Fuck MtGoxOpen the raw reconstruction ↗
Written to the chain on 26 Feb 2014, block 287,826.
Base58 vanity *burn* address '1FuckMtGoxFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUQXW5ikw' (the 'FFFUUU' is the rage-face meme) reacting to the Mt. Gox collapse. Unspendable; as of 2025 it still holds ~0.0145 BTC burnt into it. Read directly, not byte-decoded.
Base58 inscriptions put text into the visible address string itself. The address must still satisfy Base58Check rules, including a checksum, so the text often uses substitutions and padding to make a valid-looking address.
More about Base58Every byte shown here was read from these transactions. Open one in a block explorer to check it yourself.