A Satoshi Hint?

[Plogan]

(Maybe I'm going crazy and this means nothing, but I find it interesting. I stumbled upon this a long time ago.)

Blocks 795–797 — January 9, 2009.

The coinbase script (1 byte each):

· Block 795 → 0x68 → h
· Block 796 → 0x6f → o
· Block 797 → 0x74 → t

Put together, it spells "hot" — with no noise or other bytes in between.
(Usually,miners put arbitrary info about their mining pool or machine in this field, but you can put anything you want.)

The payout address for block 797 is:
1GXheusMrRbndHuPLFMu8PHd6QYN6yBYy7

Notice the sequence "heus" — four letters in a row in Base58.
(Latin"heus" is an interjection meaning "Hey!" or "Listen!")

It looks like an Easter egg, but I haven't found any information about this anywhere (and it doesn't lead to anything). Could this just be a wild coincidence? (This was just 2 weeks after the start of mining, block #797).

And block 158:  The coinbase script 1 byte: T
and address have some words too, but not so pronounced: 1H5canZg3AwU44Fe65HG2siti9mFJnkc8

[tsaroz]

I didn't verified the blocks and their coinbase script myself but if true this could be intentional. Block 795, 796 and 797 are too early. It's been accepted that satoshi at least mined the first 10000 blocks solo. So, it was satoshi trying different things, he could have all the time and blocks to try different ideas. There were no other miners so he had no risk of other's mining the block in between. Satoshi might have been verifying different things and this could one of the things he tried.

[Alvin_talk]

(Maybe I'm going crazy and this means nothing, but I find it interesting. I stumbled upon this a long time ago.)

No, I don't think you are crazy mate, its really a cool observation. I believe weird stuff like this where common in the early block since it was just Satoshi and few others just playing around the codes I would say.

The coinbase script (1 byte each):

· Block 795 → 0x68 → h
· Block 796 → 0x6f → o
· Block 797 → 0x74 → t

Put together, it spells "hot" — with no noise or other bytes in between.

"Hot" might have just been a random test data or something similar, maybe someone having fun seeing what they can stick around to on coinbase.  

The payout address for block 797 is:
1GXheusMrRbndHuPLFMu8PHd6QYN6yBYy7

Notice the sequence "heus" — four letters in a row in Base58.

As for the “heus” in the address, that may have probably just being a coincidence, I think we can all agree that Base58 sometimes gives stuff that looks like real words sometimes so that won't be far fetched.

[bitmover]

It looks like an Easter egg, but I haven't found any information about this anywhere (and it doesn't lead to anything). Could this just be a wild coincidence? (This was just 2 weeks after the start of mining, block #797).

You are just finding random stuff which means nothing...

"Hot hey"
this doesn't even mean anything. What kind of easter egg is that?

It would be an easter egg if it would reference to some relevant information, such as a central bank, or gold, or inflation or whatever.... "hot hey" means nothing lol

[Plogan]

While I understand the inclination to dismiss these patterns as mere coincidences, let me explain why these specific cases in blocks 158 and 797 deserve closer statistical consideration.

In block 158, we're not looking at just one coincidence, but multiple coordinated elements:

The coinbase byte 'T' appears alongside an address containing meaningful text

The text appears strategically positioned between uppercase letters

This creates a coherent pattern across different parts of the block data

The case of block 797 is even more statistically improbable:

The coinbase byte 't' completes the sequential "h-o-t" pattern across blocks 795-797

Simultaneously, the payout address contains "heus" as a readable substring

This represents two different types of meaningful patterns occurring in the same block

What makes this particularly significant is the historical context:

These are the ONLY addresses in early blocks that contain anything semantically meaningful

During this period (2009), addresses weren't yet being converted from public keys - the blockchain contained raw public keys, making these readable elements stand out dramatically

The extremely limited participant pool (essentially just Satoshi, Hal Finney) makes independent creation by different miners highly improbable

The probability of two different early miners independently creating such coordinated patterns across both coinbase scripts AND address generation in the blockchain's most primitive state seems vanishingly small.

(At least in the first thousand blocks, there are no other addresses with clear words (not mixed with other characters))

[btc78]

I'll do you one better:

"Heus" could also mean, He Us, so it's like telling us that Satoshi could be one person - he, or group of individuals, - Us.

[OcTradism]

I didn't verified the blocks and their coinbase script myself but if true this could be intentional. Block 795, 796 and 797 are too early. It's been accepted that satoshi at least mined the first 10000 blocks solo. So, it was satoshi trying different things, he could have all the time and blocks to try different ideas. There were no other miners so he had no risk of other's mining the block in between. Satoshi might have been verifying different things and this could one of the things he tried.

The coinbase messages could be made intentionally but are they too important with us now at all?

It is not enough for us to know who is Satoshi Nakamoto.
There is conspiracy theory and also effort to debunk that "Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto".
Why Hal Finney was not Satoshi Nakamoto.

There are some reports on earliest blocks probably mined by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Was Satoshi a greedy miner?
The Return of the Deniers and the Revenge of Patoshi.
A New Mystery in Patoshi Timestamps.

[BlackHatCoiner]

These things are mere coincidences that humans tend to focus on, because they are pattern-seeking creatures, wired to find connections and meaning when there is none. There's a good video from Vsauce, which explains this phenomenon in detail. In that video, he explains that the statistical probability for weird patterns not to occur in nature is insanely small.

You can look into some things as intentionally being put there by an intelligent mind, but chances are, they just ended up there at random.

[tread93]

It looks like an Easter egg, but I haven't found any information about this anywhere (and it doesn't lead to anything). Could this just be a wild coincidence? (This was just 2 weeks after the start of mining, block #797).

You are just finding random stuff which means nothing...

"Hot hey"
this doesn't even mean anything. What kind of easter egg is that?

It would be an easter egg if it would reference to some relevant information, such as a central bank, or gold, or inflation or whatever.... "hot hey" means nothing lol

I would have to agree. Its a real stretch here and seems like purely just coincidence.  Perhaps just perhaps maybe satoshi tried to do something with the "hot" or something but i feel like the chances are slim, maybe there is more to unfold though. Why dont you keep looking and studying while youre at it. We could be wrong and maybe you can could be on to something

[ABCbits]

The payout address for block 797 is:
1GXheusMrRbndHuPLFMu8PHd6QYN6yBYy7

I think you use block explorer that doesn't parse P2PK correctly. If you visit https://mempool.space/block/00000000b0a235f2c0d786b99d2419dfd4461838842dddb1b7c9025592983fea, it shows P2PK UTXO with public key 04d2a719b1e44664f08c9568b6767e511db912446d78d6fa99e1e8c286c173aef4e663d106a8a2f f6cb53676499fa6922465e384c7328a846396cc6205589b2ba1. If you attempt to convert the hex to string, you only see garbage.

[bitbollo]

thats the same of people that are seeing human faces or figures in rocks.
just a mere coincidence, I can't see anything real personally... the message was HOT? Imagine how many acronyms and so on have been hidden...

You can easily find connections in whatever you want and I think that if any real hint has been added in blockchain this would be something really impressive and not just a few letters...