Bitcoin Graffiti

a museum of data stored in the blockchain work in progress
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A timeline of data stored in Bitcoin

Bitcoin was built to move money, but every transaction carries fields that can hold arbitrary bytes — and for as long as the chain has existed, people have used them to store things meant to outlast any server: photographs, source code, love letters, protest anthems, leaked documents, prayers, insults. Because the ledger is replicated by every node and can never be edited, whatever goes in stays in.

186 artifacts are catalogued here, spanning 2009 to 2026. Every one has been confirmed against the chain, and 164 have been rebuilt from their raw bytes so you can see the file itself rather than a description of it. Read the timeline top to bottom, browse the gallery by type or by method, or open the Archive for every readable message found in blocks 0–963,186 (August 2026).

2009 Genesis
2009-01-03
text Coinbase ✓ verified

Genesis block headline

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

2011 The first messages
2011-05-13
Bitcoin logo (bitcoin.jpg, yEnc)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Bitcoin logo (bitcoin.jpg, yEnc)

One of the earliest images ever put on the chain, from May 2011 — an 8,776-byte JPEG of the Bitcoin logo, split across t

2011-05-18
text Base58 ✓ verified

ByteCoin checksum demo addresses

ByteCoin Addresses Match

2011-07-30
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Len Sassaman tribute / ASCII Bernanke

---BEGIN TRIBUTE--- LEN "rabbi" SASSAMA 1980-2011 ... ASCII BERNANKE

2011-08-05
text Coinbase ✓ verified

Prayer Wars (Eligius prayers + interruptions)

Eligius pool (Luke Dashjr) inscribed the Latin Divine Praises and other Catholic prayers one verse per coinbase across b

2011-10-10
text Coinbase ✓ verified

First merged mining (Namecoin AuxPoW)

fa be 6d 6d — AuxPoW merged-mining marker (Namecoin)

2011-10-10
text Coinbase ✓ verified

The merged-mining family (AuxPoW chains)

Chains that piggy-backed Bitcoin's proof-of-work via AuxPoW: Namecoin (2011-09), Ixcoin / i0coin / Devcoin / Groupcoin (

2011-11-11
text Base58 ✓ verified

Martin Haferkorn tribute

Martin Haferkorn

2011-11-24
text Base58 ✓ verified

Eric Lombrozo + Sandra Sandic wedding

Eric Lombrozo · 1969 Sandra Sandic

2011-11-25
text Base58 ✓ verified

BitTalk.tv Christmas Special ad

BitTalk.tv Christmas Special

2011-11-25
text Base58 ✓ verified

Alice in Wonderland (we're all mad here)

But I don't want to go among mad people...

2011-11-27
text Base58 ✓ verified

The Emerald Tablet (49 addresses)

It is true, without error, certain and most true...

2011-11-28
text Base58 ✓ verified

Leonhard Euler tribute

Leonhard Euler

2011-11-29
text Base58 ✓ verified

Shakespeare Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

2011-11-20
text Base58 ✓ verified

Romeo & Juliet (Tis but thy name)

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

2011-12-01
text Base58 ✓ verified

Newton's Principia Rules of Reasoning

RULE 1 We are to admit no more causes of natural things...

2011-12-01
text Base58 ✓ verified

Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events...

2011-12-01
text Base58 ✓ verified

Archimedes biography

Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily...

2011-12-05
text Base58 ✓ verified

etchablock.com ad

etchablock.com gives you blockchain immortality. Visit etchablock.com now.

2012
2012-09-07
text Coinbase ✓ verified

HHTT coinbase poem

I am a pretty princess / covered in mud and blood ...

2013 The upload era
2013-04-06
withheld
text P2FMS withheld

Leaked AMI firmware private key

A leaked private signing key for American Megatrends firmware, published to the chain where it cannot be recalled. It is

2013-04-06
withheld
text P2FMS withheld

Illegal prime #1

link to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime + the prime 4856507896...

