$$$II+===+~~==??MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMNNNNNMMMMMM7:I?77I?IIII7$$ZZOOZ7$$$7I??III?++8NMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMNMNNNMMMMMM,:I?$$IIIIIII7$$ZZZZ88OZ$$$777I?+=NNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMNNNMMMMZ,,?7ZO7IIIIIII7$$$$$$ZOOOZ7????++=DMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMNNMMM8:,,,,Z$7I?I??I7777$$$$$$7II?++++++,ZMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMNDI,,,,,,,?7II?????II7777777I?+???++++.8MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMMMMNNND=,,,,,,,,,,,.?????????IIII7I7I???++++=~.?MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MMMN7:,,....,,,,,,,,,,,..??+++++?????III?++++++$.,..IDMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMCode 2.Muy feliz cumple Manu!tx 00d8871c1b3fb85912616bb2602b5a9869a345d9fa092f8454614c6158c83d10 (2015-04-08)which means: "Happy birthday, Manu", in Spanish, followed by Manu's face in medium resolutionMuy feliz cumple Manu! ---- The Fantastic Four Gang :-D
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: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:Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi! Manu, Santi, Demi, Esteban
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 block 368133 (2015-08-02) Associated message:1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz was never tipped so far: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/btc/1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz TODO what is "BM-2cUDAqyqcnksx7YDtgu2y72xDxcRjPeYfo"?if you like it, leave a tip: 1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz BM-2cUDAqyqcnksx7YDtgu2y72xDxcRjPeYfo
This image was likely inscribed due to Buffet's general status as an investing God, he did not appear to have strong links to crypto at the tim, he did not appear to have strong links to crypto at the timeInterestingly, in a twist of fate, in 2018 Buffet would later come to strongly criticize cryptocurrency as "probably rat poison squared": finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-says-wouldnt-pay-175917403.html. In 2025 however it was reported that Berkshire Hathaway did invest in a crypto-related company, Nu Holdings
Figure 7. . 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:the Spanish part translates to: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:
To my dear friend Mariano, por muchos anos más de diversión!
which reads:_______ _______ ____ ___ _______ _______ __ __ __ __ _______ ___ _______ | || || | | | | | | || | | || |_| || || | | | | ___|| ___|| | | | |____ | | || | | || || _ || | | ___| | |___ | |___ | | | | ____| | | || |_| || || |_| || | | |___ | ___|| ___|| |___ | | | ______| | _|| || || ___|| |___ | ___| | | | |___ | || | | |_____ | |_ | || ||_|| || | | || |___ |___| |_______||_______||___| |_______| |_______||_______||_| |_||___| |_______||_______| `````` ``..---------------...`` `.--------------------------.` .-------------------------------.` .----------------------------------` `------------------------------------` .------------------------------------. ------------:+yo------+yo:-----------. ---------/shhs+:------:+shhs+--------. ``--------so$/:--------------:/os--------`` `.-------------/oso:------:ooo/--------------` .------------:ho:-:ohsssshs:--+h:------------. .------------so-----y+--/h-----+y------------. .-----------:-:h+--:oh----ys:--+h/-----------. .-------------/ooo/------:ooo+--------------.` `..------------------------------------..` .----------------------------------. `-----------.```....```.-----------` .------------.``````.------------` `-----------------------------.` `.-----------------------..` ``....----------....`` __ __ _______ ______ ___ _______ __ _ __ __ __ | |_| || _ || _ | | | | _ || | | || | | | | | | || |_| || | || | | | |_| || |_| || | | | | | | || || |_||_ | | | || || | | | | | | || || __ || | | || _ ||__| |__| |__| | ||_|| || _ || | | || | | _ || | | | __ __ __ |_| |_||__| |__||___| |_||___| |__| |__||_| |__||__| |__| |__|which means:Feliz cumple, 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?Happy Birthday, Marian
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:Is in Dutch of course, literally:
vaardig regulerend de orde van de dag
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.skillfully regulating the order of the day
