The Klein-Gordon equation can be written in terms of the d'Alembert operator as:so we can expand the d'Alembert operator in Einstein notation to:
Why it takes several days to enter inflammatory phase in COVID-19? by 
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16Why is it there such a clear separation of phases?
Why do people with mild symptoms go on to die? It is a great mystery.
Ciro Santilli's theory is that COVID is extremely effective at avoiding immune response. Then, in people where this is effective, things reach a point where there is so much virus, that the body notices and moves on to take a more drastic approach. This is compatible with the virus killing older people more, as they have weaker immunes systems. This is however incompatible with the fact that people don't seem to be contagious after the viral phase is over...
Why is COVID-19 so serious in some people but not in others? by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16There are a few possibilities:
- genetics
- bibliography:
- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abj7521 Identification of driver genes for critical forms of COVID-19 in a deeply phenotyped young patient cohort by Carapito et al. (2021)
- bibliography:
- state of the immune system based on disease history
- age
Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais (1982) chapter III "Relativity, the special theory" mentions that this fact and its importance (we want the laws of physics to look the same on all inertial frames, AKA Lorentz covariance) was first fully relized by poincaré in 1905.
And at that same time poincaré also immediately started to think about the other fundamental force then known: gravity, and off the bat realized that gravitational waves must exist. general relativities is probably just "the simplest way to make gravity Lorentz covariant".
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrBiDRZRK5g Maxwell Lagrangian Derivation by Dietterich Labs (2019)
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo-Z3RO-eeY Deriving the Maxwell Lagrangian by Pretty Much Physics (2019)
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Illegal content of block 229k by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 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
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"
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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.
Don't think black and white
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 
Figure 8. . tx ddc39a3da0ee6f0651bdf0be7119b4db2612b19416e9128091b1f29cdfe2aa0d (2016-06-20) via cryptograffiti.info. Busts of a man and a woman looking forward. ........................................................... ....................................... ........................................................?$OOZZOZ:. ................................. ......................................................?8I~,....,,=,................................. .... .................................................8~~~:::,,,,,~=................................ ~~::,.................................................==~~~:,,,,:,:I=............................... ::~~~::,,............................................:=====$8D+:~:~$7+ ............................. ,,,:::~~~::,... .....................................:IDD8DI$Z7$?=?$7+.............................. ,,,,,,,,::~~::,,....................................8?$Z$N:++?+=~~~~?~.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,::~~::,,.. .............................. =+D=,:=7+~:::=~=~............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,:::::,,...............................+?7OIO8ZZ?~~+7+~,............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,.,,.,..,,:::::,,.. ........................?$NDD$ZODD=+?II,.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,....,,,::::,,... ..................,+8N$I$IZZOI$7I+O.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,........,,,::::,,....................$8DD8O7?78OZ$I+,.............................. ,,,,,,,,,,,.,.,..............,,::::,,................ .D88ZZOZOOO$I+~+.............................. ,,,,,.,,,,,.,..............................,............888D8O8Z?+==~:.............................: ,,,,,,,,,,,,.,.............................,..............?$OI?+++=+....$+.....................::::: ...........,,,.................... .......................??+??++??..,.D8O$Z?..............,:::::::: ...........,,,...........................................IM7I??II+..,.ND8D88ZZ$Z$7......:::::::::::: ,,,,........................... ......................?7,D77$77I?7O,.DDND8888888.....:::::::::::::~: ,,,,,... ...................... ..................~ZOZ8.DN7?++Z?+IM=NNNDD88NDDN..,.....:::::,:~~:,,, ,,,,,,,..........................................O88NDDDNN+~=~==+NMMNNDDDNNNDD=,........,:~~,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,.........................................