Base58 messages
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Bitcoin 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".
This seems to be one of the earliest strategies used to encode messages.
These messages were originally found with: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer#payload-size-out-utxo-2vals
The generated text is however rather obfuscated by the limitations of Base58.
The following transactions contain base58 encoded messages on addresses:
- tx 7961b5ae2f053a16d5c589104f87edfabe80fcae185832ea185e7f0cf06c7747 (2011-12-01) is a Lorem ipsum, 7961b5ae2f053a16d5c589104f87edfabe80fcae185832ea185e7f0cf06c7747 is another one:
11Lorem1psumDo1orSitAmetXXXWAEZ6C 11ConsecteturAdipiscingE1itYQHEPM ... - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/751ff11286a43da5d6cf7da8f5bc736e522bbd698ec03c76c63368e5260667e6 seems to contain a bunch of names. It is very noisy, but feels too much coincidence not not be intentional
1JameLs3Q9enoB7VT3bDc3XYoziRDqW7o6 1NeLLAADSPYk4wvzCbiac362DdTWNqnWxV 1MaRinaQFfRbEDoz5FvDaJoST1PsqQQhL7 1DioNTe4eHexc74CPPCwJMGPHaDE8za4BM - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/ace9524519577138ca98ec01651758fd1e5ec33ce0110c6681eccba0e716cc7a is also possible,
11Bitta1ktvchristmasspecia1WNDvAarepeats over an over, so something alongBitta Christmas Special - tx 8ffacbb18f63576fe323cbf2acc6c4c01c86aadf13d8352cfdd39d91916d98c8 (2011-12-05) advertises etchablock.com:so maybe this is the service used to for those base58 encodings. It is down as of 2021, and there are no decent archives unfortunately: web.archive.org/web/20130301000000*/http://etchablock.com/. Some online mentions:
EtchABLockDotComGivesYou BLockChain1mmortaLity- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/s9cra/comment/c4d5x9b/ suggests that the creator is a "Jonathan Ryan Owens". Some profiles:
- www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/028b8514a4f6cc96ac3c1c83dbb117ab9dc5eb09deab7b49bf038fd460173127
Source text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats
11TheSetupTheJokeA1waysXXXXTF9Wzp 11BeginsWithAFami1yActGoingY3Q4qw 111nToSeeATa1entAgentThoseXZxb7hQ - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/89010c791c9d7ed24affa1d638b12179d2ca7ec91704fe906834386f43a8101d
Source text: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
11When1nTheCourseofHumanXXXXdfMdQ 11Events1tBecomesNecessaryXYC2rJ5 11ForonePeop1eToDisso1veTheXKXUiD - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/c99179465b2d3b88fb6ede5d2e42015b15ec641e7a68f18216acaf741723de00
Possible source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types
11The1ntegerDataTypesCharXXZZwJAn 11ShortLongAnd1ntCanBeXXXXXVfzLKj 11EitherSignedorUnsignedXXXYMhhUY - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/3bbd94d22346a3bfb44257293e10c3b5c9ee39230c1cd358bdce2bf03c61ba0b en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
12TisTrueWithoutALie22222221wT3qjn 1CertainAndMostTrue2222222225YPnJF 12ThatWhich1sBe1ow1sAs222221y3G7mv 12ThatWhich1sAboveAnd2222221vxkcEq ... - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/237b50dac42af130171773b233954e62690182fd4901a453ad5d11d1d54a8ca3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie
11TomAppearsAtTheTopofTheXXWyM2Bt 11A11eyAfterEachSo1emnBoomXaBp7oy 11ofTheBe111nTheTowerHeXXXXVQaies 11ShakesALitt1eNoisemakeroraeWTgK ... - www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/1f9606f267cc398356663b14d1a7a3591e3da06572893394c14975a6fc11798f en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophiæ_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica
11Ru1e1WeAreToAdmitNoMoreXXazQ96z 11CausesofNatura1ThingsThanZAQ9ig 11SuchAsAreBothTrueAndXXXXXZyzfQp 11SufficientToExp1ainTheirXVSC2gY - tx ef374dcc5b23f16ecb0b1b639ba577d2acda7ad32321b5866db2fa9e6807b9c5 (2011-12-01) contains the intruction from the bitgoin.org website: web.archive.org/web/20210129054851/https://bitcoin.org/en/
11Bitcoin1sADecentra1izedXXWPM6Hs 11PeertopeerNetworkoverXXXXUkyy3M 11WhichUsersMakeXXXXXXXXXXXX4tQgN 11TransactionsThatAreXXXXXXVdZfnJ