Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

Bibliography:

www.edenai.co/post/top-free-image-generation-tools-apis-and-open-source-models

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Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain / Nelson-Mandela.jpg analysis Updated 2025-07-16

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The toplevel transaction is 78f0e6de0ce007f4dd4a09085e649d7e354f70bc7da06d697b167f353f115b8e

Like all AtomSea & EMBII uploads, the data it is encoded as P2FKH.

The full concatenated payload contains the following ASCII characters:

8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba|396*8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba
575061146335bd57f2dc132112152d0eeea44cf187ea6a52ac02435a7e5bea44
674c7cc34ea44bb276c6caf76f2b28fa1597380ab6e6a6906076d8f7229ca5b3
8e2642416ad20924b43f51a633fa1c0a5ba8e4a7b631877db1c64540a42081c9
a3084018096b92af04df57b6116e01ff4b7c7e8bd228235ed49e23f4a2817029
39348722b841afa0c5b67e5af10839afe965ed1b24874e89336bea9fa4ef3091
tomSea & EMBII

Output 2 is a change, so it contains no data and has been excluded. Change appear to be randomly placed in the list of output of the uploads, but they can be easily removed because they are the only output with a different value.

The newlines shown above are explicitly encoded as CR LF newlines with characters 0d 0a.

396 is the number of payload bytes between 396*8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba and the last txid 39348722b841afa0c5b67e5af10839afe965ed1b24874e89336bea9fa4ef3091, including newlines but exclusding the last line.

The last line appears to contain arbitrary data to fill out the 20 byte payload granularity:

A is missing from AtomSea
there is a NUL character just after EMBII, possibly part of the protocol?

Now let's inspect the transactions linked to from toplevel.

tx 8881a937a437ff6ce83be3a89d77ea88ee12315f37f7ef0dd3742c30eef92dba contains only payloads without any change. It starts with the following UTF-8 string with CR LF spaces;

"396\“There is nothing like returning to a place
 that remains unchanged to find the ways in
 which you yourself have altered.”
 -Nelson Mandela


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist who served as President of South Afrd۽^2c'︨`ica from 1994 to 1999. -Wikipedia

Born: July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa
Died: December 5, 2013

396 is once again the number of payload bytes present in that string.

This is immediately followed without any separator by a filename, and another size marker:

Nelson-Mandela.jpg?14400/

then followed by all the 14400 - len(Nelson-Mandela.jpg?) + len(/) JPEG bytes bytes, starting with the two JPEG file signature byte "FF D8".

Further toplevel transaction payloads are then simply concatenated with the previous ones, until the last bytes of the image "FF D9" appears at the end of the payload.

00000430  d2 81 de 80 0c 52 f1 40  ea 29 68 03 ff d9 6f 6d  |.....R.@.)h...om|
00000440  53 65 61 20 26 20 45 4d  42 49 49 00              |Sea & EMBII.|

padded once again by an AtomSea & EMBII string fragment terminated by a NUL character.

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Functional Analysis II course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16

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Indian classical singer Updated 2025-07-16

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tshark Updated 2025-07-16

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Sample usage:

sudo tshark -f 'host 192.168.1.102

This produces simple one liners for each request.

What you likely want is the -V option which fully disassembles each frame much as you can do in the GUI Wireshark:

sudo tshark -V -f 'host 192.168.1.102

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Divine Praises Updated 2025-07-16

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The prayer recited by Luke Dashjr in the Prayer wars of the Bitcoin blockchain in 2011.

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Chinese poet Updated 2025-07-16

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Chinese poetry anthology Updated 2025-07-16

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Chinese poetry bibliography Updated 2025-07-16

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Classical Chinese poetry form Updated 2025-07-16

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Li Bai Updated 2025-07-16

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This is likely the most famous Chinese poet of all time.

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Spy Updated 2025-07-16

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Virtuoso Universal Server Updated 2025-07-16

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Computer keyboard model Updated 2025-07-16

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RDFlib Updated 2025-07-16

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Hello world: stackoverflow.com/questions/16829351/is-there-a-hello-world-example-for-sparql-with-rdflib

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Ciro Duran Santilli Updated 2025-07-16

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Ciro Santilli's full birth name is "Ciro Duran Santilli", with mother's last name "Duran" in the middle as per Brazilian tradition.

But Ciro's usage of "Duran" got gradually dropped to "Ciro Santilli", Ciro's official Italian name, as Ciro moved more and more definitively to Europe.

It can still however be seen in certain online places where Ciro didn't have the patience or power to change it e.g. some old École Polytechnique stuff: gitlab.binets.fr/ciro.duran-santilli/china-dictatorship

Also, don't have multiple names if you can avoid it, it is confusing!

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Digital preservation Updated 2025-07-16

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CIA usage of Domains by Proxy Updated 2025-07-16

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The CIA really likes this registrar, e.g.:

CIA 2010 covert communication websites
2014 www.newsweek.com/former-cia-officials-ready-defend-agency-after-torture-reports-release-290383
A group of former CIA officials are gearing up to defend the agency when the Senate releases its long-awaited report investigating "enhanced interrogation" tactics used on prisoners after 9/11. The highlight of their PR push will be a website, "CIASAVEDLIVES.COM," which is set to go live when the report is released on Tuesday, Foreign Policy reported.
The domain was registered on November 2 under a private registration name, through DomainsByProxy, a company that guards the identity of registrants.

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Ciro Santilli's open source contributions / Bug reports and feature requests Updated 2025-07-16