Ciro Santilli controls the following accounts.
With non-trivial activity:
- github.com/cirosantilli on GitHub
- stackoverflow.com/users/895245 on Stack Overflow
- www.linkedin.com/in/cirosantilli on LinkedIn
- www.youtube.com/c/CiroSantilli on YouTube
- Twitter: see Section "Ciro Santilli's Twitter accounts"
- archive.org/details/@cirosantilli2 on the Internet Archive. Was archive.org/details/@cirosantilli but got deleted due to an "admin error" and the old username cannot be restored![ref]
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cirosantilli2 and commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cirosantilli2: Ciro tries to upload all educational CC content he creates to Wikimedia Commons as an extra backup and sometimes to use in Wikipedia pages
- www.facebook.com/cirosantilli/ Ciro accepts all friend requests there, but expect a few non-technical posts. Unless you look like a massive honeypot account, please send context in advance in that case.
- www.quora.com/profile/Ciro-Santilli
- www.reddit.com/user/cirosantilli/ is Ciro's Reddit account, mostly computer and China topics
- maps.app.goo.gl/npV35XTppSBTmNqC8: Google Maps. Ciro Santilli likes to make additions to certain niche topics that are missing, having reached Local Guide Level 6 as of 2024. He can't do as much as he'd like so as to not reveal his current city however.
Trivial or no activity:
- seqanswers.com/forums/member.php?u=90053
- answers.gazebosim.org/users/2289/cirosantilli/
- 4programmers.net/Profile/86786
- 500px.com/p/cirosantilli
- 9gag.com/u/cirosantilli
- addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/cirosantilli/
- agoradesk.com/user/cirosantilli
- anaconda.org/cirosantilli
- androidforums.com/members/ciro-santilli.1918307
- app.element.io/#/user/@cirosantilli:matrix.org. Proof: matrix.to/#/!OisxJPszSYdWdwXrrL:matrix.org/$YbrChbGFvlgYiDM5E2OgWXSp0vy7ayLfGkCXftAUyTI?via=matrix.org
- archive.org/details/@ciro_santilli_ourbigbook created during the account deletion mess.
- ask.libreoffice.org/en/users/2352/cirosantilli/
- bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=116270
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile
- brilliant.org/profile/ciro-il1uxz/
- bsky.app/profile/cirosantilli.bsky.social
- bugzilla.gnome.org/page.cgi?id=describeuser.html&login=ciro.santilli@gmail.com
- cirosantilli.blogspot.com/
- cirosantilli.itch.io
- cirosantilli.livejournal.com/profile
- cirosantilli.medium.com/ on Medium
- cirosantilli.substack.com/
- cirosantilli.wordpress.com/ on WordPress
- codeforces.com/profile/cirosantilli reverse proof codeforces.com/blog/entry/98393
- coderwall.com/Ciro%20Santilli Note that space on the username. Beauty.
- community.arm.com/people/cirosantilli
- community.atlassian.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/680821
- community.fandom.com/wiki/User:Cirosantilli
- community.plos.org/people/cirosantilli
- community.skype.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2646858
- community.zimbra.com/members/cirosantilli
- connect.mozilla.org/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/46889
- del.icio.us/cirosantilli
- dev.to/cirosantilli
- developer.mbed.org/users/cirosantilli/
- devtalk.nvidia.com/member/2118846/
- droit-finances.commentcamarche.net/profile/user/cirosantilli
- en.gravatar.com/cirosantilli
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ciro.santilli also belongs to Ciro, but he lost the password
- eternagame.org/web/player/260828/
- exercism.org/profiles/cirosantilli
- figshare.com/authors/Ciro_Santilli/656781
- forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/cirosantilli
- forum.osdev.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=16372
- forum.pine64.org/member.php?action=profile&uid=17386
- forum.videolan.org/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=173503
- forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=7116837
- forums.androidcentral.com/members/cirosantilli-2734491
- forums.lenovo.com/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1561639
- framasphere.org/people/78a975c0b6c40133a3032a0000053625 framasphere.org/posts/1519871
- freesound.org/people/cirosantilli
- gitlab.com/u/cirosantilli
- hackaday.io/cirosantilli
- hinative.com/en-US/profiles/5276462
- home.gamer.com.tw/homeindex.php?owner=cirosantilli but can't post anything publicly because cannot verify phone in many countries
- huggingface.co/cirosantilli
- identity.kde.org/index.php?r=people/view&uid=cirosantilli
- imgur.com/user/cirosantilli/about: Proof: imgur.com/gallery/mexv1Bk/comment/1734086983
- jsfiddle.net/user/cirosantilli/
- kiwifarms.net/members/cirosantilli.82011/
- launchpad.net/~cirosantilli
- leanpub.com/u/cirosantilli
- leetcode.com/cirosantilli/
- makandracards.com/ciro-santilli
- mastodon.social/@cirosantilli
- nanohub.org/members/146301/
- next-episode.net/user/cirosantilli/
- openclipart.org/artist/cirosantilli. TODO but not yet able to login after the "first upload". But it did get uploaded: openclipart.org/artist/cirosantilli.
- opencollective.com/ciro-santilli
- open.spotify.com/user/cirosantilli
- orcid.org/0000-0003-2895-7763
- parler.com/profile/cirosantilli/posts
- paypal.me/cirosantilli. United Kingdom account.