The poem also appears at: 2422215c9a6040c0e337bf1c1e9b2b32244a1e36f3dd3e79fb77592c90bbb5a8.) ` /(l /) ( \ / ( ) * ) ( , ) \#/ \#' .-"#'-. .-"#"=, ( |"-.='| '|"-,-"| )\ | | , /(| | /( , ( / )| | (\ ( \ | ) ) (( )\ ( (| | ) ) ) , ) |/ ( ) \ / ) ) . ) |/ ( ( # ( ( , ) / ) ( * ( \#/| (`# ) `#/| |`#/ ( '( \#/ .-"#'-. .-"#'-, .-"#'-. .-=#"-; `#/ .-"#'-. |"=,-"| |"-.-"|) 1"-.-"| |"-.-"| ,-"#"-. |"-.-"| | ! | | | | | | ! |"-.-"| | | | |._,| | | |._,| a | | | | | | | | | | | p | | | | | | | | | | | x | | '-._,-' '-._,-' '-._,-' '-._,-' '-._,-" '-._,-' - tx a55e7587bb34a56ae1113b0848506ea2fcf0c0e1af8c241e76677eb2bcb727eb (2016-04-27) via cryptograffiti.infoThe 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:translation;
/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' ` `of the 1984 song "Zwart Wit" (Black and white) by Dutch artist Frank Boeijen, sample performance by the artist:Don't think white, don't think black.
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But only by the color of your heart. - 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 
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Economic anthropologistHis Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maurer.Professor Maurer is a cultural anthropologist and sociolegal scholar. His work explores the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment.
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^you - 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:and so we understand that the ASCII art is formatted to look like the font of the logo of that university from Illinois.!Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College!
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 12fba831eb6de8eb944e80e42c78d29cf05a833831a335a5711a4b61cf90802e (2018-04-06)Found by Messages from the mines.
Grishchuk Roman_____ Pavlovich___________ ________AND_________ Gres Anna Leonidovna Married 01/04/2015__ ==================== =====++++==++++===== ====++===++===++==== ===++====++====++=== ===++==========++=== ====++========++==== =====++======++===== ======++====++====== =======++==++======= ========++++======== =========++========= - 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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'@' which we believe represents the lion is the hardest one and we've perhaps gotten some lines wrong, corrections are welcome.The highly coveted Titanium Lions - created to honor marketing work that doesn't fit neatly into traditional categories
Figure 11. Cannes Lions logo. Source. Off-chain, for ASCII art reference. `...:. `''''';'; '+'''+'''' `'''++++'''' ;'++++';;'++, '+++++';;;''+, '+++++;;;;;++; '++++'';;;;;+': ::::::,,,,,,,,...`+'''';;;'';;;;;` ````````````` ::::::::::::::::::';'''';+++';;';:::::::::::::,,,, :::::::::::::::::::''';;''+'';;';::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::;''++'''';;;''::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::;+++++';'''''+;::::::::::::;::: :::::::::::::::::::::;'+'''''++'';#';::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::'+++''''''+''++'+'+;:::::::::::: :::::;:::::::::::'+++++''++++''++'#++''::::::::::: ;;;;::::::::::::'+###++#'+++'++++'#+#++'';:::::::: ;::;;;;;:::::::'++++++++#+++++++++#+++++++';:::::: ;;;::::;;;:;;;;++++'''''+####+++++##;++++++';:;::: :::;;;;;;;::::+##';''''''###+##++##+;++++++++':;:: :::;;;;::::::;+#+';''''''###++###+#+;###+++++''::: :::::::::::::#+#'''';''''+###+++####;##++++++++':; ;;;;;;:::::;:++++''++'''+####+++++##;#+#++++++++': ;;;;:;:::::::#++'#++++##++#++++++++#'###+++####++; ::::::;;;;;;;+++''''++'+++@+++++++'####+#++#+++++; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;+#';'''''+'+##'+++++'+#####+++++#++; ;;;;;;::;:::;:'++'''+''+++##++'+''+#########+++++: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;''++'++'''++##+'+##++#+##+#+++##++++; ;;;;;;;;;;;'''''#++''''++##+###'#######+####++++;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;''''+#++'+++###'#+;'##+####+++#+++++;; ;;;;;;::;;'''''+'+##++++###'#';###+##+####++++++;; ;;;;;;'++'''''++++#++++####'+;+##+###++####++++;;; ;;;;:+++''''++++++#####@###'+;######+#++###++++;;; ;;;';;#+'''+++++++########+'++######+++++++++++;;; ;;;::;'+'+++++++++########''++##+##+++++###++++;;; ;;:+;''+++++++++++#+#####+''#+#+###+++#####+++';;; ;'';;+''+++++++++++######'''+######+++++###+++;;;; ;';;'''+#+++++++++######+'';#++############++#:;;; ;'';''+'++##++++++++####+'''###@########++#++#;;;; ;''''''+@++++#++++++####''+'##############++#;;;;; ;''''''''++++++++++++###''+'##############+##;;;;; ;'''''''''++++++++++++##+'''##############+#+;;;;; ;;;;''''''+###+++####+######################;:;;;; ;;;;+''''''+##############+#################;:;;;;Code 5. . 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:The actual code appears to be:
