The 55-hour sermon: the longest message ever written into Bitcoin
In July 2025 someone spent 8,620 transactions and 55 hours writing a single continuous text into the blockchain, 80 bytes at a time.
Stories from the blockchain
The archive can show you a message. These pages explain which ones matter, and why.
In memoriam: the dead remembered on the Bitcoin blockchain
People have used the world's most durable database as a headstone.
What people wrote on Bitcoin halving day
Every four years the block reward halves, and the blocks around it fill with messages from people who wanted to be there.
The fork war of 2017, as the miners wrote it
For eighteen months Bitcoin argued with itself about how to scale. Both sides signed their blocks — and the tally is still there.
Not in English: the other languages of the blockchain
Bitcoin's culture is loudly anglophone. Its ledger is not — there are messages here in Hebrew, Arabic, Korean, Greek, Thai and Armenian.
What a message costs, and who gets priced out
Every message here was paid for. Tracing the fees reveals something uncomfortable: when writing to Bitcoin gets expensive, ordinary people stop and Tether does not.
The blocks Bitcoiners remember
Genesis, the fork wars, Taproot, and block 666,666 — the moments people marked in the ledger itself.