As of 2025, you can check if someone with a given name was at polytechnique and at which year at: programmes.polytechnique.edu/en/about/ecole-polytechnique/list-of-graduates
History of DNA methylation research by 
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01Incredible that there hasn't been a Nobel Prize for it as of 2022, e.g. as mentioned at: theconversation.com/no-nobel-but-epigenetics-finally-gets-the-recognition-it-deserves-18970
Some old dudes getting another prize in 2016: www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/pioneers-epigenetics-awarded-horwitz-prize
Can a smartphone's PIN or password be brute-forced in an offline attack? by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01 Why are complex numbers used in the Schrodinger equation? by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01This useless video doesn't really explain anything, he just says "it's needed because the equation has an in it".
The real explanation is: they are not needed, they just allow us to write the equation in a shorter form, which is always a win: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/32422/qm-without-complex-numbers/557600#557600
Klein-Gordon equation in Einstein notation by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01The Klein-Gordon equation can be written in terms of the d'Alembert operator as:so we can expand the d'Alembert operator in Einstein notation to:
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01 Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Images by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01Besides ASCII art, the huge majority of images is encoded with the AtomSea & EMBII system/format. All images in that system will be documented in that section.
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Protests against larger block sizes by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01Protesters were posting large chunks of text multiple times into the blockchain as a way to protest against the controversial increase of block size.
tx 08893442680a20c4d0548dec2c8c421fa43336528b4e274dbf2652774f9c9f2d has the first copy of:which is the first line of a parody on:from the Baby Got Back hip-hop song.
tx 52159222289cd0a5afe0644150d0e23d5d272a57365627d5e869fdb458289858 has the first copy of:which is likely a copy of an email from the bitcoin development mailing list. This message is repeated dozens of times in other transactions.
Time to roll out bigger blocks
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Incoming links by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-05-21 +Created 1970-01-01By Ciro Santilli:
- 2021-04-13 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1382067162492366854: main initial announcement on Twitter. twitter.com/mikko, who has 209.9K followers and a Wikipedia page: Mikko Hypponen hearted the tweet s2
- 2023-01-21 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1749172304259535063: improvements to the Prayer wars
- 2024-02-07 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1755378931446739373: large-ish update with new items and improved organization
- 2024-03-31 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1774531934305071295: binwalk discoveries, start poking a bit into ordinal ruleset inscriptions
- 2024-04-04 twitter.com/cirosantilli/status/1775805941885108392: largest text ordinal inscription
By others:
- 2021-04-15 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26801067 (96 points) on Hacker News. Reached position 16 at one point: archive.ph/L0Fte and led to about 5k views total. Ah, Ciro could watch that Google Analytics realtime view go bling all day long. Narcissism is a bitch.
- 2021 cryptonewmedia.press/tankman-image-on-bitcoin-blockchain/ by user igadjeed
- 2022-01-23 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30050479 "Abuse and Harassment on the Blockchain", comment-mid thread
- 2022-01-24 www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/sbw0se/when_i_heard_about_nfts_i_thought_they_were/hu2uk8g "When I heard about NFTs, I thought they were stupid, but then I watched a video explaining how they work, it really changed my perspective", comment mid-thread
- 2023-02 lots of Twitter backlinks as a result of ordinal ruleset inscriptions:
- 2023-02-03
Video 1. Source. Features Marijuana plant and Rickrolling sections. He seems to be a finance guru. - 2023-02-07 twitter.com/privateid_ntity/status/1622814063331004421
- 2024-01-18 twitter.com/pete_rizzo_/status/1748049913286447355 by Rizzo, The Bitcoin Historian (81k followers, mid-thread)
- 2024-12-29: x.com/lopp/status/1873453363523932630 by Jameson Lopp (492k subscribers)
- ? cloudhiker.net/ A hand curated and categorized list of interesting links by Kevin Woblick. Only allows users to visit a random one per category, so we can't get proof of backlink, this was noticed through Google Analytics.
- 2025-03-18 Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes
The mention of this project is brief:Announced at:Ciro Santilli maintains a Web page listing arbitrary data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain. This is the most complete and up-to-date list of arbitrary data we are aware of. However, he does not specifically focus on burn addresses, but on the stored contents.
- 2025-03-28 x.com/punk3606/status/1905295370227155344 quick "this was already discovered" mention on thread x.com/I____felix____I/status/1905291048798106061 where a dude rediscovers Figure "Warren Buffet"
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