- peerj.com/cirosantilli/
- profile.edx.org/u/ciro_santilli
- profiles.3dgames.com.ar/profiles/1002278
- projecteuler.net/profile/cirosantilli.png
- protonmail.uservoice.com/users/6491333990-ciro-santilli
- pypi.org/user/cirosantilli/
- raidforums.com/User-cirosantilli
- rubygems.org/profiles/cirosantilli
- software.intel.com/en-us/user/1090688
- soundcloud.com/cirosantilli
- sourceforge.net/u/cirosantilli/profile/
- stackshare.io/cirosantilli
- steamcommunity.com/id/cirosantilli/
- subreply.com/cirosantilli
- support.discord.com/hc/en-us/profiles/427813342894 on the Discord forum
- support.mozilla.org/en-US/user/cirosantilli
- tabmixplus.org/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=59846
- talk.commonmark.org/users/cirosantilli
- talk.jekyllrb.com/users/cirosantilli
- talks.cam.ac.uk/user/show/81142
- tatoeba.org/eng/user/profile/cirosantilli
- telegram.me/cirosantilli on Telegram
- trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Waveform?action=history username
cirosantilli
- tuleap.net/users/cirosantilli
- tuleap.ring.cx/users/cirosantilli
- twittercommunity.com/users/cirosantilli/activity
- wefunder.com/cirosantilli
- wise.com/pay/me/cirod3. The name shows as "Ciro Duran Santilli" and that's correct.
- wiki.qemu.org/User:Cirosantilli
- www.airbnb.com/users/show/45794827
- www.behance.net/cirosantilli
- www.bibsonomy.org/user/cirosantilli
- www.biostars.org/u/50170/
- www.bountysource.com/people/25676-ciro-santilli
- www.bulletphysics.org/Bullet/phpBB3/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=11704
- www.codewars.com/users/cirosantilli
- www.codingame.com/profile/cddd0a711c22d97e8264361f7c8205567563841
- www.coursera.org/user/f65b08c191d792eb809fe2808d771ee7
- www.dailymotion.com/cirosantilli
- www.deviantart.com/cirosantilli
- www.digitalocean.com/community/users/cirosantilli
- www.ebay.com/usr/cirosantilli
- www.edaboard.com/member587087.html
- www.flickr.com/people/cirosantilli/. Account auto deleted tested as of 2025. Created: flickr.com/photos/202496646@N08/. Was something nicer, tried to change username to
cirosantilli2
but got hat instead. Alsocirosantilli
was marked taken. What a bullshit website! Poor Canadians, sold off to Yahoo and let their baby be mutilated. - www.freecodecamp.org/fcc8f660b91-167c-4b04-a8da-5d50cdb46def
- www.f6s.com/cirosantilli
- www.f6s.com/cirosantilli1
- www.gitbook.com/@cirosantilli
- www.hackerrank.com/cirosantilli
- www.hackster.io/cirosantilli
- www.html5gamedevs.com/profile/30103-cirosantilli/
- www.imdb.com/user/ur59802249 on IMDb
- www.instagram.com/cirosantilli/ Impossible to disable their notifications without removing your email. So all their notifications go to trash.
- www.kaggle.com/cirosantilli
- www.lesswrong.com/users/ciro-santilli on LessWrong
- www.linux.org/members/ciro-santilli.62540/
- www.linuxquestions.org/questions/user/cirosantilli-688439/
- www.meetup.com/members/252568305/
- www.mentebinaria.com.br/profile/1987-ciro-santilli/
- www.metacritic.com/user/cirosantilli
- www.metaculus.com/accounts/profile/163587/
- www.mohu.rocks/people/cirosantilli
- www.mudhut.com/user/1995000
- www.myopportunity.com/en/profile/ciro-santilli
- www.npmjs.com/~cirosantilli
- www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/member.php/40269-cirosantilli
- www.openstreetmap.org/user/Ciro%20Santilli
- www.patreon.com/cirosantilli
- www.physicsforums.com/members/cirosantilli.422056/
- www.pixiv.net/en/users/64347194
- www.plurk.com/cirosantilli
- www.raspberrypi.org/forums/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=273389
- www.shadertoy.com/user/cirosantilli
- www.strava.com/athletes/47913768
- www.tastekid.com/ciro.santilli
- www.ted.com/profiles/5822760
- www.thestudentroom.co.uk/member.php?u=5930160
- www.tiktok.com/@cirosantilli2
- www.transifex.com/user/profile/cirosantilli
- www.tripadvisor.com/members/cirosantilli
- www.twitch.tv/cirosantilli
- www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/ciro_santilli/profile
Profiles without URLs (OMG...):
- Discord: username
cirosantilli
, previouslycirosantilli#8921
Accounts in Chinese websites. These accounts might be banned or altered or offer other limitations, so Ciro only communicates briefly through them. All communication through those channels should obviously be assumed to be compromised:
- bbs.nibaedu.com/index.php?m=space&uid=70
- www.renren.com/338003848/profile
- www.tianya.cn/109285544 (can't post, no cell phone)
- hacpai.com/member/cirosantilli unable to login as of 2019-10-12, reason unclear, either ban or website too crappy.
