= Early AtomSea & EMBII uploads
{title2=2013-12-01 - }
These are of course likely all made by AtomSea & EMBII themselves while developing/testing their upload system.
They are also artsy peoeple themselves, and as pointed at https://twitter.com/AllenVandever/status/1563964396656812034 what they were doing was basicaly <non-fungible token> art, which became much much more popular a few years later around 2021.
The first upload that we could find at https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/tree/3f53e152ec9bb0d070dbcb8f9249d92f89effa70#atomsea-index was https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/44e80475dc363de2c7ee17b286f8cd49eb146165a79968a62c1c2c4cf80772c9[tx 44e80475dc363de2c7ee17b286f8cd49eb146165a79968a62c1c2c4cf80772c9] on https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/272573[block 272573] (2013-12-01) but it does not show on Bitfossil: http://bitfossil.org/44e80475dc363de2c7ee17b286f8cd49eb146165a79968a62c1c2c4cf80772c9/[]. This is was due to an upload bug explained by the following entry. By looking at the ASCII data at https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0272.txt#L449 that this is meant to contain the same content as the following message: a quote from the <Bhagavad Gita>, so this is definitely a bugged version of the following one.
The next one is http://bitfossil.org/c9d1363ea517cd463950f83168ce8242ef917d99cd6518995bd1af927d335828/ on block 272577 (2013-12-02). It actually shows on bifossil and it reads:
> I WONDER WHAT HISTORY WILL THINK ABOUT THESE FIRST FEW BUGS...HA HA HA. NOBODY IS PERFECT.
followed by:
> He who regards
With an eye that is equal
Friends and comrades,
The foe and the kinsman,
The vile, the wicked,
The men who judge him,
And those who belong
To neither faction:
He is the greatest.
~<Bhagavad Gita>[Bhagavad - Gita]
The bug message is definitely a reference to the previous non-visible bugged upload http://bitfossil.org/4b72a223007eab8a951d43edc171befeabc7b5dca4213770c88e09ba5b936e17/[], TODO understand exactly how they fucked up. This illustrates the beauty of the blockchain very well: unlike with <version control>, you don't just see selected snapshots: you see actual debug logs!!!
\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20230604115203im_/http://bitfossil.org/8d1b3c094b782198deb7381efb57b1208244375e7a1029ec159306d6a8fd25d8/WeAreStarStuff.jpg]
{title=`WeAreStarStuff.jpg`}
{description=
The third <AtomSea & EMBII> upload, and the first actual image.
Message:
> Photo etchin' test. \#AtomSea \#embii (photo by Travis Ehrich)
The image shows showingAtomSea and EMBII together, presumably photographed by https://travis-t-ehrich.tumblr.com/archive[this dude].
The filename is of course a reference to the quote/idea: <We Are Made of Star-Stuff> that was much popularized by <Carl Sagan>.
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/8d1b3c094b782198deb7381efb57b1208244375e7a1029ec159306d6a8fd25d8[tx 81f6d302a0ed4ffefa674834d0c4a02cdc6639f213713d48946225956fc96d85], https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/272592[block 272592] (2013-12-02)
http://bitfossil.org/fac0b9a4f90414710b806fd286e020aea2404498946845ef3783f305dd4cd3a7 (2024-01-13) contains a crapped version with only AtomSea persent.
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{source=http://bitfossil.org/8d1b3c094b782198deb7381efb57b1208244375e7a1029ec159306d6a8fd25d8}
\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20220125112530im_/http://bitfossil.org/86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7/HugPuddle.jpg]
{title=`HugPuddle.jpg`}
{description=
The fourth <AtomSea & EMBII> upload, and the second image. Message:
> HugPuddle Testing Apertus Disk Drive
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7[tx 86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7], https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/272592[block 272592] (2013-12-02)
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{source=http://bitfossil.org/86a0e565ba2698d4abc03253b9de47e88d3de4f62ee90722e6e7845a1c8e3aa7}
And then finally we meet Chiharu, EMBII's partner, with her hair painted blond (she's <Japanese>): <ILoveYouMore.jpg>.
Then there are two undecoded ones TODO investigate:
* http://bitfossil.org/78f31f03da7d15db96dc824bf96b39f010bb733969c62f27f2f8fb2738e74557
* http://bitfossil.org/4c8cf0e647e3b3e5878856b7057e625e0fcbb01d714a6a4eabb91ffc4495f0c3
Then <Nelson-Mandela.jpg>.
Then there's an approximation of <pi> as ASCII decimal fraction http://bitfossil.org/70fd289901bae0409f27237506c330588d917716944c6359a8711b0ad6b4ce76/[] from https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/273522[block 273522] (2013-12-07):
> 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100031378387528865875332083814206171776691473035982534904287554687311595628638823537875937519577818577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989
https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0273.txt#L48[tx b8b9f50a354166c46b69ecd47a0fbd20ee78c3471d2557bf275aff1b4cf4752d] (2013-12-07) contains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Sidewalk_Ends[Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein]. TODO find on bitfossil.org, toplevel, tx seemed like a likely toplevel, but not working: http://bitfossil.org/b8b9f50a354166c46b69ecd47a0fbd20ee78c3471d2557bf275aff1b4cf4752d
> There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrowls go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0274.txt#L8[tx 56768b30dec33bd284223d85c23087975e2360b3391d20d505aa59a5675e5379] (2013-12-13) TODO find on bitfossil.org has the cutest message:
> Dear Aliens,
Hey.
Sincerely,
EMBII & AtomSeaMBII
https://github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0274.txt#L28[tx 415c702759893c63b3a57a7d196b014e51b2a33d2396c74b8e71acfaff6b9360] (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/415c702759893c63b3a57a7d196b014e51b2a33d2396c74b8e71acfaff6b9360[2013-12-14]) contains a poem by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi[13th century Persian poet Rumi] (TODO find bitfossil.org toplevel), starting with:
> My dear friend
never lose hope
when the Beloved
sends you away.
Reproduced e.g. at: https://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Buddhism/H%20-%20World%20Religions%20and%20Poetry/World%20Religions/Islam/Teachers/Rumi/My%20dear%20friend/Rumi%20-%20my%20dear%20friend.htm
http://bitfossil.org/73ca50321147bac9010bec43d63f7f76857fe9ede240cc89710e28723fdb242f/ (https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/73ca50321147bac9010bec43d63f7f76857fe9ede240cc89710e28723fdb242f/[2013-12-14]) has message:
> MULTIFILE SUPPORT TEST
and links to 3 .txt files `1.txt`, `2.txt`, `3.txt` containing single characters `1`, `2`, and `3`.
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{title=CompressedLogo.png}
{description=
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/dd750b6dfc799ad63b450f3942a3d8739831a4a1a03ffea32531bc3539026af2[2013-12-20]. Message:
> Colby Nelson and myself burnt the midnight oils designing the APERTUS imagery last night....
Thanks Colby for all your help.
Possibly https://www.linkedin.com/in/colby-nelson-59b538207/[].
Contains an Apertus logo which is used on http://bitfossil.org/ itself, presumably they were designing that logo.
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{source=http://bitfossil.org/dd750b6dfc799ad63b450f3942a3d8739831a4a1a03ffea32531bc3539026af2/}
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