2013-04-06
📄
pdf P2FMS ✓ verified

Bitcoin whitepaper (PDF)

Bitcoin's founding document, stored inside Bitcoin itself. The 184,292-byte PDF was split across the fake public-key fie

2013-04-06
🗜
archive P2FMS ✓ verified

WikiLeaks Cablegate archive

cablegate-201012041811.7z; ~2.5 MB; ~130 chunks of ~20 KB

2013-04-08
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other P2FSH ✓ verified

Mystery 3,075 x 1-sat output txs

A transaction with 3,075 outputs, 3,073 of them holding a single satoshi — a shape that costs far more in fees than the

2013-04-08
?
encrypted P2FMS ✓ verified

GPG/CAST5 encrypted files (undecrypted)

Files encrypted with GPG's CAST5 cipher, still unread. The ciphertext is public and permanent, and will stay that way un

2013-04-08
withheld
text P2FMS withheld

Hidden Wiki index pages

Index pages from the Hidden Wiki — a directory of Tor onion services — written into the chain in 2013 across two transac

2013-04-08
withheld
text P2FK withheld

Illegal prime #2

prime 4931083597...

2013-06-01
?
other P2FKH ✓ verified

Proof of Existence — original address-encoded genesis

The original Proof of Existence encoding (Araoz & Ordano, 2013), predating the DOCPROOF OP_RETURN method. 115 transactio

2013-07-31
?
other OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Mastercoin/Omni — Exodus address genesis

Mastercoin encoding v3-test

2013-08-12
text unknown ✓ verified

Satoshi 'email patch' (git diff)

A git diff distributed as an on-chain message rather than a mailing-list post. Early Bitcoin development happened over e

2013-08-12
text unknown ✓ verified

XSS demo output script

<script>window.alert("If this were an actual exploit...")</script>

2013-10-17
text P2FK ✓ verified

Rickroll XML metadata (EMBII upload test)

Never Gonna Give You Up — Rick Astley metadata + lyrics, in EMBII's CG/MG/FL base64-XML upload-test format

2013-11-13
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Rickroll lyrics (OP_RETURN plaintext)

Never Gonna Give You Up lyrics

2013-11-05
text unknown ✓ verified

Washing machine note + Skynet koan

Skynet went online on August 4th 1997... (output); washing machine note (input)

2013-12-01
text P2FK ✓ verified

AtomSea first upload (bugged Bhagavad Gita)

The first upload made with AtomSea & EMBII, the publishing system that carried much of the chain's early art. It is brok

2013-12-02
text P2FK ✓ verified

Bhagavad Gita quote + bug note

I WONDER WHAT HISTORY WILL THINK ABOUT THESE FIRST FEW BUGS...HA HA HA. NOBODY IS PERFECT.

2013-12-02
HugPuddle.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

HugPuddle.jpg

HugPuddle Testing Apertus Disk Drive

2013-12-02
ILoveYouMore.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

ILoveYouMore.jpg

My Dearest Chiharu....I Love you more. <3 Eric

2013-12-07
text P2FK ✓ verified

Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)

Two-level AtomSea text object framed '?758"...': the continuation index spans txs 78f31f03+29f30b99 with a leaf txid (ca

2013-12-07
text P2FK ✓ verified

Pi to 1000+ digits

3.14159...

2013-12-07
Nelson-Mandela.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

Nelson-Mandela.jpg

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."

2013-12-13
text P2FK ✓ verified

Dear Aliens message

Dear Aliens, Hey. Sincerely, EMBII & AtomSea

2013-12-14
text P2FK ✓ verified

Rumi poem

My dear friend never lose hope when the Beloved sends you away.

