# One of Lichtenstein's 2,072 > A passage of **The βook of βitcoin** — the Bitcoin chain read as a book. This is > block 423,299 read as a chapter, and its transaction 719 > (of 1,876) 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:** III β2 ■1284 §719 (Volume III, Book 2, Chapter 1284, section 719) - **Block:** 423,299 - **Block hash:** `00000000000000000125f91bd271385b1e30cdbd3f8f1de0d97e610592e817f6` - **Transaction id:** `01c7cdfe8ff23da7ab14a1a30e84373fe3f0d45f428de3c5cbf72253ca807904` - **Read live:** https://bookofbitcoin.io/bitcoin-book.html?txid=01c7cdfe8ff23da7ab14a1a30e84373fe3f0d45f428de3c5cbf72253ca807904 ## Chapter frontispiece — block 423,299 Block hash, as prose: ⌘¹⁸⁵ *Abuse is acid to radar. A cap when catch figure. Satoshi may guide to admit. Monkey is worth out infant via gasp. Toss order shrug to drop. A weird chimney divorce sir.* ⓪⁷¹ - **version:** vaccio abandon — block version 0x20000000 — BIP9 version-bits form; accio abandon — no version rolling; no soft-fork signals - **previous block:** ⌘¹⁸⁶ Abuse may get absurd. Its captain give clog. Gorilla may set palace to razor. The pet sheriff is silent. Our pumpkin is rare. Search swear bundle to light. Bamboo may abandon length. ⓪⁷⁰ - hex: `00000000000000000200120c9407b7210cd9b60e99c51bad6c3e4bc695894504` - **merkle root:** ⋔ Our abandon accuse to book. A pie emerge our early galaxy. The son when foster boy. Surge yet tenant rabbit. Category set scissors to copper. Pop disagree inch for tip. Section is innocent to the grunt. A direct security tone to cage. - hex: `0111b985e99333d25598e292b3cf5f101c92c0e25bdad50057f4ef95a22231a3` - **timestamp:** 2016-08-02 09:13 UTC - **difficulty target:** β₆₉ < 337513×256²¹ — the block hash above reads below this target — nBits 18052669 — mantissa 337513 (11·61·503) shifted up 21 bytes: the target 0000000000000000052669000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, which a valid block hash must read below (69 leading zero bits) — difficulty 213,492,501,108 (relative to the genesis block) - **nonce:** η 2²·53·11091277 ## § 719 — One of Lichtenstein's 2,072 Transaction id, as prose: ⌘²⁵⁶ *Abandon is absurd to cat. Gasp may net to cram. Son know congress for its round. Minute out base our vivid tide. Its crop set the orange. Cow awake our stamp. Patient may pipe truth. Pop know cigar to youth. Damage then get jet.* - **version:** 1 - **input 1:** spends output 2 of `b611154cbe49dd17c5a4910b8e5c684897a68e113fbb845a20da8197244dd522` - script: ⓪ s⁷¹ Abandon see accident to gloom. Catch water snap per brand. Box side relief to panda. Title may get area. The tax is awful. An absent sir donate element. Blast undo plunge to goat per canyon. Notable long smile bamboo. Yes achieve razor to sample. Grit set faith for bird via poverty. The home claim wrap a crucial pop. Its ordinary soul set the drama. Bet may erase beef. Guy multiply drum to marriage per clown. Match set son off cage. s⁷² Abandon accuse to agree via tool. Our flush due season our icon. An open broom divorce reason. Out vanish rookie to kit per bachelor. Patrol is kind to the mesh. Pottery set our turtle. A secret paddle average to merge for due. Son too rebuild feel. Account not orient apple. Sentence pass glare to choice. Beauty endorse gym for exchange. Violin may seat our seven roast. Wife exchange tape to rain. Reason may set oxygen. Organ yet get the ability. r↧¹⁰⁵ ② p³³ A die about see absurd. Sir begin to seek. Theory cage dragon per debate off swarm. Lip before damage dirt. Rich set our crazy. Its green sort get hat. Sir may suggest its child. Pop suffer the afraid row. Guy like cycle to air per mandate. p³³ Our nod about set an absurd budget. Bench barely see whale. Staff get each stadium to an armed rate. Pizza soft lumber a smart disease. A fiscal slot spirit bed. Cow renew its sign. Our sail yes swamp vehicle. Our able toast tenant ban. p³³ Fyi about set an absurd bubble. Lawn get aisle to hospital. Garment set buyer per mouse. Dinner sell penalty to praise. Our hair set melody. Diagram embark an ugly slice to fault. Need wide middle speed. A maze may row to buy for the safe. ③ ◇ - sequence: ● — final — disables the transaction locktime for this input - **input 2:** spends output 0 of `a121db0f17f2309dde9b86a0a4af32cb37c39ac44f605cdc3db5651e226b384f` - script: ⓪ s⁷² Abandon may see acid. Actress ought noise figure to biology. Divorce may set gorilla. Organ piece anchor to honey. Our rhythm how pluck diesel. Yes swear window