The Mempool Block Explorer developer known as Mononaut reported unusual activity on the Bitcoin network on July 10th.
Between one of these messages, one of them said: “This was Satan’s realm before Eden.”as seen in the following image:
Text embedded in a particular transaction refers to “acquisition of Satan before Eden.” Evoke theological interpretation.
This concept relates to the idea of apologetic Christian Justinomaltir, who first associated the snakes in the Eden Garden with Satan in the second century.
After analysis, the developer was able to reconstruct the complete messages with 9,885 op_returns separate Reveal and save the content In the GitHub repository.
In the following image, you can see some of the text:
The text, which appears to be original and not extracted from the literature, is extremely intense material with intrigue and messianic tones, mixed with religious references and concrete accusations against political and government figures such as former US presidents Joe Biden and Michael Leman.
His style is clearly apocalyptic and combined with environmental and regulatory conspiracy theories. Rhetoric is offensive. Emitters declare sacred instruments that justify symbolic and personal violence against several individuals and groups.
According to Mononaut’s observation, people who were introduced to Mempool (a region where pending confirmation transactions are accumulated) were The amount of data equivalent to one or two blocksuse opcode op_return at the cost of 5 atoshis per virtual byte.
The developers detail these strange data date back to the first transaction, and someone else It’s spending about $22,000 Immortalizing in a network archives texts of a religious nature.
Interestingly, he says that this process is at least “four times cheaper” if the inscription is selected.
The message fragmented in thousands of transactions requires considerable technical and economic effort; Intentional intent to save this narration Permanently on a chain.
Op_return is a function designed with the Bitcoin protocol that can contain up to 80 arbitrary data bytes in a transaction (the limits on these data vary by each Bitcoin client).
Transactions using op_return are valid, but the data containing it does not affect the balance of Bitcoin and is considered non-expenditure, Unique Tools for Non-Financial Purposes.
In this way, this phenomenon illustrates a slightly explored intersection between the cryptocurrency ecosystem and theological representation. The immutability of bitcoin It is used as a means of keeping a permanent record.