Your free GrrCon ticket
a reference to OP_RETURN. It is steganographically encoded diagonally across the skull's eyes. Ciro Santilli only saw this after grepping: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 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/btcThe 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: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 husbandarchiviert auf der BTC Blockchain TX b8e80f2bd1eac8c6db4dfb8b6cc9c8eb71133cbc1a0d32e6952c1a2818eecc8f
- 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?
___ {~._.~} ( 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 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.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.
,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.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:They seem like Base64 encoded data due to the;4Fdzw1k=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz; ,vtv3f5aKY0jGQglP9a1AGw==. ;BynQtpeUyWTXKGTrGhdV2Q==; ;tVMd3L1CKM4wFmyxEEEUV2bY;=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.A bit later we see another ad for the same company:
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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: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:
Chockchai Chawatcharaporn
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 Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain ASCII porn Updated 2025-07-16
All found so far are also reproduced at: asciiart.website/index.php?art=people/naked%20ladies therefore not blockchain original.
- tx 9206ec2a41846709a59cafb406dd7b07082bfc27664bbc5c6d4df310c1e1b91f block 290848 (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 block 322920 (2014-09-28) via cryptograffiti.info: naked woman laying on her side showing her vagina from under her legs, signed
fsc. Vagina row:Fully reproduced e.g. at www.asciiart.eu/people/sexual/women which credits the art to a "Marcin Glinski" (Polish: Marcin Gliński), possibly this dude github.com/silentlamb/ASCII-Arts | www.linkedin.com/in/marcinglinski)The signature is also listed at www.asciiart.eu/ascii-artists/who-is-who for example.`-:/"-7.--"" _::.-'P::.. \} - tx 66826fccef3e3ebb34abce25bfeff8f9dcaaf88e4707a5576c494d8a1cf1681a block 388714 (2015-12-16) has a one liner penis and breasts:soon followed by more breasts at 37c1e90c6ce3e648c51bfa38cbb43e996cd46e038517596d4c90ca2a6425a701:
jEW B====D ( . Y . )Found by Messages from the mines.jEW ( . Y . )TIDDIES( . Y . )
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain cryptograffiti.info Updated 2026-10-21
twitter.com/cryptograffiti (marked as joined March 2014)
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
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Encrypted data Updated 2025-07-16
Transactions such as tx fe37c7eee73be5fda91068dbe0eb74a68495a3fc7185712b8417032db7fc9c5e (2015-01-15) starting withare 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
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Force of Will Updated 2025-07-16
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 |
-------------------------------------
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: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 = 1HcuhfTAiQCt6KdMG2rZLXsTcKYj9nLDhS Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Marijuana plant Updated 2025-07-16
Starting at tx 6650107a4e4e4838ba1081ce87862c38dcb4181b8d34fc0405b099213ba76033 (2014-11-04) and going on one line per transaction using the bitcoin blockchain
j( upload system, there is a marijuana plant ASCII art:j(-> 1EGa1izEFDHzEobDDQny73re9BwXdzhZvH <-
j( ,
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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" "*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! ] Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Ordinal ruleset inscription Updated 2025-07-16
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 with the 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
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:
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/
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Porn Updated 2026-10-23
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:and:
This GIF file was assembled with GIF Construction Set from:
Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
This comment block will not appear in files created with a registered version of GIF Construction Setcryptograffiti.info messages now cheaper.
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Raw images Updated 2026-10-21
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.
western-union-bitcoin-spoof.jpg.gz
.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
Super Mario coin sprite
.tx bf7ef3216ae09f8252c76e7d0031bc4aa131a23a6900f8371c44ffde7957c8da (2015-03-01). Possibly from Super Mario World for the SNES (1990). No doubt a self-reference to Bitcoin itself. Encoded as a data URL for a PNG image:Visible e.g. at www.pinterest.fr/pin/137993176075040653/.
<img src="data:image/png;base64,
JPG thumbnail
. Presumably a JPEG upload test. tx 515a95381e511141229966d722db19db7da66a0d629b1f883d296287632e72b3, block 349362 (2015-03-26) via cryptograffiti.info.
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:which is the opening paragraph of: bitcoin.org/en/
Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks
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 6. "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 5. "The Economist logo", immediately afterwards.
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:then a quote from bitcoin.org/en/faq (archive):
You're poo you're papa, says WeeWaWeeWa
then: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.
And now, via JSON-RPC!
- d6b006f3cd9b545d5015263e954dae7c52c71bb5f4a0573918ff0e1ce8785de4 contains another quote from bitcoin.org/en/faq (archive):followed by:
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.
One day this will be for general storage
- d9450fbd228d7a19d08f700d43200184b0d46561ffd7eb9ddbb378435ec66789 says:These inscriptions were made right in the midst of the protests against larger block sizes.
Let's agree on 5MB blocks and move on?
- a689707f77882eb5a3b1954747f159b1c22b688a57ec17b4d636b7f94e451e3dthen the intro from bitcoin.org/en/ (archive):then:
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.
Parents daisy more text visible on our text dumps: www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/b70bfe6a9b314611655554576feb11f15d47b9e80c5993e91829bb87895ef23cIt's my cake day. I pressed the button. I have no regrets. Just stick it on the blockchain
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:which then gets repeated, probably an error, but now with the sentence completed:This therefore gives us the name of the protocol as "return blob protocol". We also understand that the 0x62 was aconfiguration parameter.
Hello world! Return blob protocol v1: MAGIC = 0x62, PACKAGE = uint16, SEQUENCE = uint16, PAYLOAD = up to
Hello world! Return blob protocol v1: MAGIC = 0x62, PACKAGE = uint16, SEQUENCE = uint16, PAYLOAD = up to 35 bytes
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.
Erich Erstu
.Alias: 1Hyena. A well built man wearing a gas mask. Google image search leads to: github.com/1Hyena (archive), who is the creator of cryptograffiti.info. It was around after this time that the number of raw images surged dramatically in the blockchain, so it is possible that this is when the service started operating. This further suggests that most raw image uploads we found were made with cryptograffiti.info. tx c206e8fff656f07b27dac831ef9b956792bae4e76a2cb43f14f49f0298bf2c2f, block 416527 (2016-06-16). Embedded text:and:
Hyena was here on the 16th of June 2016.
Water Deer
.badtaxidermy.com "Water Deer" image, visible at: web.archive.org/web/20200527070011/http://www.badtaxidermy.com/?page=3. tx 357e8ae080e5a1b554eaec2953e3e6e2e7955f3af4559dd0f1bc6381d56aa183, block 416735 (2016-06-16) via cryptograffiti.info. The file contains the strings:and:
www.badtaxidermy.com
cryptograffiti.info now allows you to attach JPEG images to your messages.
