Genesis block headline
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
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).
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks
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
---BEGIN TRIBUTE--- LEN "rabbi" SASSAMA 1980-2011 ... ASCII BERNANKE
Eligius pool (Luke Dashjr) inscribed the Latin Divine Praises and other Catholic prayers one verse per coinbase across b
fa be 6d 6d — AuxPoW merged-mining marker (Namecoin)
Chains that piggy-backed Bitcoin's proof-of-work via AuxPoW: Namecoin (2011-09), Ixcoin / i0coin / Devcoin / Groupcoin (
But I don't want to go among mad people...
It is true, without error, certain and most true...
RULE 1 We are to admit no more causes of natural things...
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A leaked private signing key for American Megatrends firmware, published to the chain where it cannot be recalled. It is
link to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime + the prime 4856507896...
Bitcoin's founding document, stored inside Bitcoin itself. The 184,292-byte PDF was split across the fake public-key fie
cablegate-201012041811.7z; ~2.5 MB; ~130 chunks of ~20 KB
A transaction with 3,075 outputs, 3,073 of them holding a single satoshi — a shape that costs far more in fees than the
Files encrypted with GPG's CAST5 cipher, still unread. The ciphertext is public and permanent, and will stay that way un
Index pages from the Hidden Wiki — a directory of Tor onion services — written into the chain in 2013 across two transac
The original Proof of Existence encoding (Araoz & Ordano, 2013), predating the DOCPROOF OP_RETURN method. 115 transactio
A git diff distributed as an on-chain message rather than a mailing-list post. Early Bitcoin development happened over e
<script>window.alert("If this were an actual exploit...")</script>
Never Gonna Give You Up — Rick Astley metadata + lyrics, in EMBII's CG/MG/FL base64-XML upload-test format
Skynet went online on August 4th 1997... (output); washing machine note (input)
The first upload made with AtomSea & EMBII, the publishing system that carried much of the chain's early art. It is brok
I WONDER WHAT HISTORY WILL THINK ABOUT THESE FIRST FEW BUGS...HA HA HA. NOBODY IS PERFECT.
Two-level AtomSea text object framed '?758"...': the continuation index spans txs 78f31f03+29f30b99 with a leaf txid (ca
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
The Python source of the tool that put many of the earliest artifacts on the chain, stored using the very technique it i
The companion to the uploader — the Python source that reads the data back out. Together the pair make the archive self-
Colby Nelson and myself burnt the midnight oils designing the APERTUS imagery last night....
The protocol's first on-chain footprint is this proof-of-burn (block 278319, 2014-01-02). The first decodable CNTRPRTY-m
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: The day Mt.Gox shut down. Farewell, may even you rest in peace!
ASCII art of a nude seated female figure, via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH). Among the earliest ASCII art on the blockchai
First DOCPROOF-prefixed OP_RETURN timestamp in the scan. NOT the first Proof of Existence proof — the service began in 2
<script ...>document.write(... trollbot.org/xss-blockchain-detector.php ...)</script>
FoldingCoin (FLDC) rewards contributors to the Folding@home distributed-computing project with a Counterparty token, cre
My Dearest Chiharu, I will love you forever. Taken Aug 6th 2014 in Ipswich, SD.
An audio file stored on the chain in 2014, split across many transactions and indexed by a root transaction that records
"Even if we tried to do it on purpose, never would have we succeeded." My beloved Vincent.
Chiharu and I found this little yellow robot while exploring Chicago. N 41.880778 E -87.629210
EMBII's earliest audio-upload attempt (Sep 2014, before Spock). The bio/profile wrapper and 48-chunk index are on Bitcoi
Allen Lee Vandever artwork. The AtomSea object packs an 'ALLEN LEE VANDEVER' artist statement, a 180x180 avatar (a medit
The artist's 180x180 avatar/logo (a meditating figure inside a snake-circle), bundled in the same tx as BikeLady.jpg (af
UNicDC
#!/usr/bin/env python3 ... CryptoGraffiti tool
ASCII art of a nude reclining female figure, via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH), signed 'fsc' (credited to artist Marcin Gl
A spoofed Western Union image, gzip-compressed before upload — compression being the standard way to make a picture fit
A word set in a box of ASCII characters — brief, rude, and permanent.
1. Do not give opinions or advice unless you are asked.
The cluster's payloads are OpenSSL symmetric encryptions: base64 blobs starting 'U2FsdGVkX1' (the base64 of 'Salted__',
if you like it, leave a tip: 1MDBHLGV7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wTO
A marijuana plant drawn in ASCII, spread across several transactions.
Possibly original; likely by cryptograffiti.info creator.
EW Hitler did nothing wrong. / 1HitLerDidNothingWronggggggh...
The Arecibo message — the 1974 radio transmission beamed at globular cluster M13, describing human DNA, our solar system
Two-level AtomSea object: toplevel 1bc87dbf -> a 2-tx index (>-delimited) -> 17 data txs holding an author/SIG/translati
FDCARD is the first Spells of Genesis card and the first blockchain-based trading card in a video game, issued by Everdr
A small JPEG uploaded as a size test, from the period when the practical limits of on-chain storage were still being wor
Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks
A photograph of Bitcoin researchers and developers at dinner with Nick Szabo, each face tagged with a Twitter handle, st
Bitcoin-dev IRC log dump (SHA-3/Keccak, block-size, etc. discussion)
A photograph taken in Auckland, New Zealand, uploaded in 2015 through the AtomSea & EMBII system. One of the many ordina
How to Play Chinese Hats - A Short Story - 2015
if you like it, leave a tip: 1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz
Paved With God And Some Teension
Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi! Manu, Santi, Demi, Esteban
To my dear friend Mariano, por muchos anos mas de diversion!
Crude one-line ASCII (penis + breasts) embedded via OP_RETURN. On-chain payload is 'EW B====D ( . Y . )'.
The Super Mario coin sprite — a few dozen pixels of one of the most recognisable images in video games, made permanent b
Crude one-line ASCII (breasts) embedded via OP_RETURN. On-chain payload is 'EW ( . Y . )TIDDIES( . Y . )'.
Hello world! Return blob protocol v1: MAGIC = 0x62, PACKAGE = uint16, SEQUENCE = uint16, PAYLOAD = up to 35 bytes
#Chiharu #embii & the #AtomSea #Fargo #ND
Outer Space by embii 4MB Large file storage test Apertus 0.3.5-beta
Nakamoto Satoshi Craig Wright Fuck Roger Ver Craig Wright Jihan Craig Wright is a Frauster Cunt Fuck You Graig Wright Sa
Hyena was here on the 16th of June 2016. Hi mom! I love you.
Cryptograffiti.info now allows you to attach JPEG images to your messages.
I have come here to chew bubble gum and dance on Ethereum's grave. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
Subscribe, I will be glad to see you! www.youtube.com/c/dobcryptocurrency
A scarlet gemstone hides quietly in the midst of the mountains...
Chandler Guo loves YangYang Jin / /BTCC/ Welcome to 12.5 BTC blocks!
Explicit JPEG image (NOT ASCII art) of a sexual sculpture (a snake/vagina motif), via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH carryin
A wedding invitation in Cyrillic. The chain is used here as a registry office of last resort — the invitation will exist
Wedding Wallled 15Nz214yv76BmkKLCi8kAVssa5C7nQHLjx
Wedding date: Jul 17, 2016 proof link goo.gl/photos/2GToBx1WqRyiQtxQ6
A hand-written wedding contract in Czech, photographed and uploaded. A private agreement given the most public and least
The first Rare Pepe card ('RAREPEPE', the Nakamoto card, Series 1 Card 1), created by an anonymous user known as 'Mike'.
GUARDIANCARD ('Woodcoin's Guardian') is the first Age of Chains trading card, among the earliest Bitcoin NFT game cards;
The 'Hello. Yes, this is dog.' meme, preserved on the Bitcoin blockchain.
!Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College!
Silk Road saved lives that would have otherwise been lost on the streets. freeross.org/
NASA: A purple nebula, in honor of #Prince, who passed away today.
The Sato Family Arrives from Japan! Taken Aug 2. 2014 in Minneapolis MN. (Keiko, Chiharu, Hideaki, Katsuhiko)
A photograph of a couple, one in a tuxedo with a rose.
Entre tus brazos y los mios no hay espacio...
The photograph of the unidentified man standing before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square in June 1989 — an image c
Augustana College Old-Main.jpg Reconstruct with data preceding redeemscripts
Unicode test: Ae Oe Oe Ue ... Uploaded from http://cryptograffiti.info to demonstrate Markdown rendering.
Disincentivizing Double-Spending by Making it Unprofitable (Erich Ertsu, 2017)
RSKBLOCK: — Rootstock (RSK) merged-mining tag
A JPEG stored inside a single input-script constant, damaged in the process. The header identifies it as an image but th
An advertisement entered for the Cannes Lions TITANIUM award, placed on the chain as part of the campaign itself — a rar
Your free GrrCon ticket; code OPRETURNISMYFRIEND
NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue
Nested AtomSea object (#Seikilos #epitaph). The 8 data chunks are indexed on Bitcoin; the MIDI (format 1, 2 tracks) is c
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good - Romans 12:21
Van Gogh's The Starry Night, uploaded to the chain. The painting has been public domain for decades; this copy is simply
A mirror selfie taken in a kitchen, the subject wearing swimming goggles. Among the most ordinary things anyone has made
The logo of Gulagu.net, the Russian anti-torture organisation founded by Vladimir Osechkin, stored in 2021. The group pu
A photograph associated with Gulagu.net and Vladimir Osechkin, uploaded alongside the organisation's logo in 2021. Both
Forty-three lines of ASCII art whose subject has not been identified.
Inscription #0 in ord's sequential numbering: the first satoshi ever inscribed, made about five weeks before the Ordinal
Inscription #652 by ord's global numbering, but Taproot Wizards' own first on-chain artifact (confirmed via the project'
About nine megabytes of data whose contents cannot be identified. Its size makes it one of the largest single payloads o
A photograph by Sahil Chaturvedi of a man and his cactus.
Liebe Melli, vor genau einem Jahr kamst du in mein Leben und hast es so viel schöner und bunter gemacht… Diese Nachricht
We pledge: No more tears on our land / In wrath, doubts dispell'd we make our stand / Arise! Ye who would not be slaves
AI-generated (deepfake) MP4 impersonating Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao to criticize OP_RETURN relay policy; inscri
# 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。
pwm1:m:Hello World! — the opening of a 53-message exchange running from block 948,283 to 962,976, ending 'i only have on
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE / In Congress, July 4, 1776 / THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION of the THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF