Bitcoin Graffiti work in progress

Written into Bitcoin.Kept forever.

190 photographs, poems, prayers, leaks and love letters, recovered byte for byte from the chain — each with the transaction that carries it.

190artifacts
168rebuilt from raw bytes
2009–26years on the chain

The collection

A few of the pieces people paid to make permanent. Images are shown whole and at the size they were stored.

View all 190 artifacts

Through the years

Every artifact below has been confirmed against the chain, and 168 have been rebuilt from their raw bytes. Jump to an era, or read from the beginning.

2009

Genesis 1 artifact
03 Jan #0
text Coinbase

Genesis block headline

Genesis coinbase; identified by block 0.

Coinbase TEXT 77 B ✓ verified

2011

The first messages 18 artifacts
13 May #123,573
image P2FKH

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 two transactions and wrapped in yEnc, the encoding Usenet used for…

P2FKH JPEG · 498×137 8,776 B 2 txs ✓ verified
18 May #124,726
text Base58

ByteCoin checksum demo addresses

Base58Check checksum demo (user ByteCoin, 2011): two near-twin vanity addresses differing by a single character ('1kpCWN…' vs '1kpCxN…'), both valid because Base58Check recomputes the…

Base58 TEXT 69 B 2 txs ✓ verified
30 Jul #138,725
ascii-art P2FKH

Len Sassaman tribute / ASCII Bernanke

By Dan Kaminsky & Travis Goodspeed.

P2FKH ASCII 1,540 B ✓ verified
05 Aug #139,690
text Coinbase

Prayer Wars (Eligius prayers + interruptions)

The 'prayer war' (2011-08-05 to 09-03): Luke Dashjr set the 'random' coinbase data of his Eligius pool to prayers - the Divine Praises, then the Trinitarian formula, Act of Contrition, Act…

Coinbase TEXT 1,281 B 18 txs ✓ verified
10 Oct #148,744
text Coinbase

First merged mining (Namecoin AuxPoW)

The first merged-mining commitment on Bitcoin. Merged mining lets a miner secure a second chain with the same work, by committing that chain's block header inside the Bitcoin coinbase.…

Coinbase TEXT 55 B ✓ verified
10 Oct #148,744
text Coinbase

The merged-mining family (AuxPoW chains)

An umbrella entry for the AuxPoW ecosystem that Namecoin's 2011 merged mining set off. First merge-mining dates: Namecoin 2011-09-19 (the first, visible on the Bitcoin side from block…

Coinbase TEXT 55 B ✓ verified
11 Nov #152,851
text Base58

Martin Haferkorn tribute

Base58 vanity-address tribute: the fake P2PKH address '1MartinHaferkorncii112o11HdkMrtttD' spells the name (read directly, not byte-decoded; the 'cii112o11HdkMrtttD' tail is padding to a…

Base58 TEXT 63 B ✓ verified
24 Nov #154,630
text Base58

Eric Lombrozo + Sandra Sandic wedding

Base58 vanity-address dedication (2011-11-24): '1EricLombrozoXXX…' (Bitcoin Core developer Eric Lombrozo) plus '1969SandraSandicXXX…' (a wedding/birth note). Read directly; the trailing X's…

Base58 TEXT 13 B 3 txs ✓ verified
25 Nov #154,721
text Base58

BitTalk.tv Christmas Special ad

Base58 vanity address by Matthew N. Wright, repeated ~12×: '1BitTaLkTVChristmasSpeciaLXXRix9Ea'. Read directly; a ~300× variant '11Bitta1ktvchristmasspecia1…' also exists on-chain.

Base58 TEXT 64 B 2 txs ✓ verified
25 Nov #154,769
text Base58

Alice in Wonderland (we're all mad here)

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

Base58 TEXT 218 B ✓ verified
27 Nov #154,965
text Base58

The Emerald Tablet (49 addresses)

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

Base58 TEXT 1,344 B ✓ verified
28 Nov #155,051
text Base58

Leonhard Euler tribute

Base58 vanity-address tribute to Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler ('LeonhardEu1er' substitutes '1' for 'l'). Read directly, not byte-decoded; the leading 1's and trailing chars are…

Base58 TEXT 58 B ✓ verified
29 Nov #155,256
text Base58

Shakespeare Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Base58 TEXT 588 B ✓ verified
20 Nov #155,383
text Base58

Romeo & Juliet (Tis but thy name)

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Base58 TEXT 440 B ✓ verified
01 Dec #155,467
text Base58

Newton's Principia Rules of Reasoning

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

Base58 TEXT 777 B ✓ verified
01 Dec #155,468
text Base58

Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events...

Base58 TEXT 1,574 B ✓ verified
01 Dec #155,538
text Base58

Archimedes biography

Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily...

Base58 TEXT 711 B ✓ verified
05 Dec #156,164
text Base58

etchablock.com ad

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

Base58 TEXT 6,800 B ✓ verified

2012

1 artifact
07 Sep #197,602
text Coinbase

HHTT coinbase poem

txid placeholder; coinbase artifact identified by block height.