$DDDDNNNNNI~~7~=MNNNNDNNNNNDD8,..,,......,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,:,... .. ..................................8DNNDDNNNNN::,?NNMNNNNNDDNNND7.:..,,......,,,,,,,,,, ,,::::,... .....................................DDDNNNDNNNN7,DNNNNNNNNNNNNDDD=,~,,,,,.......,,.,,,,, ::::::,........................................,DNNNNNNNNNNNDMNNNNNNNNNNNNNND,,,.,,,,.......,,,,,,,, ::::::,........................ ......... .....,NNNNNNNNMNNDMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNMN,,,,,,,,,.....,,,,,,,,, ::::::,.....,..................................+NNNNNNMMMMDNMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNMMN~=,,,,,,.,.....,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,..................... ................:~NNNNNNNDNMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNMMMD?,,,,,,,.......,,,,,, .....,,,....,................ ................::NDDNNNNNNMNNNMNNNNNNNNNNMMMMMMMM::,::,,.....,,,,,,,, .....,,,.....................................,::~NNNNNNMMNNNMNMNMNMMMMMNNMNNNNMM~:::::,,,....,,,,,,, ~~~~~~=:..................................,::,:::=NNNNMMMDNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNMM?~:::::,,,....,,,,,, ?+????I~..............................,:::::::~~~~DNNMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~~:::,,,,...,,,,,,, ???????:...........................,::::::::::~~~~?DMMMMMN8MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM~=:~:~,,,....,,,,,, +++++++:...,.,,..,,,,..,,,......:::::::::::,:~~~~=~OMMNNMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMZ==~~:::,....,,,,,, +++++++:.,..................,:::::::::::,~~:,~~=~+~7MMNMMNNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMM?++~~~::,...,,,,,, ++++++=:.................,::::::::::,:~~:,,,.~~=~+=DMNNMNMNMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMO+=:=~~~:,..,,,,,, +===+==:.... .........:::::::::::,:=~:,,,,...:===+=DNNNMDMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNMMMMMM7=+?=:~,::,,,,,,, ====+==:,:,,,,,,,,,:::~::::::::~=::,,,,,.....~~++???NNNNDMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMI?=:~~~:.,.,,,,, ====+===~::::::~::::::::::::~=::,,,,.........:~??77$NMNMNDNMMMMNMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNMMMMM$$I+,~:::::,,,,, =======~~::::~~~~:::::::~=~:,,,,,,,..........:~=++7ZNNNMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNMMMMMNNI~=,:,.....,,,, =======~::~~~~~~~~:::~=~:,,,,,,,...,.........=+~+?ZONNNMNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMD~~,,:,,:,:,,,,, =====~~~~~~~~~~~~~==~:,,,,,,,,,,,...........,:~=+IZONNNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNMMMMMMMD~:~~::,..,,,,,, Dr. Bill Maurer Economic anthropologistCode 3.ASCII art of Dr. Bill Maurer.tx 06d2528cfabf360c7a8f925d84207d47612cd0ac1ad2efd8aea9758263d9738b (2016-07-13) via cryptograffiti.info entitled:His university home page faculty.sites.uci.edu/wmmaurer/ describes himself as:Dr. Bill Maurer
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
which made all nongrep @ data/out/0538.txt@signs stand out due to the terminal's syntax highligh. This image was uploaded one line per transaction with a few interruptions that we removed manually, and there were was a previous partial attempt a bit before: at tx f8102999c0aaf7681deec383eb8e7946f093e94a116a21e367e9ed6b7c32d1fb so either a failure, or maybe it was intentional to obfuscate things a bit.@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@YOUR@FREE@GRRCON@TICKET@CODE@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@, *@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@% @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ .@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ *@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@, @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@( %@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@ @@@& @@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@,@. @@@ @@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ %@@ .&@@@@@@&%@@@@@&&&@@@@@# @@/ /@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ @@ @@@&@@O@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@(@@@@& @@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@ @@. .@@@,%&@@P@@@@@(,*&*@@@@@@@@#(#.@ (@@ @@@@@@@ @@@@@@* @@ @@(@%@@@@@&R@@@@&@@@@@@@&@@@@@@/ @@@ @@ @@@@@@ @@@@@# @@ @@@@@@@@,,@%@E@%@@@@@@@@@@@%@@@@@.@@@@ @@ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@ @.@@@@@,@@@(@,T@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@ @@@@ @@@@ @@ @&@@@@@@/@#@(@&@U@@@@@@@@(@@@@@@., #@@@@@ @@ @@@ @@@* @@ @@@@&@@&@ #@@@R@.@@@@@.@@@@@@@%@@(@@@@@ @@ @@@ @@@ @@ /@@*@@ @@@/N/@,@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@, @@ @@ @@@ @@ @@@@@ @@.@I@@,@@@@@@@@ @@@@&@@ @@ @@ @@/ @@ @@@, (#@/S@@@@@@.,@ **@@&,@ @@ @@ @@ @@ %(( @#@@@@M@@@@@&@ #./%&@@* @@ %@ @@ @@ #&&@ @@@@&@@Y@@@@@ &@,@@@.( @@ %@ @@, @@ @@@@@@ *(@@%@@@F&@. @@&%@@ @@ @@ @@@ @@ @#@%@/@ @@@*@@@R( @@@&@ @@ @@ @@@ @@ @@@@@@@@@%@@@%%@@@@@@@%%/I@ @@@@, @ @@ @@ @@@. @@ @@@@@@@*@&@@@@# @(@@@@@@@@E@@@@@@@& @@ @@@ @@@@ @@ @@@@&@@(@@@@@@.@# @@@ @@@@N@@@@,@( @@ @@@ @@@@@ @@ @@@*@@&@@*(@ @@@&@@&@@D@@@@& @@ @@@@ @@@@@. @@ @/@,@@@@@@@@@@@@@@% @@ @@@@@ @@@@@@ @@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@,@@@@ @@ %@@@@@ @@@@@@@, @@/ @&@@(@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ &@@ @@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@ @@ #%@(,&,@@@@ @(& @/,@ @@ @@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@ /@@ @@&@@@@@,* @@& @@@@@@ .