- pincong.rocks/people/cirosantilli Lost account tested as of 2022-11 and likely much earlier. Last existing password not working, and there doesn't seem to be a reset password button. Creating cirosantilli2
- pincong.rocks/people/cirosantilli2
- tieba.baidu.com/home/main?id=5cd56369726f73616e74696c6c69c944
- v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli: Ciro was blocked and or account deleted on 2020-07-23: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/v2ex
- v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli2: was created by someone else most likely and cannot be re-registered. Also blocked.
- v2ex.com/member/cirosantilli3: Ciro created this new account November 2023, let's see how long it lasts.
- www.zhihu.com/people/cirosantilli. Ciro was prevented from posting in 2018-06-25, and the account and all content mentioning him were taken down in 2019-11-03.
- www.weibo.com/p/1005055601627311: started requiring a cell phone to login in 2020, and Ciro didn't want to give his cell phone number to the CCP and didn't have the patience to manage a secondary phone number, so he is not logging in for now. The account was blocked in 2021: cirosantilli.com/china-dictatorship/ciro-santillis-weibo-block
Accounts in Russian websites:
Dead websites:
- www.citeulike.org/user/cirosantilli (2019-05)
alcpress.org/military/icbm/index.html has a Google Maps overlay with all of the American ICBM sites, spread out across three centers. It is cute to see how they are very evenly spread out to make it hard to take them out at once.
uploads.fas.org/sites/4/NotebookMap.pdf summarizes all ICBM and also other delivery methods as of 2006.
Centerpiece of the CEA since the beginning of the French nuclear weapons program, headquarters since 2006.
As of 2023 the place was blurred on Google Maps satellite view, no wonder.
Major projects can be seen at: Section "The most important projects done by Ciro Santilli".
These are some smaller projects that Ciro Santilli carried out. They are all either for fun, or misguided use of his time done by an younger self:
- small naughty stuff is listed at: Section "Ciro Santilli's naughty projects"
- Because Ciro cares about education, around 2014 he looked into markup languages and version control for books, before he noticed that this approach was useless and that ranking algorithms are all that matter:
- He implemented some large features and several smaller improvements.GitLab sent Ciro a free swag bottle later after they got funding on to thank him for his contributions: Figure 1. "Ciro Santilli in a dune lake in Jericoacoara, Brazil, with his GitLab bottle". He had to pay for the beach trip though.
Figure 1. Ciro Santilli in a dune lake in Jericoacoara, Brazil, with his GitLab bottle. - Markdown Style Guide
- karlcow/markdown-testsuite improvements: Ciro has implemented the test runner a few months before CommonMark left stealth mode and killed it instantaneously.At least MacFarlane was able to reuse part of the HTML normalizer he wrote, and he extracted the multi-engine comparison to: CommonMark Implementation Compare.Playing with this project has led Ciro to find and report many Markdown bugs/bad behavior on other software, e.g. GitHub and MultiMarkdown-4.
- isaacs/github public unofficial GitHub issue tracker: he has commented there so often that he was made a collaborator
- Node Express Sequelize Next.js realworld example app
- VCDVCD: value change dump command-line pretty printer!!! The type of thing that a billion dollar EDA tool vendor will never implement ;-)
0 time 1 counter_tb.clock 2 counter_tb.enable 3 counter_tb.out[1:0] 4 counter_tb.reset 5 counter_tb.top.out[1:0] 0 1 2 3 4 5 =========== 0 1 0 x 0 x 1 0 0 x 1 x 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0
- Vim: sometimes Ciro want crazy and wasted his time with Vimscript:
- Vim Markdown: the owner
plasticboy
was really nice and made Ciro a collaborator for his contributions, notably a live ToC outline and the header mappings - Vundle Plugin Tester, which he used to start the testing system of Vim Markdown
- Vim Markdown: the owner
- Breakthrough Message: aliens!!! Creative/media project, powered by some Python scripts.
- making Google Maps reviews of places he's visited to help other people. Ciro's photos reached 1 million views in 2019: www.google.com/maps/contrib/106598607405640635523/photos (archive)
Bitcoin addresses are by convention expressed in Base58, which is a human readable binary-to-text encoding invented by Bitcoin.
It is a bit like Base64, but obsessed with eliminating characters that look like one another in popular but stupid fonts like capital "I" and lower case ell "l". As such, any embedded text is rather obfuscated due to this limitations, and people often resort to leet-like replacements such as '1' to represent 'I'.
This seems to be one of the earliest strategies used to encode messages into the Bitcoin blockchain. The first known example appears in 2011. Then starting November 2011, a large number of messages were inscribed n short successsion, presumably by a single person or small group.
Total burn addresses as a function of time found by Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes
. Although it is not solely focused on inscriptions and may also contain functional burn addresses, it is likely that the methods of Khatib/Legout capture the overall trend of base58 inscription counts.These messages were originally found with: github.com/cirosantilli/bitcoin-inscription-indexer#payload-size-out-utxo-2vals which tracks the largest transactions with unspent outputs.
Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes later revealed many new ones.
Bitcoin Burn Addresses: Unveiling the Permanent Losses and Their Underlying Causes later revealed many new ones.
