= HHTT
{title2=2012-2013}
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:
* http://hhtt.1209k.com/sockthing.php
* https://github.com/fireduck64/SockThing
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/229417[block 229417] (2013-04-03) has a cute sword <ASCII art>:
``
./SockThing/HHTT/o()xxxx[{::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::>
``
Starting from their very first ASCII transaction on https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/197602[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:
\Q[
I am a pretty princess\br
covered in mud and blood\br
water with stuff in it\br
like everything else that wiggles or jiggles\br
screaming might not be your waY\br
see no reason to operate otherwise since\br
came into the world naked, wet and screaming\br
but silence will never be mine\br
until I am dead\br
but the smell will also give that away\br
gather all my things\br
load them in a big boat\br
airlift that to Kansas\br
and light it on fire\br
drop it from 7,000 feet\br
then railgun my corpse straight down\br
]
The sentences are not very coherent together, perhaps this is because lines were chosen by different miners one at a time.