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"Hidden surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored: Nelson Mandela, Wikileaks, photos, and Python software"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fascinating as always.

February 16, 2014 at 10:27 AM

Anonymous Peter Todd said...

I thought the Electrum patch was very clever: the form of the transaction that was used to embed the patch in the blockchain also *triggers* the bug that it fixes: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=271761.msg2920116#msg2920116

February 16, 2014 at 6:55 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

So far I've read all your bitcoin posts with great pleasure, keep up the good work!

February 16, 2014 at 7:34 PM

Anonymous gm said...

The "hidden" message in the original block is an attempt to prove that it didn't exist before that date and hence that there was no pre-mining done.

February 16, 2014 at 7:39 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

In April 2013 someone uploaded load of links to ch1ld p0rn websites in bitcoin blockchain.

http://www.btcpedia.com/ped0-links-in-bitcoin-blockchain/

http://www.dailydot.com/business/bitcoin-child-porn-transaction-code/

http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/02/technology/security/bitcoin-porn/index.html

February 16, 2014 at 9:42 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ken did you find any illegal images in your time looking through things? The possibility of someone being able to permanently, publicly store data is going to make the future a very interesting place.

February 16, 2014 at 10:02 PM

Blogger Julian said...

I am a bit worried. Wouldn't this mean that it is possible to store data which is protected by a certain copyright? Making it illegal for some people in the world (USA and Germany for e.g.) to actually store the blockchain as it contains data which is protected? Stored for ever in the blockchain without the possibility to remove it.

February 16, 2014 at 10:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Analyzing http://blockexplorer.com/rawtx/d29c9c0e8e4d2a9790922af73f0b8d51f0bd4bb19940d9cf910ead8fbe85bc9b, it looks like there is no limit to what size can be with OP_RETURN. Please confirm.

If there is indeed upper limit of 80 bytes, then how come these transactions exceeding limit got accepted in the block?

February 18, 2014 at 10:46 AM

Anonymous CryptoGraffiti.info said...

Now there is a webpage for viewing addresses that have more information in them than just random: CryptoGraffiti.info.

The main purpose of CryptoGraffiti.info is to display transactions which include addresses that have human readable characters in them. In addition, you can encode arbitrary text as Bitcoin addresses, import to wallet and send to blockchain.

The page is in development and you can discuss and give feedback at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=524877.0

March 24, 2014 at 6:52 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Ken,

I enjoyed this! You might also be interested in coinsecrets.org which shows data embedded in the now-official way, using OP_RETURNs.

GIdeon

March 25, 2014 at 4:04 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Valentine's messages were from this service: http://www.thenoteblock.com/

May 16, 2014 at 10:46 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The inclusion of copyrighted works would not make the blockchain illegal to use. It would be illegal for you to "use" those copyrighted works, or attempt to "sell them". Just as having a copyrighted work on the internet does not make it illegal for you to use the internet.

You do not have to download the chain to use the chain. That is a nice thing to have.

However, the "copyrighted works", are in parts, and would also require some form of "assembling". It is considered part of the "fair use act", to have portions of copyrighted works, where the complete works are not within direct use, in the copyrighted form. EG, Portions of the web contain portions of unseen copyrighted works, just by coincidence of randomness. Also, portions sum-up to whole works, through various sources, by way of backups and clouds.

Ecrypt the number 1 and it could result in the entire sourcecode of apple's iphone. If it did, (highly unlikely), it would not make you a lawbreaker for having the number 1 on your keyboard or computer.

Funny thing is, there is a copyrighted "prime number" that is a virus, if run as a program. There is also a prime number that executes and produces itself as a prime number. (However, that is a non-direct program which only works on a specific compiler that was made to find primes that execute themselves for self reproduction. Talk about inception-meets-the-matrix!)

I think "tiny-virus" (which is also self-replicating, or it was morphing, was also hidden in the block-chain.)

July 17, 2014 at 11:51 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Can the the blockchain be used as a filesharing platform for videos, music, ebooks etc?

August 26, 2014 at 7:33 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Cryptograffiti & paystamper do this automatically! But this is a great article!!

January 17, 2015 at 8:01 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is wonderful. How did you find all these things?!

January 17, 2015 at 9:26 PM

Blogger Daniel Wyatt said...

If you're interested in adding to the article, I found aaf6773116f0d626b7e66d8191881704b5606ea72612b07905ce34f6c31f0887 has lucifer-1.0.tar.gz (source code archive).

December 18, 2016 at 2:18 PM

Blogger Unknown said...

This article was super helpful. I used what I learned here to build a website for viewing the messages.

Here is BitLen http://bitcoinsays.com/930a2114cdaa86e1fac46d15c74e81c09eee1d4150ff9d48e76cb0697d8e1d72

Here's a RickRoll http://bitcoinsays.com/d29c9c0e8e4d2a9790922af73f0b8d51f0bd4bb19940d9cf910ead8fbe85bc9b

January 20, 2017 at 12:31 PM

Blogger Daniel Wyatt said...

David: Same here! (sorta) https://github.com/dewyatt/bitsee

January 20, 2017 at 6:07 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cscfaculty/1/

Academic paper on data insertion in Bitcoin's blockchain.

July 22, 2017 at 12:47 PM

Anonymous Dogeyip said...

> How to put your own message in the blockchain...

All the content on http://dogeyip.com/ is pulled from data encoded into UTXO on the dogecoin blockchain using a more robust implementation of this idea. If you're clever you can encode as much data as you want into any block chain using this technique. Obviously, the techniques used here can also be used on the bitcoin blockchain.

Example: All the text for the blog posts here are pulled via api from data encoded into UTXOs in the dogecoin blockchain: http://dogeyip.com/blog.html

August 1, 2017 at 10:55 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Regarding this comment:

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
http://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/cscfaculty/1/

Academic paper on data insertion in Bitcoin's blockchain.
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The paper says:
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For analysis of historical methods and testing each of the data insertion methods in this paper, we used the open-source Java library, BitcoinJ.
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Does anyone know if the source code of the testing scripts is publicly available?

August 21, 2018 at 1:53 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thank you for the content
can you suggest some blockchain tools??

https://socialprachar.com/career-in-blockchain/?ref=blogtrffic

November 7, 2018 at 1:31 AM

Blogger Movie Mahal said...

This is wonderful. How did you find all these things?
And Updated Here
https://socialprachar.com/career-in-blockchain/

November 7, 2018 at 9:04 PM

Blogger Dave Scotese said...

Ken, this is great. Cryptograffiti is also great. I have been looking for something to counter the potential Mandela effect if a powerful enough force alters the blockchain. In "Contact," Carl Sagan pointed out that when government is spending the money, they might as well do everything twice because they have no bottom line. So they could run computing power parallel to and hidden from the world to generate their own blockchain and then deploy it with whatever differences they want, assuming they amassed enough computing power. Loads of people would complain that Bitcoin is messed up somehow. A large number of balances would be wrong. No one would know what happened because we all rely on the machines to remember and protect the "longest chain" under the assumption that we won't get 51% attacked.

But this post gives human beings some incontrovertible expectations about the "real" blockchain - an image of Mandela himself! So beautiful.

Thanks!

April 11, 2019 at 9:29 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The inclusion of copyrighted works would not make the blockchain illegal to use."

This is a matter of law and not scientifical reality. A law can be almost everything and a law can be changed.

March 31, 2021 at 10:55 AM

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