Finding Base58 messages is intrinsically hard for a few reasons
- the words may be garbled by Base58 leet
- only very small ammounts of data can be encoded at a time, and all of it contains ASCII, so you can't just "find all long ASCII strings" as we started doing for other ASCII inscriptions a la
strings -n20
; you have to use some dictionary as a basis - the Base58 does not show up raw on the blockchain, as it is just a human representation for the actual binary data that does, so you can't just strings the blockchain, you have to parse it
The interesting following transactions contain base58 encoded messages on addresses, sorted chronologically, and heighlighted either due to their earliness or historical or artistic quality:
- tx 751ff11286a43da5d6cf7da8f5bc736e522bbd698ec03c76c63368e5260667e6, block 136463 (2011-07-15) seems to contain a bunch of names, possibly in the format First Name + Last name initial across 459 Outputs. It is very noisy, but feels too much coincidence not not be intentional. TODO understand meaning and origin, this one is fascinating:
1JameLs3Q9enoB7VT3bDc3XYoziRDqW7o6 1NeLLAADSPYk4wvzCbiac362DdTWNqnWxV 1MaRinaQFfRbEDoz5FvDaJoST1PsqQQhL7 1DioNTe4eHexc74CPPCwJMGPHaDE8za4BM 1JULiehNiV7SPqGiYoismHc5SePUvaijuB 1BobbyE2LXU3PMPG3uGgNAZicAasyqnuZ5 1JoaniEwAEfJEhBV8sNp14PDxGQAe5MGCz 1DWaiNezxpNiPfS9Fv1ydhexZeNTMj4of7 1JEANnAvfaCw5Mv4siZ9nKQms5hdwwJ92j 1LisTEn76TDDBorREtpqKGn3ddVbtVra56 1DontaevDw3rqi84VkZpZN6sAE2moRZEDH 1GrayCeqHU7sX46UfwBQWbgVAev7oHxash 1KaLeyMixsEBtGyRthJ898ykMtGYMBP7Te 1JaMiLvyAJAgM1W836JkUgrJFbUMT27H6p 1NUMeraLNjTDdahhCUToCyfvC8SXftsH8y
1MartinHaferkorncii112o11HdkMrtttD
on tx dab55eefd5cef495719a43bbd190c57c8ca60ecc45d630edf3442b2096965a97, block 152851 (2011-11-11) encodes the name:Likely:Martin Haferkorn
1EricLombrozoXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWACBVB
appears on 3 separate transactions on 2011-11-24:Alsmost certainly this guy:www.officialusa.com/names/Sandra-Sandic/ suggests a link between Eric and Sandra sharing phone number (858) 461-1843 and residing at 12631 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA. Eric's LinkedIn marks him as living in San Diego, and Sandra's birthday is marked 1969-01-05, so matching the inscription year. The address shows as a regular appartment block on Google Maps, so maybe they are not crazy rich, or they have restraint. besthistorysites.net/name/eric-lombrozo reconfirms the address.- block 154630:
- block 154637: tx dea183908e40e0cebfee6a0d8362b299e07cf193fbc02ffd3308b43781eca208. This one is more interesting and also contains a second output, both at 0.005 BTCso possibly a wedding token of Eric with Sandra Sandic after two previous test transactions. This also possibly gives Sandra's birth year of 1969. Pinged him at: x.com/cirosantilli/status/1904212575211901129.
1969SandraSandicXXXXXXXXXXXXXvdEiU
In 2023 this Sandra Sandic on Facebook liked this post related to a show in San Diego, giving a possible profile. At this post she links to this story about Erik Finman, young Bitcoin millionaire, thus establishing an interest link between that profile and Bitcoin. She also has various posts in Bosnian, so she speaks the language and is likely a first generation immigrant.1BitTaLkTVChristmasSpeciaLXXRix9Ea
is repeated a dozen times on transactions between tx 8e2bacf9971ce1a29d69d1a0484bfaa198257cc116530c7415ab6c38ae54ebc3, block 154721 (2011-11-25) and 2011-11-27.It is a quick ad for the BitTalk.tv Christmas Special by Matthew N. Wright. bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3025298.0 mentions he is the founder bittalk.tv and co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine. TODO is the video still watchable somewhere? Also announced at: bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=52712. As of 2025, the domain had been reappropriated as a SolarMovie mirror. It is quite likely that all the large set of message that follow were inscribed by him. Related:- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ruo73/matthew_n_wright_scammer_of_bitcoinmagazine_and/ Matthew N. Wright, scammer of BitcoinMagazine and BBBB (2012)
- www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/znhsj/matthew_n_wright_apologizes/ Matthew N. Wright "apologizes" (2012)
Later on there is also another variant addresses11Bitta1ktvchristmasspecia1WNDvAa
on repeated almost 300 times on tx ace9524519577138ca98ec01651758fd1e5ec33ce0110c6681eccba0e716cc7a, block 155545 (2011-12-01)Other likely mentions of Matthew N Wright:11MatthewLovesmandaXXXXXXXXabCJPY
on tx d7c57205d69420dc7f4593b4de0806c9ec96f4755b64315cd034bd4b0b90dc2a, block 155698 (2011-12-01) has a quick love declaration:Matthew loves Amanda
1MatthewNWrightisaScammer124DNsfX
is etched twice
- tx 28ccf29cfcc9f82d42793db770e7c7894d61ccf3d18299f34bda2e54415da287, block 154769 (2011-11-25) contains a short excerpt from Alice in WonderlandOriginal text referred to:
1But1DontWantToGoAmongMadxxxzDmyW6 1Peop1eA1iceRemarkedxxxxxxxxxuLyKu 12ohYouCantHe1pThatxxxxxxxxxzCjyMs 19SaidTheCatWereA11MadHerexxyTvEir 191mMadYoureMadxxxxxxxxxxxxxvwA4Up 1HowDoYouKnow1mMadSaidA1icexxZA4Nr 12YouMustBeSaidTheCatxxxxxxxz2tFa2 12orYouWou1dntHaveComeHerexxvtHbqq
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here."
