# First P2SH spend

> A passage of **The βook of βitcoin** — the Bitcoin chain read as a book. This is
> block 174,719 read as a chapter, and its transaction 12
> (of 12) 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:** I β87 ■1344 §12 (Volume I, Book 87, Chapter 1344, section 12)
- **Block:** 174,719
- **Block hash:** `00000000000009dd806a658116a13b8b55f5f85ad2c7df44b2d6eea0191cc37b`
- **Transaction id:** `e5779b9e78f9650debc2893fd9636d827b26b4ddfa6a8172fe8708c924f5c39d`
- **Read live:** https://bookofbitcoin.io/bitcoin-book.html?txid=e5779b9e78f9650debc2893fd9636d827b26b4ddfa6a8172fe8708c924f5c39d

## Chapter frontispiece — block 174,719

Block hash, as prose: ⌘²⁰⁴ *An above accident not task shove. Crew may auction hero. Son ought see our simple orbit. A sick name sail turkey. A flavor see oven. Lounge south grace our favorite dance. Bamboo may set tax.* ⓪⁵²

- **version:** v1 — block version 1 (0x00000001) — pre-BIP9 integer form
- **previous block:** ⌘²⁰³ Above achieve the hollow body. A big red far join a set edit. Cop pave crawl to vapor per celery. Our cute chair brush sentence. Oven are evil to armor. Its digital question is bright per asthma. ⓪⁵³
  - hex: `0000000000000770f0f53d5f78933b3f9c0e97d406258baf0c436714bc639ccd`
- **merkle root:** ⋔ The abandon may abuse cart to jet. Pop bless float per parade. Beauty may cage theory to taste. Scissors urge its pride per fiber. Amateur is mutual to our boring mosquito. Man set garlic to turn. A guitar ahead gun some yes. A map truly see dig.
  - hex: `4bff590a7c66757fd91090cf88640f5a45d5bd2338de020f4827009aac5e6024`
- **timestamp:** 2012-04-08 00:54 UTC
- **difficulty target:** β₅₂ < 675966×256²³ — the block hash above reads below this target — nBits 1a0a507e — mantissa 675966 (2·3·113·997) shifted up 23 bytes: the target 0000000000000a507e0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, which a valid block hash must read below (52 leading zero bits) — difficulty 1,626,553 (relative to the genesis block)
- **nonce:** η 5·23·97·265493

## § 12 — First P2SH spend

Transaction id, as prose: ⌘²⁵⁶ *Abandon account to unlock per wool. An end get mountain to our dumb out to what pan. Its cow expand helmet. Street home erupt some return. A cute month get child. Our mean blanket select slogan to nurse out exercise. Horse may witness the cap.*

- **version:** 1
- **input 1:** spends output 1 of `7eaa56d72ef929deaf1323b18c1781b87ba203c2653a5278840b43aaa3f8586d`
  - script: 22355
  - sequence: ● — final — disables the transaction locktime for this input
- **output 1:** 0.01000000 ₿
  - script: ⧉ ⌖ h²⁰ Absurd access to swap. Its sir involve to inhale. Its whip improve embrace via nod. The similar thumb get skill. The pride jewel scissors. Moral set senior to the cut theme to pie. ≡ ∇
- **locktime:** □ — no locktime — final with respect to time

## 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.

The first spend of a pay-to-script-hash output — a lock that says only “the script whose hash is this” and leaves the terms to the spend that reveals them. This one predates enforcement: before BIP16 activated, such an output could be spent under the old rules with the redeem script alone. The same bytes meant one thing the week this section was written and another a few weeks later, which is what a soft fork is. The book renders the reveal as (r): the run of a script the chain had never seen until it was needed.

— 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.