Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Largest ordinal inscription by 
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16We can get a list of the ordinals at: archive.org/details/bitcoin-ordinal-inscriptions.csv and then sort them by payload size with:
sort -k6 -n -t, ordinals.csv -o ordinals-sort-size.csvThis shows to us that as of block ~831k, there are 4 ordinals which are far far larger than any other between 3 MiB and 4 MiB, at about 10x larger than then 5th one d115a6e689086fd587e5032f24ba2a8c01f2f87cba758c9d5eb8cf7f6e9a816a
In those cases, a single inscription takes almost the entire block, and the inscribers must have had direct dealings with their mining pool:
- ordinals.com/inscription/4af9047d8b4b6ffffaa5c74ee36d0506a6741ba6fc6b39fe20e4e08df799cf99i0: 3,946,469 bytes (image/jpeg). Bitcoin Magazine cover showing the face of Julian Assange. tx 4af9047d8b4b6ffffaa5c74ee36d0506a6741ba6fc6b39fe20e4e08df799cf99 block 786501 (2023-04-22). Mined by Terra Pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0aei0: 3,915,537 bytes (image/jpeg). Taproot Wizards ad. This was apparently the largest block ever mined at the time: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/10r6t1l/the_first_4_mb_block_in_bitcoin_history_mined_by/ and received some notice. tx 0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0ae block 774628 (2023-02-01). Mined by Luxor pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/79b91e594c03c8f06d70c44a288a88a413c540abca007829ca119686a7f979dai0: 3,878,842 bytes (image/webp). "Bitcoin War Bonds". A spoof of something. No time to understand now. tx 79b91e594c03c8f06d70c44a288a88a413c540abca007829ca119686a7f979da block 777945 (2023-02-23). Mined by Terra Pool.
- ordinals.com/inscription/b5a7e05f28d00e4a791759ad7b6bd6799d856693293ceeaad9b0bb93c8851f7fi0: 3,379,682 bytes (video/mp4). Short looping video of a "purple frog drinking from a glass with a straw". Yes you heard that right. TODO context? tx b5a7e05f28d00e4a791759ad7b6bd6799d856693293ceeaad9b0bb93c8851f7f block 776884 (2023-02-16 ) Despite being huge, this received very little attention, the only Google mention is at An overview of recent non-standard Bitcoin transactions by 0xB10C. Mined by Terra Pool.
2024-04: got two backpacks "for free" with the Lenovo reward points from buying the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen4 amd, not bad, that was already cheap and now I got some extra swag:The sport backpack has a fatal flaw: no strap to hold laptop in place, wo it just tumbles back and forth as you walk.
- Lenovo Select Targus 16" Sport Backpack: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/cases-and-bags/backpacks/gx41l44751
- Lenovo Select Targus 16" Mobile Elite Backpack: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/cases-and-bags/backpacks/gx41l44752. Measured weight: 1070 g
www.mentava.com/
Mentava's software-based daily tutor gets students on track for college-level math and computer science before high school.
This is apparently where past exam papers can be found. Paywalled of course.
This adds to the mess of having a different location for material per department. Presumably this exists because the central university authority wants to centralize examinations to have better control over degree requirements. If only they would also do the same for all materials and end the mess.
Shady shady owner of "vistomail.com" sine November 2023. He sends emails as satoshi@vistomail.com without any disclaimers, Godlike.
He or someone with the same name is having some fun with the SEC: dockets.justia.com/docket/florida/flmdce/8:2023cv01638/416506 for "Securities Fraud".
The complaint: www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/2023/comp25785.pdf (archive). Some pearls:
41. Elbanna told investors several other lies to gain investors’ trust. These included his claim that he had served in the U.S. Marines, when in reality he was discharged after just fifteen days of their thirteen-week recruit training. Elbanna claimed that he had worked at the U.S. National Security Agency (“NSA”). He further claimed that the NSA was aware of and participating in the Digital World Exchange enterprise. All of these claims were false.42. Perhaps most incredibly, after claiming that he had “been in blockchain technology since the beginning” and “in the cryptocurrency space almost since its inception” in the May 2018 and March 2019 Whitepapers, respectively, Elbanna told investors in a chat program in April 2019 that he “was one of the first 4 creators of BTC.” He went so far as to tell another investor that he was the pseudonymous inventor of bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto himself. These statements were also false. Elbanna later admitted that he was not involved in blockchain technology from its beginning, and that he “didn’t even really know much about crypto” in 2018, the year he launched the Digital World Exchange enterprise.
www.law360.com/articles/1803299/bogus-nsa-worker-to-pay-sec-2-2m-in-crypto-scam-case says he had to pay $2.2M to the SEC.
The documentary Bitconned from Netflix comes strongly to mind, www.imdb.com/title/tt30317302/. It is unbelieveable people would fall for that kind of thing, the founders are not even sophisticated. And on top of that he agrees to appear on a documentary!!! OMG.
One of Satoshi's email addresses, this one is given on the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Reference indexer web interface implementation of ordinal ruleset inscriptions.
Source code presumably at: github.com/ordinals/ord
Cool data embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain Largest text ordinal inscription by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Text is the only reasonbly interesting content that Ciro Santilli has seen in the ordinals, as opposed to images which are boring. They haven'g found a way to commercialize it yet it seems, thank God. Glad to have researcehd this a bit!
