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It's always been possible to embed messages in transactions and the blockchain in general. It's full of stuff if you look.
by doublec 13y ago
It's always been possible to embed messages in transactions and the blockchain in general. It's full of stuff if you look.
- jbaudanza 13y agoAFIAK the only way is to do this is to encode data so that it looks like bitcoin receive addresses. This will burn BTC in the process. This transaction is embedding a message inside of a non-standard output script, which shouldn't be possible.
- hosay123 13y agoYou should a little more time reading about it. Among other features, transactions are described by what is essentially a mini scripting language
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- jared314 13y ago> shouldn't be possible It is restricted by the standard Bitcoin client implementation. Neither the transaction scripting language[0] nor the transaction[1] restricts it, so you would need to do it yourself or write a custom client to embed a message. [0] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction#Output https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction#Output
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoThere is all sort of graffiti and other garbage embedded in the blockchain. http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/04/on-bitcoin-data-spam-and-evil-data.html http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/04/on-bitcoin-data-spam...
- burntsushi 13y agoCould you then explain what the problem is? That's what jbaudanza was trying to do, but if he's wrong, then it'd be helpful for someone to clarify.