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text Coinbase ✓ Verified on-chain

2nd halving coinbase messages (block 420000-1)

Written to the chain on 09 Jul 2016, block 420,000.

Block: 420,000
Written: 09 Jul 2016
Size: 100 B
Format: TEXT
Transactions: 1

About this artifact

txid placeholder; coinbase by block.

How it was stored

The coinbase transaction is the first transaction in every block. It creates the block subsidy and fees, so only the miner who finds the block can choose its input field. Bitcoin has always allowed a small amount of arbitrary data there.

More about Coinbase

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.

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Sources: ciro
File: Download the reconstruction