{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

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:
> I am a pretty princess
  covered in mud and blood
  water with stuff in it
  like everything else that wiggles or jiggles
  screaming might not be your waY
  see no reason to operate otherwise since
  came into the world naked, wet and screaming
  but silence will never be mine
  until I am dead
  but the smell will also give that away
  gather all my things
  load them in a big boat
  airlift that to Kansas
  and light it on fire
  drop it from 7,000 feet
  then railgun my corpse straight down
The sentences are not very coherent together, perhaps this is because lines were chosen by different miners one at a time.


Cool data embedded in the bitcoin blockchain/hhtt

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