2013-04-06
text P2FMS ✓ verified

Satoshi Uploader tool (Python source)

The Python source of the tool that put many of the earliest artifacts on the chain, stored using the very technique it i

2013-04-06
text P2FMS ✓ verified

Satoshi downloader tool (Python source)

The companion to the uploader — the Python source that reads the data back out. Together the pair make the archive self-

2013-04-10
text P2FMS ✓ verified

BASIC creature simulator code

10 REM The variables in life ...

2013-12-14
text P2FK ✓ verified

MULTIFILE SUPPORT TEST

MULTIFILE SUPPORT TEST

2013-12-20
🖼
image P2FK ✓ verified

CompressedLogo.png (Apertus logo)

Colby Nelson and myself burnt the midnight oils designing the APERTUS imagery last night....

2014
2014-01-02
?
other P2FMS ✓ verified

Counterparty (XCP) — proof-of-burn genesis

The protocol's first on-chain footprint is this proof-of-burn (block 278319, 2014-01-02). The first decodable CNTRPRTY-m

2014-01-12
?
other P2FMS ✓ verified

Counterparty (XCP) — first CNTRPRTY protocol message

Ten days after the proof-of-burn genesis (block 278319, 2014-01-02), this is the first transaction carrying a decoded Co

2014-02-25
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Mt. Gox farewell

2014-02-25: The day Mt.Gox shut down. Farewell, may even you rest in peace!

2014-02-25
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Fuck you MtGox

Fuck you MtGox

2014-02-26
text Base58 ✓ verified

1FuckMtGox burn address

Fuck MtGox

2014-02-27
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Mt. Gox seal ASCII

<3 You Seals!

2014-03-16
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Nude figure ASCII (seated)

ASCII art of a nude seated female figure, via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH). Among the earliest ASCII art on the blockchai

2014-04-20
?
other OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Proof of Existence — first OP_RETURN (DOCPROOF) notarization

First DOCPROOF-prefixed OP_RETURN timestamp in the scan. NOT the first Proof of Existence proof — the service began in 2

2014-05-18
ascii-art unknown ✓ verified

Cthulhu poutine donate

Cthulhu wants your bitcoin/dogecoin, plz donate

2014-06-14
text unknown ✓ verified

trollbot.org XSS detector

<script ...>document.write(... trollbot.org/xss-blockchain-detector.php ...)</script>

2014-06-16
text Base58 ✓ verified

Star Wars opening crawl

Episode IV A New Hope...

2014-07-04
?
other P2FMS ✓ verified

FoldingCoin (FLDC) — asset genesis

FoldingCoin (FLDC) rewards contributors to the Folding@home distributed-computing project with a Counterparty token, cre

2014-08-07
OurWedding.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

OurWedding.jpg

My Dearest Chiharu, I will love you forever. Taken Aug 6th 2014 in Ipswich, SD.

2014-09-01
audio P2FK ✓ verified

alien.wav

An audio file stored on the chain in 2014, split across many transactions and indexed by a root transaction that records

2014-09-03
Shiemaa&Vincent.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

Shiemaa&Vincent.jpg

"Even if we tried to do it on purpose, never would have we succeeded." My beloved Vincent.

2014-09-06
YellowRobot.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

YellowRobot.jpg

Chiharu and I found this little yellow robot while exploring Chicago. N 41.880778 E -87.629210

2014-09-29
audio P2FK ✓ verified

OneGiantLeapForMankind.mp3

EMBII's earliest audio-upload attempt (Sep 2014, before Spock). The bio/profile wrapper and 48-chunk index are on Bitcoi

2014-09-10
BikeLady.jpg (Allen Lee Vandever art)
image P2FK ✓ verified

BikeLady.jpg (Allen Lee Vandever art)

Allen Lee Vandever artwork. The AtomSea object packs an 'ALLEN LEE VANDEVER' artist statement, a 180x180 avatar (a medit

2014-09-10
Allen Lee Vandever avatar (meditating figure)
image P2FK ✓ verified

Allen Lee Vandever avatar (meditating figure)

The artist's 180x180 avatar/logo (a meditating figure inside a snake-circle), bundled in the same tx as BikeLady.jpg (af