Coinbase TEXT 36 B ✓ verified

2013

The upload era 29 artifacts
06 Apr #229,999
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 the clearest demonstration of what permanence means when the content…

P2FMS TEXT 3,673 B ✓ verified
06 Apr #230,001
text P2FMS Withheld

Illegal prime #1

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

P2FMS TEXT 3,933 B ✓ verified
06 Apr #230,009
pdf P2FMS

Bitcoin whitepaper (PDF)

Bitcoin's founding document, stored inside Bitcoin itself. The 184,292-byte PDF was split across the fake public-key fields of a bare-multisig transaction in 2013 — a technique that burns…

P2FMS PDF 184,292 B ✓ verified
06 Apr #230,203
archive P2FMS

WikiLeaks Cablegate archive

Chunk txids beyond the first not yet enumerated (phase 2).

P2FMS ARCHIVE 2 txs ✓ verified
08 Apr #230,217
other P2FSH

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 value it moves, so it was built to carry something. The payload is in…

P2FSH UNKNOWN 61,460 B 2 txs ✓ verified
08 Apr #230,219
encrypted P2FMS

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 unless someone produces the passphrase — a reminder that putting…

P2FMS ENCRYPTED 3 txs ✓ verified
08 Apr #230,229
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 transactions. Placing a link directory somewhere no authority can delete it…

P2FMS TEXT 62,270 B 2 txs ✓ verified
08 Apr #233,620
text P2FK Withheld

Illegal prime #2

prime 4931083597...

P2FK TEXT 2,210 B ✓ verified
01 Jun #238,958
other P2FKH

Proof of Existence — original address-encoded genesis

The original Proof of Existence encoding (Araoz & Ordano, 2013), predating the DOCPROOF OP_RETURN method. 115 transactions share this exact signature (2 one-satoshi P2PKH outputs = 32-byte…

P2FKH UNKNOWN 32 B ✓ verified
31 Jul #249,498
other OP_RETURN

Mastercoin/Omni — Exodus address genesis

The protocol genesis is the Exodus fundraiser (block 249498, 2013-07-31) — the first metaprotocol on Bitcoin — which long precedes the first text-detectable OP_RETURN marker (block 292316,…

OP_RETURN UNKNOWN 27 B 2 txs ✓ verified
12 Aug #251,718
text unknown

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 email, and this preserves a patch in the one place no list archive can…

unknown CODE 1,355 B ✓ verified
12 Aug #251,768
text unknown

XSS demo output script

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

unknown TEXT 95 B ✓ verified
17 Oct #264,971
text P2FK

Rickroll XML metadata (EMBII upload test)

EMBII upload-test format: a <CG SZ="1156"> container wrapping base64-encoded <MG> metadata and a <FL NM="NGGUP.txt"> lyrics file (Never Gonna Give You Up). Complete in one AtomSea P2FKH tx…

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 847 B ✓ verified
13 Nov #268,060
text OP_RETURN

Rickroll lyrics (OP_RETURN plaintext)

Never Gonna Give You Up lyrics

OP_RETURN TEXT 984 B ✓ verified
05 Nov #268,081
text unknown

Washing machine note + Skynet koan

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

unknown TEXT 743 B ✓ verified
01 Dec #272,573
text P2FK

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 broken — the software had bugs on its first outing — and the operators…

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 334 B ✓ verified
02 Dec #272,577
text P2FK

Bhagavad Gita quote + bug note

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

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 334 B ✓ verified
02 Dec #272,592
image P2FK

HugPuddle.jpg

HugPuddle Testing Apertus Disk Drive

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 160×160 5,213 B ✓ verified
02 Dec #272,593
image P2FK

ILoveYouMore.jpg

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 160×160 6,553 B ✓ verified
07 Dec #273,511
text P2FK

Where the Sidewalk Ends (Shel Silverstein)

Two-level AtomSea text object framed '?758"...': the continuation index spans txs 78f31f03+29f30b99 with a leaf txid (cae03a10) straddling the boundary, so per-tx walks drop a stanza;…

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 758 B ✓ verified
07 Dec #273,522
text P2FK

Pi to 1000+ digits

Two-level AtomSea object: toplevel 70fd2899 -> a 2-tx index (4c8cf0e6, fc0bb7ed) -> 5 data txs holding 1000+ pi digits framed as |1002*3.14159...

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 1,002 B ✓ verified
07 Dec #273,536
image P2FK

Nelson-Mandela.jpg

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 650×330 14,400 B 2 txs ✓ verified
13 Dec #274,591
text P2FK

Dear Aliens message

Single-tx AtomSea text; the message really is this short (51 bytes).

