Bitcoin Graffiti work in progress
← 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

Hidden Wiki index pages

Written to the chain on 08 Apr 2013, block 230,229.

Block
230,229
Written
08 Apr 2013
Size
62,270 B
Format
TEXT
Transactions
2

About this artifact

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 is a deliberate act, and one of the earliest arguments about whether Bitcoin's permanence is a feature or a liability. The 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 · 2 transactions

Verified against the chain

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