These were ordinals that were only indexed in later versions of the script. So to prevent changing the useless indices of existing ordinals, they gave them negative numbers.
Some examples:
- ordinals.com/inscription/4b9a822a057743813efbefa0dd21d0a01342ee793ce2ce5bd499a5f262187553i0 first inscription with no mime type.
- ordinals.com/inscription/2fa287270e4203ca2fc9f82ea3de7a0f7b785875791a76387ef6f4ccbb54eee2i0 is -38:is bugged because it is missing the mime type, on Python:because the
[b"'a\xf9\x19X%\xa8Q\x87SP\xe5\xf2H\xa6\xeew\x0e\x81\xa5hl\xcd\xaa\x97e\xfeqJ\x16\x12?", OP_CHECKSIG, 0, OP_IF, b'ord', 1, b'text/plain', 0, b'Hello World, this is a Rust Taproot test\xe2\x80\xa6', OP_ENDIF]1should instead beb'\x01.
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Ordinal ruleset inscription collection by 
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16This section is about groups of ordinal ruleset inscription that share a theme and were presumably created by a single entity.
From their site:
OCM Genesis is our flagship generative art collection that's set many historic precedents since its launch in 2021. Genesis is the first NFT collection where all 10,000 images and metadata (similar to DNA describing the NFT) were generated using code entirely on-chain in a single transaction on Ethereum. With the launch of Bitcoin Ordinals, Genesis is the first ever collection of 10,000 images to be inscribed on Bitcoin in 2023.
Some of their likely transactions were noted in our list of large transactions: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/payload_size_out e.g.:but we haven't had the patience to index them properly yet. Boring art anyways.
004c3f1efa0095b229dd05ea247c94a5af742daf682fb082a6e62f4aeeb973f2 66033
ffc73ef454d512f98a451960e05a0a036406ed1078a1bd7082fd4036cf0af067 66021 Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Taproot Wizards by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/01/12/taproot-wizards-bitcoin-ordinals-project-that-raised-75m-to-sell-quantum-cats-collection/:OMG if only the worlds wouldn't invest in such useless crap... it would probably be a better and more boring world.
Here are some exceptionally interesting text inscriptions that are not mentioned in other sections:
- Section "Genesis block message"
- tx 3a1c1cc760bffad4041cbfde56fbb5e29ea58fda416e9f4c4615becd65576fe7 (2013-04-10) has the broken Basic creature simulation mentioned at Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014) section "A creature simulator in Basic" starting with:
10 REM The variables in life 20 ' life the lifespan of a creature 30 ' mates the number of mates a creature needs to breed - tx 61e26d407c17e8ee33a8b166c78f78c53cdcdc0078ae1f9405e6583cfb90eaf4, block 268081 (2013-11-05). This is a very interesting transaction, it contains inscriptions both on the input script and on the output script. On the input: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
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 Cute Coinbase messages by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16As such most of them tend to be boring ads for mining pools, but there are a few exceptions, especially in the early days.
The Horrible Horrendous Terrible Tremendous Mining Pool inscribed a few cute Coinbase messages during their operation in 2012-2013.
Many of their messages also mention
SockThing, which was part of their mining infrastructure:Starting from their very first ASCII transaction on block 197602 (2012-09-07), there is what seems to be a poem spread across several transactions. Some of the lines are repeated, presumably because they didn't update the current line to a new line and so mined the same thing multiple times:The sentences are not very coherent together, perhaps this is because lines were chosen by different miners one at a time.
I am a pretty princess
covered in mud and blood
water with stuff in it
like everything else that wiggles or jiggles
screaming might not be your waY
see no reason to operate otherwise since
came into the world naked, wet and screaming
but silence will never be mine
until I am dead
but the smell will also give that away
gather all my things
load them in a big boat
airlift that to Kansas
and light it on fire
drop it from 7,000 feet
then railgun my corpse straight down
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Base58 messages by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Bitcoin addresses are by convention expressed in Base58, which is a human readable binary-to-text encoding invented by Bitcoin.
It is a bit like Base64, but obsessed with eliminating characters that look like one another in popular but stupid fonts like capital "I" and lower case ell "l". As such, any embedded text is rather obfuscated due to this limitations, and people often resort to leet-like replacements such as '1' to represent 'I'.
This seems to be one of the earliest strategies used to encode messages into the Bitcoin blockchain. The first known example appears in 2011. Then starting November 2011, a large number of messages were inscribed n short successsion, presumably by a single person or small group.
The interest in Base58 encoding might have initially arisen with people's desire to have "vanity addresses", that is Bitcoin addresses that have real words in them, much like vanity plates or vanity numbers. Such addresses with long words in them are hard to find while keeping the address spendable, because they have to correspond to a private key. An extreme notable example is:which contains the awkward 13 letter word:in it. TODO: proof that it is pendable?
embarrassable
Perhaps inspired by this, some people also decided to use Base58 addresses as a way to create more general unspendable inscriptions, even even though the method is much more clumsy and complicated than P2FKHS. There is however a certain art to working under limitations.
Total burn addresses as a function of time found by Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes
. Although it is not solely focused on inscriptions and may also contain functional burn addresses, it is likely that the methods of Khatib/Legout capture the overall trend of base58 inscription counts.These messages were originally found with: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer#payload-size-out-utxo-2vals which tracks the largest transactions with unspent outputs.
Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes later revealed many new ones.
Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes later revealed many new ones.