2014-09-12
?
2014-09-27
text P2FKH ✓ verified

CryptoGraffiti Python tool (source)

#!/usr/bin/env python3 ... CryptoGraffiti tool

2014-09-28
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

hello, it's the Internet (cat)

hello, it's the Internet

2014-09-28
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Nude figure ASCII (reclining, signed fsc)

ASCII art of a nude reclining female figure, via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH), signed 'fsc' (credited to artist Marcin Gl

2014-11-27
western-union-bitcoin-spoof.jpg.gz
image P2SH ✓ verified

western-union-bitcoin-spoof.jpg.gz

A spoofed Western Union image, gzip-compressed before upload — compression being the standard way to make a picture fit

2014-03-10
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

ASCII 'fuck' box

A word set in a box of ASCII characters — brief, rude, and permanent.

2014-09-28
text P2FKH ✓ verified

11 rules of LaVeyan Satanism

1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.

2014-09-28
?
encrypted P2FKH ✓ verified

OpenSSL-encrypted blobs (Salted__ cluster)

The cluster's payloads are OpenSSL symmetric encryptions: base64 blobs starting 'U2FsdGVkX1' (the base64 of 'Salted__',

2014-10-01
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Winklevoss twins (ASCII art)

if you like it, leave a tip: 1MDBHLGV7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wTO

2014-11-04
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Marijuana plant (multi-tx)

A marijuana plant drawn in ASCII, spread across several transactions.

2014-11-28
ascii-art P2SH ✓ verified

The Hashling (+ raw PNG)

The Hashling @BraveTheWorld @petertoddbtc

2014-12-03
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Force of Will (Magic: The Gathering card)

Possibly original; likely by cryptograffiti.info creator.

2014-12-19
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Santa Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS! & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

2015 The cryptograffiti era
2015-07-20
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Hitler did nothing wrong (hate speech)

EW Hitler did nothing wrong. / 1HitLerDidNothingWronggggggh...

2015-01-07
Arecibo_message.svg
image P2FK ✓ verified

Arecibo_message.svg

The Arecibo message — the 1974 radio transmission beamed at globular cluster M13, describing human DNA, our solar system

2015-03-02
audio P2FK ✓ verified

Spock_Live_Long_And_Prosper.mp3

Two-level AtomSea object: toplevel 1bc87dbf -> a 2-tx index (>-delimited) -> 17 data txs holding an author/SIG/translati

2015-03-11
?
other P2FMS ✓ verified

Spells of Genesis — FDCARD (first blockchain game card)

FDCARD is the first Spells of Genesis card and the first blockchain-based trading card in a video game, issued by Everdr

2015-03-26
JPG thumbnail (test)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

JPG thumbnail (test)

A small JPEG uploaded as a size test, from the period when the practical limits of on-chain storage were still being wor

2015-04-09
we love bitcoin (heart + logo)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

we love bitcoin (heart + logo)

Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks

2015-05-01
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Time to roll out bigger blocks

Time to roll out bigger blocks

2015-05-01
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

I like big blocks and I can not lie

I like big blocks and I can not lie

2015-05-11
The Economist logo
image daisy-chain ✓ verified

The Economist logo

The Economist's logo, stored on the chain.

2015-05-11
City of London School logo
image daisy-chain ✓ verified

City of London School logo

The crest of the City of London School.

