# First Ordinals inscription

> A passage of **The βook of βitcoin** — the Bitcoin chain read as a book. This is
> block 767,430 read as a chapter, and its transaction 2323
> (of 2,332) read as a section of Glossia prose. Every byte of the
> transaction is carried in the prose and decodes back out losslessly; the
> connective grammar is the translator's, the content is the chain's.

- **Citation:** IV β69 ■343 §2323 (Volume IV, Book 69, Chapter 343, section 2323)
- **Block:** 767,430 — First Ordinals inscription
- **Block hash:** `000000000000000000029730547464f056f8b6e2e0a02eaf69c24389983a04f5`
- **Transaction id:** `6fb976ab49dcec017f1e201e84395983204ae1a7c2abf7ced0a85d692e442799`
- **Read live:** https://bookofbitcoin.io/bitcoin-book.html?txid=6fb976ab49dcec017f1e201e84395983204ae1a7c2abf7ced0a85d692e442799

## Chapter frontispiece — block 767,430

Block hash, as prose: ⌘¹⁷⁸ *Ban may absorb an acid to a popular attitude to country. Neither pan thrive pluck. Total see the path. Alpha ago get pumpkin. A vague humor cram to spend via maid. Novel may avoid its aid.* ⓪⁷⁸

- **version:** vdepulso average — block version 0x23f0a000 — BIP9 version-bits form; version-rolling bits 0x1f85 (BIP320 scratch entropy) as depulso average; no soft-fork signals
- **previous block:** ⌘¹⁷⁸ Cow absorb to achieve. Card may get sauce. Its office put purpose to skin. Exchange are auto out access. Our match is fiscal. Ear spend volcano to option. Its war twice reason our yes. Die may avoid war. ⓪⁷⁸
  - hex: `00000000000000000002b35aef66eb15cd2b232a800f75a2f25cedca4cfe52c4`
- **merkle root:** ⋔ Abandon set accident to average. The jacket is loyal. Bicycle depart gym to edit. Cow install its slow talent. Hurdle deal tennis to bracket. Our point desert copy per father. A broccoli burst to flee. An eternal rub is nuclear.
  - hex: `ba6493b1ec318e4e01a63b3ab546be83c3b77587797533029a755e4142dcf961`
- **timestamp:** 2022-12-14 20:32 UTC
- **difficulty target:** β₇₆ < 538672×256²⁰ — the block hash above reads below this target — nBits 17083830 — mantissa 538672 (2⁴·131·257) shifted up 20 bytes: the target 0000000000000000000838300000000000000000000000000000000000000000, which a valid block hash must read below (76 leading zero bits) — difficulty 34,244,331,613,176 (relative to the genesis block)
- **nonce:** η 7·108290879

## § 2323 — First Ordinals inscription

Transaction id, as prose: ⌘²⁵⁶ *Abandon may account since speed. Our fresh noise stamp drip. Our ten profit may benefit weapon. The nephew is amused. Yes prosper our bit toward a long cactus. View scatter a super setup. Stick may sustain to combine.*

- **version:** 1
- **input 1:** spends output 0 of `274bda6667e60bedede0d87f351220da4089427e6122f7d0bbd8e662b3796358`
  - sequence:  — replaceable — signals opt-in RBF
  - witness: see footnote a
- **output 1:** 0.00009678 ₿
  - script: ⓪ h²⁰ Absurd set accident to athlete via gallery. Mountain bomb our still turkey. Region may shallow clap to column. Whip detail to speak. Dice may theme its bet.
- **locktime:** □ — no locktime — final with respect to time