Finding Base58 messages is intrinsically hard for a few reasons
- the words may be garbled by Base58 leet
- only very small ammounts of data can be encoded at a time, and all of it contains ASCII, so you can't just "find all long ASCII strings" as we started doing for other ASCII inscriptions a la
strings -n20; you have to use some dictionary as a basis - the Base58 does not show up raw on the blockchain, as it is just a human representation for the actual binary data that does, so you can't just strings the blockchain, you have to parse it
The interesting following transactions contain base58 encoded messages on addresses, sorted chronologically, and heighlighted either due to their earliness or historical or artistic quality:
- on two transactions of block 124726 (2011-05-18) someone created two addresses whose base58 differs only by one character,
Win one is replaced byxin he other:bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20955.msg264038#msg264038 How is this address possible? (2011-06-22) user ByteCoin suggests that this was done to highlight the fact that the checksum at the end of base58 addresses against 1 character changes. They also highlight another pair where addresses are equal except for two adjacent swapped characters:18->81but these are not present in the blockchain itself.1ByteCoinAddressesMatchcNN781jjwLY 1ByteCoinAddressesMatchcNN718jjwLY - Around July 2011 there seems to have been a surge of interest in vanity addresses, and it appears that someone was "squatting" long lists of interesting addresses that they managed to generate for later sale. These addresses are present in the hundreds in a few transactions chains, and they do not seem to contain any coherent messages across the outputs. Most encode given names, which would be the easiest type of address to sell. This theory is proposed e.g. at: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84569.msg992950#msg992950 and it seems as the most plausible one to us. An example of this is tx acdd81bab63ee42e28296dd5c21e8a29392e409026fc206acf5931b12a31141d block 136273 (2011-07-14) which starts off with:For the purposes of this museum, this is a noteworty event, but it has little artistic value for large ammounts of bulk, and therefore also serves as noise that must be removed if we want to find other more personal and varied inscriptions. We will keep a list of such transactions at: Section "Bitcoin 2011 vanity address pool".
1MeNDez2hmZoehh5JAtS2ZJQfAFZFfSQSi 1ALonzoPwyf8CNVQnVNXNBjacPXaUdZGgm 1MattieiicNRfse5jTVU2X8pX6Cyr7BZVR 1TraciFRboW661p1LfRaULwwefeo8KtQa 1MartinHaferkorncii112o11HdkMrtttDon tx dab55eefd5cef495719a43bbd190c57c8ca60ecc45d630edf3442b2096965a97 block 152851 (2011-11-11) encodes the name:Likely:Martin Haferkorn
1EricLombrozoXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWACBVBappears on 3 separate transactions on 2011-11-24:Alsmost certainly this guy:www.officialusa.com/names/Sandra-Sandic/ suggests a link between Eric and Sandra sharing phone number (858) 461-1843 and residing at 12631 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA. Eric's LinkedIn marks him as living in San Diego, and Sandra's birthday is marked 1969-01-05, so matching the inscription year. The address shows as a regular appartment block on Google Maps, so maybe they are not crazy rich, or they have restraint. besthistorysites.net/name/eric-lombrozo reconfirms the address.- block 154630:
- block 154637: tx dea183908e40e0cebfee6a0d8362b299e07cf193fbc02ffd3308b43781eca208. This one is more interesting and also contains a second output, both at 0.005 BTCso possibly a wedding token of Eric with Sandra Sandic after two previous test transactions. This also possibly gives Sandra's birth year of 1969. Pinged him at: x.com/cirosantilli/status/1904212575211901129.
1969SandraSandicXXXXXXXXXXXXXvdEiU
In 2023 this Sandra Sandic on Facebook liked this post related to a show in San Diego, giving a possible profile. At this post she links to this story about Erik Finman, young Bitcoin millionaire, thus establishing an interest link between that profile and Bitcoin. She also has various posts in Bosnian, so she speaks the language and is likely a first generation immigrant.1BitTaLkTVChristmasSpeciaLXXRix9Eais repeated a dozen times on transactions between tx 8e2bacf9971ce1a29d69d1a0484bfaa198257cc116530c7415ab6c38ae54ebc3 block 154721 (2011-11-25) and 2011-11-27.It is a quick ad for the BitTalk.tv Christmas Special by Matthew N. Wright. bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3025298.0 mentions he is the founder bittalk.tv and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. TODO is the video still watchable somewhere? Also announced at: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52712. As of 2025, the domain had been reappropriated as a SolarMovie mirror. It is quite likely that all the large set of message that follow were inscribed by him. Related:- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ruo73/matthew_n_wright_scammer_of_bitcoinmagazine_and/ Matthew N. Wright, scammer of BitcoinMagazine and BBBB (2012)
- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/znhsj/matthew_n_wright_apologizes/ Matthew N. Wright "apologizes" (2012)
Later on there is also another variant addresses11Bitta1ktvchristmasspecia1WNDvAaon repeated almost 300 times on tx ace9524519577138ca98ec01651758fd1e5ec33ce0110c6681eccba0e716cc7a block 155545 (2011-12-01)Other likely mentions of Matthew N Wright:11MatthewLovesmandaXXXXXXXXabCJPYon tx d7c57205d69420dc7f4593b4de0806c9ec96f4755b64315cd034bd4b0b90dc2a block 155698 (2011-12-01) has a quick love declaration:Matthew loves Amanda
1MatthewNWrightisaScammer124DNsfXis etched twice
- tx 28ccf29cfcc9f82d42793db770e7c7894d61ccf3d18299f34bda2e54415da287 block 154769 (2011-11-25) contains a short excerpt from Alice in WonderlandOriginal text referred to:
1But1DontWantToGoAmongMadxxxzDmyW6 1Peop1eA1iceRemarkedxxxxxxxxxuLyKu 12ohYouCantHe1pThatxxxxxxxxxzCjyMs 19SaidTheCatWereA11MadHerexxyTvEir 191mMadYoureMadxxxxxxxxxxxxxvwA4Up 1HowDoYouKnow1mMadSaidA1icexxZA4Nr 12YouMustBeSaidTheCatxxxxxxxz2tFa2 12orYouWou1dntHaveComeHerexxvtHbqq - tx 3bbd94d22346a3bfb44257293e10c3b5c9ee39230c1cd358bdce2bf03c61ba0b (block 154965 , 2011-11-27) contains 49 base58 messages on a single transaction transcribing this version of the Emerald Tablet, a type of mystical medieval text:Some of the messages weirdly have "xoxo" inserted into them, not sure why, e.g.