2015-05-20
Nick Szabo dinner photo (v27sSra.jpg)
image unknown ✓ verified

Nick Szabo dinner photo (v27sSra.jpg)

A photograph of Bitcoin researchers and developers at dinner with Nick Szabo, each face tagged with a Twitter handle, st

2015-06-10
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Bitcoin dev IRC log dumps

Bitcoin-dev IRC log dump (SHA-3/Keccak, block-size, etc. discussion)

2015-06-12
He sleeps in a temple.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

He sleeps in a temple.jpg

A photograph taken in Auckland, New Zealand, uploaded in 2015 through the AtomSea & EMBII system. One of the many ordina

2015-07-11
text P2FKH ✓ verified

How to Play Chinese Hats (short story)

How to Play Chinese Hats - A Short Story - 2015

2015-08-02
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Warren Buffett (ASCII)

if you like it, leave a tip: 1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz

2015-08-28
text Base58 ✓ verified

Paved With God And Some Teension (largest single-tx burn)

Paved With God And Some Teension

2015-10-08
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi (face x2)

Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi! Manu, Santi, Demi, Esteban

2015-10-13
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Feliz cumple, Marian (face)

To my dear friend Mariano, por muchos anos mas de diversion!

2015-12-16
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Crude genitalia one-liner ASCII

Crude one-line ASCII (penis + breasts) embedded via OP_RETURN. On-chain payload is 'EW B====D ( . Y . )'.

2015-01-24
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

HypnoToad (Futurama)

All Glory to the HYPNO TOAD!

2015-03-01
Super Mario coin sprite
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Super Mario coin sprite

The Super Mario coin sprite — a few dozen pixels of one of the most recognisable images in video games, made permanent b

2015-06-24
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Eternity Wall messages (EW prefix)

EW Eternity wall is live

2015-08-09
ascii-art P2FMS ✓ verified

Mr. Spock (ASCII)

Mr. Spock rendered in ASCII characters.

2016
2016-01-24
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Crude breasts one-liner ASCII

Crude one-line ASCII (breasts) embedded via OP_RETURN. On-chain payload is 'EW ( . Y . )TIDDIES( . Y . )'.

2016-03-05
Iranian lady with polar-bear hat
image daisy-chain ✓ verified

Iranian lady with polar-bear hat

Hello world! Return blob protocol v1: MAGIC = 0x62, PACKAGE = uint16, SEQUENCE = uint16, PAYLOAD = up to 35 bytes

2016-03-01
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

503: Bitcoin over capacity!

503: Bitcoin over capacity!

2016-03-07
Chiharu EMBII & The Atom Sea say Happy Halloween.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

Chiharu EMBII & The Atom Sea say Happy Halloween.jpg

#Chiharu #embii & the #AtomSea #Fargo #ND

2016-03-07
Chiharu.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

Chiharu.jpg

mini camera test #Wilson #Chiharu #embii #Broadway #Fargo #ND

2016-04-29
audio P2FK ✓ verified

OuterSpace.mp3 (~4 MB, off-Bitcoin payload)

Outer Space by embii 4MB Large file storage test Apertus 0.3.5-beta

2016-06-13
text Base58 ✓ verified

Nakamoto Satoshi Craig Wright (+ insults)

Nakamoto Satoshi Craig Wright Fuck Roger Ver Craig Wright Jihan Craig Wright is a Frauster Cunt Fuck You Graig Wright Sa

2016-06-16
Erich Erstu (1Hyena, gas mask)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Erich Erstu (1Hyena, gas mask)

Hyena was here on the 16th of June 2016. Hi mom! I love you.

2016-06-16
Water Deer (badtaxidermy.com)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Water Deer (badtaxidermy.com)

Cryptograffiti.info now allows you to attach JPEG images to your messages.

2016-06-18
hotmine.io mining ad
image P2FKH ✓ verified

hotmine.io mining ad

Smart Heating, Bitcoin Mining For You - en.hotmine.io

2016-06-18
Nada from They Live (1988)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Nada from They Live (1988)

I have come here to chew bubble gum and dance on Ethereum's grave. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

2016-06-20
Cryptocurrency mining ad (@dobcrypto)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Cryptocurrency mining ad (@dobcrypto)

Subscribe, I will be glad to see you! www.youtube.com/c/dobcryptocurrency

2016-06-20
Chinese wedding (qijue poem)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Chinese wedding (qijue poem)

A scarlet gemstone hides quietly in the midst of the mountains...

2016-06-21
Rene Angelil and Celine Dion
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Rene Angelil and Celine Dion

You will be here forever

2016-06-21
Superbuffo (Toni Caradonna)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Superbuffo (Toni Caradonna)

Superbuffo the first comedian on the blockchain

2016-07-07
New Age dance
image P2FKH ✓ verified

New Age dance

No alcohol and smoking since 07.07.2016. Love girls!

2016-07-09
text Coinbase ✓ verified

2nd halving coinbase messages (block 420000-1)

Chandler Guo loves YangYang Jin / /BTCC/ Welcome to 12.5 BTC blocks!

2016-07-09
Pole-dancing GIF (animated)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Pole-dancing GIF (animated)

Cryptograffiti.info messages now cheaper.

2016-07-10
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image P2FKH withheld

Snake-sculpture image (explicit JPEG)

Explicit JPEG image (NOT ASCII art) of a sexual sculpture (a snake/vagina motif), via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH carryin

2016-07-16
Wedding invitation (Cyrillic)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Wedding invitation (Cyrillic)

A wedding invitation in Cyrillic. The chain is used here as a registry office of last resort — the invitation will exist

2016-07-17
Bitcoin love certificate (Cyrillic)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Bitcoin love certificate (Cyrillic)

Wedding Wallled 15Nz214yv76BmkKLCi8kAVssa5C7nQHLjx

2016-07-18
Oles Slobodenyuk wedding
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Oles Slobodenyuk wedding

Wedding date: Jul 17, 2016 proof link goo.gl/photos/2GToBx1WqRyiQtxQ6

2016-08-09
Nematode sketch (test)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Nematode sketch (test)

2016, painting, 135.7 x 130.7 cm (18 DPI)

2016-08-20
Hand-written wedding contract (Czech)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Hand-written wedding contract (Czech)

A hand-written wedding contract in Czech, photographed and uploaded. A private agreement given the most public and least

2016-08-20
Wedding on grass (Daniela & Pavel)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Wedding on grass (Daniela & Pavel)

Danila a Pavel se prave vzali!

2016-08-25
Onshape CAD ad
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Onshape CAD ad

@Onshape - The Future of Professional CAD

2016-09-09
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other OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Rare Pepe — RAREPEPE (Nakamoto Card, Series 1 Card 1)

The first Rare Pepe card ('RAREPEPE', the Nakamoto card, Series 1 Card 1), created by an anonymous user known as 'Mike'.

2016-10-30
?
other OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Age of Chains — GUARDIANCARD (Woodcoin's Guardian, first card)

GUARDIANCARD ('Woodcoin's Guardian') is the first Age of Chains trading card, among the earliest Bitcoin NFT game cards;

2016-11-06
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Apple Bake '16

APPLE BAKE '16

2016-11-24
Hello. Yes, this is dog.
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Hello. Yes, this is dog.

The 'Hello. Yes, this is dog.' meme, preserved on the Bitcoin blockchain.

2016-11-26
ascii-art unknown ✓ verified

Augie A - Study Math/CS at Augustana

!Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College!

2016-12-06
Ross Ulbricht (freeross.org)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Ross Ulbricht (freeross.org)

Silk Road saved lives that would have otherwise been lost on the streets. freeross.org/

2016-01-28
MadyBobbyOffToCollege.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

MadyBobbyOffToCollege.jpg

A #father could not ask for more perfect daughters.

2016-04-21
PIA17563.jpg (Crab Nebula)
image P2FK ✓ verified

PIA17563.jpg (Crab Nebula)

NASA: A purple nebula, in honor of #Prince, who passed away today.

2016-06-20
Dr_Craig_Wright.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

Dr_Craig_Wright.jpg

Is #Satoshi #Nakamoto #CraigWright?

