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Hi,

I made this site http://bitcoinstrings.com/ (http://bitcoinstrings.com/). Explore the texts inside the Bitcoin blockchain. Data is updated daily.

Thoughts?

So, you are showing all messages, which are written in the blockchain?

It would be nice to go to the next site by pressing right and to the previous by pressing left.

Yup. Everything that can be easily parsed. About the left/right keys.. Thinking of it. The "Show all files" -page shows all the files.

Neat  :P

This is the data that miners can put in the coinbase transaction since the script is irrelevant there.
Unfortunately (?), unless you solve a block you can't write in the blockchain this way.

However, there is a nifty trick. One can create a transaction that pays to a bunch of addresses and they
make the message. Maybe you could try to decode these?

Probably some day.

What does that mean actually?I mean does a block consists of particular text inside them or what actually??

I don't know until now that bitcoin is also capable of storing texts. It would be great if a blockchain like system capable to store websites, musics and videos so that it cannot be taken down.

Huh, that's interesting. I always wondered why no one is actually building something really really useful on top of this, or is someone doing that? It is actually a nice way of keeping certain records or being able to verify the integrity of documents at a later point in time!

#1 its costly - you have to mine the block AFAIK.
#2 the blockchain is big allready and there will be updates to "skip blocks" in order to keep the size in check.
#3 its very little data


all in all its cheaper, faster and easier to use redundant servers. Its probably more secure as well.

pretty cool to see the written version of blockchain... 8) 8)

Actually there are some services which store data for you in the blockchain. For example there's a service which writes a hash of a document in the blockchain so it can be proved that the document existed at that day.

If one is capable of solving block how exactly he or she adds messages?

The miner adds the first transaction to his solved block that indicates where he wants his fees and reward distributed.
Since this transaction has no input, the input script is ignored. He can write whatever he wants there.