12TisTrueWithoutALie22222221wT3qjn 1CertainAndMostTrue2222222225YPnJF 12ThatWhich1sBe1ow1sAs222221y3G7mv 12ThatWhich1sAboveAnd2222221vxkcEq ... 1AboutTheWorkingsofTheSun1zzyWJtfmThe full decoded text is:12TheFatherofTheWho1eWor1d2249xs5g 191sHereXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXo72uqJv 191tsPower1sWho1e1f1tHasXoXoWhYr3M 1BeenTurned1ntoEarth222222221soWALIt is true, without error, certain and most true,
That which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below, to perform the miracles of the one thing.
And as all things were from the one, by means of the meditation of the one, thus all things were born from the one, by means of adaptation.
Its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon, the Wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the earth.
The father of the whole world is here.
Its power is whole if it has been turned into earth.
You will separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the dense, sweetly, with great skill.
It ascends from earth into heaven and again it descends to the earth, and receives the power of higher and of lower things.
Thus you will have the Glory of the whole world.
Therefore will all obscurity flee from you.
Of all strength this is true strength, because it will conquer all that is subtle, and penetrate all that is solid.
Thus was the world created.
From this were wonderful adaptations, of which this is the means. Therefore am I named Thrice-Great Hermes, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
It is finished, what I have said about the working of the Sun. 11111111LeonhardEu1er111126nxjPon tx 80ddf2e7e04922e2cbf6e744dbf47aec02d781505d8b2c4ee5f725b8882ddb2d block 155051 (2011-11-28) is a tribute to Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler
Figure 3. Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler. Source. Off-chain image.- 024b093afb54f69426c5624f09a5f2d3791ce20513225cbb42d333ad72f8576e block 155256 (2011-11-29) has two self-explanatory outputs:
112JustATwoLine222222222221vcJxpZ 11111Test111112222222222222LiApa - tx 8f64d2b7a762767e3870c4aee95f8c7b5439cf02cf7d7e5d99b6e39967ecada8 block 155256 (2011-11-29) encodes the poem "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by Shakespeare 22 addresses starting with:Full original text:
11Sha111CompareTheeToAXXXXXVnRohE 11SummersDayThouArtMoreXXXXUcpgnX 11Love1yAndMoreTemperateXXXUu485j ...More Shakespeare follows at tx 0ae2eaaa9cddafba89b4c92d074f4e5254cbf7691cbe7f64660bf549c7071147 block 155383 (2011-11-20) has a passage from Romeo and Juliet starting with:Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Full original text:11TisButThyNameThat1sMyXXXXWabTZh 11EnemyThouArtThyse1fThoughXNRG4J 11NotAMontagueWhatsMontagueYEJDfM 111t1sNorHandNorFootNorArmXVNeFEV'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other word would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would - were he not Romeo called -
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself. - Various other notable texts follow on 2011-12-01:
- tx 1f9606f267cc398356663b14d1a7a3591e3da06572893394c14975a6fc11798f block 155467 (2011-12-01) contains an excerpt from Newton's Principia starting with:Full original text[ref]:
11Ru1e1WeAreToAdmitNoMoreXXazQ96z 11CausesofNatura1ThingsThanZAQ9ig 11SuchAsAreBothTrueAndXXXXXZyzfQp 11SufficientToExp1ainTheirXVSC2gYRULE 1 We are to admit no more causes of natural things, than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.RULE III The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.RULE IV In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions collected by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur, by which they may either be made more accurate, or liable to exceptions. - tx 89010c791c9d7ed24affa1d638b12179d2ca7ec91704fe906834386f43a8101d starting at
11When1nTheCourseofHumanXXXXdfMdQ: Declaration of Independence - tx f7ca83a8a2e1c78efdfde0791d99a567ddaa60805c3b5b857bc7ec14ec2c8204 starting at
11AVa1id1dentifier1sAXXXXXXcrnyki: likely contains an excerpt of the C or C++ standard. Possible source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types. - tx 028b8514a4f6cc96ac3c1c83dbb117ab9dc5eb09deab7b49bf038fd460173127 starting at
11TheSetupTheJokeA1waysXXXXTF9Wzp: The aristocrats by HP Lovecraft, which talks about the The Aristocrats joke pattern - tx bd513d9ee605ead1a299c9dfb77de1127bf651c54d99820e9be8b40cef8c8dfe starting at
11Si1ex1sAnAcronymForXXXXXXcujTa5talks briefly about SILEX (separation of isotopes by laser excitation) - tx ef374dcc5b23f16ecb0b1b639ba577d2acda7ad32321b5866db2fa9e6807b9c5 block 155494 (2011-12-01) contains the intruction from the bitcoin.org website: web.archive.org/web/20210129054851/https://bitcoin.org/en/
11Bitcoin1sADecentra1izedXXWPM6Hs 11PeertopeerNetworkoverXXXXUkyy3M 11WhichUsersMakeXXXXXXXXXXXX4tQgN 11TransactionsThatAreXXXXXXVdZfnJ - tx 05ee60dfb92795c79e46e106f52bbdbc1006eba0837ed9e4ad99d9b214eb5fcf block 155538 contains a tribute to Archimedes:original text at: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archimedes/
11ArchimedesWasANativeofXXXXJsj6W 11SyracuseSici1y1t1sXXXXXXXaYF4CE 11ReportedBySomeAuthorsThatXjFBcV 11HeVisitedEgyptAndThereXXXYVzj58Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device now known as Archimedes' screw. This is a pump, still used in many parts of the world. It is highly likely that, when he was a young man, Archimedes studied with the successors of Euclid in Alexandria. Certainly he was completely familiar with the mathematics developed there, but what makes this conjecture much more certain, he knew personally the mathematicians working there and he sent his results to Alexandria with personal messages. He regarded Conon of Samos, one of the mathematicians at Alexandria, both very highly for his abilities as a mathematician and he also regarded him as a close friend.