- tx 3bbd94d22346a3bfb44257293e10c3b5c9ee39230c1cd358bdce2bf03c61ba0b (block 154965 , 2011-11-27) contains 49 base58 messages on a single transaction transcribing this version of the Emerald Tablet, a type of mystical medieval text:Some of the messages weirdly have "xoxo" inserted into them, not sure why, e.g.
12TisTrueWithoutALie22222221wT3qjn 1CertainAndMostTrue2222222225YPnJF 12ThatWhich1sBe1ow1sAs222221y3G7mv 12ThatWhich1sAboveAnd2222221vxkcEq ... 1AboutTheWorkingsofTheSun1zzyWJtfm
The full decoded text is:12TheFatherofTheWho1eWor1d2249xs5g 191sHereXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXoXo72uqJv 191tsPower1sWho1e1f1tHasXoXoWhYr3M 1BeenTurned1ntoEarth222222221soWAL
It is true, without error, certain and most true,
That which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below, to perform the miracles of the one thing.
And as all things were from the one, by means of the meditation of the one, thus all things were born from the one, by means of adaptation.
Its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon, the Wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the earth.
The father of the whole world is here.
Its power is whole if it has been turned into earth.
You will separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the dense, sweetly, with great skill.
It ascends from earth into heaven and again it descends to the earth, and receives the power of higher and of lower things.
Thus you will have the Glory of the whole world.
Therefore will all obscurity flee from you.
Of all strength this is true strength, because it will conquer all that is subtle, and penetrate all that is solid.
Thus was the world created.
From this were wonderful adaptations, of which this is the means. Therefore am I named Thrice-Great Hermes, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
It is finished, what I have said about the working of the Sun. 11111111LeonhardEu1er111126nxjP
on tx 80ddf2e7e04922e2cbf6e744dbf47aec02d781505d8b2c4ee5f725b8882ddb2d, block 155051 (2011-11-28) is a tribute to Swiss mathematician Leonhard EulerFigure 3. Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler. Source. Off-chain image.- 024b093afb54f69426c5624f09a5f2d3791ce20513225cbb42d333ad72f8576e, block 155256 (2011-11-29) has two self-explanatory outputs:
Just A Two Line
Test112JustATwoLine222222222221vcJxpZ 11111Test111112222222222222LiApa
- tx 8f64d2b7a762767e3870c4aee95f8c7b5439cf02cf7d7e5d99b6e39967ecada8, block 155256 (2011-11-29) encodes the poem "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" by Shakespeare 22 addresses starting with:Full original text:
11Sha111CompareTheeToAXXXXXVnRohE 11SummersDayThouArtMoreXXXXUcpgnX 11Love1yAndMoreTemperateXXXUu485j ...
More Shakespeare follows at tx 0ae2eaaa9cddafba89b4c92d074f4e5254cbf7691cbe7f64660bf549c7071147, block 155383 (2011-11-20) has a passage from Romeo and Juliet starting with:Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Full original text:11TisButThyNameThat1sMyXXXXWabTZh 11EnemyThouArtThyse1fThoughXNRG4J 11NotAMontagueWhatsMontagueYEJDfM 111t1sNorHandNorFootNorArmXVNeFEV
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other word would smell as sweet.
