How closely have you looked at the Taproot block?

[Zyler]

How closely have you looked at the Taproot block?

... is there an easter egg hidden on there?

... does it relate to an entity looking to leverage Taproot?

... has this entity mirrored the BTC Ethos right from its genesis?

... who could be behind such an enigma?

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[Charles-Tim]

You are getting the whole thing wrong. Taproot is just a modified version of native segwit (version 0). There is nothing like Taproot block or any wrong questions you are asking.

To know more about Taproot
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2017/03/23/schnorr-signature-aggregation/
Wallets supporting Taproot
Taproot proposal
https://youtu.be/1gRCVLgkyAE
https://medium.com/interdax/how-will-schnorr-signatures-benefit-bitcoin-b4482cf85d40
https://medium.com/interdax/what-is-taproot-and-how-will-it-benefit-bitcoin-5c8944eed8da
https://medium.com/digitalassetresearch/schnorr-signatures-the-inevitability-of-privacy-in-bitcoin-b2f45a1f7287
Pay-to-taproot (P2TR) transaction fee

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawiki
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0342.mediawiki

[Zyler]

You misunderstand friend.

Did someone sign block 709 632 with ASCII art?

[PawGo]

You misunderstand friend.

Did someone sign block 709 632 with ASCII art?

Do you talk about blue fish from https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/709632 ?

I think it is just a coincidence, all depends how browser interprets content of the page to be displayed, look at: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/blocks/btc/709632

[Zyler]

Not quite. There is a reddit post here about it ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/qtk492/someone_tried_to_put_some_ascii_art_into_the/

[PawGo]

Not quite. There is a reddit post here about it ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/qtk492/someone_tried_to_put_some_ascii_art_into_the/

Ah, OK, indeed, interesting. I haven't seen that before.
But what exactly is your question - do you want to know who did it? Why they did it?

Look at the page: https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/ascii-art  - more interesting ASCII pictures.

[NeuroticFish]

OK, so some people with a lot of time have made a bunch of taproot transactions writing stuff into their OP_RETURN.
I find the reddit (starting) post quite weak and supposing too much.

* I would say that one should look by the transacted values and make more than one list of OP_RETURN texts; there are more senders with more texts there.
* I would say that the order of those transaction may not matter, hence a reshuffle should look better (and the guy shuffling them did good).
* I would say that it would not be a surprise if other further blocks have such data, completing others' picture / messages
* It's not the first time I see blockchain / transaction used for advertising this or that

I see nothing special. As I said, people with too much time have pus texts there and made some transactions. And some wanted some odd advertising too. So what?

[pooya87]

It should be added that this has nothing to do with Taproot either. They are using an OP code that existed from very early days of bitcoin called OP_RETURN to insert arbitrary data into the immutable and timestamped bitcoin blockchain.
People do things like this sometimes. For example someone once inserted their engagement date into bitcoin blockchain which will remain there forever.

The only connection with Taproot is that the block #709632 is the block where this soft-fork was activated at. So you can say it is a "popular" block!

[nutildah]

This is kind of interesting. People have been putting ASCII art in OP_RETURN since 2011. There is all kinds of stuff in there that's not supposed to be, and its the same field that the Counterparty protocol uses to store its tokenization information (how Rare Pepes work).

... who could be behind such an enigma?

Seeing as how this happened almost a year ago already, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess it was you  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Sassaman#Death

[NotATether]

There is nothing special about activation blocks, precisely because they are arbitrarily chosen to be far in the future. So there cannot possibly be any surprise transactions inside that block unless some miner left some Easter egg OP_RETURN message in the coinbase transaction.

[nc50lc]

... who could be behind such an enigma?

Someone who wanted to advertise their network by using a potentially historical bitcoin block.

But they messed up the arrangement of their OP_RETURN transactions and made a gibberish text art instead of the intended "ZN" (as seen in the reddit post).
If they have utilized CPFP to group the set of transactions together, it would have been mined with the correct arrangement and without any unrelated txns in between.
That's a takeaway that whoever did it isn't a seasoned Bitcoin~er.