Valentine’s Day Greetings – Chain.Info
Valentine’s Day is the time to think about your sweetheart and sweet expressions. In addition to a peer-to-peer electronic cash system and a distributed ledger that cannot be tampered with, Bitcoin is also an indelible message wall and sometimes for romantic messages. For Valentine’s Day Chain.info takes a look at these “sweet nothings” on the blockchain.
Social media will go out of business, computers will fail. Even if a vow is engraved in stone breaking stone is not difficult. But on the Bitcoin blockchain, your messages will be protected by tens of thousands of nodes distributed around the world with a computing power of 100+ PH/s. No one can change the confirmed data on Bitcoin, all the content written on it will always be seen forever and become a true permanent expression of true love.
Currently, there are two main ways to be a Bitcoin whisperer with a sweet message, one is through the input script of the coinbase transaction, and the other is using the OP_RETURN opcode through an ordinary transfer.
The first transaction which sends block rewards in each block of Bitcoin is called the coinbase transaction. One difference between coinbase and ordinary transfers is that miners can freely choose the input content of the coinbase transaction, so many miners choose to use this as a message board.
Satoshi Nakamoto was the first person to do so. Of course, he didn’t say anything sweet. In the coinbase of the Bitcoin Genesis Block, Satoshi Nakamoto left a news headline: “The Times 03 / Jan / 2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” (The Times 2009 On January 3, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was on the verge of implementing the second round of emergency bank assistance.)
Another celebrity who left a message on Coinbase was the colorful Godfish. On September 19, 2013, Godfish left a message on the coinbase of block height 258,692: “The hand of the child, and the son of the old man. Godfish to winter”. This was a new wedding vow Godfish gave his fiancée at that time. It is worth noting that the receiving address of this transfer is 1LoveYoURwCeQu6dURqTQ7hrhYXDA4eJyn. This address alone can be regarded as a very precious gift.
On the same day, Godfish made three coinbase transactions to this address, with a total amount of more than 75 BTC, which is now worth about 740,000 US dollars. Of course, this address has not transferred out any BTC so far.
Bitcoin has more than 600,000 blocks today, which means 600,000 message opportunities. We did some simple crawling of the content of coinbase, and chose ten sweet messages, now indelibly written into the blockchain.
Published at Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:50:00 +0000