So Romeo would - were he not Romeo called -
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself. - Various other notable texts follow on 2011-12-01:
- tx 1f9606f267cc398356663b14d1a7a3591e3da06572893394c14975a6fc11798f, block 155467 (2011-12-01) contains an excerpt from Newton's Principia starting with:Full original text[ref]:
11Ru1e1WeAreToAdmitNoMoreXXazQ96z 11CausesofNatura1ThingsThanZAQ9ig 11SuchAsAreBothTrueAndXXXXXZyzfQp 11SufficientToExp1ainTheirXVSC2gY
RULE 1 We are to admit no more causes of natural things, than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.RULE II Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.RULE III The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.RULE IV In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions collected by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur, by which they may either be made more accurate, or liable to exceptions. - tx 89010c791c9d7ed24affa1d638b12179d2ca7ec91704fe906834386f43a8101d starting at
11When1nTheCourseofHumanXXXXdfMdQ
: Declaration of Independence - tx f7ca83a8a2e1c78efdfde0791d99a567ddaa60805c3b5b857bc7ec14ec2c8204 starting at
11AVa1id1dentifier1sAXXXXXXcrnyki
: likely contains an excerpt of the C or C++ standard. Possible source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types. - tx 028b8514a4f6cc96ac3c1c83dbb117ab9dc5eb09deab7b49bf038fd460173127 starting at
11TheSetupTheJokeA1waysXXXXTF9Wzp
: The aristocrats by HP Lovecraft, which talks about the The Aristocrats joke pattern - tx bd513d9ee605ead1a299c9dfb77de1127bf651c54d99820e9be8b40cef8c8dfe starting at
11Si1ex1sAnAcronymForXXXXXXcujTa5
talks briefly about SILEX (separation of isotopes by laser excitation) - tx ef374dcc5b23f16ecb0b1b639ba577d2acda7ad32321b5866db2fa9e6807b9c5, block 155494 (2011-12-01) contains the intruction from the bitcoin.org website: web.archive.org/web/20210129054851/https://bitcoin.org/en/
11Bitcoin1sADecentra1izedXXWPM6Hs 11PeertopeerNetworkoverXXXXUkyy3M 11WhichUsersMakeXXXXXXXXXXXX4tQgN 11TransactionsThatAreXXXXXXVdZfnJ
- tx 05ee60dfb92795c79e46e106f52bbdbc1006eba0837ed9e4ad99d9b214eb5fcf, block 155538 contains a tribute to Archimedes:original text at: mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archimedes/
11ArchimedesWasANativeofXXXXJsj6W 11SyracuseSici1y1t1sXXXXXXXaYF4CE 11ReportedBySomeAuthorsThatXjFBcV 11HeVisitedEgyptAndThereXXXYVzj58
Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device now known as Archimedes' screw. This is a pump, still used in many parts of the world. It is highly likely that, when he was a young man, Archimedes studied with the successors of Euclid in Alexandria. Certainly he was completely familiar with the mathematics developed there, but what makes this conjecture much more certain, he knew personally the mathematicians working there and he sent his results to Alexandria with personal messages. He regarded Conon of Samos, one of the mathematicians at Alexandria, both very highly for his abilities as a mathematician and he also regarded him as a close friend.
- tx 237b50dac42af130171773b233954e62690182fd4901a453ad5d11d1d54a8ca3, block 155545 (2012-01-01) contains an exceprt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie
11TomAppearsAtTheTopofTheXXWyM2Bt 11A11eyAfterEachSo1emnBoomXaBp7oy 11ofTheBe111nTheTowerHeXXXXVQaies 11ShakesALitt1eNoisemakeroraeWTgK ...
- tx 57bfd63000bbfa6e9a61f7285a4abf9aef91dfcfba4fe0f940b431653eb8068b, block 155494 (2011-12-01) is a Lorem ipsum and tx 7961b5ae2f053a16d5c589104f87edfabe80fcae185832ea185e7f0cf06c7747 (2011-12-05) is another one:
11Lorem1psumDo1orSitAmetXXXWAEZ6C 11ConsecteturAdipiscingE1itYQHEPM ...
- tx 1f9606f267cc398356663b14d1a7a3591e3da06572893394c14975a6fc11798f, block 155467 (2011-12-01) contains an excerpt from Newton's Principia starting with:
- tx 8ffacbb18f63576fe323cbf2acc6c4c01c86aadf13d8352cfdd39d91916d98c8, block 156164 (2011-12-05) advertises etchablock.com by repeating the following 3 messages 80 times:decoding to:
11EtchABLockDotComGivesYouXZHcYVz 11BLockChain1mmortaLityXXXXYRZD5m 11VisitEtchABLockDotComNowXTbeZZ9
More ads can be seen at:etchablock.com gives you blockchain immortaility. Visit etchablock.com now.
- tx 12a8866ea85a8a6838d77cc67ce74ef190a074bc822572f4a82daad00fd980d6, block 156119 (2011-12-05) seems like an alphabet test:
111111111a11111111111b11dC8yHQ 111111111c1111111111111dWctEU9 111111111111e1111111111W7v25m 111111f1111111111111111g11WfG2p8 1111111111111h111111111WdQPXP 11111i111111111111j1111111bL5SyF 11111111k111111111111111XV7PT9D 111L1111111111111111111m111YmYGPJ 1111111111111111n11111U4Rs6D 1111111111111o111111111cLV3wA 11111111p11111111111111qW1RK1A 1111111111111111r1111VRWJZs 111111111111s1111111111VUeyXS 11111111111t11111111111Vq1Wm3 11111111u111111111111111bVpCYE 111111111v11111111111111XoV17A 11111111w1111111111111111YyEFv6 111111111x11111111111111XvZPGp 11111111111y11111111111Y1hDo5 111111111111111zXXXXXXVSn6d5
- tx 31331de21d321766fcac556d7233ad0e3918bc78c7af22b99373569c07d4f30c, block 158772 (2011-12-23) has a quick love declaration by a Chinese dude to his Chinese dudesspresumably the man's name is "Ye Chunnan", possible profile: github.com/finway-china
11YechunnanLoveChenchenYeziSsezJQ 11ForeverXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXWcSE4Z
- tx bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999, block 161202 (2012-01-08) encodes:
11When1DieBuryMeDeepLayTwoXVEY5jv 11SpeakersAtMyFeetAPairofXXTyrHor 11HeadphonesonMyHeadAndXXXXYUSvnd 11ALwaysPLayTheGratefuLDeadWdq4Xo
Related quote mention: www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/w51yfg/comment/iwnxk9i/When I die, bury me deep, lay two speakers at my feet, a pair of headphones on my head. Always play the grateful dead.