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 51 B ✓ verified
14 Dec #274,768
text P2FK

Rumi poem

The full 773-byte poem (attributed to Rumi) is spread across a chain of three 240-byte P2FKH chunks, each spending the previous one — so the poem is read by following the spends rather than…

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 773 B 3 txs ✓ verified
06 Apr
text P2FMS

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 implements. It is a self-hosting act: the instructions for embedding…

P2FMS CODE 4,412 B ✓ verified
06 Apr
text P2FMS

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-describing: anyone with a copy of the chain has both the files and…

P2FMS CODE 1,162 B ✓ verified
10 Apr
text P2FMS

BASIC creature simulator code

Non-functional/buggy BASIC.

P2FMS CODE 3,452 B ✓ verified
14 Dec
text P2FK

MULTIFILE SUPPORT TEST

A test upload made while multi-file support was being added to the publishing software. Its content is the message 'MULTIFILE SUPPORT TEST' — the engineering equivalent of tapping a…

AtomSea-P2FK TEXT 62 B ✓ verified
20 Dec
image P2FK

CompressedLogo.png (Apertus logo)

bitfossil root id used as txid here is a related root, not the original logo tx; verify.

AtomSea-P2FK PNG ✓ verified

2014

32 artifacts
02 Jan #278,319
other P2FMS

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-marked protocol message followed ten days later — see…

P2FMS UNKNOWN 98 B ✓ verified
12 Jan #280,091
other P2FMS

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 Counterparty protocol message. Not yet chain-verified against the…

P2FMS UNKNOWN ✓ verified
25 Feb #287,731
text OP_RETURN

Mt. Gox farewell

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

OP_RETURN TEXT 76 B ✓ verified
25 Feb #287,775
text OP_RETURN

Fuck you MtGox

Fuck you MtGox

OP_RETURN TEXT 15 B ✓ verified
26 Feb #287,826
text Base58

1FuckMtGox burn address

Base58 vanity *burn* address '1FuckMtGoxFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUQXW5ikw' (the 'FFFUUU' is the rage-face meme) reacting to the Mt. Gox collapse. Unspendable; as of 2025 it still holds ~0.0145 BTC…

Base58 TEXT 66 B ✓ verified
27 Feb #288,013
ascii-art P2FKH

Mt. Gox seal ASCII

<3 You Seals!

P2FKH ASCII 87 B ✓ verified
16 Mar #290,848
ascii-art P2FKH

Nude figure ASCII (seated)

ASCII art of a nude seated female figure, via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH). Among the earliest ASCII art on the blockchain; also reproduced off-chain at asciiart.eu.

P2FKH ASCII 1,134 B ✓ verified
20 Apr #296,884
other OP_RETURN

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 2013 with an address-encoded method [[proof-of-existence-genesis]] and…

OP_RETURN UNKNOWN 40 B ✓ verified
18 May #301,412
ascii-art unknown

Cthulhu poutine donate

The complete drawing is the largest pushed field in a custom output script.

unknown ASCII 287 B ✓ verified
14 Jun #305,806
text unknown

trollbot.org XSS detector

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

unknown TEXT 309 B 2 txs ✓ verified
16 Jun #306,204
text Base58

Star Wars opening crawl

Episode IV A New Hope...

Base58 TEXT 516 B ✓ verified
04 Jul #309,199
other P2FMS

FoldingCoin (FLDC) — asset genesis

FoldingCoin (FLDC) rewards contributors to the Folding@home distributed-computing project with a Counterparty token, created by Robert Ross. This bare-multisig Counterparty issuance at…

P2FMS UNKNOWN ✓ verified
07 Aug #314,482
image P2FK

OurWedding.jpg

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 160×160 7,017 B ✓ verified
01 Sep #318,638
audio P2FK

alien.wav

An audio file stored on the chain in 2014, split across many transactions and indexed by a root transaction that records the order of the pieces. Sound was an unusual choice: audio is…

AtomSea-P2FK WAV 6,187 B ✓ verified
03 Sep #318,836
image P2FK

Shiemaa&Vincent.jpg

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 160×160 3,314 B ✓ verified
06 Sep #319,450
image P2FK

YellowRobot.jpg

Chain says block 319450 (~2014-09); catalog's 450516/2017-01-29 was a different (SatoFamily) block. Date pending.

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 368×377 19,305 B ✓ verified
29 Sep #319,798
audio P2FK

OneGiantLeapForMankind.mp3

EMBII's earliest audio-upload attempt (Sep 2014, before Spock). The bio/profile wrapper and 48-chunk index are on Bitcoin; one audio chunk (index #62) is off-Bitcoin, so the mp3 has a…

AtomSea-P2FK MP3 3 txs ✓ verified
10 Sep #319,927
image P2FK

BikeLady.jpg (Allen Lee Vandever art)

Allen Lee Vandever artwork. The AtomSea object packs an 'ALLEN LEE VANDEVER' artist statement, a 180x180 avatar (a meditating figure in a snake-circle), then the 593x768 Bike Lady piece. A…

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 593×768 83,224 B ✓ verified
10 Sep #319,927
image P2FK

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 (after the 'ALLEN LEE VANDEVER' artist statement). Shares txid 2c4b9497…

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 180×180 11,880 B ✓ verified
12 Sep #320,303
other OP_RETURN