2016-07-13
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Dr. Bill Maurer (ASCII)

Dr. Bill Maurer / Economic anthropologist

2016-10-17
Pepe the Frog (In Pepe We Trust)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Pepe the Frog (In Pepe We Trust)

In Pepe We Trust #BITCOINPEPE

2017 Peak graffiti
2017-01-15
Loraine.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

Loraine.jpg

In loving memory of Loraine Elizabeth White

2017-01-29
SatoFamily.jpg
image P2FK ✓ verified

SatoFamily.jpg

The Sato Family Arrives from Japan! Taken Aug 2. 2014 in Minneapolis MN. (Keiko, Chiharu, Hideaki, Katsuhiko)

2017-02-14
Tuxedo and rose (couple)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Tuxedo and rose (couple)

A photograph of a couple, one in a tuxedo with a rose.

2017-03-09
Couple on mountains (Spanish poem)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Couple on mountains (Spanish poem)

Entre tus brazos y los mios no hay espacio...

2017-03-21
Tank Man
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Tank Man

The photograph of the unidentified man standing before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square in June 1989 — an image c

2017-04-05
Mr. Burns 'You're here forever'
image P2SH ✓ verified

Mr. Burns 'You're here forever'

Don't forget, you're here forever

2017-07-07
Augustana College Old-Main.jpg
image P2SH ✓ verified

Augustana College Old-Main.jpg

Augustana College Old-Main.jpg Reconstruct with data preceding redeemscripts

2017-07-07
📄
pdf P2FKH ✓ verified

PDF demo (Adobe sample)

Adobe Acrobat PDF Files ...

2017-07-07
text P2FKH ✓ verified

pandoc Markdown demo (Unicode test)

Unicode test: Ae Oe Oe Ue ... Uploaded from http://cryptograffiti.info to demonstrate Markdown rendering.

2017-07-10
text P2FKH ✓ verified

Disincentivizing Double-Spending whitepaper

Disincentivizing Double-Spending by Making it Unprofitable (Erich Ertsu, 2017)

2018
2018-01-29
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

First RSK (Rootstock) merged mining

RSKBLOCK: — Rootstock (RSK) merged-mining tag

2018-02-23
Broken JPEG in single input-script constant
image P2SH ✓ verified

Broken JPEG in single input-script constant

A JPEG stored inside a single input-script constant, damaged in the process. The header identifies it as an image but th

2018-04-09
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

TD Ameritrade ad

See the full picture at TDAmeritrade.com/Blockchain

2018-06-07
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Cannes Lions TITANIUM ad

An advertisement entered for the Cannes Lions TITANIUM award, placed on the chain as part of the campaign itself — a rar

2018-07-05
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

lolcat test

lolcat test

2018-08-23
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

GrrCON ticket (skull, steganographic)

Your free GrrCon ticket; code OPRETURNISMYFRIEND

2019
2019-06-20
Cat manga
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Cat manga

A manga-style cat drawing.

2019-08-24
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

An immutable poem

_______________________________________

2019-10-01
Woman, arms crossed
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Woman, arms crossed

A photograph of a woman with her arms crossed.

2020
2020-04-09
Black cat
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Black cat

A photograph of a black cat.

2020-05-11
text Coinbase ✓ verified

3rd halving coinbase (NYTimes Fed message)

NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue

2020-10-09
ascii-art P2FKH ✓ verified

Yang Yiping obituary

Yang, Yiping ... Wir vermissen dich!

2020-10-24
Teddy bear (image)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Teddy bear (image)

A picture of a teddy bear.

