The βook of βitcoin

The Bitcoin block chain, read as a book: each block a chapter, each transaction a section of grammatically correct Glossia prose, witness data collected as footnotes. Every byte of every transaction is carried in the words of the prose and decodes back out exactly.

Passages are composed here, in the browser, by a WASM engine — so with JavaScript off (or fetched by a crawler) this page carries no passage text. The book is still readable without it:

Curated passages as plain markdown — the Genesis block, the Hal Finney transaction, Bitcoin Pizza Day, the halvings, the soft-fork activations, and the rest.
The preface — the book in its own voice.
llms.txt — the site's structure, citation scheme, and how to reconstruct any passage on the chain from public data with the published engine.