- tx 237b50dac42af130171773b233954e62690182fd4901a453ad5d11d1d54a8ca3 block 155545 (2012-01-01) contains an exceprt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie
11TomAppearsAtTheTopofTheXXWyM2Bt 11A11eyAfterEachSo1emnBoomXaBp7oy 11ofTheBe111nTheTowerHeXXXXVQaies 11ShakesALitt1eNoisemakeroraeWTgK ... - tx 57bfd63000bbfa6e9a61f7285a4abf9aef91dfcfba4fe0f940b431653eb8068b block 155494 (2011-12-01) is a Lorem ipsum and tx 7961b5ae2f053a16d5c589104f87edfabe80fcae185832ea185e7f0cf06c7747 (2011-12-05) is another one:
11Lorem1psumDo1orSitAmetXXXWAEZ6C 11ConsecteturAdipiscingE1itYQHEPM ...
- tx 1f9606f267cc398356663b14d1a7a3591e3da06572893394c14975a6fc11798f block 155467 (2011-12-01) contains an excerpt from Newton's Principia starting with:
- tx 8ffacbb18f63576fe323cbf2acc6c4c01c86aadf13d8352cfdd39d91916d98c8 block 156164 (2011-12-05) advertises etchablock.com by repeating the following 3 messages 80 times:decoding to:
11EtchABLockDotComGivesYouXZHcYVz 11BLockChain1mmortaLityXXXXYRZD5m 11VisitEtchABLockDotComNowXTbeZZ9More ads can be seen at:etchablock.com gives you blockchain immortaility. Visit etchablock.com now.
- tx 12a8866ea85a8a6838d77cc67ce74ef190a074bc822572f4a82daad00fd980d6 block 156119 (2011-12-05) seems like an alphabet test:
111111111a11111111111b11dC8yHQ 111111111c1111111111111dWctEU9 111111111111e1111111111W7v25m 111111f1111111111111111g11WfG2p8 1111111111111h111111111WdQPXP 11111i111111111111j1111111bL5SyF 11111111k111111111111111XV7PT9D 111L1111111111111111111m111YmYGPJ 1111111111111111n11111U4Rs6D 1111111111111o111111111cLV3wA 11111111p11111111111111qW1RK1A 1111111111111111r1111VRWJZs 111111111111s1111111111VUeyXS 11111111111t11111111111Vq1Wm3 11111111u111111111111111bVpCYE 111111111v11111111111111XoV17A 11111111w1111111111111111YyEFv6 111111111x11111111111111XvZPGp 11111111111y11111111111Y1hDo5 111111111111111zXXXXXXVSn6d5 - tx 31331de21d321766fcac556d7233ad0e3918bc78c7af22b99373569c07d4f30c block 158772 (2011-12-23) has a quick love declaration by a Chinese dude to his Chinese dudesspresumably the man's name is "Ye Chunnan", possible profile: github.com/finway-china
11YechunnanLoveChenchenYeziSsezJQ 11ForeverXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWcSE4Z - tx bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999 block 161202 (2012-01-08) encodes:
11When1DieBuryMeDeepLayTwoXVEY5jv 11SpeakersAtMyFeetAPairofXXTyrHor 11HeadphonesonMyHeadAndXXXXYUSvnd 11ALwaysPLayTheGratefuLDeadWdq4XoRelated quote mention: www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/w51yfg/comment/iwnxk9i/When I die, bury me deep, lay two speakers at my feet, a pair of headphones on my head. Always play the grateful dead.
- tx 3a027fadac6ac2d9cf54480667465ba6ad88b7b3c1de62e1cb34cd06a44243ac block 161267 (2012-01-08) has a birthday wish:
11HappyBirthdayStephenXXXXXZL6eQZ 11HawkingXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXRu9FPeHappy birthday Stephen Hawking
- 1BrianDeeryWasHereCaryNCUSAy1hRCCC on tx c584dd7d3e9ba9776d61ae91f801371e21e434b9d8dab3c81850301433a50fcb block 188657 (2012-06-12) is a check-in by a Brian Deery at Cary, NC, USA. Most likely:
- tx 143a3d7e7599557f9d63e7f224f34d33e9251b2c23c38f95631b3a54de53f024 block 306,204 (2014-06-16) has a Star Wars opening crawl:
1EpisodeiV111111111111111111wbq9i2 1ANewHope1111111111111111111vnYm6D 111111111111111111112xT3273 1itisAPeriodofCiviLWarRebeLyzK2rV 1SpaceshipsStrikingFromA111vh24Fi 1HiddenBaseHaveWonTheirFirstVCugGV 1VictoryAgainstTheEviL111123YSBKF 1GaLacticEmpire1111111111111xsW5HG 1111111111111111111141MmnWZ 1DuringTheBattLeRebeLSpies11ybfhTP 1ManagedToSteaLSecretPLansToxvKf4K 1TheEmpiresULtimateWeapon11zoRcyn 1TheDEATHSTARAnArmoredSpacezUyCHa 1StationWithEnoughPowerTo11vFTWwP 1DestroyAnEntirePLanet1111122KUcy5 111111111111111111114ysyUW1 1PursuedByTheEmpiresSinisterypjWrk 1AgentsPrincessLeiaRacesHomewxuNTT 1AboardHerStarshipCustodian1yhX6zg 1ofTheStoLenPLansThatCan111zCJt3F 1SaveHerPeopLeAndRestore111yULD1y 1FreedomToTheGaLaxy1111111122roNk3 - 1PavedWithGodAndSomeTeensionXudq5X on tx 3e1572ca351d743d7bf627bc844da8f3bdc84eab4a9d27934a8dba30a2e05fe1 block 371894 (2015-08-28) is the largest likely burn that we know of with a single transaction, totalling 1.61803399 BTCIt is unclear what this means exactly and we can't find any pre-existing soruces, but it seems to be a variant of the well known:
Paved With God And Some Teension
- 1NakamotoSatoshiCraigWright8RwLKB appears on two transactions mentioning our friend Craig Steven Wright, the first being tx 2e3207cc93844e2684bdc0bb856c32a6b703dab5b4ba19ed4f06b3fd581b61c3 block 474472 (2016-06-13)A few others include:
Nakamoto Saoshi Craig Wright
- 1FuckRogerVerCraigWrightJihanBGMX3 (2018-02-08)
- 1CraigWrightisAFrausterCuntwgASwJ (2019-06-02)
Craig Wright is a fraudster cunt
- 1FuckYouGraigWrightxSatoshiXc6ppN (2020-06-24)
Fuck Craig Wright
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/star-wars-crawl-02-d8ed15dbd1fe4127858c3e22593988be.jpg)
Related:
- www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3kqdjv/a_list_of_bitcoin_addresses_used_to_intentionally/ A list of bitcoin addresses used to intentionally burn bitcoin (2015-09-13). Their list is not based solely on base58 images, e.g. 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa from the Genesis block is present. Also their ordering is unclear, it's neither stricly chronological nor by value. But it is a good list however.
- github.com/BranndonWork/bitcoin-bulk-balance-check/blob/master/burned.csv
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=84569 Vanity Pool - vanity address generator pool
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85935 Coins sent to the great wallet in the sky (2012-06-07)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90982.285 Rare address hall of fame (2015)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=917913.0 Burn Baby Burn! - Compiling all Bitcoin burn addresses by fairglu (2015)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=553449.0 Longest most impressive VANITY (2014)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=558604.0 Custom Bitcoin address? (2014)
- medium.com/@westkate37/burned-bitcoins-d9b15b3699d6
- www.bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2018/12/29/2-btc-burned-in-2018/
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/70241/whats-with-this-address-1111111111111111111114olvt2/125931#125931
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/49625/whats-the-point-of-bitcoin-eaters mentions in particular
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE - kf106.medium.com/interesting-addresses-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain-e0956f06ec01 has some interesting monetary ones, not inscriptions
- www.bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2016/06/01/the-7-most-incredible-bitcoin-addresses/ The 7 Most Incredible Bitcoin Addresses (2016)
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Quotes and threes by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Starting tx 2f201c8518c7b012c03c2c82e40e86f6aaf616ea5fbe22570aac9d2c6611cb68 (2023-03-11), the chain is flooded with ASCII transactions containing many repeated double quotes TODO what is up with that?