2021
2021-03-13
audio P2FK ✓ verified

Seikilos.mid (MIDI)

Nested AtomSea object (#Seikilos #epitaph). The 8 data chunks are indexed on Bitcoin; the MIDI (format 1, 2 tracks) is c

2021-01-18
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Romans 12:21 in block 666666

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good - Romans 12:21

2021-02-10
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Teddy bear (ASCII, xoxo)

xoxo, S

2021-05-31
The Starry Night (van Gogh)
image SegWit ✓ verified

The Starry Night (van Gogh)

Van Gogh's The Starry Night, uploaded to the chain. The painting has been public domain for decades; this copy is simply

2021-07-10
Kitchen mirror selfie in swim glasses
image P2FMS ✓ verified

Kitchen mirror selfie in swim glasses

A mirror selfie taken in a kitchen, the subject wearing swimming goggles. Among the most ordinary things anyone has made

2021-11-14
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

ZN / Zenon Network ad

ZENON NETWORK

2021-11-19
Gulagu.net logo
image P2SH ✓ verified

Gulagu.net logo

The logo of Gulagu.net, the Russian anti-torture organisation founded by Vladimir Osechkin, stored in 2021. The group pu

2021-11-19
Gulagu.net people (Vladimir Osechkin)
image P2SH ✓ verified

Gulagu.net people (Vladimir Osechkin)

A photograph associated with Gulagu.net and Vladimir Osechkin, uploaded alongside the organisation's logo in 2021. Both

2021-10-27
ascii-art OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Mystery 43-line art

Forty-three lines of ASCII art whose subject has not been identified.

2022 Ordinals →
2022-02-21
Low-res GIF of whitepaper intro (satoshi.gif)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

Low-res GIF of whitepaper intro (satoshi.gif)

BTGC:satoshi.gif

2022-12-14
Ordinals Inscription #0 (Casey Rodarmor's pre-launch skull)
image Ordinals ✓ verified

Ordinals Inscription #0 (Casey Rodarmor's pre-launch skull)

Inscription #0 in ord's sequential numbering: the first satoshi ever inscribed, made about five weeks before the Ordinal

2022-01-24
keepcase.jpg (data-URL)
image OP_RETURN ✓ verified

keepcase.jpg (data-URL)

data:image/jpeg;base64,...

2023
2023-02-01
Taproot Wizards launch inscription ("Magic internet JPEGs")
image Ordinals ✓ verified

Taproot Wizards launch inscription ("Magic internet JPEGs")

Inscription #652 by ord's global numbering, but Taproot Wizards' own first on-chain artifact (confirmed via the project'

2023-03-11
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other P2FMS ✓ verified

Quotes and threes flood

repeated " and 3 with sparse other chars

2024
2024-01-06
?
encrypted SegWit ✓ verified

Suspected encrypted 9 MB ordinal

About nine megabytes of data whose contents cannot be identified. Its size makes it one of the largest single payloads o

2024-01-27
A man and his cactus (Sahil Chaturvedi)
image P2FKH ✓ verified

A man and his cactus (Sahil Chaturvedi)

A photograph by Sahil Chaturvedi of a man and his cactus.

2025
2025-07-31
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Liebe Melli — an anniversary letter

Liebe Melli, vor genau einem Jahr kamst du in mein Leben und hast es so viel schöner und bunter gemacht… Diese Nachricht

2025-10-25
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Glory to Hong Kong (願榮光歸香港)

We pledge: No more tears on our land / In wrath, doubts dispell'd we make our stand / Arise! Ye who would not be slaves

2025-10-28
withheld
video OP_RETURN withheld

Gloria Zhao AI MP4 (OP_RETURN policy criticism)

AI-generated (deepfake) MP4 impersonating Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao to criticize OP_RETURN relay policy; inscri

2026
2026-05-04
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

NFP protocol whitepaper (Chinese)

# NFP协议:比特币上的"传家宝"与永生版税 — 没有智能合约,没有侧链,只有刻在比特币上的"铁契约"。从此,手艺人不用再求人,子孙后代都能收到钱。

2026-05-07
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

pwm1 — mail carried on the chain

pwm1:m:Hello World! — the opening of a 53-message exchange running from block 948,283 to 962,976, ending 'i only have on

2026-07-04
text OP_RETURN ✓ verified

Declaration of Independence, inscribed on its 250th anniversary

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE / In Congress, July 4, 1776 / THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION of the THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF