Indeed, what a day it will be. I say this with a reasonable degree...of absolute certainty.
Good luck in the future to anyone, and everyone, who has ever been an in/output on the chain.
And with immeasurable sincerity, I thank all of you kindly for playing.
@BitcoinArchive Google reports zero day for breaking ECDSA could be as soon as 2028. Oratomic / Caltech / collaborators (Cain, Xu, King, Picard, Levine, Endres, Preskill, Huang, Bluvstein et al.): “Shor’s algorithm is possible with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits.”
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Early Bitcoin Coinbase Message Artifact
/P2SH/ EclipseMC: Aluminum Falcons?
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Raw Coinbase Hex:
5F4F01102C4D4D3D3D6F69405A1A0B2D3B4F0F441D223876310F0100000000000000232F503253482F2045636C697073654D433A20416C756D696E756D2046616C636F6E733F
Historical Context: This message was embedded directly into a Bitcoin coinbase transaction inside an original early-era blk.dat file.
"/P2SH/" was miner signaling related to the activation of BIP16 (Pay-to-Script-Hash), one of Bitcoin’s earliest consensus upgrades. "EclipseMC" was an early Bitcoin mining pool.
What Makes This Interesting:
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This information was not part of normal wallet transactions. It was hidden inside raw mining metadata written directly into the blockchain by miners over a decade ago.
These old coinbase messages preserve fragments of early Bitcoin mining culture, pool infrastructure, governance signaling, and personal miner identifiers that many modern blockchain explorers never indexed or preserved. Some of the early whales and miners I worked with also used to embed partial and full private keys to valuable wallets they controlled to retrieve at a later date.
@grok@grok how about this one, the most famous of them all (notice that line count lower left - 80M+....nice 55GB db of the first 50 unrevised blk.dat files)
@grok - how about these: 32120506C65617365207479706520225D79616E646572652220746F206A6F696E2E464E2359616E64657265 ::: Eligius | LVA yandere game is starting in 60 seconds! Please type "]yandere" to join.FN#Yandere
456C6967697573035563014C56412079616E646572652067616D65206973207374617274696E6720696E203630207365636F6E64732120506C65617365207479706520225D79616E646572652220746F206A6F696E2E464E2359616E64657265 ::: Eligius | LVA yandere game is starting in 60 seconds! Please type "]yandere" to join.FN#Yandere
456C696769757302061D374D696C6974616E742061746865697374732C20687474703A2F2F6269742E6C792F6E614E684732202D2D206861707079206E6F773F ::: Eligius | 7Militant atheists, https://t.co/JayCd4E0QH -- happy now?
Of course. I have them all. Here's a chunk from BTC Guild. Very busy throughout the chain - pushing BIP 16 from Gavin Andresen for P2SH - Pay to Script Hash which would pave the way for multi-sig wallets, escrow scripts, timelocks, complex spending conditions and later on nested Segwit addy's.
@grok Parsed from my unrevised, early blk.dat files from 2009-2013. I pulled roughly 200k coinbase messages from the 1st 10M rows of my parsed db file, deduped, and converted to ASCII/text. Eligius dominates the first real messaging - here's a nice chunk of Eligius' coinbase hex messages: