Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Marijuana plant by
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
Starting at tx 6650107a4e4e4838ba1081ce87862c38dcb4181b8d34fc0405b099213ba76033 (2014-11-04) and going on one line per transaction using the bitcoin blockchain
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j( nP" "*MMnxThe transaction before the ASCII art tx 9b08c00ced2bca4525d74e82db9af2aec8ef213eb1c1bf68a48b6be929968332 starts with what is likely a "Legalize" and must be a Tor Onion service:but that address as is +
j(-> 1EGa1izEFDHzEobDDQny73re9BwXdzhZvH <-.onion is invalid, TODO find the correct one.Other marijuana plants can be found contained entirely in single transactions:
- tx b338cdddb20a7ffe5114a2eec7bef736720ab5eeeb4a723e66ef623f42949ccb via cryptograffiti.info
- tx fc4981261701d06610394c4200a9cbf03f890ac928db58938bed8d7ba7eaccf3 via cryptograffiti.info Signed:
[ mirrored by http://dmabraham.info/ | moarrr ] - tx 55623bf694f6dfbda4db2ea7a940ffd80c49eee3430e44a57fdfecd4e9381f72 via cryptograffiti.info. Signed:who appears on some other cryptograffiti messages as well.
[ mirrored by http://dmabraham.info/ | moarrr ] [ CryptoGraffiti: Donate BTC: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS ] [ Latest News: EU/Greece chaos due to huge debts! ]
tx d338da06d13a21a296506c0c8cd8c8533ba8fa076ff5c2c1fd02a457aac3ef77 via cryptograffiti.info contains a marihuana plant followed by a complaint:
[ mirrored by http://dmabraham.info/ | moarrr ]
[ CryptoGraffiti: Donate BTC: 1MVpQJA7FtcDrwKC6zATkZvZcxqma4JixS ]
[ Latest News: EU/Greece chaos due to huge debts! ]
[ Bless! ]
{ Supa - https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=supa }
William Robert Girdlestone
1535 Dingwall RD Apt 35
Courtenay
British Columbia
Canada
V9N 3S8
( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=575743.0 )
[ One of the lowest rated #bitcoin-otc users, owing me at least 10 BTC ]
[ Most likely much more with compounding interesting, but its all ]
[ written off as a huge loss to me. Never again deal with him! ]ASCII art of a Force of Will, a famous and powerful Magic: The Gathering card first printed in 1996.
This is Ciro Santilli's personal favorite ASCII art he has found in the blockchain so far. Also Ciro could not find any other previous source of this, so there is some chance it is original. One can dream.
The choice of card is probably linked to the function of the card in the game of Magic: The Gathering. This card essentially prevents the opponent from casting a spell they are about to cast. The presumed intended meaning of this art is further accentuated by the old card type term "interrupt" (late renamed to "instant"), which suggests that "this ASCII art is an interruption to the normal monetary transactions of the blockchain".
One of also reminded of the prayer wars interruption attempts. We could not however identify anything specific that this ASCII art might have tried to interrupt besides the normal flow of monetary transactions.
If one goes full art critic mode, it is also tempting to draw a parallel between the card's "You may pay 1 life" alternative casting cost (as opposed to 5 mana, 3 and two blue, which is a very large cost for most games) as being a reference to the money spent by the uploader of the art to upload it.
TODO understand exactly how it was encoded and why it is so weird. The
UUUU has a slightly weird encoding which we fixed by hand here TODO understand. -------------------------------------
| Force of Will 3 U U |
| --------------------------------- |
| | //////////// | |
| | ////() ()\////\ | |
| | ///_\ (--) \///\ | |
| | ) //// \_____///\\ | |
| | ) \ / / / / | |
| | ) / \ | | / _/ | |
| | ) \ ( ( / / / / \ | |
| | / ) ( ) / ( )/( ) \ | |
| | \(_)/(_)/ /UUUU \ \\\/ | | |
| .---------------------------------. |
| Interrupt |
| ,---------------------------------, |
| | You may pay 1 life and remove a | |
| | blue card in your hand from the | |
| | game instead of paying Force of | |
| | Will's casting cost. Effects | |
| | that prevent or redirect damage | |
| | cannot be used to counter this | |
| | loss of life. | |
| | Counter target spell. | |
| `---------------------------------` |
| l
| Illus. Terese Nelsen |
-------------------------------------Force of Will Magic: The Gathering card (Alliances)
Source. A high resolution scan of the original card depicted in the ASCII art for comparison.The following two ASCII transactions:suggest this ASCII art might have been uploaded by Figure "Erich Erstu", AKA Hyena, creator of cryptograffiti.info, a service which would have allowed uploading ASCII content to the blockchain.
tx 0f05c47a8caafadecc10d70ba3bf010eaf6bb416b5e1ad7b01cf3445f5fb7a1c
I am. Therefore, I have come to be.
-- Hyena
tx e6d48f6912929a58a2ee30c13768058777d8547215c27109b5cb0724e7abaaba
Erich,
Bro, this looks excellent!!
