Dirty messages in the block chain

[Blinken]

I have got to admit that when I first read about Bitcoin in the very beginning, I thought, now I wonder what would happen if I started doing transactions that recorded dirty messages into the block chain...

... or advertisements

I didn't really say anything at the time, but it seems some other people have gotten the same idea.

[jbrnt]

Once it is discovered that one can leave permanent messages in the blockchain, it is only natural that people will leave all kinds of messages there. It is not rocket science.

[BigByteMine]

A recent article was published on coin desk I read the other day... it was called: New Forms of Spam Could Bloat Bitcoin’s Block Chain

Talks about some new solutions to deal with blockchain spam

[Bitcoin Foundation.]

I have got to admit that when I first read about Bitcoin in the very beginning, I thought, now I wonder what would happen if I started doing transactions that recorded dirty messages into the block chain...

... or advertisements

I didn't really say anything at the time, but it seems some other people have gotten the same idea.

Whats a dirty message considered?

[awesome31312]

If you're bored enough to do that, just know that those messages will not target any specific audience, so nope, you may not talk dirty with your girlfriend over the blockchain, sorry pal 

[Meuh6879]

one can leave permanent messages in the blockchain

No.

you talk about the blockchain.info that it have "comments" on block, transaction or adress.
If you use an other reader : http://btc.blockr.io/address/info/1AqTMY7kmHZxBuLUR5wJjPFUvqGs23sesr

You don't have any commentar available.

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The Blockchain of bitcoin (physical files of the 6000 nodes of bitcoin-qt) don't allow message text in transaction.

[BurtW]

It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

[awesome31312]

It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

That must have taken a lot of valuable time. Which sucks because nobody else would bother to read it.

[BurtW]

It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

That must have taken a lot of valuable time. Which sucks because nobody else would bother to read it.

You did!

[awesome31312]

It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

That must have taken a lot of valuable time. Which sucks because nobody else would bother to read it.

You did!

Only so you wouldn't feel bad, and out of curiosity of course

[HELP.org]

one can leave permanent messages in the blockchain

No.

you talk about the blockchain.info that it have "comments" on block, transaction or adress.
If you use an other reader : http://btc.blockr.io/address/info/1AqTMY7kmHZxBuLUR5wJjPFUvqGs23sesr

You don't have any commentar available.

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The Blockchain of bitcoin (physical files of the 6000 nodes of bitcoin-qt) don't allow message text in transaction.

You can also put messages in but they are encoded.  The first block has a message in the coinbase field which is the field to send the block reward and here is how you decode it

https://cointext.com/decoding-messages-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/

[Meuh6879]

yes, you can "TAG" a mined block (that you have found) in bitcoin blockchain (for ever) ... but that all.

[oceans]

It was only a matter of time and when one person tried it and it worked then more would have followed in suit and so on meaning now it's a pretty common thing.

[tacotime]

CoinSecrets has all of the OP_RETURN pushed data from the blockchain on it. OP_RETURN lets you stick in 40 bytes of whatever you'd like in every transaction.

http://coinsecrets.org/

[BitCoinDream]

It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

Nice... I have never seen an address before holding 1 Satoshi

[Meuh6879]

ah ah   ... that's why i see all canotical error or un-compressed key invalide on my debuglog of bitcoin node.

Code:

2014-09-09 07:25:48 ERROR: Non-canonical public key: compressed nor uncompressed
2014-09-09 07:25:48 ERROR: Non-canonical public key: invalid length for uncompressed key

2014-09-09 06:58:03 ERROR: CheckTransaction() : vin empty
2014-09-09 06:58:03 ERROR: AcceptToMemoryPool: : CheckTransaction failed

2014-09-09 03:04:46 ERROR: Non-canonical public key: compressed nor uncompressed
2014-09-09 03:04:46 ERROR: Non-canonical public key: invalid length for uncompressed key

[BurtW]

It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

Nice... I have never seen an address before holding 1 Satoshi

I did not want to destroy more than 1 Satoshi per line of the poem.

[tzortz]

Dirty like?

[cambda]

But hardly anyone will read the messages, it seems a bit of waste. The blockchain.info comments are more interesting, but these comments are not part of blockchain actually, just blockchain.info stores these comments

[leopard2]

It is not dirty but I put this message in the blockchain forever:

https://blockchain.info/tx/bf40e4a1c2546747bc800a085e7145d921a9f402aaf4040c155ff5d0df9cc999

That must have taken a lot of valuable time. Which sucks because nobody else would bother to read it.

That is not the issue, the issue is that illegal information could be conveyed that way

Top secret stuff, terrorism ... would that turn the entire blockchain illegal?