The largest inscriptions with mime
text/* are:- ordinals.com/inscription/e15e19c587985e7dbb0554a6b51df976fdc8d95f4350b759c10b07399d34a7bbi0: 395,253 bytes (2023-02-23): an English translation of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler starting from the "Author's preface" section to the end of Chapter V. This seems to be the text: gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt. Likely someone trying to be naughty, on the same vein as the "Hitler did nothing wrong" meme from previous eras
- ordinals.com/inscription/daed32652a82fa809be265a9a082d31e186b2b3c0cec80b52dc30e3c1c856c66i0: 394,346 bytes (2023-02-21): Mein Kempt just like ordinals.com/inscription/e15e19c587985e7dbb0554a6b51df976fdc8d95f4350b759c10b07399d34a7bbi0 but with the HTML in a single line, so it is slightly smaller
- ordinals.com/inscription/95f6909988dba38f1140d536c9cc2fdcf635c1522f93834045b093f0d4c2fdd7i0: 394,053 bytes (2023-02-21): HTML heart shaped index of the "Insignia Art" ordinal collection: ordinalswallet.com/collection/insignia-art. That one is kind of cool actually.
- ordinals.com/inscription/8af62aed75fdd9262d36d428a209a162394f0f463bf261ea253d0fb009f2277fi0: 392,866 bytes (2023-09-29) Majjhima Nikāya (Collection of Middle-length Discourses), Buddhist text that is part of the Pali Canon, the most original Buddhist scriptures. EMBII's inscription of the Bhagavad Gita comes to mind. Both Pali transliteration and English translation are present side-by-side.
- ordinals.com/inscription/6352b23c10ef20321d59735d8597af9be96db1bab4b50d728e618a1c5a21a991i0: 391,053 bytes (2023-03-03) "Satoshi Wars" Star Wars-themed browser game. It is a mouse-controlled Pong clone
- ordinals.com/inscription/ab420f90306948937432379dc3f768ef5f826714f53e0cea4e641debef460173i0: 389,001 bytes (2023-02-19) "The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell". People trying to be semi-naughty as usual.
- ordinals.com/inscription/d8ef417a8575e0fa3da7ab11f9e91ef7582c7275f54f8b9dc587c98c676bd41ci0: 388,196 bytes (2023-02-12)
This fully on-chain document contains all of Satoshi Nakamoto's posts on Bitcointalk.
- ordinals.com/inscription/2a260692fd8aca7fc5f825fe7965c914615fe1d62f7d3e5b078228d43fd93243i0: 387,818 bytes (2023-04-06) an HTML page, title:It seems t oallow you to upload images and reads metadata from the image. Didn't work too well on ordinals.com possibly due to narrow display port. Also it has a funny background music :-)
Welcome to the on-chain Pixogette Metadata Reader
- ordinals.com/inscription/a31b8e3e279a6e28ef49fa4dca54f820abf266223976b778833e8c47991ad403i0: 386,913 bytes (2023-02-19) a cute Bitcoin Cash ad:It appears to contain the entire first fork block of Bitcoi Cash from mainline bitcoin.
#!/bin/bash # # ____ _ _ _ ____ _ # | __ ) (_) | |_ ___ ___ (_) _ __ / ___| __ _ ___ | |__ # | _ \ | | | __| / __| / _ \ | | | '_ \ | | / _` | / __| | '_ \ # | |_) | | | | |_ | (__ | (_) | | | | | | | | |___ | (_| | \__ \ | | | | # |____/ |_| \__| \___| \___/ |_| |_| |_| \____| \__,_| |___/ |_| |_| # # ___ _ _ # |_ _| _ __ __| | ___ _ __ ___ _ __ __| | ___ _ __ ___ ___ # | | | '_ \ / _` | / _ \ | '_ \ / _ \ | '_ \ / _` | / _ \ | '_ \ / __| / _ \ # | | | | | | | (_| | | __/ | |_) | | __/ | | | | | (_| | | __/ | | | | | (__ | __/ # |___| |_| |_| \__,_| \___| | .__/ \___| |_| |_| \__,_| \___| |_| |_| \___| \___| # |_| # ____ _ _ # | __ ) | | ___ ___ | | __ # | _ \ | | / _ \ / __| | |/ / # | |_) | | | | (_) | | (__ | < # |____/ |_| \___/ \___| |_|\_\ - ordinals.com/inscription/f7ece21e1dc74874d7a6e5e11b77941be2db6f383d053242a40b63e0a28445ffi0: 386,819 bytes (2023-02-18) The Illiad Books I-XII
- ordinals.com/inscription/4f5e52115ef0fb4fc2a18cfc7f4caccfb712792c8bc318e71699a86ba4541719i0: 386,655 bytes (2023-08-09) Frogger browser clone
- ordinals.com/inscription/f04c0e94023e51fb995e48235773c77a471289baf44c1a3248d800a0a550c520i0: 385,743 bytes (2023-03-25) A Roguelike browser game
- ordinals.com/inscription/cd432a3e16c4a01db1df6a59b5941a69bd0cf130b24a61248643005f22a939d9i0: 383,098 (2023-02-18) Brave New World
Functional Analysis I course of the University of Oxford 2023-2024 by Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli 37 Updated 2025-07-16Open access with solutions: courses.maths.ox.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4988
Lecturer: Luc Nguyen
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