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Bitcoin fun facts
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Sanglotslongs2
on 29/09/2021, 18:56:06 UTC
⭐ Merited by DdmrDdmr (6) ,n0nce (3) ,Hydrogen (1) ,Cyrus (1)
Hello, if you have fun facts about Bitcoin that can be see with a Bitcoin explorer, please share it ! Here fun facts I know with source :



Largest transaction in bitcoin : 500,000.00 BTC sent in 2011 !
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/29a3efd3ef04f9153d47a990bd7b048a4b2d213daaa5fb8ed670fb85f13bdbcf



XCP burn address ! I think it's the first time dev made an altcoin and asked investor to BURN their BTC ! Proof-of-burn was born.
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXUWLpVr



Block 478558 was the last block Bitcoin and BitcoinCash had in common, so block #478559 are different :
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/block/478559
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/478559



Just after BTC big fork, a miner wrote "FUCK BITCOIN CASH" on a block :
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/block/478617



The infamous Mark Karpeles made a bugged php script and sent 2 609 BTC to broken address. As you can see below, one of these address start with "s-" but regular bitcoin address start with "1","3" or "bc1" :
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/s-272edf45031dd498e7b3ae89e11ff21b
(more info here)



Someone wrote the bitcoin whitepaper in this bitcoin transaction. As you can see, address are unusual, start with "m-" !
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713



You can write message inside bitcoin blockchain. And someone wrote the hash of a famous virus. So if you were a bitcoin node back then, for a time, all antivirus was detecting your blockchain as a virus and deleted all your files ! Making you downloading again. I don't know more details, just citing out of my memory !



First bitcoin transaction (excepte for coinbase that are block reward) at block #170 :
https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/f4184fc596403b9d638783cf57adfe4c75c605f6356fbc91338530e9831e9e16



Bitcoin address with the lowest hash 160 possible and 280 BTC burned to it (more info) :
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1111111111111111111114oLvT2