hotmine.io
.A mining supplier: hotmine.io/en. twitter.com/uahotmine. tx 8ec01c5e8f3b57adb13079af3b7e40e7acd3986a5ed14325388405771bd43f9b, block 416835 (2016-06-18) via cryptograffiti.info. The file contains the following string embedded into it:
Smart Heating, Bitcoin Mining For You - en.hotmine.io
Nada from They Live (1988)
.tx 83df1e5ecc1c7ac455d2855e15cff8fa5771afe2ad1796c8b6b1a8e910e829c4, block 416896 (2016-06-18) via cryptograffiti.info. The file has the following string embedded into it:which is a reference to Nada's original dialogue:
Cryptocurrency Minning ad
.Twitter "@dobcrypto": twitter.com/dobcrypto Reuploaded at: imgur.com/gallery/00oOuhm. tx eda07af9584391bb6f5ebb07ba57a51b610751fdf06ae49d9166225c36d97d0b, block 417111 (2016-06-20) via cryptograffiti.info. The file contains the following string:
Subscribe, I will be glad to see you! www.youtube.com/c/dobcryptocurrency
Chinese wedding
.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:and no Google hits, so maybe an original poem? What a hero. TODO transcribe the rest.
Superbuffo
.Googling gives a Toni Caradonna: twitter.com/superbuffo. At twitter.com/Superbuffo/status/1620900765014556672 that twitter account claimed the art or its depiction. www.imdb.com/name/nm9516368/ has some obscure references to him. tx 6240f61bbaeac66cd623e921a153addaf5f379a996f2de0f0c6506d628fe3812, block 417354 (2016-06-21) via cryptograffiti.info. The file contains the following string embedded into it, in addition to a lot of Adobe boilerplate:
Superbuffo the first comedian on the blockchain
Rene Angelil and Celine Dion
.Reproduced at: web.archive.org/web/20191130174338/https://people.com/celebrity/inside-celine-dion-and-rene-angelils-21-year-marriage/ but cropped to faces. tx e2e5b9cf04d93ae5fc1b54e9208b92b668823e014b251f57510e4702661fa1a6, block 417272 (2016-06-21) via cryptograffiti.info. Embedded text:
You will be here forever
New Age dance
.Woman dancing a New Age-like dance with New Age-like Indian looking clothes, holding a lamp, and with a rose on her hair. TODO identify. tx 0602dd1b375bc71818db0a40d7a14f438499af3eda9056125eb5a1b74bed790b, block 419676 (2016-07-07) via cryptograffiti.info. The image contains the following text embedded into it (TODO unknown mechanism, does not show up on exifTool:
Snake penetration sculputure
. Sculpture of what seems to be a snake penetrating a vagina. tx 83f412eb7ff40fe542901186a6d37cba0eb4f8458c574bc02a6f7236c599fe07, block 420122 (2016-07-10) via cryptograffiti.info.
Wedding invitation
. TODO: make out names, quite low res, no patience. Looks like Cyrillic script. tx 01c3af71c12d49260231dcb3cc86d6ff21b3cd90878e9556482ef3b0908abffe, block 420960 (2016-07-16) via cryptograffiti.info.
Hard to make out due to ultra-low-res, and in Cyrillic script. Contains three dates: 8.02.1982, 16.07.1992 and 17.07.2016. tx 075d1c78883ccb237b374c7ed7f9ff0f90df3308c48f9e7a29348b815326b769, block 421151 (2016-07-17) via cryptograffiti.info. The file contains the following text embedded into it:
Wedding Wallled 15Nz214yv76BmkKLCi8kAVssa5C7nQHLjx
Oles Slobodenyuk
.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:
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:The link is dead of course.
<Wedding date: Jul 17, 2016
proof link goo.gl/photos/2GToBx1WqRyiQtxQ6
A... nematode-like shaped hand drawn extremely simple image? A test upload presumably? The squiggle outside of the worm might be a test direction marker. tx 554846025e808df7adec3b1d099e3d4d54b7367cddaa959939cb5ca0fc6abf7b, block 424414 (2016-08-09) via cryptograffiti.info. The image file contains the following string embedded into it:
Hand written contract
.Wedding contract written in Czech. Transcription and translation by Petr Kadlec:Translation:Signatures:
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.
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.
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.
Wedding on grass
.tx 693848d56098a0ad16736bea7f24336c9b47a7f0a6f776659e8d01f00b46af76, block 426072 (2016-08-20) via cryptograffiti.info.
