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LEN "rabbi" SASSAMA 
     1980-2011      
Len was our friend. 
A brilliant mind,   
a kind soul, and    
a devious schemer;  
husband to Meredith 
brother to Calvin,  
son to Jim and      
Dana Hartshorn,     
coauthor and        
cofounder and       
Shmoo and so much   
more.  We dedicate  
this silly hack to  
Len, who would have 
found it absolutely 
hilarious.          
--Dan Kaminsky,     
Travis Goodspeed    
P.S.  My apologies, 
BitCoin people.  He 
also would have     
LOL'd at BitCoin's  
new dependency upon 
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Len Sassaman tribute / ASCII Bernanke

Written to the chain on 30 Jul 2011, block 138,725.

Block
138,725
Written
30 Jul 2011
Size
1,540 B
Format
ASCII
Transactions
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About this artifact

---BEGIN TRIBUTE--- LEN "rabbi" SASSAMA 1980-2011 ... ASCII BERNANKE

By Dan Kaminsky & Travis Goodspeed.

How it was stored

A normal pay-to-public-key-hash output contains a 20-byte public-key hash. A data uploader can put arbitrary 20-byte chunks in that field instead. To the network it looks like many ordinary-looking outputs, but the “addresses” are fake because nobody knows a private key whose public key hashes to those bytes.

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