-DurielThe only other mention of "Duriel" in the blockchain is tx 140562ceb42fc8943fa52ccc0ddbb11ca2d88dae9b5240d7a4b46864538c515a which has some freedom of speech comments and gives the email:paystamper.com was some other blockchain service from circa 2015:
Duriel@paystamper.com = 1HcuhfTAiQCt6KdMG2rZLXsTcKYj9nLDhS Compile MicroPython code for Micro Bit locally on Ubuntu 22.04 with your own firmware by
Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-27
TODO didn't manage from source Ubuntu 22.04, their setup bitrotted way too fast... it's shameful even. Until I gave up and went for the magic Docker of + github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython, and it bloody worked:
git clone https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython
cd micropython
git checkout 7fc33d13b31a915cbe90dc5d515c6337b5fa1660
docker pull ghcr.io/carlosperate/microbit-toolchain:latest
docker run -v $(pwd):/home --rm ghcr.io/carlosperate/microbit-toolchain:latest yt target bbc-microbit-classic-gcc-nosd@https://github.com/lancaster-university/yotta-target-bbc-microbit-classic-gcc-nosd
docker run -v $(pwd):/home --rm ghcr.io/carlosperate/microbit-toolchain:latest make all
# Build one.
tools/makecombinedhex.py build/firmware.hex examples/counter.py -o build/counter.hex
cp build/counter.hex "/media/$USER/MICROBIT/"
# Build all.
for f in examples/*; do b="$(basename "$f")"; echo $b; tools/makecombinedhex.py build/firmware.hex "$f" -o "build/${b%.py}.hex"; doneThe pre-Docker attempts:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:team-gcc-arm-embedded
sudo apt update
sudo apt install gcc-arm-embedded
sudo apt install cmake ninja-build srecord libssl-dev
# Rust required for some Yotta component, OMG.
sudo snap install rustup
rustup default 1.64.0
python3 -m pip install yottaThe line:warns:and then the update/
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:team-gcc-arm-embeddedE: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/team-gcc-arm-embedded/ppa/ubuntu jammy Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-embedded fails, bibliography:Attempting to install Yotta:or:was failing with:Running:did not help. Bibliography:
sudo -H pip3 install yottapython3 -m pip install --user yottaException: Version mismatch: this is the 'cffi' package version 1.15.1, located in '/tmp/pip-build-env-dinhie_9/overlay/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/cffi/api.py'. When we import the top-level '_cffi_backend' extension module, we get version 1.15.0, located in '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/_cffi_backend.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'. The two versions should be equal; check your installation.python3 -m pip install --user cffi==1.15.1From a clean virtualenv, it appears to move further, and then fails at:So we install Rust and try again, OMG:which at the time of writing was
Building wheel for cmsis-pack-manager (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'cargo'sudo snap install rustup
rustup default stablerustc 1.64.0, and then OMG, it worked!! We have the yt command.However, it is still broken, e.g.:blows up:bibliography:
git clone https://github.com/lancaster-university/microbit-samples
cd microbit-samples
git checkout 285f9acfb54fce2381339164b6fe5c1a7ebd39d5
cp source/examples/invaders/* source
yt clean
yt buildannot import name 'soft_unicode' from 'markupsafe'You are nothing but useless leeches in the Internet age.
You must go bankrupt all of you, ASAP.
Researchers and reviewers all work for peanuts, while academic publishers get money for doing the work that an algorithm could do. OurBigBook.com.
When Ciro learned URLs such as www.nature.com/articles/181662a0 log you in automatically by IP, his mind blew! The level of institutionalization of this theft is off the charts! The institutionalization of theft is also clear from article prices, e.g. 32 dollars for a 5 page article.
Long live the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz (2008).
Key physics papers from the 50's are still copyright encumbered as of 2020, see e.g. Lamb-Retherford experiment. Authors and reviewers got nothing for it. Something is wrong.
Infinite list of other people:
- blog.machinezoo.com/public-domain-theft by Robert Važan:
Scientific journals are perhaps one of the most damaging IP rackets. Scientists are funded by governments to do research and publish papers. Reviews of these papers are done by other publicly funded scientists. Even paper selection and formatting for publication is done by scientists. So what do journals actually do? Nearly nothing.
Academic Publishing by Dr. Glaucomflecken (2022)
Source. The key metabolic pathway of cellular respiration.
They intentionally projected the idea of a semi scary and cool secret society/cult/Fascist/Gestapo/non-racist Ku Klux Klan-like organization
Khômiss members would wear a face cover whenever they would go out "on duty", notably to break a student's door with a fire axe when some student had fucked up particularly bad.
The Khômiss had an ambivalent character: while on one hand they would punish students that they felt had fucked up, they were actually semi approved by the school's head.
And conversely, they could also play pranks on the school head, e.g. vandalizing their office with funny objects if they had made some decision that was particularly unpopular to the students. This also likely with tacit approval, and as a way to be a "cool independent organization that also represents the students".
As such, the Khômiss aimed to be a sort of a "conscience" of the cohort, punishing the evil deeds of either side.
They were apparently unfortunately disbanded by the school in 2013 it seems, just after Ciro Santilli left. They took some poor student out by car and left him more than 1km outsie of the school for some reason. But he had a cell phone and walked came back, so doesn't feel that serious. Likely the political correctness of the times just caught up with them.
Bibliography:
- fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditions_de_l%27École_polytechnique#La_Khômiss
- 2013 www.leparisien.fr/archives/la-mauvaise-blague-de-trop-a-polytechnique-02-07-2013-2945871.php news about the dissolution of the Khômiss.
- 2012 www.lajauneetlarouge.com/la-khomiss-deux-cents-ans-et-resolument-moderne/ A profile of the Khômiss by the student magazine "La Jeune et la Rouge"
There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.