" and digits 3, with some other characters interspersed in them without any clear pattern e.g. the first one:""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""jk""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""'}""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""/D""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""q1""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""XK""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
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
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- a13af4817e85cacce3cfb445001e2fb2f56cdc30f78348fd2580bf8f4c84dc55
- 87a10f6bc65a08067b2544e46be00d4af62c0cfed3ae0b165d5eedaff09d81da
- ef55826befabbe9dcd44d87fc385d600dd4c4cba3346cde53d8c591960e9b4dc
- 5d30f63131dcf2b4d001b4ab530e18cc6ff8ffd16cade055ff4587a59b84e420
- 8a75514829b6e30b9fea434eef77b1589ff3f4bdfc0056bd087efbfb8314eb59
- e2be1062c9d43cc6ed43de6f7a40c728d2d92ed0325abde24ff3300cf3ae136a
- 8fe5c2679237e36c74fda04bb083f732c4afdd06af81121b1d7b4d5bd677135f
- 7f099f094d8d51105d8655253d45ebddf1c88b9e138c302a65d2878a237e620c
- 0fc4b3a305e2a7faa2e7d9c2f23d23d626e9e75f1f2a37133f283334b314645b
- 933b321e7b7144ed5e4e1750f944be9ed10293633d9b288bf05febdeb9dc40a3
- 6215486bc024dea7991b142e50e111c4063e1db4a867514612b8e794b8ef5635
- fc0613e11269962d97373b10e310f451fb76c7bb477ba1afb45773c44851e9ed
- ab51d2c037b4625394c68706da83c26bad751018d2a3e377a51988bd8ee18647
- 7ca9b337172f4feff67a0ecbfbd76798265e08c6ebe989a319883c695d756247
- 0f0b477e456dcf286d7262497bcd5b3b6a3ce89f81761c2f59ff702539ab6183
- a320152fd59426c8853dd781db9d682f89755953b39a653f9e9c9628a5fce7fb
- e96221da774fb52d24dda1b83b14c99085eb4befac64691722c56eb750562d68
- a7a5ca68dd340dd42bd5c91e0febe68e5fd2fb993da2992661183eaafe8ad89e
- 64e9d95e2333cfd155506199c8d926649e63a98dbc83c1221b8dd1580937b942
blockchain.news/news/mysterious-bitcoin-inscriptions-a-puzzle-in-raw-binary-data mentions a huge 9 MB Ordinal ruleset inscription that no-one managed to decode, and so people suspect is encrypted data. Seems to be split across transactions, starting at fed7de7fb75a3fe3c1acbbd8e19a4c540fb368474c8834e4ddb1d5bab764a767
In this section we document events that led to a large number of thematically related messages being added to the chain e.g. referencing some current event that happened, as opposed to the media encoding/type like images and text sections.
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.
Starting at tx cbbaa0a64924fe1d6ace3352f23242aa0028d4e0ff6ae8ed615244d66079cfb1 (2011-08-05), Catholic Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr started to inscribe prayers in the miner messages of his mining pool "Eligius pool", usually one verse per message.
Saint Eligius by Petrus Christus
. Source. Off-chain image for illustration. Eligius pool is named after Saint Eligius, patron of goldsmiths and miners[ref]These are some of the earliest inscriptions in the blockchain, and therefore extremelly visible.
Although the prayer verses appear contiguous in ASCII dumps, Eligius was not actually mining every block: it is just that in those early days, miners still hadn't started adding advertisement messages to every block, so only Eligius shows up and appears contiguous.
At some point, opponents noticed these messages, and started adding atheist mockery graffiti replies, which appear interspersed in ASCII dumps with the prayer.
The first prayer is the Latin version of the Divine Praises, a Catholic prayer composed in 1797 in Italian by Luigi Felici for the purpose of making reparation after saying or hearing sacrilege or blasphemy. Luke claims he was referring to anything in particular that came prior in the blockchain: twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1749182637569122434. There arent many earlier inscriptions at all to refer to in any case! The prayer and correspondong interrupts (in transaction outputs, not by other miners) ordered by block are:
- 139690 (2011-08-05) prayer: "Eligius/Benedictus Deus. Benedictum Nomen Sanctum eius."
- 139717 prayer: "Eligius/Benedictus Deus. Benedictum Nomen Sanctum eius.'
- 139758 interruption:
***************************************************. This is not a Coinbase message: www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/23befff6eea3dded0e34574af65c266c9398e7d7d9d07022bf1cd526c5cdbc94. This Bitcoin input script appears to spend a standard P2PKH output, but it first adds an extra value to the stack which contains the***. - 139792 prayer: "Benedictus Iesus Christus, verus Deus et verus homo.'
- 139831 prayer: "Benedictum Nomen Iesu.'
- 139838 (2011-08-06) interruption: "I LIKE TURTLES" (tx 78eb16507b3d3df615e3b474e853db4667f4b11954ec6d918b1ded0fca7ad25a)
- 138898 prayer: "Benedictum Cor eius sacratissimum."
- 139904 prayer: "Benedictus Sanguis eius pretiosissimus."
- 139921 prayer: "Benedictus Iesus in sanctissimo altaris Sacramento."
- 139942 prayer: "Benedictus Sanctus Spiritus, Paraclitus."
- 139954 interrupion: "aC-C-C-COMBO BREAKER" (tx 138c024a76df99ecafd2236d5429cf574b7778a3c6508bd83f116c832f3c6980)
- 139960 prayer: "Benedictus Sanctus Spiritus, Paraclitus."
- 139977 prayer: "Benedicta excelsa Mater Dei, Maria sanctissima."
- 139990 (2011-08-06) prayer: "Benedicta sancta eius et immaculata Conceptio."
Then comes:and various others + output message interruptions.
- 140181 Latin Trinitarian formula
In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
- Act of Contrition
- Act of Hope
Then at last come the first miner message interruptions. Luke explained on Twitter[ref] that they were also made by Eligius pool, as there was a system in which contributors besides Luke could submit their own strings:followed by more prayers and interruptions such as tx ec92d245822fa1ff862f3314b9102f36fe1eb8bc055865674c75323540aedef6:
- 142547: (2011-08-25) tx 8e1e44a48b5e79636675d1476f8e4add075bbeb7f49e00ec743eed56f17feaaa A yandere game is starting in 60 seconds! Please type "]yandere" to join. Yandere Simulator comes to mind, but it can't be because that was pitched 2014.
- 142550: "A yandere game is starting in 60 seconds! Please type "]yandere" to join."
- 142573: (2011-08-25) "Militant atheists, bit.ly/naNhG2 -- happy now?". A Rickrolling link. Perhaps one of the fist.
