About this artifact
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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.
_______________________________________ | An immutable poem | | Unchanging over time, forever | | Written in transactions flowing | | That show: We are together | | | | Unbroken blocks for a Rose | | That I found in September | | Freedom gives this simple prose | | For all our time together | | | | Thank you for being you | | Like this poem, it is forever | | After all these years true | | I love our time together |Open the raw reconstruction ↗
Written to the chain on 24 Aug 2019, block 591,520.
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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 explicitly marks an output as unspendable and lets it carry a small data payload. Unlike fake-address methods, it does not create a spendable-looking UTXO. That makes it the least deceptive standard way to place small data on-chain.
More about OP_RETURNEvery byte shown here was read from these transactions. Open one in a block explorer to check it yourself.