### Witness footnotes

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Each orient ago shell an escape. Lap yet devote cry. Tank float to eat out fabric. Die may render ethics. Lap could bring cousin. Clap select knee to problem. Pottery may set nephew. Twelve is spatial to farm. Champion may get ostrich. Club is current to a wheel. The arch twist may fence galaxy above boost. Year scare crane to patient out the wisdom. Tool parrot its favorite night. Butter not set pyramid. Red may busy the ban. Our aid never sleep each desk. Our stumble may attend the nothing. Bed may relax flower to tumble. Flower claw to boil out faculty. Other yes not get tea. ⇊²⁷³ The absurd absurd is eternal. Some force now gaze hammer. Its rural sir fetch to pitch. Ear isolate symbol via shine. Jump undo to taste for east. Offer is robust to primary. Torch add camera out note per copper. Fancy see the mercy to fantasy. Penalty box some poet. The black trial patrol stomach. Pop inform setup to volcano. Sir crumble its squeeze. A next napkin kid trip. Save are idle to each surface. Pop assume to purpose out parrot. The shaft ago bus our glad dig. Its rub spend some public. A mad siren is silly. Cow disagree a bracket to laundry. The bitter sea may explain luxury. The annual company are twelve to our cut item. The illegal flame may enforce wolf. Fiction might beach party. Face may squeeze muscle. Flock shall set path to face. A dutch is mutual for physical. Panther circle our lie. An awesome vapor set the fluid. Crazy scatter east to salon out onion. Sir omit to surround. A throw may cash to caught. Die long flee use. The sky there impact december. Pop speak to attract. Gym may cup our shove out aid. Sin away see a low chimney. Each maid may fix to acquire. Ear ago satisfy nurse. Dignity may merge a wood asthma. Stereo jacket cargo to lawn via crawl. The wife between define our legal die. Cow surround response to cradle. Our cut husband obey our weather. A rub are innocent. Our lazy suspect toe south. Its alley knife a leg. Lap not speak guitar. Vendor twice get office. Token not see nominee. The pop symptom may vanish ear to its lap. Cop twice see fiction. Glimpse punch its rubber fire. Sweet toy chair to strike. Some bed is spatial. Total is rigid to family. Call may pilot edge via bone. Age may harvest bicycle to squeeze out soul. Cave may get ankle to issue per side. Mobile may panic tissue to team. Blast see world via our image. Stairs see the strong wreck to clown. An abandon abandon jet. Our ear is pop across eyebrow to orient. Enough pop due cancel link. A divorce may get pan. ⟩ · c v96₀ p Abandon may access faint to chunk. Oyster garage siege via result for category. Garbage ball the grape to winner. Badge may parent to carpet. Yes not arrange our hot pie. Its bad son then split the low rub. Lap may differ debate. A sky ought unveil opera. Cow oblige its obvious cop.

## Commentary

> A reading of the record, not the record. The passage above is the chain's own
> speech — verifiable byte for byte, no author, public domain. What follows is
> somebody's account of why it is worth reading: editorial, licensed CC BY 4.0,
> and no more authoritative than the argument behind it.

A file written into a witness — the part of a transaction SegWit had discounted and Taproot had freed from the old script limits — and read back out by software that agrees where to look. The chain records the bytes. That they are an image, and that this one is the first of a numbered series, is a convention held by people, not a rule held by nodes. Which makes it the ideal passage for this book's argument: the record and a reading of it, in one section, and only one of the two verifiable.

— Claude Opus 5

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*Reading the notation:* italic prose passages are Glossia encodings of the raw
bytes (decodable with the [glossia](https://crates.io/crates/glossia) engine,
wordlist `bip39`, language `english`); glyphs are the book's script notation
(opcode and data marks); small structural integers (version, counts, values,
locktime) are printed literally. A block hash reads ⌘ᵐ <prose> ⓪ⁿ — the
m = 256 − n bits of the double-SHA256 (⌘, OP_HASH256), Glossia-encoded as
⌈m/8⌉ bytes, then the n proof-of-work zero bits that follow them in the
internal-order bytes the prose encodes. See
[/llms.txt](https://bookofbitcoin.io/llms.txt) for how any other passage on the chain can be
fetched and read the same way.