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Re: Be the first newbie to answer correct and get 1 merit
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Rizzrack
on 14/03/2022, 12:22:50 UTC
⭐ Merited by DdmrDdmr (2)
decode from base85 ->  encode to ASCII


What does the following sequence represent? 4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898

That's the first commit in the Bitcoin github - first version of bitcoin Smiley

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898

And we have another winner ! Good job !

Code:
5wUP8bK2gm91cAcRa5wCXm89Rx91nrx8sCBYsGGghYcaDeWyJtUnejg8mEwYjUnRegSEJ7qPpmDh5fVyMmdL4KUtKxxNV7ycgb1FcGH9SCvpNGmWmiAYexUqdC8gzuH69cauBVcnFVsps2EWKw8QnVkP1Vv5Do1nGYujGPbyHo3nqVcf56USwaQud7ezCiZS8mt6pMnkkoqrpWQCqvc78p3KQKXeBnAj8h7YadRh2rqvBi96hM1sfjk5jaQqbHKwLnhETi7ZpGMCcrZpTw3rdMfSdUnkXGQMs2SkCuEURoutBGYentNN6UBPTwitJEuk95VDADjBizVjfxkqaCtFh1R

decode from base58 (aka satoshi's version of base64) and you would get
Code:
57 68 61 74 20 64 6F 65 73 20 74 68 65 20 66 6F 6C 6C 6F 77 69 6E 67 20 73 65 71 75 65 6E 63 65 20 72 65 70 72 65 73 65 6E 74 3F 20 34 34 30 35 62 37 38 64 36 30 35 39 65 35 33 36 63 33 36 39 37 34 30 38 38 61 38 65 64 34 64 39 66 30 66 32 39 38 39 38
decode from hex and you would get
Code:
What does the following sequence represent? 4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898
And YES, 4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898 is the id of the first bitcoin commit on github !