= Largest text ordinal inscription
Text is the only reasonbly interesting content that <Ciro Santilli> has seen in the ordinals, as opposed to images which are boring. They haven'g found a way to commercialize it yet it seems, thank God. Glad to have researcehd this a bit!
Shame that the plaintext ones don't show up too well on <ordinals.com>!
The largest inscriptions with mime `text/*` are:
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/e15e19c587985e7dbb0554a6b51df976fdc8d95f4350b759c10b07399d34a7bbi0[]: 395,253 bytes (2023-02-23): an English translation of Mein Kampf by <Adolf Hitler> starting from the "Author's preface" section to the end of Chapter V. This seems to be the text: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt[]. Likely someone trying to be naughty, on the same vein as the "<Hitler> did nothing wrong" <meme> from previous eras
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/daed32652a82fa809be265a9a082d31e186b2b3c0cec80b52dc30e3c1c856c66i0[]: 394,346 bytes (2023-02-21): Mein Kempt just like https://ordinals.com/inscription/e15e19c587985e7dbb0554a6b51df976fdc8d95f4350b759c10b07399d34a7bbi0[] but with the HTML in a single line, so it is slightly smaller
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/95f6909988dba38f1140d536c9cc2fdcf635c1522f93834045b093f0d4c2fdd7i0[]: 394,053 bytes (2023-02-21): HTML heart shaped index of the "Insignia Art" ordinal collection: https://ordinalswallet.com/collection/insignia-art[]. That one is kind of cool actually.
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/8af62aed75fdd9262d36d428a209a162394f0f463bf261ea253d0fb009f2277fi0[]: 392,866 bytes (2023-09-29) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majjhima_Nikāya[Majjhima Nikāya] (Collection of Middle-length Discourses), <Buddhist> text that is part of the <Pali Canon>, the most original Buddhist scriptures. <EMBII>'s inscription of the <Bhagavad Gita> comes to mind. Both Pali transliteration and English translation are present side-by-side.
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/6352b23c10ef20321d59735d8597af9be96db1bab4b50d728e618a1c5a21a991i0[]: 391,053 bytes (2023-03-03) "Satoshi Wars" <Star Wars>-themed browser game. It is a mouse-controlled <Pong> clone
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/ab420f90306948937432379dc3f768ef5f826714f53e0cea4e641debef460173i0[]: 389,001 bytes (2023-02-19) "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anarchist_Cookbook[The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell]". People trying to be semi-naughty as usual.
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/d8ef417a8575e0fa3da7ab11f9e91ef7582c7275f54f8b9dc587c98c676bd41ci0[]: 388,196 bytes (2023-02-12)
\Q[This fully on-chain document contains all of <Satoshi Nakamoto>'s posts on <Bitcoin Forum>[Bitcointalk].]
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/2a260692fd8aca7fc5f825fe7965c914615fe1d62f7d3e5b078228d43fd93243i0[]: 387,818 bytes (2023-04-06) an HTML page, title:
\Q[Welcome to the on-chain Pixogette Metadata Reader]
It seems t oallow you to upload images and reads metadata from the image. Didn't work too well on <ordinals.com> possibly due to narrow display port. Also it has a funny background music :-)
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/a31b8e3e279a6e28ef49fa4dca54f820abf266223976b778833e8c47991ad403i0[]: 386,913 bytes (2023-02-19) a cute Bitcoin Cash ad:
``
#!/bin/bash
#
# ____ _ _ _ ____ _
# | __ ) (_) | |_ ___ ___ (_) _ __ / ___| __ _ ___ | |__
# | _ \ | | | __| / __| / _ \ | | | '_ \ | | / _` | / __| | '_ \
# | |_) | | | | |_ | (__ | (_) | | | | | | | | |___ | (_| | \__ \ | | | |
# |____/ |_| \__| \___| \___/ |_| |_| |_| \____| \__,_| |___/ |_| |_|
#
# ___ _ _
# |_ _| _ __ __| | ___ _ __ ___ _ __ __| | ___ _ __ ___ ___
# | | | '_ \ / _` | / _ \ | '_ \ / _ \ | '_ \ / _` | / _ \ | '_ \ / __| / _ \
# | | | | | | | (_| | | __/ | |_) | | __/ | | | | | (_| | | __/ | | | | | (__ | __/
# |___| |_| |_| \__,_| \___| | .__/ \___| |_| |_| \__,_| \___| |_| |_| \___| \___|
# |_|
# ____ _ _
# | __ ) | | ___ ___ | | __
# | _ \ | | / _ \ / __| | |/ /
# | |_) | | | | (_) | | (__ | <
# |____/ |_| \___/ \___| |_|\_\
``
It appears to contain the entire first fork block of Bitcoi Cash from mainline bitcoin.
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/f7ece21e1dc74874d7a6e5e11b77941be2db6f383d053242a40b63e0a28445ffi0[]: 386,819 bytes (2023-02-18) The Illiad Books I-XII
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/4f5e52115ef0fb4fc2a18cfc7f4caccfb712792c8bc318e71699a86ba4541719i0[]: 386,655 bytes (2023-08-09) Frogger browser clone
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/f04c0e94023e51fb995e48235773c77a471289baf44c1a3248d800a0a550c520i0[]: 385,743 bytes (2023-03-25) A <Roguelike> browser game
* https://ordinals.com/inscription/cd432a3e16c4a01db1df6a59b5941a69bd0cf130b24a61248643005f22a939d9i0[]: 383,098 (2023-02-18) <#Brave New World>