Updates / New Bitcoin Base58 messages found due to a new paper: Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes

This is an update to the section: Section "Base58 messages".

While self Googling a bit, I found this paper Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes by Mohamed el Khatib and Arnaud Legout briefly cited Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain.

In that paper, they attempted to find Base58 Bitcoin addresses that looked as if they were fake and used only in order to contain Base58 data.

While we had previously explored a few Base58 messages, this was something that had been done mostly ad-hoc simply by looking at transactions with large amounts of unspent outputs. As a result, any smaller messages were missed.

By looking through the data produced by the those researchers, we managed to find many new Base58 messages, and highlighted many of the most interesting early messages at: Section "Base58 messages".

The cutest new example is tx dea183908e40e0cebfee6a0d8362b299e07cf193fbc02ffd3308b43781eca208 (2011-11-24) containing Eric Lombrozo's minimalistic wedding contract to Sandra Sandic:

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