Incoming links: Bitcoin mining pool
Each Bitcoin halvening event prompts a few commemorative messages, much like a New Year's even event in the real world.
1st (2012):
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0209.txt: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0210.txt: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0209.txt#L1111: nothing, not even any ASCII
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0209.txt#L132a; void
2nd (2016):
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0419.txt#L407: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0420.txt#L1:
- block 420000: "Chandler Guo loves YangYang Jin". Presumably this dude: twitter.com/ChandlerGuo. Noted e.g. at: www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4s14po/the_first_14_block_is_a_profession_of_love/
- block 420001: "/BTCC/ Welcome to 12.5 BTC blocks! BTCC & Bitcoin Forever!".
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0419.txt#L10011: a few
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0420.txt#L1: a few
3rd (2020):
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0629.txt#L407
- block 629999: contains the miner message for: This quotes the title of: www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/economy/fed-economic-rescue-coronavirus.html is of course a nod to the Genesis block message. Noted by Forbes at: www.forbes.com/sites/colinharper/2020/05/11/bitcoins-halving-block-includes-a-message-to-remind-us-why-it-was-created/?sh=130f001f656a It was mined by the F2Pool Bitcoin mining pool. A few halving output messages can be seen in nearby regular transactions:
NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue
- block 629999: contains the miner message for:
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/in/0630.txt#L1: nothing
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0629.txt#L1111: a few
- github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer/blob/master/data/out/0630.txt#L1: a dozen such as:
- tx 0df655b7e50dc9a53c343308d1ca148d0bead993821dfe56a035aecd0c88b2ad "Happy 2020 Halving! Thank you Satoshi."
- tx 6c6c22b8fe87f1420df6d991f7b571fdaa29f7a95adbfbcfcb0644f1c8f7d82b "We love you forever @millsfogle"
- tx 70a8639bc9b743c0610d1231103a2f8e99f4a25670946b91f16c55a5373b37d1 "Happy 3rd halving! Thanks, Satoshi and COVID-19 GO AWAY! Bulgaria #1!!!"
Accounts:
- twitter.com/lukedashjr on Twitter. Status as of January 2024:This dude doesn't fuck around. Or perhaps he only fucks around. Either way.
father of 10 children
- www.linkedin.com/in/lukedashjr/ on LinkedIn
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3318 on bitcointalk.org
- www.reddit.com/user/luke-jr/
- github.com/sponsors/luke-jr
- freenode username:
luke-jr, mentioned e.g. at bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38007.0 from Section "Prayer wars"
Author of the prayer side of the Prayer wars.
Creator of Eligius pool Bitcoin mining pool.
According to LinkedIn he studied at the Benedictine College in Kansas.
TODO is his real birthname "Luke Dash Jr."?
Apparently he had his coins stolen in January 2023, then worth $3.5m: blog.cryptostars.is/luke-dashjr-an-original-bitcoin-developer-loses-all-his-btc-88421c395ce5p...
www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_a_seriously_a_super_crazy_person_quotes/ "Luke-Jr is a seriously a super crazy person quotes gigathread." (2016) on Reddit. Apparently he has some fun views of life.
