Blockchain of Love: Someone Proposed Using Bitcoin

[alyssa85]

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/blockchain-of-love-someone-proposed-using-bitcoin

The only thing more uncomfortable for friends and close relations than filming your marriage proposal and putting it online is being really, really into bitcoin.

On Tuesday, somebody decided to go all-in on both of these modern horrors and became the latest person to propose using the bitcoin blockchain, the publicly viewable ledger that’s stored on every bitcoin user’s computer forever and ever.

This decision could have very easily ended up being nothing more than a permanent digital reminder of one of life’s more depressing failures, but thankfully for everyone involved she said yes, god help both of these people.

The initial message was added to the block reward (a handsome 25 bitcoins, or $17,182 USD by today’s price) sent to Chinese bitcoin company HaoBTC because they’d successfully “mined” a block of bitcoin transaction data and uploaded it to the blockchain. It read: “Sun Chun Yu: Zhuang Yuan, will you marry me?” The response, which came in the next block mined by HaoBTC, was: “Zhuang Yuan: YES!”

[rickadone]

Okay, that was sweet. I'm no miner so I don't exactly know how that happened but proposing using the mined blocks was rather creative and sweet at the same time. However, I would've still preferred proposing in front of a woman, knelt down and eyes above.

[mobnepal]

Does they pay that 25btc as miner fee? why to do so as they could have just transfered that bitcoin to another address with public message in it. May be he is really rich to spend 25 bitcoin rather than spending max 1 btc. I find him silly but to get indexed in news doing uncommon things, than may be he will find paying 25 btc reasonable. 

[unamis76]

Well, this was... different Will they post a message when they get married?