The Secret Bitcoiner spends $64K to write 9MB of data into Bitcoin.
An anonymous Bitcoiner paid nearly $64,000 to write nearly 9 megabytes of raw binary data onto the Bitcoin blockchain.
According to a January 7 post by X (formerly Twitter) from Ordinals explorer Ord.io, more than 1 Bitcoin (BTC) was used to create 332 posts on January 6 at 11:20 am UTC – including “raw”. Binary data.
However, no one seems to have an answer to what the data shows, with one user trying to solve OpenAI's ChatGPT without luck.
BREAKING: Someone spent >1 BTC to write 8.93MB of raw binary data to Bitcoin.
Can anyone decode it to find out what it is?
→ pic.twitter.com/wIpOsgwmhF
— Ord.io (@ord_io) January 6, 2024
“Some people are saying it's encrypted, so impossible/very hard to crack FYI,” Ordinal Show host Leonidas said in a Jan. 7 post.
Meanwhile, users are wondering who wrote the data in the first place. The Bitcoin address involved in the cryptic scheme – “bc1pnp…zwd0th” – is simply titled “Anonymous” on Ord.io.
The encrypted data consists of a variety of English, Greek, and mathematical symbols.
Interestingly, two of the 332 posts were marked with a digital pepperoni pizza, which Ord.io said contained the 10,000 BTC used to buy two Papa John's pepperoni pizzas from former Bitcoin contributor Laszlo Haniecz on May 22, 2010.
The latest secret comes from the huge 26.9 BTC, worth 1.17 million dollars, to the Bitcoin Genesis wallet – the first created Bitcoin wallet – on January 5, which prompted a mix of theories from industry experts.
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Conor Grogan, one of Coinbase's directors, speculated whether Satoshi Nakamoto “woke up” and transferred bitcoins from Binance, or whether someone “burned a million dollars.”
Pro-XRP attorney Jeremy Hogan floated the idea that someone might have set up the anonymous creator of Bitcoin by forcing them to report the money to the US Internal Revenue Service or run afoul of the law.
But some have pointed out that the theory holds water only if Nakamoto is subject to US tax laws.
This lawyer thinks someone sent Satoshi $1.2 million to reveal his identity pic.twitter.com/qMnwWY3HAj
— borovik.eth (@3orovik) January 7, 2024
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