000000000fdf0c619cd8e0d512c7e2c0da5a5808e60f12f1e0d01522d2986a51
The nonexistent cat is memorialized on the Bitcoin blockchain forever.
Free images of Lauda! Cool. Thanks. I’d much appreciate more.
In my opinion it is just a nice trick, but I could be wrong. [...]
Someday, this “mining” of txids may make for an interesting thread in the development forum.
When it comes to transaction mining, it is just a nice trick, but nothing else is behind that.
When I indicate that I have some practical usage in mind, I probably do. Beyond a neat trick. But I may want to keep it a trade secret. Note that what I was doing was probably more complicated than you guessed.
112f4a306f8bbe39270b0f1070751038fcf01f4a5eca42277a83e7ab3791afd5That txid obviously is not so; and at a glance, I don’t see any related txids with too many leading zeroes to be coincidental.
I meant: Was
000000000fdf0c619cd8e0d512c7e2c0da5a5808e60f12f1e0d01522d2986a51 the first time that anyone had ever mined a POW txid with many leading zeroes, or any other easily recognizable pattern? Especially on Bitcoin mainnet!
If my Kitty tx for Lauda was the first, I would purr. (Also, if it was the first to embed a cat emoji in
OP_RETURN.) I was not even much thinking that way last year—just trying to make something fun in Lauda’s memory, like the sporting games that the Greeks played at the funerals for heroes in classical antiquity. 😺