Re: How to write messages into the blockchain?

Quote from: Gimonela on February 20, 2015, 10:33:44 PM

This transaction here:

https://blockchain.info/tx/8a754f417dfda84d8fa8a27d67560fd4a0d13c54d3f617ccabae3a473d308208?show_adv=true

I know it has the text:

"The Congress shall have Power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

But I don't see it when I click "show scripts & coinbase"

You are mistaken.

Currently the protocol doesn't support OP_RETURN messages that are longer than 40 bytes. If you want to encode that message in plain text, it would require more than 200 bytes.

Perhaps that transaction encodes a hash of the text? Or perhaps it has the text encoded in some form such that it is not plain text?