- tx 3a027fadac6ac2d9cf54480667465ba6ad88b7b3c1de62e1cb34cd06a44243ac, block 161267 (2012-01-08) has a birthday wish:
11HappyBirthdayStephenXXXXXZL6eQZ 11HawkingXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXRu9FPe
Happy birthday Stephen Hawking
- 1BrianDeeryWasHereCaryNCUSAy1hRCCC on tx c584dd7d3e9ba9776d61ae91f801371e21e434b9d8dab3c81850301433a50fcb, block 188657 (2012-06-12) is a check-in by a Brian Deery at Cary, NC, USA. Most likely:
- 1PavedWithGodAndSomeTeensionXudq5X on tx 3e1572ca351d743d7bf627bc844da8f3bdc84eab4a9d27934a8dba30a2e05fe1, block 371894 (2015-08-28) is the largest likely burn that we know of with a single transaction, totalling 1.61803399 BTCIt is unclear what this means exactly and we can't find any pre-existing soruces, but it seems to be a variant of the well known:
Paved With God And Some Teension
Related:
- www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3kqdjv/a_list_of_bitcoin_addresses_used_to_intentionally/
- github.com/BranndonWork/bitcoin-bulk-balance-check/blob/master/burned.csv
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85935 Coins sent to the great wallet in the sky (2012-06-07)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90982.285 Rare address hall of fame (2015)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=917913.0 Burn Baby Burn! - Compiling all Bitcoin burn addresses by fairglu (2015)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=553449.0 Longest most impressive VANITY (2014)
- bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=558604.0 Custom Bitcoin address? (2014)
- medium.com/@westkate37/burned-bitcoins-d9b15b3699d6
- www.bitcoinwhoswho.com/blog/2018/12/29/2-btc-burned-in-2018/
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/70241/whats-with-this-address-1111111111111111111114olvt2/125931#125931
- bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/49625/whats-the-point-of-bitcoin-eaters mentions in particular
1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE
- kf106.medium.com/interesting-addresses-on-the-bitcoin-blockchain-e0956f06ec01 has some interesting monetary ones, not inscriptions
There are few different versions. The most important as of 2020 are:
- historic counties of England: these are more fixed, but useless for politics
- administrative counties of England: these evolve with politics more
No one is capable of offering an official/more generalized (why can't Google Maps do this properly?) map than these people: wikishire.co.uk/map/#/centre=54.004,-4.500/zoom=7 So so be it.
Fun fact: you can see they "No photography" signs on GCHQ's gates from Google Street View, but super low resolution, making them unreadable. They must have made a deal: Google gives its Street View data with uncensored plate numbers/faces, and GCGQ allows them to film in front of their building at low resolution! The sign actually shows up on their first Instagram post when they created one in 2018 www.gchq.gov.uk/news/gchq-joins-instagram | inews.co.uk/news/uk/gchq-instagram-puzzles-photography-hobbies-216444 Just passing in front of the damn place with Google Maps on must increase your "interest score"!
The B Reactor of the facility produced the plutonium used for Trinity and Fat Man, and then for many more thousand bombs during the Cold War. More precisely, this was done at
Located in Washington, in a dry place the middle of the mountainous areas of the Western United States, where basically no one lives. The Columbia river is however nearby, that river is quite large, and provided the water needed by their activities, notably for cooling the nuclear reactors. It is worth it having look on Google Maps to get a feel for the region.
Unlike many other such laboratories, this one did not become a United States Department of Energy national laboratories. It was likely just too polluted.
Bibliography:
Aerial image of the Hanford site in 1960
. Source. Originally by Keyhole Inc., which the nbecame Google Maps, but the format seems standardized and has non-Google support, so should be OK.
Marc Verdiell is a French electrical engineer born in 1963 or 1964[ref] and best known for being the creator and host of the CuriousMarc YouTube channel where he does mind blowing repairs and reverse engineering of vintage computers and other electronic equipment.
Marc made $58.4m from the sale of LightLogic, an optoelectronics company he founded, to Intel in April 2001. This was just after the dot-com crash, but Intel apparently still correctly believed that the networking and the Internet would continue to grow and was investing in the area. His associate Frank Shum sued claiming he should be credited for some of the inventions sold but lost and Marc got it all.[ref][ref][ref]. Marc was then almost immediately appointed an Intel fellow at the extremelly early age of 37, and then stayed for a few years at Intel until 2006 according to his LinkedIn.[ref][ref]
Marc's LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/marc-verdiell-9742795/
Marc's full name is actualy Jean-Marc Verdiell, but Ciro Santilli remembers there was one YouTube video where he mentions he gave up on "Jean" partly because anglophones would murder its pronounciation all the time.
ppubs.uspto.gov/dirsearch-public/print/downloadPdf/20160274316 also suggests he may have a seldom used middle name "André", though that would be unusual in French custom
Marc's PhD thesis is listed at: theses.fr/1990PA112048 and it is entitled:which is translated into English as:but the full text is not available online.
Mise en phase de reseaux de lasers a semi-conducteur
Phase locking of semiconductor laser arrays
Profile of Marc Verdiell by Gizmodo (2018)
Source. youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4?t=74 gives his house's location Atherton, California, part of Silicon Valley. youtu.be/tJ2-kkhghD4?t=279 shows his amazing garden a bit more.
youtu.be/ZgAreiFXhJk?t=253 lists some famous people who live there. It's like a micro heaven.