- 142596: (2011-08-25) "<cjdelisle> ran out of prayers?! That explains the price drop.". Possibly quoting this dude on som twitter.com/cjdelisle Bitcoin IRC channel givesn the
<USERNAME>format? - 142640: "an de ti go su by ra me ni ko hu vy la po fy ton": Tonal system numerals. Interesting.
FFS Luke-Jr leave the blockchain alone!
Oh, and God isn't real
The last Luke prayer appears to be on block 143822 (2011-09-03)
... the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labourers into his harvest.
Then there is a bit of radio silence, until finally Slush Pool started self advertising for the first time on block 163970 (2012-01-26):They had been mining for a long time by then (December 2010 according to en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Slush_Pool), but this is when they decided to add a human readable ASCII message as well.
/P2SH/BIP16/slush/R,From then on, miner messages would be forever polluted with ads, and Luke's multi-miner message feat would never again be reproduced.
The non-obvious interruptions are all well known memes/anime references:
- "I like turtles": knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-like-turtles
- Combo breaker: knowyourmeme.com/memes/combo-breaker
- "Yukkuri Shiteitte ne": knowyourmeme.com/memes/yukkuri-shiteitte-ne
- "kLhLUKE-JR IS A Pedophile! Oh, and God isn't real, sucka. Stop polluting the blockchain with your nonsense.", tx 9740e7d646f5278603c04706a366716e5e87212c57395e0d24761c0ae784b2c6, block 141460
- "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!": touhou.fandom.com/wiki/Lyrics:_Help_me,_ERINNNNNN!!
- "EASY MODO? How lame!F?": knowyourmeme.com/memes/kimoi-girls
Bibliography:
- 2011-08-19 bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38007.0 "Eligius miners aware of prayers in block headers?" from on bitcointalk.org by user "Graet" who quotes prior discussion from a Bitcoin IRC channel:<luke-jr> cosurgi: by design, it contains "random" data-- I've just been setting some of that "random" data to prayers<Graet> mm interesting luke-jr i understand you are strong in your faith but you dont think putting prayers in might alienate some ppl - after all btc is multidenominational<luke-jr> Graet: Catholics do not believe in freedom of religion.<Graet> and you make your non catholic miners aware of this?
- 2011-11-02 bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52979.0 "Mysterious transaction spotted in blockchain!"
tx 210000d1392bec2505d1289e5c39c2039204ff1ecf7eef55f973ccd3111003e1, block 360235 (2015-06-10) and the following transactions have transcripts of a very long developer chat starting with:
TODO purpose? The transcripts are interspersed with developers likely voting for project leadership, and commenting on Gavin.
TODO find original discussion location, these are almost certainly from one of the Bitcoin IRC channels.
Part of the goal of this dump is that the Bitcoin developers have a policy of not allowing logging on their talk channel, and this released it all to the blockchain forever where it cannot be deleted. These might just be more of protests against larger block sizes.
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Illegal content of block 229k by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16These can be viewed at bitcoinstrings.com/blk00052.txt and are mostly commented on the "Wikileaks cablegate data" section of Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014).
Soon after block 229991 uploaded the Satoshi uploader, several interesting files were added to the blockchain using the uploader, and notably some containing content that might be illegal in certain countries, as a test to see if this type of content would make the Bitcoin blockchain illegal or not:
- tx 08654f9dc9d673b3527b48ad06ab1b199ad47b61fd54033af30c2ee975c588bd block 229999 contains a leaked private key and a link to: threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/ami-firmware-source-codAe-private-key-leaked-040513
- tx b96af3b69b48a82c5eae3e44ebb6ef93f30d7764b1d5b40243e11b0d374ac1b7 block 230001 contains the link:followed presumably by one such prime starting with:The number is quoted e.g. at: www.computerforum.com/threads/illegal-prime-number.67782/
4 85650 78965 73978 29309 84189 46942 86137 70744 20873 51357 92401 96520 73668
- tx 237783998a6799264983150187a73ab6d116f2ba78d3e1f88529e95229f59d67 block 233620 contains another illegal prime starting with:
This one is quoted in a few places online in blockchain illegality discussions:49310 83597 02850 19002 75777 67239 07649 57284
- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1akyy4/comment/c8yel60 "What happens if someone inserts illegal content into the block chain?" (2013-03-19)
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8055243 "Filecoin – Data storage network and crypto-currency based on Bitcoin" (2014-07-18)
- tx 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 block 230009 contains the Bitcoin white paper: bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf More context: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/35959/how-is-the-whitepaper-decoded-from-the-blockchain-tx-with-1000x-m-of-n-multisi
- tx 691dd277dc0e90a462a3d652a1171686de49cf19067cd33c7df0392833fb986a block 230203 Cablegate index. The announced filename is
cablegate-201012041811.7z. As mentioned in Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014), it has an ASCII list of several other transactions, which presumably when downloaded with the Satoshi uploader can concatenated lead to the full 7z file. Also as mentioned by Ken, it is infinitely easier for the average user to just access the cables directly on WikiLeaks :-) The data is preceded by the message:sSEXWikileaks Cablegate Backup cablegate-201012041811.7z Download the following transactions with Satoshi Nakamoto's download tool which can be found in transaction 6c53cd987119ef797d5adccd76241247988a0a5ef783572a9972e7371c5fb0cc Free speech and free enterprise! Thank you Satoshi! - tx dde7cd8e8f073a525c16c5ee4e4a254f847b7ad6babef257231813166fbef551 block 230229 and tx 4a0088a249e9099d205fb4760c28275d4b8965ac9fd56f5ddf6771cdb0d94f38 block 230231 contain indexes of pages from The Hidden Wiki. These can be viewed at: bitcoinstrings.com/blk00052.txt. Not reproduced here because we are cowards.
