{"id":157790,"date":"2021-01-19T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bible-quotation-found-in-bitcoin-block-number-666666\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T12:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T09:44:20","slug":"bible-quotation-found-in-bitcoin-block-number-666666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bible-quotation-found-in-bitcoin-block-number-666666\/","title":{"rendered":"# Bible quotation found in Bitcoin block number 666,666"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Bible quotation found in Bitcoin block number 666,666  <\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>A hidden Biblical message has been found embedded in a transaction in block number 666,666 of the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. <\/p>\n<p>The message is a quotation from the sixth book in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Romans. First spotted by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinhackers.org\/@emzy\/105579452160930295\">@em<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinhackers.org\/@emzy\/105579452160930295\">zy@bitcoinhackers.org<\/a>, it reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDo not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good &#8211; Romans 12:21.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-01\/144be65a-3eae-4785-a44c-a5224f1d1eb5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Biblical reference in Bitcoin block 666,666. Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinhackers.org\/@emzy\/105579452160930295\">Bitcoinhackers.org<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The transaction in question saw an equal amount of Bitcoin \u2014 432,100 satoshis ($160) \u2014 sent to two different addresses. The first several characters of those addresses contain the words \u201cGod\u201d and \u201cBible.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2021-01\/88797fd7-a03b-458c-8b21-61cad8dc1fc1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Addresses outputs.\u00a0 Source: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/btc\/tx\/057954bb28527ff9c7701c6fd2b7f770163718ded09745da56cc95e7606afe99\">Blockchain.com<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whoever sent the transactions paid over $50 in fees, equating to five times more than Bitcoin\u2019s peak average transaction fee on the day, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitinfocharts.com\/comparison\/bitcoin-transactionfees.html\">Bitinfocharts.com<\/a>. This implies the sender\u2019s goal was to have their transactions, and message, included in block 666,666 specifically. <\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a hidden message has been found embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain. The most famous example is the message found in the first block ever mined, known as the \u201cgenesis block.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Times 03\/Jan\/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nickchong\/2020\/05\/11\/the-bitcoin-halving-just-happened-here-is-what-analysts-think-comes-next\/\">follow-up<\/a> was staged amid the first phase of the United States Federal Reserve&#8217;s money-printing spree in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Block number 630,000 revealed the following message:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNYTimes 09\/Apr\/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed\u2019s Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Implanting messages in the blockchain has become a common occurrence in recent years. Previous messages have come in the form of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nic__carter\/status\/990745214804545536?s=20\">marriage proposals<\/a>, poetry, eulogies and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> profanity.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"markets_outlook\"><\/template><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The message is a quotation from the sixth book in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Romans. First spotted by @emzy@bitcoinhackers.org, it reads: \u201cDo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDEvM2UyN2I4NzQtZTE5OS00ZGZlLTg0ZDQtNDcwZDY1N2JlZGFiLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74894,81853,76642,74880],"class_list":["post-157790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-genesis-block","tag-satoshi-nakamoto","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}