University of Nicosia — first UNicDC blockchain certificate (DFIN-511, 2014)

University of Nicosia (Cyprus) — the first university to anchor academic certificates on Bitcoin, for its DFIN-511 'Introduction to Digital Currencies' MOOC. Beyond timestamping, UNicDC is…

OP_RETURN UNKNOWN 39 B ✓ verified
27 Sep #322,834
text P2FKH

CryptoGraffiti Python tool (source)

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

P2FKH CODE 920 B ✓ verified
28 Sep #322,917
ascii-art P2FKH

hello, it's the Internet (cat)

hello, it's the Internet

P2FKH ASCII 100 B ✓ verified
28 Sep #322,920
ascii-art P2FKH

Nude figure ASCII (reclining, signed fsc)

ASCII art of a nude reclining female figure, via cryptograffiti.info (P2FKH), signed 'fsc' (credited to artist Marcin Glinski). Reproduced off-chain at asciiart.eu.

P2FKH ASCII 1,556 B ✓ verified
27 Nov #331,804
image P2SH

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 a medium that charges by the byte.

P2SH-DataHash JPEG · 600×309 9,684 B ✓ verified
10 Mar
ascii-art P2FKH

ASCII 'fuck' box

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

P2FKH ASCII 40 B ✓ verified
28 Sep
text P2FKH

11 rules of LaVeyan Satanism

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

P2FKH TEXT 1,040 B ✓ verified
28 Sep
encrypted P2FKH

OpenSSL-encrypted blobs (Salted__ cluster)

The cluster's payloads are OpenSSL symmetric encryptions: base64 blobs starting 'U2FsdGVkX1' (the base64 of 'Salted__', OpenSSL's salted-encryption header). Without the passphrase the…

P2FKH ENCRYPTED 297 B 3 txs ✓ verified
01 Oct
ascii-art P2FKH

Winklevoss twins (ASCII art)

if you like it, leave a tip: 1MDBHLGV7WX9viRG9X4LfDQfCX8oZ9wTO

P2FKH ASCII 15,860 B ✓ verified
04 Nov
ascii-art P2FKH

Marijuana plant (multi-tx)

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

P2FKH ASCII 876 B 2 txs ✓ verified
28 Nov
ascii-art P2SH

The Hashling (+ raw PNG)

The Hashling @BraveTheWorld @petertoddbtc

P2SH-DataDrop ASCII 6,614 B ✓ verified
03 Dec
ascii-art P2FKH

Force of Will (Magic: The Gathering card)

Possibly original; likely by cryptograffiti.info creator.

P2FKH ASCII 1,080 B ✓ verified
19 Dec
ascii-art P2FKH

Santa Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS! & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

P2FKH ASCII 1,900 B ✓ verified

2015

The cryptograffiti era 23 artifacts
20 Jul #216,909
text OP_RETURN

Hitler did nothing wrong (hate speech)

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

OP_RETURN TEXT 28 B 2 txs ✓ verified
07 Jan #337,874
image P2FK

Arecibo_message.svg

The Arecibo message — the 1974 radio transmission beamed at globular cluster M13, describing human DNA, our solar system and the telescope that sent it — re-transmitted into Bitcoin in…

AtomSea-P2FK SVG 9,013 B ✓ verified
02 Mar #345,858
audio P2FK

Spock_Live_Long_And_Prosper.mp3

Two-level AtomSea object: toplevel 1bc87dbf -> a 2-tx index (>-delimited) -> 17 data txs holding an author/SIG/translations wrapper then 'Spock_Live_Long_And_Prosper.mp3?27193|' + the…

AtomSea-P2FK MP3 27,193 B ✓ verified
11 Mar #347,172
other P2FMS

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 EverdreamSoft with FoldingCoin. On-chain Counterparty asset genesis at…

P2FMS UNKNOWN ✓ verified
26 Mar #349,362
image P2FKH

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 worked out.

P2FKH JPEG · 16×16 839 B ✓ verified
09 Apr #351,375
image P2FKH

we love bitcoin (heart + logo)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 128×128 1,551 B ✓ verified
01 May #355,014
text OP_RETURN

Time to roll out bigger blocks

Time to roll out bigger blocks

OP_RETURN TEXT 4,486 B ✓ verified
01 May #355,326
text OP_RETURN

I like big blocks and I can not lie

I like big blocks and I can not lie

OP_RETURN TEXT 1,077 B ✓ verified
11 May #355,899
image daisy-chain

The Economist logo

The Economist's logo, stored on the chain.

daisy-chain PNG · 80×40 2,648 B ✓ verified
11 May #355,901
image daisy-chain

City of London School logo

The crest of the City of London School.

daisy-chain JPEG · 120×105 4,128 B ✓ verified
20 May #357,239
image unknown

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, stored as base64 inside an input script in 2015. It circulated as…

unknown JPEG · 512×384 15,186 B 2 txs ✓ verified
10 Jun #360,235
text OP_RETURN

Bitcoin dev IRC log dumps

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

OP_RETURN TEXT 10,069 B ✓ verified
12 Jun #360,565
image P2FK

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 ordinary images that make up most of the chain's art: not a statement, just…

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 453×614 30,050 B ✓ verified
11 Jul #364,852
text P2FKH

How to Play Chinese Hats (short story)

How to Play Chinese Hats - A Short Story - 2015

P2FKH TEXT 6,440 B 2 txs ✓ verified
02 Aug #368,133
ascii-art P2FKH

Warren Buffett (ASCII)

if you like it, leave a tip: 1P675gRxNwhFXgfuDu5yXwGDgwLDbXNJqz

P2FKH ASCII 19,100 B ✓ verified
28 Aug #371,894
text Base58

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

Paved With God And Some Teension

Base58 TEXT 1,230 B ✓ verified
08 Oct #378,022
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Viva la Revolucion! Happy Birthday Santi (face x2)

The message continues in b33812c4…, followed by two P2PKH spend chains. Face 1 runs from 1890addb… to f06ae6f4…; face 2 runs from cacf8b73… to ad5e4afd…. Each visual row is split across…

OP_RETURN ASCII 5,612 B 4 txs ✓ verified
13 Oct #378,735
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Feliz cumple, Marian (face)

A 69-transaction P2PKH spend chain across blocks 378735 and 378736; payloads concatenate in spend order.

OP_RETURN ASCII 2,760 B ✓ verified
16 Dec #388,714
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Crude genitalia one-liner ASCII

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

OP_RETURN ASCII 19 B ✓ verified
24 Jan
ascii-art P2FKH

HypnoToad (Futurama)

All Glory to the HYPNO TOAD!

P2FKH ASCII 720 B ✓ verified
01 Mar
image P2FKH

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 by someone who thought it belonged there.

P2FKH PNG · 16×16 233 B ✓ verified
24 Jun
text OP_RETURN

Eternity Wall messages (EW prefix)

Other OP_RETURN protocols (Counterparty, Omni, Open Assets, Factom, ...) are documented in catalog/08 by prefix but lack single representative txids here.

OP_RETURN TEXT 24 B 2 txs ✓ verified
09 Aug
ascii-art P2FMS

Mr. Spock (ASCII)

Mr. Spock rendered in ASCII characters.

P2FMS ASCII 10,112 B ✓ verified

2016

37 artifacts
24 Jan #394,752
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Crude breasts one-liner ASCII

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

OP_RETURN ASCII 28 B ✓ verified
05 Mar #401,255
image daisy-chain

Iranian lady with polar-bear hat

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

daisy-chain JPEG · 200×200 5,409 B 3 txs ✓ verified
01 Mar #401,355
text OP_RETURN

503: Bitcoin over capacity!

503: Bitcoin over capacity!

OP_RETURN TEXT 28 B ✓ verified
07 Mar #401,592
image P2FK

Chiharu EMBII & The Atom Sea say Happy Halloween.jpg

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 768×432 30,707 B ✓ verified
07 Mar #401,592
image P2FK

Chiharu.jpg

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 230×282 44,591 B ✓ verified
29 Apr #409,471
audio P2FK

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

EMBII's largest known inscription (his own claim, twitter.com/EMBII4U/status/1655969645927563266). The '4 MB' is from EMBII's inscription label, not measured on Bitcoin: the index is on…

AtomSea-P2FK MP3 ✓ verified
13 Jun #416,073
text Base58

Nakamoto Satoshi Craig Wright (+ insults)

A 2016-2020 series of read-directly Base58 vanity/burn addresses about Craig Steven Wright (who claimed to be Satoshi). 1NakamotoSatoshiCraigWright on 2 txs (blocks 416073, 416703); then…

Base58 TEXT 31 B 5 txs ✓ verified
16 Jun #416,527
image P2FKH

Erich Erstu (1Hyena, gas mask)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 128×128 3,018 B ✓ verified
16 Jun #416,735
image P2FKH

Water Deer (badtaxidermy.com)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 360×480 10,554 B ✓ verified
18 Jun #416,835
image P2FKH

hotmine.io mining ad

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

P2FKH JPEG · 244×102 18,640 B ✓ verified
18 Jun #416,896
image P2FKH

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.

P2FKH JPEG · 128×128 2,328 B ✓ verified
20 Jun #417,111
image P2FKH

Cryptocurrency mining ad (@dobcrypto)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 960×291 7,133 B ✓ verified
20 Jun #417,131
image P2FKH

Chinese wedding (qijue poem)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 304×398 41,738 B ✓ verified
21 Jun #417,272
image P2FKH

Rene Angelil and Celine Dion

You will be here forever

P2FKH JPEG · 300×225 37,972 B ✓ verified
21 Jun #417,354
image P2FKH

Superbuffo (Toni Caradonna)

Superbuffo the first comedian on the blockchain

P2FKH JPEG · 922×931 27,050 B ✓ verified
07 Jul #419,676
image P2FKH

New Age dance

No alcohol and smoking since 07.07.2016. Love girls!

P2FKH JPEG · 382×295 36,449 B ✓ verified
09 Jul #420,000
text Coinbase

2nd halving coinbase messages (block 420000-1)

txid placeholder; coinbase by block.

Coinbase TEXT 100 B ✓ verified
09 Jul #420,020
image P2FKH

Pole-dancing GIF (animated)

cryptograffiti.info inscription: a small (45x128) animated GIF of a clothed woman pole-dancing (blue leotard, seen from behind) - revealing/suggestive but not explicit. Embeds 'GIF…

P2FKH GIF · 45×128 12,957 B ✓ verified
10 Jul #420,122
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 carrying a JFIF JPEG). Withheld: the data is on-chain and reconstructable,…

P2FKH JPEG 6,360 B ✓ verified
16 Jul #420,960
image P2FKH

Wedding invitation (Cyrillic)

A wedding invitation in Cyrillic. The chain is used here as a registry office of last resort — the invitation will exist long after the venue, the guest list and the paper copies are gone.

P2FKH JPEG · 950×531 26,072 B ✓ verified
17 Jul #421,151
image P2FKH

Bitcoin love certificate (Cyrillic)

Wedding Wallled 15Nz214yv76BmkKLCi8kAVssa5C7nQHLjx

P2FKH JPEG · 316×448 31,230 B ✓ verified
18 Jul #421,280
image P2FKH

Oles Slobodenyuk wedding

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

P2FKH JPEG · 800×601 46,116 B ✓ verified
09 Aug #424,414
image P2FKH

Nematode sketch (test)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 962×926 3,280 B ✓ verified
20 Aug #426,072
image P2FKH

Hand-written wedding contract (Czech)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 209×253 32,024 B ✓ verified
20 Aug #426,072
image P2FKH

Wedding on grass (Daniela & Pavel)

Danila a Pavel se prave vzali!

P2FKH JPEG · 370×362 48,969 B ✓ verified
25 Aug #426,832
image P2FKH

Onshape CAD ad

@Onshape - The Future of Professional CAD

P2FKH JPEG · 299×98 22,120 B ✓ verified
09 Sep #428,919
other OP_RETURN

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'. On-chain Counterparty asset genesis at block 428919 (2016-09-09), an…

OP_RETURN UNKNOWN ✓ verified
30 Oct #436,596
other OP_RETURN

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; 777 copies. On-chain Counterparty asset genesis at block 436596…

OP_RETURN UNKNOWN ✓ verified
06 Nov #437,669
ascii-art P2FKH

Apple Bake '16

This transaction contains the five-line apple and “APPLE BAKE '16”. The separate large letter-A inscription is catalogued as “Augie A”.

P2FKH ASCII 75 B ✓ verified
24 Nov #440,418
image P2FKH

Hello. Yes, this is dog.

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

P2FKH JPEG · 256×256 5,261 B ✓ verified
26 Nov #440,620
ascii-art unknown

Augie A - Study Math/CS at Augustana

!Study Math and Computer Science at Augustana College!

unknown ASCII 2,693 B ✓ verified
06 Dec #442,225
image P2FKH

Ross Ulbricht (freeross.org)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 256×256 6,577 B ✓ verified
28 Jan
image P2FK

MadyBobbyOffToCollege.jpg

A #father could not ask for more perfect daughters.

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 160×160 37,740 B ✓ verified
21 Apr
image P2FK

PIA17563.jpg (Crab Nebula)

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 640×480 40,982 B ✓ verified
20 Jun
image P2FK

Dr_Craig_Wright.jpg

Is #Satoshi #Nakamoto #CraigWright?

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 134×145 4,124 B ✓ verified
13 Jul
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Dr. Bill Maurer (ASCII)

Dr. Bill Maurer / Economic anthropologist

OP_RETURN ASCII 4,300 B ✓ verified
17 Oct
image P2FKH

Pepe the Frog (In Pepe We Trust)

In Pepe We Trust #BITCOINPEPE

P2FKH JPEG · 100×99 4,880 B ✓ verified

2017

Peak graffiti 10 artifacts
15 Jan #448,352
image P2FK

Loraine.jpg

EMBII's mother. The assembly lost ~40 bytes of the optional ICC color profile, so the APP2 segment's declared length (540) overran the next marker and hid the luminance DQT (component 1…

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 463×523 202,692 B ✓ verified
29 Jan #450,516
image P2FK

SatoFamily.jpg

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

AtomSea-P2FK JPEG · 421×204 13,497 B ✓ verified
14 Feb #453,083
image P2FKH

Tuxedo and rose (couple)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 180×240 3,701 B ✓ verified
09 Mar #456,370
image P2FKH

Couple on mountains (Spanish poem)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 427×277 33,534 B ✓ verified
21 Mar #458,238
image P2FKH

Tank Man

The photograph of the unidentified man standing before a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square in June 1989 — an image censored in the country where it was taken. Storing it on the chain…

P2FKH JPEG · 375×198 23,759 B ✓ verified
05 Apr #460,435
image P2SH

Mr. Burns 'You're here forever'

Don't forget, you're here forever

P2SH-DataDrop JPEG · 640×480 34,600 B ✓ verified
07 Jul #474,586
image P2SH

Augustana College Old-Main.jpg

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

P2SH-DataHash JPEG · 256×256 72,364 B 2 txs ✓ verified
07 Jul #474,646
pdf P2FKH

PDF demo (Adobe sample)

Adobe Acrobat PDF Files ...