The file contains the following text embedded into it:which is Czech for:So it is a followup to Figure 22. "Hand written contract".
Danila a Pavel se právě vzali!
Danila and Pavel just got married!
Onshape ad
.Ad for www.onshape.com/en/, an online CAD company:
#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
ca933de16b6466e40b37c7ee0ec0dcd9a56bc365a567a5fff81ba4927dd61e23 (2016-10-17) via cryptograffiti.info. Embedded text:
In Pepe We Trust
#BITCOINPEPE
Hello. Yes, this is dog
. knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-this-is-dog. tx 4b0cd7e191ef0a14a9b6ab1c5900be534118c20a332ff26407648168d2722a2e, block 440418 (2016-11-24) via cryptograffiti.info.
Exact image also reproduced at: ethereumworldnews.com/ross-ulbricht-attorney-dismiss-2018/. tx b25ba2080d15c1277569bd2fee707a216c4e2ee0a1f479349c2309651c261511, block 442225 (2016-12-06) via cryptograffiti.info. Embedded text:
Tuxedo and rose
. Black and white and intentionally blurred photo of couple, the woman wears a tuxedo, and the man holds a red rose/light-like thing in the middle. tx c67dca17d3e5544d8d2c70d143196e1c1438a09c7371b80086d0a71ec5aec3c8, block 453083 (2017-02-14) via cryptograffiti.info.
Couple on mountains
.Middle aged couple selfie in front of some mountains. tx 00a64f2ff9aae7a34c21d07b8fc9bad79989f25295ccbddc6fbe73b3685b65a9, block 456370 (2017-03-09) via cryptograffiti.info. The file contains the following Spanish poem, whch confirms that their Spanish looking faces are actually Spanish, perhaps they are at the Pyrenees:Which translates as:Not easy Google hits so possibly novel.
tx ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e, block 458238 (2017-03-21) via cryptograffiti.info.
See also: Section "China".
Searching for the image hash ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e leads to archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145 which links to the now dead as of 2021: cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg.
Mr. Burns You're here forever
.tx 94e319d09fc236fb9d7a24e60af8f47ed41ca3cc01e9950c925d806153ed8aa3 block 460435 (2017-04-05)
Mr. Burns from The Simpsons showing a sign:Still from S06E13 of The Simpsons. A reference to the immutability of the blockchain.
Don't forget, you're here forever
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
Augustana College Old-Main.jpg
.tx 033d185d1a04c4bd6de9bb23985f8c15aa46234206ad29101c31f4b33f1a0e49 block 474586 (2017-07-07)
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
PDF demo
.tx b4f537bc536c392d425af0693e3282bbf697df01debeeaf7f9918b93af6bdd14 block 474646 (2017-07-07) via cryptograffiti.info contains a single page 7.9 KB PDF sample file also present e.g. at: www.studocu.com/en-gb/document/harrow-college-uxbridge-college/assessing-risk-in-sport-unit/pdf-sample-its-nothing-dw/61244699. This image is a screenshot of the PDF made manually to make it easier to view here, the actual inscribed file has been uploaded to: raw.githubusercontent.com/cirosantilli/media/master/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/data/bin/b4f537bc536c392d425af0693e3282bbf697df01debeeaf7f9918b93af6bdd14.pdf. The first lines of the document read:
Cat manga
. TODO identify, transcribe japanese. tx 4986e9cd20b75bb534df92e60b232945e18274f4c46d25b8853af9bdda5166b8, block 581526 (2019-06-20).
Arms crossed
. Nerdy caucasian woman in her late teens/early 20's wearing glasses and a jeans jacked with her arms crossed. TODO identify. tx a55e5e7492848445a9f9ecf55ce566242c9d95e6c46a171fd94a345e8b74c355, block 597374 (2019-10-01) with P2FKH
Black cat
. No, Google reverse image search is never going to find the exact one amongst billions of pics. tx 8cf28eb9ac221d8cd15298b9ae63eca910b536a5234c133c7e364b29a4e39d21, block 625045 (2020-04-09) with P2FKH.
The Starry Night by van Gogh
.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 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"
Gulagu.net logo
. tx 9c1a5d5a9e65e9a35050d67574681695a5c46a3df3feb27834848daa49c2fb92 block 710352 (2021-11-19) Logo of gulagu.net/, a "Russian anti-corruption, anti-torture human rights organization and website"[ref] Two-stage P2SH inscription.
Gulagu.net people
. tx 36e7f004ff22aa1146a00705d166fbca64d174c472a5296ed1f38d4749a74e10 block 710354 (2021-11-19). Rightmost Vladimir Osechkin. Two-stage P2SH inscription.
Low resolution GIF screenshot of the Bitcoin whitepaper intro
.
tx 4719e7252f4bdefd9f7bdf5058f17af28729b79c303b067eb01c107e57235754 (2024-01-27). The man depicted is Cryptocurrency developer Sahil Chaturvedi. Encoded as a data URL for a JPEG image in an OP_RETURN:Perhaps a meme given the phalic shape of the plant.
data:image/jpeg;base64tx 976e0766ebe0528d44595170f83f46ab1304c0a3b809f16454ee9be0e816e3a3, block 921133 (2025-10-28) contains an OP_RETURN encoded MP4 AI generated video of Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao standing up and showing her buttocks. This transaction takes up most of the block with an Ethereum tatoo on her lower back. Presumably it is from someone criticizing Gloria's design choices regarding inscriptions on the blockchain. Also mentioned at:
TODO 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
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Software Updated 2025-07-16
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
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Text Updated 2026-10-23
Here are some exceptionally interesting text inscriptions that are not mentioned in other sections:
- Section "Genesis block message"
- 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 59bd7b2cff5da929581fc9fef31a2fba14508f1477e366befb1eb42a8810a000 has the first XSS attempt on the chain:
<script>window.alert("If this were an actual exploit, your mywallet would be empty.")</script> - 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:On the output:
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.
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.phpSoon 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".<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:
- tx 604f17dfdb5a88fc072bd2bcf53436087c899051241e519af7241dc0037d3df6 (2014-12-01) has a cover letter for a job at Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd: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.
Dear hive team, ever since I have discovered Bitcoin I have been a fan of your products. [...]. Sincerely, Tim Daubenschuetz
- tx 213e8f46f98e96f4f4d8b45bd3a1cbada14213796c200220e1e8c2b315988faa (2015-03-25)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
Warning! Kaspersky Alerts Users of Malware and 'Blockchain Abuse'
- 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 - 2015At the end we see a signature and a tipjar:Somehow, 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.
He did receive one tipin 2015 for 0.02590000 BTC: www.blockchain.com/explorer/addresses/BTC/1LQGWkhE7GULhj2gjjRwB9uZR7SMfGvjGVRen @ 1LQGWkhE7GULhj2gjjRwB9uZR7SMfGvjGV - tx 0b63ebfadcb7bb66bc2a4bc7b826587505eab0450ca64c376ac9912a00d35c54 block 371796 (2015-08-27) via cryptograffiti.info has a large text entitled with what seems to be a storm forecast:A Wikipedia page about the August 2015 event: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_ErikaThe storm was formed "August 24, 2015", so this inscription was contemporary. Good friend, warning his fellow Bitcoiners.
Tropical Storm Erika was one of the deadliest and most destructive natural disasters in Dominica since Hurricane David in 1979.
- tx 4dd57f3e443ad1567a37beab8f6b31d8cb1328a26bac09e50ba96048ad07b8c1 (2015-09-03) via cryptograffiti.info contains a long porn comededy text in an Italian-like languge starting with:which translates to:
E il cazzo non entr
.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:followed by some non ASCII characters that we haven't yet been able to decode. It is not ISO_8859-1.BANG!
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.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:whichi is Dutch for;
Voor mijn jongere broeder
No Google hits, so possibly novel.For my younger brother
- tx 0809e7f31d074eefc0f1f02463a28b5238688aa73e6361c01cbc7b1848ac8d93 (2017-07-10) via cryptograffiti.info contains a white paper entitled: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.
Disincentivizing Double-Spending by Making it Unprofitable
- tx e450166eba552202fb6984867f2b851e2399c5a0ae05026bf6b056176491ec5d (2017-03-11)
- tx 0f25e23b7b59fde67d8b2d41b749e4f89fd1ff8061aa0ddac8c27c8230167e35 (2017-08-18):Epic. The transaction sent:
A Crosschain transaction was sent in to your address in error. The transaction was 9174f24946496823e4edaf3fe1676a404164178d1c848fa476113bbe2f5b9463 . Please return to 1AAEXtLo9SoyFQbZvWoqAMCpkz9okSpCuV. Thank you in advance."
1AAEXtLo9SoyFQbZvWoqAMCpkz9okSpCuV never received anything back so far.- 0.23225200 to 1BqyRKHoLEKgHGUoDiFUEZu5jPaWeuCWWt
- 5.6 BTC to 1JG8EVTx1zWzDyctAD5fFuMt59TWkSw2dW
- tx 057954bb28527ff9c7701c6fd2b7f770163718ded09745da56cc95e7606afe99, block 666666 (2021-01-18):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. Later also posted on another Reddit thread: A Weird Message Was Embedded in Bitcoin’s 666,666th Block — Turns Out It’s a Bible Verse (2025)
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good - Romans 12:21
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:While cute, the author clearly underestimates the magnitude of singularity!
Dear Artificial Intelligence,
- 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:
- 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. ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ - 140562ceb42fc8943fa52ccc0ddbb11ca2d88dae9b5240d7a4b46864538c515aTODO understand this part:
Reddit on the Bitcoin blockchain Test
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
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Themes Updated 2025-07-16
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.
The "Hitler did nothing wrong" meme[ref] is repeated several times, e.g.: tx 41967a7d75e9e1ca8c142a45ce29ea08b451a3b55c3e33538f5cc8a389ec66ab (2015-07-20):This one is also an Eternity Wall message. The message had also been previously Base58 encoded at address 1HitLerDidNothingWrongggggghJewfv in two different instances:
EW Hitler did nothing wrong.
- tx 55654178fe601c1fbe8b52b544286962523f11ec60ef12c94bc55198bb8c405c block 216909 (2013-01-17). That one is also followed by some other niceties:
1NiggersNiggersNiggersNiggerwxhs77: 4x "Niggers"1JewsDidTheEconomyXXXXXXXXXXbd7ZkE: "Jews Did the Economy"
- tx daa7fa928b8079174a646a9456ce9dad14eac44beb2fe5a2cb1c35ce70e92916 block 310007 (2014-07-10)
Brazil:
- tx 1c05bb7c0a8c9498d33a1e6d4a91bbb4c651daa5ea5a21aa5c8c600d3300b8bb Viva Brazil's Impeachment!
- tx 105fb3a0be8ab50bfa36012e0319a752dee39702cb44f3904cf423eb20367d57 contains a misogenous joke:which translates to: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:
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 عينيك - 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!
- 596cc6e905a5fc8248cf59198a19ce5070228b302a9f3a993197e2c87ddcaf14 via cryptograffiti.info
Книга Вечно Живущих открыта
The Book of the Ever-Living is open
- 596cc6e905a5fc8248cf59198a19ce5070228b302a9f3a993197e2c87ddcaf14 via cryptograffiti.info
Это тест, сука блять.
- 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
- 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:is amazingly translated by Google Translate as:
《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。
Japanese:
- ac2ad7c15162a8e461387b0d0d681bb5f81f2db1138b8f200b81bbc585bd0b8f via cryptograffiti.info:
モキーのフラッシュバン許すな
Hebrew:
- 0b32736592ce7abdd4d971bc4591544e1610ff51f498c9a14a6ba34a3abcad5d via cryptograffiti.info
חתימה טובה לכולם בכלל ולחברי ביטקוין ישראלי בפרט.
- 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.
Inscription service Created 2025-03-24 Updated 2025-07-16
We define an "Inscription service" as a website that easily allows you to pay to have arbitrary data inscribed on a blockchain.