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Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Mt. Gox' shutdown Updated 2025-07-16
Mt. Gox was the first Cryptocurrency exchange in existence, and when it shutdowon in Febrauary 2014 because the website was crap and they got hacked, some people were not happy at all about their missing funds!
tx 0540b5dda23ee870330c6b1e18a88c592cf8d847c47f1dc1d5328f46115b12b3 (2014-02-25)
2014-02-25: The day Mt.Gox shut down. Farewell, may even you rest in peace!tx 2374f8575f65763caf6909551c131d3ae45399a73aee638bcbccaebdb1219d67 (2014-02-25):
Fuck you MtGox
Fuck you MtGox
Rtx c00a4a04905a2e8d8dee8a768165aa6bdf842413a8a648462a6349db89cd77f2 (2014-02-27) has an ASCII art of a seal, TODO understand meme:
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<3 You Seals!There are also a few Base58 messages referring to Mt Gox, the nicest and most expensive one being to burn addres:which as of 2025 holds 0.014537 BTC burnt on:Many of these transactions also contain other quick messages, e.g.:
- 14x 0.001 BTC transactions starting at tx b170551d4df68d714fa98189c73f61b0c2bc54cafe33a2953fcc0bc11f6aa72a block 287826 (2014-02-26)
- plus one 0.001337 BTC transaction in the middle at tx 6b878716d1d9af0f50de441f318da68121261a5778fd541def4408c0aac531f6 block 287868 (2014-02-26), why not.
- tx e6d4cfbbc45b5e3cfcfa36613b04a8732c7b4606f5dbbd8af3ba06d8f3899fc2 also features a Rickrolling instance.
- tx 10a9bb0625447df044410cf9cd74742ec0bf334d48b4b1f93c10a4a60748bb5d also features
Niggerinside a spendable vanity address: 1Niggerw15VezU6rA7jRBuJt9ceg9VL1jh
Craig Steven Wright Updated 2025-07-16
This dude actually managed to convince a brain-dead British court that he was Satoshi and force a takedown of the Bitcoin whitepaper from bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf where it had been for many years prior: coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/bitcoin-org-ordered-to-take-down-bitcoin-whitepaper-because-of-copyright-infringement The page was updated to simply display the following Satoshi quote:
It takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle. - Satoshi Nakamoto
The mere thought that Satoshi would attempt to copyright takedown the Bitcoin whitepaper, and not be able to back his identidy with any cryptographic keys, makes one shrivel to the bones.
Also, kids, this is why you put a fucking license on everything you release to the public, and especially when doing so anonymously!!! A quick CC BY-SA on that paper would have prevented all this bullshit.
The existence of this outrageous fraudster has had two good effects on the world however it must be said:
- the release of Adam Back and Martti Malmi early email history with Satoshi: www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/02/23/new-emails-reveal-staggering-clues-to-the-mystery-of-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto
- the memes: Craig Steven Wright memes
Timeline:
- 2015-12-08 Wired article claims he may be Satoshi: www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-this-unknown-australian-genius/. A few days later, evidence of foul play emerged, and on 2019-04-30 Wired retracted the article altogether
- 2016-05-02 publicly claims he is Satoshi www.timesofisrael.com/australian-entrepreneur-craig-wright-says-he-created-bitcoin/
- 2024-05-20 British judge James Mellor fisting the fuck out of Craig: www.reuters.com/technology/self-proclaimed-bitcoin-inventor-lied-repeatedly-support-claim-says-uk-judge-2024-05-20/
An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin lied "extensively and repeatedly" and forged documents "on a grand scale" to support his false claim, a judge at London's High Court ruled on Monday.
Interesting
- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4i7k9a/strange_edits_on_craig_wrights_wikipedia_page/ "Strange edits on Craig Wright's Wikipedia page made two days before the revelation, from an IP address in Barbados (possibly made by Craig himself?)"
GNOME Display Manager Updated 2025-07-16
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Other blockchains Updated 2025-07-16
- Namecoin
- nmc.vision/ by x.com/punk3606 is basically the same as this project but for Namecoin: the dude is trying to make database with all namecoin inscriptions ever.
- "Quantum" is an image created by artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy which Kevin embedded on Namecoin in 2014. As such, it is a relatively early example of inscription. On June 2021 it sold for more than one million dollars at an auction at Sotheby's to NFT collector sillytuna. Bibliography:
- Ethereum
- reidjs.medium.com/top-6-weird-innovative-and-hilarious-findings-in-the-ethereum-blockchain-83dbbca461ca Top 6 Weird, Innovative, and Hilarious findings in the Ethereum Blockchain by Reid Sherman (2018)
- Monero: as of January 2024, Ciro downloaded the blockchain and
strings -n20 -sdidn't seem to have not even a single ASCII art, it is quite sad. Bibliography:
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Quotes and threes Updated 2025-07-16
Starting tx 2f201c8518c7b012c03c2c82e40e86f6aaf616ea5fbe22570aac9d2c6611cb68 (2023-03-11), the chain is flooded with ASCII transactions containing many repeated double quotes TODO what is up with that?
" and digits 3, with some other characters interspersed in them without any clear pattern e.g. the first one:""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""jk""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""'}""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""/D""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""q1""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""XK""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
Yohei Nakajima Updated 2025-07-16
He does lots of little experiments which is cool.
Amit Singhal Updated 2025-07-16
Unfortunately accused of sexual misconduct: www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/mar/11/google-executive-payout-harassment-amit-singhal. But one can still do good despite our defects:
Pitched OurBigBook.com to him:
Idea: make all Sitare University materials open, and allow students to write the content
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Cosmic microwave background anisotropy Updated 2025-07-16
There is a slight variation in temperature of CMB across the sky of the order of 200 microKelvin. It is small to the ~2.7 K average temperature, but it can be measured.
If the initial conditions of the Big Bang and the laws of physics were perfectly symmetric, then we could expect the universe to just be one perfectly uniform boring soup.
But instead some asymetry made all the fun weird things we see today happen eventually, like galaxies and life.
And the cosmic microwave background serves as a way for us to look back in time to the early conditions of the universe, as it was set in stone as soon as the universe became transparent to this light during recombination.
Or if you want to get poetic, it is the closest we can ever get to listening to the original word of God when he setup the initial conditions of the universe.
The ansiotropies of CMB is the ultimate astronomical compass we will ever have, as it is the thing with the least proper motion.
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Make a bug report for a crash on Ubuntu Updated 2025-07-16
On Ubuntu 23.10, a crash led to the creation of:After that simply running apport-cli as: led to the creation of: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/2049368 a bug on the
/var/crash/_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.crashapport-cli gnome-shellgnome-shell package. CIA 2010 covert communication websites club.domain.cn Updated 2025-07-16
TODO what does this Chinese forum track? New registrations? Their focus seems to be domain name speculation
Some of the threads contain domain dumps. We haven't yet seen a scrapable URL pattern, but their data goes way back and did have various hits. The forum seems to have started in 2006: club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=41&page=10127
club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=241704 "【国际域名拟删除列表】2007年06月16日" is the earliest list we could find. It is an expired domain list.
Some hits:
- club.domain.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=709388 contains
alljohnny.comThe thread title is "2009.5.04". The post date 2009-04-30Breadcrumb nav: 域名论坛 > 域名增值交易区 > 国际域名专栏 (domain name forum > area for domain names increasing in value > international domais)
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