About this artifact
A spoofed Western Union image, gzip-compressed before upload — compression being the standard way to make a picture fit a medium that charges by the byte.
← Timeline image · 2014
Stored at 600 × 309 px western-union-bitcoin-spoof.jpg.gz
Written to the chain on 27 Nov 2014, block 331,804.
- Block
- 331,804
- Written
- 27 Nov 2014
- Size
- 9,684 B
- Format
- JPEG
- Transactions
- 1
- Dimensions
- 600 × 309
How it was stored
P2SH methods are two-stage. First, a setup transaction creates script-hash outputs. Later, a spend transaction reveals input scripts containing the actual data plus a redeem script. Because the data appears when the output is spent, it does not remain in the UTXO set.
More about P2SH Data Drop / Data Hash 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.
- Sources
- ciro · sward