P2FKH PDF 7,943 B ✓ verified
07 Jul #474,652
text P2FKH

pandoc Markdown demo (Unicode test)

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

P2FKH TEXT 3,518 B ✓ verified
10 Jul
text P2FKH

Disincentivizing Double-Spending whitepaper

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

P2FKH TEXT 23,160 B ✓ verified

2018

6 artifacts
29 Jan #506,612
text OP_RETURN

First RSK (Rootstock) merged mining

RSK (Rootstock) is a Bitcoin sidechain secured by merged mining. Its mainnet launched 2018-01-02, and this coinbase at block 506,612 — about four weeks later, when the first pool began…

OP_RETURN TEXT 77 B ✓ verified
23 Feb #510,602
image P2SH

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 the data does not decode — a failed upload, preserved with the same…

P2SH-DataDrop JPEG · 515×105 1,040 B ✓ verified
09 Apr #517,406
ascii-art OP_RETURN

TD Ameritrade ad

See the full picture at TDAmeritrade.com/Blockchain

OP_RETURN ASCII 5,508 B ✓ verified
07 Jun #526,446
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Cannes Lions TITANIUM ad

An advertisement entered for the Cannes Lions TITANIUM award, placed on the chain as part of the campaign itself — a rare case of on-chain data made for a commercial jury.

OP_RETURN ASCII 4,860 B ✓ verified
05 Jul #530,614
ascii-art OP_RETURN

lolcat test

lolcat test

OP_RETURN ASCII 57 B ✓ verified
23 Aug
ascii-art OP_RETURN

GrrCON ticket (skull, steganographic)

Your free GrrCon ticket; code OPRETURNISMYFRIEND

OP_RETURN ASCII 3,120 B ✓ verified

2019

3 artifacts
20 Jun #581,526
image P2FKH

Cat manga

A manga-style cat drawing.

P2FKH JPEG · 94×148 1,700 B ✓ verified
24 Aug #591,520
ascii-art OP_RETURN

An immutable poem

The transactions form a spend chain. One on-chain line omitted by the cited source reads “That show: We are together” with control bytes around the quoted phrase.

OP_RETURN ASCII 613 B 15 txs ✓ verified
01 Oct #597,374
image P2FKH

Woman, arms crossed

A photograph of a woman with her arms crossed.

P2FKH JPEG · 300×375 15,620 B ✓ verified

2020

4 artifacts
09 Apr #625,045
image P2FKH

Black cat

A photograph of a black cat.

P2FKH JPEG · 150×161 3,382 B ✓ verified
11 May #629,999
text Coinbase

3rd halving coinbase (NYTimes Fed message)

txid placeholder; coinbase by block.

Coinbase TEXT 100 B ✓ verified
09 Oct #652,005
ascii-art P2FKH

Yang Yiping obituary

Yang, Yiping ... Wir vermissen dich!

P2FKH ASCII 486 B 2 txs ✓ verified
24 Oct #654,100
image P2FKH

Teddy bear (image)

A picture of a teddy bear.

P2FKH JPEG · 288×400 6,769 B ✓ verified

2021

9 artifacts
13 Mar #408,680
audio P2FK

Seikilos.mid (MIDI)

Nested AtomSea object (#Seikilos #epitaph). The 8 data chunks are indexed on Bitcoin; the MIDI (format 1, 2 tracks) is complete in the first 5 on-chain chunks. Chunks 6-7 are off-Bitcoin…

AtomSea-P2FK MIDI 640 B ✓ verified
18 Jan #666,666
text OP_RETURN

Romans 12:21 in block 666666

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

OP_RETURN TEXT 70 B ✓ verified
10 Feb #669,986
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Teddy bear (ASCII, xoxo)

xoxo, S

OP_RETURN ASCII 45 B ✓ verified
31 May #685,647
image SegWit

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 the one that cannot be taken down.

SegWit JPEG · 128×101 4,556 B 2 txs ✓ verified
10 Jul #690,497
image P2FMS

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 permanent.

P2FMS JPEG · 500×667 24,094 B ✓ verified
14 Nov #709,632
ascii-art OP_RETURN

ZN / Zenon Network ad

ZENON NETWORK

OP_RETURN ASCII 552 B ✓ verified
19 Nov #710,352
image P2SH

Gulagu.net logo

The logo of Gulagu.net, the Russian anti-torture organisation founded by Vladimir Osechkin, stored in 2021. The group publishes evidence of abuse in Russian prisons, and its material is…

P2SH-DataHash PNG · 768×768 78,118 B ✓ verified
19 Nov #710,354
image P2SH

Gulagu.net people (Vladimir Osechkin)

A photograph associated with Gulagu.net and Vladimir Osechkin, uploaded alongside the organisation's logo in 2021. Both were stored using P2SH outputs, a technique that hides data in what…

P2SH-DataHash JPEG · 868×393 60,158 B ✓ verified
27 Oct
ascii-art OP_RETURN

Mystery 43-line art

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

OP_RETURN ASCII 3,483 B ✓ verified

2022

Ordinals → 3 artifacts
21 Feb #724,270
image P2FKH

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

BTGC:satoshi.gif

P2FKH GIF · 559×435 9,851 B ✓ verified
14 Dec #767,430
image Ordinals

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 Ordinals launch by its creator Casey Rodarmor as a test. It marks where one…

Ordinals PNG · 100×100 793 B ✓ verified
24 Jan
image OP_RETURN

keepcase.jpg (data-URL)

data:image/jpeg;base64,...

OP_RETURN JPEG · 80×40 2,231 B ✓ verified

2023

2 artifacts
01 Feb #774,628
image Ordinals

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's official account, which stated inscription #652 was "the first…

Ordinals JPEG · 1803×1803 3,915,537 B ✓ verified
11 Mar
other P2FMS

Quotes and threes flood

repeated " and 3 with sparse other chars

P2FMS UNKNOWN 33 B ✓ verified

2024

2 artifacts
06 Jan #824,540
encrypted SegWit

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 on the chain, and its encryption makes it one of the least understood.

SegWit ENCRYPTED ✓ verified
27 Jan
image P2FKH

A man and his cactus (Sahil Chaturvedi)

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

P2FKH JPEG · 96×128 5,673 B ✓ verified

2025

3 artifacts
31 Jul #907,911
text OP_RETURN

Liebe Melli — an anniversary letter

A first-anniversary letter, written to be permanent: 'Diese Nachricht lebt nun ewig' — this message now lives forever. The author chose the chain for exactly the property that makes…

OP_RETURN TEXT 264 B ✓ verified
25 Oct #920,779
text OP_RETURN

Glory to Hong Kong (願榮光歸香港)

The 2019 protest anthem, placed somewhere it cannot be taken down. A Hong Kong court granted an injunction banning its distribution in 2024, which makes the choice of medium the point…

OP_RETURN TEXT 1,161 B ✓ verified
28 Oct #921,133
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; inscribed via OP_RETURN (Oct 2025, taking up most of the block).…

OP_RETURN MP4 97,338 B ✓ verified

2026

7 artifacts
04 May #947,809
text OP_RETURN

NFP protocol whitepaper (Chinese)

A protocol proposal published entirely on-chain rather than linked from it: perpetual creator royalties framed through the Chinese tradition of the 傳家寶 (heirloom passed down a family).…

OP_RETURN TEXT 5,506 B ✓ verified
07 May #948,283
text OP_RETURN

pwm1 — mail carried on the chain

A working correspondence protocol, written directly into OP_RETURN outputs across three months of 2026. It tracks no ledger and issues no tokens — it uses the chain the way a mail server…

OP_RETURN TEXT 67,079 B 53 txs ✓ verified
04 Jul #956,666
text OP_RETURN

Declaration of Independence, inscribed on its 250th anniversary

Mined 2026-07-04 — the 250th anniversary of the document, to the day. The whole text fits in one OP_RETURN output because Bitcoin Core v30 removed the 80-byte data-carrier limit; at 9,285…

OP_RETURN TEXT 9,285 B ✓ verified
22 Aug #963,629
text OP_RETURN

The genesis-block puzzle — paid hints, solved on chain

On 22 August 2026 someone funded a two-key P2WSH wallet and announced in OP_RETURN that its keys came from the genesis block, with entropy 'extremely low'. A second message set the rules:…

OP_RETURN TEXT 27,358 B 119 txs ✓ verified
12 Sep #966,690
text OP_RETURN

Memory and AI — a message on immutable stone

A short reflection on human memory and machine-generated dreams, written directly into an OP_RETURN output in September 2026. The full text is preserved without edits. Its author and…

OP_RETURN TEXT 145 B ✓ verified
16 Sep #967,331
text OP_RETURN

CRC-20 — an on-chain technical essay

A 13,717-byte technical essay stored in one OP_RETURN output. The text calls itself a corrected edition of a CRC-20 / PRECOP design and distinguishes its proposed client-side rules from…

OP_RETURN TEXT 13,717 B ✓ verified
10 Oct #970,769
text OP_RETURN

BC3Dev — a coin's development notarised in OP_RETURN

Five transactions from one vanity address, 1BC3StampNdTWBp14A6F5QKrKnyqGnL7dp, use Bitcoin as a public notary for the development of BC3. BC3 is a separate proof-of-work chain: the payload…

OP_RETURN CODE 12,360 B 5 txs ✓ verified

Everything else written to the chain.

10 searchable corpora covering blocks 0–967,380 — every readable message the scan found, 407,083 rows in all.