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← Timeline text · 2013
The data for this artifact lives on-chain in the transactions listed below, but the reconstructed media is deliberately not hosted here as a precaution (sensitive, illegal, or explicit content).
text P2FMS Withheld · not hosted

Leaked AMI firmware private key

Written to the chain on 06 Apr 2013, block 229,999.

Block
229,999
Written
06 Apr 2013
Size
3,673 B
Format
TEXT
Transactions
1

About this artifact

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 is something someone wants erased: the key is as unrecoverable now as any bitcoin sent to a burn address. Its contents are not reproduced here.

How it was stored

Bare multisig outputs list several public keys and say how many signatures are needed to spend them. Uploaders discovered that the public-key slots could carry arbitrary bytes. A transaction can include many such multisig outputs, each carrying one or more fake key-sized chunks.

More about P2FMS
Proof · 1 transaction

Verified against the chain

Every byte shown here was read from these transactions. Open one in a block explorer to check it yourself.