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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

Illegal prime #1

Written to the chain on 06 Apr 2013, block 230,001.

Block
230,001
Written
06 Apr 2013
Size
3,933 B
Format
TEXT
Transactions
1

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.