@@. @@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ @(@@@@@@ @@@ .@(@@, @@@ @@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@ &@@@ @@@# @@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@# .@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ , . @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ @ @# @ *, @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@& @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@Without@s to better highlight the code:YOUR FREE GRRCON TICKET CODE , * % . * , ( % & , . % .& &% &&& # / / & O ( & . . ,%& P (,*&* #(#. ( * ( % &R & & / # ,, % E % % . . , ( ,T & / # ( & U ( ., # * & & # R . . % ( / * /N/ , , . I , & / , (# /S ., ** &, %(( # M & #./%& * % #&& & Y & , .( % , *( % F& . &% # % / * R( & % %% %%/I , . * & # ( E & & ( . # N , ( * & *( & & D & . / , % , % , / & ( & #% (,&, (& /, / & ,* & . . ( . ( , & # # . , . # *, &
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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:
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@V/@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @@> @ @. @, @' @; @^ @'' @: @> # @ ### ###* @ ########### @ ##########* @ /########### @ ###########* @ /######### @ ##########/ @ ###########/ \@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ####### @ ### ## @ ### @ ###. @ ### ##### @ ###/* @ ### *## @ ####, @ ####" @/// ##### ##### @ ########( @ ######### @ ######## @ ##########. @ ##< @ ####### ### @ *######### @ ####### KEEPCASE : THE ###( #### #### @ ### ###. @ ###\ @ #### @ #####/ @ ###\. @ ####### ##/ @ #### @ ###_ ORIGINAL HARDWARE ### ### ### ## @ ### ###\ @ ########## @ #########/ @ ###/ @ \#########* @ ### #* @ ######### @ ###########( WALLET CASE ### ## ## ### ### ### ## ### #### #### ##### ####* ######, @@>>
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 '...' . | sortBesides ASCII art, the huge majority of images is encoded with the AtomSea & EMBII system/format. All images in that system will be documented in that section.
The first currently known instance is as a link right during the prayer wars on block 142573 (2011-08-25) as the miner message:which redirects to www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDuExhS6Nw&blockchain
Militant atheists, bit.ly/naNhG2 -- happy now?"
Around block block 246k (e.g. 27b7c526489dac8245747fa1c425a2e3eb07dea57b294eb4ae583fec9b859fcf, 2013-10-17) we note several transactions starting with a XML format followed by lyrics also base64 encoded as part of the XML metadata. Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain by Ken Shirriff (2014) was not able to identify the exact format either. At twitter.com/EMBII4U/status/1655831533750562816 EMBII mentions that this was part of an upload test.
<CG SZ="1156"><MG>... the first one being 0b4efe49ea1454020c4d51a163a93f726a20cd75ad50bb9ed0f4623c141a8008 As mentioned not very clearly at www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html#ref12 the content of the first <MG><payload></MG> is a Base64 encoded stringCatagory: Poetry
Title: Never Gonna Give You Up
Performer: Rick Astley
Writer: Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, Pete Waterman
Label: RCA Recordstx d29c9c0e8e4d2a9790922af73f0b8d51f0bd4bb19940d9cf910ead8fbe85bc9b (2013-11-13) contains a plaintext Rickroll lyric in an output script via OP_RETURN.
tx 15b11e8d4e5b9425f024b381ba0cb7a54a35e52389bb4855f505772ce685b39c (2014-06-24): starting from this transaction, the lyrics were inscribed several times via input scripts. Then again:They were mega obnoxious!!! Who does this kind of crap for more than one year!!!
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Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Base58 messages by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2026-08-21
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2026-08-21Bitcoin 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 Protests against larger block sizes by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 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 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16Starting tx a87d406fae047258a12923b3c11a797a5765bd8f868df5c7e9b1cead0e92c9c1: the message:appears about 13 thousand times. WTF happened?
503: Bitcoin over capacity! Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain The largest transactions in the Bitcoin Blockchain by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16- bb41a757f405890fb0f5856228e23b715702d714d59bf2b1feb70d8b2b4e3e08 999,657 bytes. Joins a bunch of tiny inputs into a single output
- 623463a2a8a949e0590ffe6b2fd3e4e1028b2b99c747e82e899da4485eb0b6be and 5143cf232576ae53e8991ca389334563f14ea7a7c507a3e081fbef2538c84f6e both have 3,075 outputs of 1 satoshi each and a single input. We were not able to identify any meaningful data in it,
filejust saysdata, and there aren't long ASCII strings. However, the outputs were unspent as of 2021, which suggests that they might actually be data.