And a person who makes open educational content like Marc, truly deserves it.
radaris.com/p/Jean-Marc/Verdiell/ and many other sources list the exact address as:On Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/LM2iN9fz6YBteggp8
48 Linden Ave, Atherton, CA 94027
www.realtyhop.com/property-records/search/hoang-oanh-verdiell mentions that the property was bought on 2013-11-07 for $8,650,000 and lists other properties they've bought and sold and possibly inhabited:
- 2002-03-21: sold 4159 El Camino Way, Palo Alto, CA Unit B
- 2001-06-18: bought 763 Florales Dr, Palo Alto, CA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEcnjh0lSsY give a tour of the house given by the real state agent Ken DeLeon. The dude has a very suspicious Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_DeLeon He is mentioend e.g. at www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2013/12/20/ken-deleon-top-silicon-valley-sales-agent-why-chinese-buyers-love-palo-alto/ as selling a lot to the Chinese.
A quick look on Google Maps show that that area is full of some incredible mansions. They managed to keep the entire place green and every house has a pool. Wikipedia comments web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/:and Forbes confirms it for 2022: web.archive.org/web/20220906010554/https://www.forbes.com/home-improvement/features/most-expensive-zip-codes-us/, by far on top.
Atherton is known for its wealth; in 1990 and 2019, Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. towns with a population between 2,500 and 9,999, and it is regularly ranked as the most expensive ZIP Code in the United States [(94027)]. The town has very restricting zoning, only permitting one single-family home per acre and no sidewalks. The inhabitants have strongly opposed proposals to permit more housing construction
Starting in 2016, Marc appears to be have had a small court battle with some building contractors led by the Yip family, Cynthia Yip and Wai Yip, as Javelin Construction Inc. for selling them "a brand-new but defective home for $9m. The Verdiells then spent $5.3m further renewing it."[ref]. After endless back-and-forth, the Verdiell's won $1.2m in 2024.[ref]
Soyuz Clock Part 4: How accurate is it? by CuriousMarc (2020)
Source. The timestamp youtu.be/HKsjwT53yXw?t=580 mentions that his wife is called "Lori", and that she escaped the Soviet Union, and two of her brothers went to jail in the escape process.
The name is kind of hard to hear, but Google resolves it for us e.g. she and Marc were donnors to the Computer History Museum d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/core/core-2019.pdf
Great set of long distance routes.
They are very well chosen for their high safety and level interest, so you can just go into them without putting much thought into it.
Sometimes they go a bit too much on the side of safety, making certain transitions annoying, but in general the selection is spot on.
The routes do sometimes go on a bit of gravel, so they are most adequate for hybrid bikes rather than road bikes, although road bikes would be able to to much of them. A more road-bike dedicated possibility is the The National Byway.
Note however that there are many many other local routes which are not in the network, but arguably equally, or more worthwhile.
Their diginal map distribution mechanisms are a bit shitty and sometimes asks you to pay for certain formats, which is hard to understand given that the maintainer of those maps, the Ordnance Survey appears to be public... github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/61 "How to see the Sustrans National Cycle Network on Google maps?"
Googling "National Cycle Netowrk KML" leads to: data-sustrans-uk.opendata.arcgis.com/ from which we can download the KML. gis.stackexchange.com/questions/216770/how-to-open-kml-file-in-google-maps-for-android then shows how to make that viewable on Google Maps by going through www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/?hl=en on the browser. TODO 2021-11:"Ralph Hughes" www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-hughes-501474121 is listed as the creator/responsible of the exports, but can't find his email. Sent an email to gissupport@sustrans.org.uk and he did reply a few days later that they are aware of the issue, and are particularly trying to reach out to Google about it. Great news!
GPSPrune 20.2-1 can open the KML however, so that file can't be entirely wrong.
- KML: nothing happens after the upload finishes, the "Select button remains grayed out
- CSV: you need to "Choose a column to title your markers", but all I tried give "Oops! We're having trouble finding those locations. Did you pick the correct location columns?"
GPSPrune 20.2-1 can open the KML however, so that file can't be entirely wrong.
OpenStreetMaps has them on by default though if you just click "Cycle Map" layer. It is not as incredibly detailed as the Ordnance Survey one, e.g. does not show which side of the street to ride on, but still, is very good.
- Google Maps download offline maps. This works very reliably, you can select the area you want to download. The only downside is that Google maps can't reliably show a route offline, and it does not contain national cycle route routes. Or those features are impossible for a software engineer to get working after trying for about 2 hours.
- OpenStreetMap on browser with cycling layer: www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/49.582/1.934&layers=C This is the best visualization of cycling routes I've found so far, contains both National Cycle Network and National Byway and a few others, and they are shown extremely clearly. But as a website it doesn't reliably work offline
- the OsmAnd app for Android is the best offline free-ish OpenStreetMap viewer I've found so far. You only have to pay after reaching 5 region downloads, and it is very cheap if you want to do so. The cycle route view is not amazing, the routes are not so clearly marked and mixed with very similarly colored big roads, but with a bit of effort you can make them out. No routing though
- I've heard Komoot can keep a predefined route (possibly auto planed) reliably offline, but haven't used it myself. I was not able to see National Cycle Route clearly marked anywhere on it