venmo’d back
3,400 BTC
the “most” in “we’ll send most back”
iMessage, except every text is a Bitcoin transaction
Two people, one public bulletin board, ~$320m of awkwardness. Only messages signed by the coins or by Blockstream’s PGP key make it in. Randoms DMing the famous address with memecoins get left on read. Forever. On chain.
3,400 BTC
the “most” in “we’ll send most back”
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the other 15%, hanging out
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block height of the latest text
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the world’s slowest typing indicator
🔒 This conversation is end-to-end encrypted. Also it is copied to every full node on Earth. It’s a whole thing.
nobody cool has posted yet. check the little green dot.
Has the coins, therefore has the mic. Spending from this address is the signature. Right-side bubbles.
First contact address. After that they hop to new change UTXOs; this page follows those addresses and only keeps the text if it verifies against
blockstream.com/pgp.txt
(1176 542D … 6844 A2D6). Left-side bubbles.
Doesn’t text. Just receives extremely large Venmos and 1,000-sat “ok?” pokes.
Anyone can throw dust and an OP_RETURN at a famous address. That is not a text, that is graffiti. A bubble appears only if:
Encrypted bubbles are real mail. Holder → Blockstream is PGP. Blockstream → holder is Electrum BIE1. This page shows the envelope, not the letter. There is no “view once.” There is only “view forever, still can’t read it.”
As logged by the chain and by Alex Thorn.