Analysis of some of them follows.
- dd9f6bbf80ab36b722ca95d93268667a3ea6938288e0d4cf0e7d2e28a7a91ab3 has 13107 with payload 256KB in size, but some of them at least have been spent: www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/dd9f6bbf80ab36b722ca95d93268667a3ea6938288e0d4cf0e7d2e28a7a91ab3 therefore it's not data.
filesays their payload is a DOS executable, but it must be a coincidence
Other Bitcon analysis:
- "Annotated blockchain project"Does the same as this page, just that it is an uncomprehensible mess of broken links. But they have soe good ideas!
- etherpad.mit.edu/p/r.e33d2e7230fafc0612a0f2e7ebc87bae
- etherpad.mit.edu/p/r.19b7b3e2c5ea08a61cb0bef0aeb213fd image list (February 8, 2017) We tried going over it, but it is just too much work, the huge majority of the results are just AtomSea & EMBII so not that interesting.
- archive.ph/Zz7m5
- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5wax5v/a_group_is_working_on_building_a_fully_annotated/
- archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/111742853/
Their main techniques seem to be:and:mkdir binout for file in blk*dat; do echo "$file"; binwalk --dd='.*' "$file" -C binout/. --log=binout/"$file""res.txt"; donewhich seem promising.mkdir subfileout for file in blk*dat; do mkdir subfileout/"$file"; done for file in blk*dat; do echo "$file"; hachoir-subfile --category=image,video,audio,container,archive,misc "$file" subfileout/"$file" > subfileout/"$file""subfile.txt"; doneTODO how to they automatically map back to transaction IDs? There is a line "Script to add the TX ID to each file." Our attempts: Section "Get transaction id from position in dat file"
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Incoming links by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-26
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-26By Ciro Santilli:
- 2021-04-13 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1382067162492366854: main initial announcement on Twitter. twitter.com/mikko, who has 209.9K followers and a Wikipedia page: Mikko Hypponen hearted the tweet s2
- 2023-01-21 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1749172304259535063: improvements to the Prayer wars
- 2024-02-07 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1755378931446739373: large-ish update with new items and improved organization
- 2024-03-31 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1774531934305071295: binwalk discoveries, start poking a bit into ordinal ruleset inscriptions
- 2024-04-04 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1775805941885108392: largest text ordinal inscription
By others:
- 2021-04-15 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26801067 (96 points) on Hacker News. Reached position 16 at one point: archive.ph/L0Fte and led to about 5k views total. Ah, Ciro could watch that Google Analytics realtime view go bling all day long. Narcissism is a bitch.
- 2021 cryptonewmedia.press/tankman-image-on-bitcoin-blockchain/ by user igadjeed
- 2022-01-23 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30050479 "Abuse and Harassment on the Blockchain", comment-mid thread
- 2022-01-24 www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/sbw0se/when_i_heard_about_nfts_i_thought_they_were/hu2uk8g "When I heard about NFTs, I thought they were stupid, but then I watched a video explaining how they work, it really changed my perspective", comment mid-thread
- 2023-02 lots of Twitter backlinks as a result of ordinal ruleset inscriptions:
- 2023-02-03
Video 1. . Source. Features Marijuana plant and Rickrolling sections. He seems to be a finance guru. - 2023-02-07 twitter.com/privateid_ntity/status/1622814063331004421
- 2024-01-18 twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1748049913286447355 by Rizzo, The Bitcoin Historian (81k followers, mid-thread)
- 2024-12-29: x.com/lopp/status/1873453363523932630 by Jameson Lopp (492k subscribers)
- ? cloudhiker.net/ A hand curated and categorized list of interesting links by Kevin Woblick. Only allows users to visit a random one per category, so we can't get proof of backlink, this was noticed through Google Analytics.
- 2025-03-18 Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes
The mention of this project is brief:Announced at:Ciro Santilli maintains a Web page listing arbitrary data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain. This is the most complete and up-to-date list of arbitrary data we are aware of. However, he does not specifically focus on burn addresses, but on the stored contents.
- 2025-03-28 x.com/punk3606/status/1905295370227155344 quick "this was already discovered" mention on thread x.com/I____felix____I/status/1905291048798106061 where a dude rediscovers Figure "Warren Buffet"
- 2025-07-20 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFrK2tpat8c Uncovering Hidden Messages in Bitcoin by Th3M0rn1ng5h0w
Conservation of the square amplitude in the Schrodinger equation by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16It can be derived directly from the Schrödinger equation.
Bibliography:
- That proof also mentions that if the potential
Vis not real, then there is no conservation of probability! Therefore the potential must be real valued!
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