So basically, this was the first obviously illegal block attempt.
None of this content is particularly eye-popping for Ciro Santilli's slightly crazy freedom of speech standards, and as of 2021, the Bitcoin blockchain likely hasn't become illegal anywhere yet due to freedom of speech concerns.
Furthermore, it is likely much easier to find much worse illegal content by browsing any uncensored Onion service search engine for 2 minutes.
Ciro Santilli estimates that perhaps the uploader didn't upload child pornography, which is basically the apex of illegality of this era, because they were afraid that their identities would one day be found.
Bibliography:
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191039.0 "WTF - Kiddy Porn in the Blockchain for life?" (2013-04-29) on the Bitcoin Forum
For now we are going to keep this site porn-free and only link to prevent bad things from happening, as it might violate GitHub porn policy depending on how it is hosted, and Google may dislike it. Video "What is more obscene: sex or war? scene from The People vs. Larry Flynt".
If illegal porn were to ever be found, we would be unable to acknowledge that, and would just have to silently remove it. Of course, the reproducible nature of Bitcoin Inscription Indexer means that anyone who regenerates the data would immediately see such entries in the diff.
Another issue is that it can be quite hard to determine if porn is legal or illegal, e.g. it can be hard to distinguish legal an illegal ages or revenge vs consensual porn, especially at the low resolutions that you may expect to find embedded in the blockchain. We are generally going to be quite strict about this, and in case of uncertainty on porn legality we will censor first.
OK the list:
- tx 4c903a377addab7c1e35a685d3dabc664199e406374b1e5ce2fc59e78fb5b754 (2016-07-09) contains an animated GIF of a woman pole dancing. She is seen from behind, in revealing blue clothes that show her buttocks. Reproduced at: twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1755378949117370668. The file contains the following strings embedded into it: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.
4c903a377addab7c1e35a685d3dabc664199e406374b1e5ce2fc59e78fb5b754.gif
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 Mt. Gox' shutdown by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Mt. Gox was the first Cryptocurrency exchange in existence, and when it shutdowon in Febrauary 2014 because the website was crap and they got hacked, some people were not happy at all about their missing funds!
tx 0540b5dda23ee870330c6b1e18a88c592cf8d847c47f1dc1d5328f46115b12b3 (2014-02-25)
2014-02-25: The day Mt.Gox shut down. Farewell, may even you rest in peace!tx 2374f8575f65763caf6909551c131d3ae45399a73aee638bcbccaebdb1219d67 (2014-02-25):
Fuck you MtGox
Fuck you MtGox
Rtx c00a4a04905a2e8d8dee8a768165aa6bdf842413a8a648462a6349db89cd77f2 (2014-02-27) has an ASCII art of a seal, TODO understand meme:
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<3 You Seals!There are also a few Base58 messages referring to Mt Gox, the nicest and most expensive one being to burn addres:which as of 2025 holds 0.014537 BTC burnt on:Many of these transactions also contain other quick messages, e.g.:
- 14x 0.001 BTC transactions starting at tx b170551d4df68d714fa98189c73f61b0c2bc54cafe33a2953fcc0bc11f6aa72a block 287826 (2014-02-26)
- plus one 0.001337 BTC transaction in the middle at tx 6b878716d1d9af0f50de441f318da68121261a5778fd541def4408c0aac531f6 block 287868 (2014-02-26), why not.
- tx e6d4cfbbc45b5e3cfcfa36613b04a8732c7b4606f5dbbd8af3ba06d8f3899fc2 also features a Rickrolling instance.
- tx 10a9bb0625447df044410cf9cd74742ec0bf334d48b4b1f93c10a4a60748bb5d also features
Niggerinside a spendable vanity address: 1Niggerw15VezU6rA7jRBuJt9ceg9VL1jh
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Protests against larger block sizes by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Protesters were posting large chunks of text multiple times into the blockchain as a way to protest against the controversial increase of block size.
tx 08893442680a20c4d0548dec2c8c421fa43336528b4e274dbf2652774f9c9f2d has the first copy of:which is the first line of a parody on:from the Baby Got Back hip-hop song.
tx 52159222289cd0a5afe0644150d0e23d5d272a57365627d5e869fdb458289858 has the first copy of:which is likely a copy of an email from the bitcoin development mailing list. This message is repeated dozens of times in other transactions.
Time to roll out bigger blocks
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain 503: Bitcoin over capacity by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Starting tx a87d406fae047258a12923b3c11a797a5765bd8f868df5c7e9b1cead0e92c9c1: the message:appears about 13 thousand times. WTF happened?
503: Bitcoin over capacity! Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project
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Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
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- a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
- a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
Figure 1. Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page. View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivativeVideo 2. OurBigBook Web topics demo. Source. - local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
- to OurBigBook.com to get awesome multi-user features like topics and likes
- as HTML files to a static website, which you can host yourself for free on many external providers like GitHub Pages, and remain in full control
Figure 3. Visual Studio Code extension installation.
Figure 4. Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation.
Figure 5. Web editor. You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.Video 3. Edit locally and publish demo. Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.Video 4. OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo. Source. 
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All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
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