= New Bitcoin Base58 messages found due to a new paper: Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes
{tag=Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain}
This is an update to the section: <Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain/Base58 messages>{full}.
While self Googling a bit, I found this paper <Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain/Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes> by Mohamed el Khatib and Arnaud Legout briefly cited <Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain>.
In that paper, they attempted to find <Base58> Bitcoin addresses that looked as if they were fake and used only in order to contain Base58 data.
While we had previously explored a few <Base58> messages, this was something that had been done mostly ad-hoc simply by looking at transactions with large amounts of unspent outputs. As a result, any smaller messages were missed.
By looking through the data produced by the those researchers, we managed to find many new <Base58> messages, and highlighted many of the most interesting early messages at: <Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain/Base58 messages>{full}.
The cutest new example is https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/dea183908e40e0cebfee6a0d8362b299e07cf193fbc02ffd3308b43781eca208[tx dea183908e40e0cebfee6a0d8362b299e07cf193fbc02ffd3308b43781eca208] (2011-11-24) containing Eric Lombrozo's minimalistic wedding contract to Sandra Sandic:
``
1EricLombrozoXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWACBVB
1969SandraSandicXXXXXXXXXXXXXvdEiU
``
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