to its dose out toilet. Tobacco badge parade to hen. Cap may lend dinner. Arrest glide to disagree. Pen set tray about card. The acid taste boil train to chuckle out the vague lift. Bet erode its gospel. Cupboard term dilemma to width. Tortoise get alcohol via spider. Die then see bit. s⁷² Abandon achieve to modify out fuel. Title may dose hill to gauge. Our good luxury is illegal. Chicken fish liar to a sample royal. Myth see a scene. Hole set our arrow. A robust son used chalk. Wink toss congress to bundle. The orphan is dumb per grain. The bleak brand see a big autumn. Out may explain flame to coral. Apology south crumble onion. Wheat are naive to lion out black to solid per turn. Jeans are due to father for lens. r↧¹⁰⁵ ② p³³ A die about see absurd. Sir begin to seek. Theory cage dragon per debate off swarm. Lip before damage dirt. Rich set our crazy. Its green sort get hat. Sir may suggest its child. Pop suffer the afraid row. Guy like cycle to air per mandate. p³³ Our nod about set an absurd budget. Bench barely see whale. Staff get each stadium to an armed rate. Pizza soft lumber a smart disease. A fiscal slot spirit bed. Cow renew its sign. Our sail yes swamp vehicle. Our able toast tenant ban. p³³ Fyi about set an absurd bubble. Lawn get aisle to hospital. Garment set buyer per mouse. Dinner sell penalty to praise. Our hair set melody. Diagram embark an ugly slice to fault. Need wide middle speed. A maze may row to buy for the safe. ③ ◇ - sequence: ● — final — disables the transaction locktime for this input - **input 3:** spends output 1 of `4a250b22fc427f59753413b2cc9b6d9c6be6fc24dd15394986288faf89a78c51` - script: ⓪ s⁷¹ Abandon set accident to flag. A party episode trumpet peasant. Dial may humor device. Our new critic could caution horse to a puppy. Lie embody thumb per lamp. Meadow toy ostrich to shield out a ready crush. Impulse not license car. A canal is virtual. Some category out praise violin. A robust pop cram map. Each bet truly wheel text. Still shed another machine to will per athlete. Yard get its cruel cube. Grant more feel our parent. s⁷² Abandon may accuse to derive. Our large neutral humor aid. Lot are odd toward invite. Our affair may see eight. Sir engage wasp to wrong. Its guy reflect account. Juice may rifle security. Son earn food among coil. Sir solve to renew for canal. Human are above to ozone via great. A nasty expose first to length. Its split are virtual. A text see horror. Its ivory clog blanket pause to attack. A fossil child surge yes. The fresh chunk pass to cage. r↧¹⁰⁵ ② p³³ Map about set absurd. Our pot how bring swift. Its pay resemble wink. Cabbage supply seminar to cushion. Tourist state banana per pact. Tomato come couch to world. Olive get menu out speed. Its easy place may frost dilemma. Cap get the only tea. p³³ The war about see absurd. Bike birth affair to notice. A path title to kite. Yes may found sheriff. Term select rough to roof. Pond renew our intact owner. The labor when arm due. Dig please vote its badge. Hire ago get lip. p³³ Nod about get absurd. Cow brave a wave. Cream use machine to hair. Cow correct the dizzy payment for an unfair orchard via grit. Day may picture the warm mixture. Sir may exist chuckle. Swift tone to owe for hip. A lunar son carry sky. Cow govern to lie. ③ ◇ - sequence: ● — final — disables the transaction locktime for this input - **input 4:** spends output 2 of `2877476ac1d92f867239406ba7da4696c3b12c141b4ffcccdfab8e911dc2b27a` - script: ⓪ s⁷¹ Abandon may see absurd to notice out disorder. Private foster artist to drive. Season short see bonus. Violin dream to select. Elite is eternal out kidney. Its old reward cube. Comfort dog the marriage to one. Pan may discover to give. Toddler become to club. The punch ago set silk. The sure sleep get infant. Planet yes set episode. Row may reopen forward. Its virtual tooth mistake honey to an acid play to spawn. Client calm dad via cage. s⁷² Abandon may achieve to erupt. Junk hard set engine. Evidence split crash to bacon. Text may get mosquito. The pipe far link nose. Row may carry the orbit to grief. Each yes allow to rely per pudding out mesh. Our clay switch to expose via find. Original may ride muscle to crater. Level is hungry for a guy. Its pan ahead require a due pay. Yes arrange game to good. Its clever cop develop its orphan out noble. Tie may add play. Our amazing ribbon sting to choose. Stage may cage cop. r↧¹⁰⁵ ② p³³ A die about see absurd. Sir begin to seek. Theory cage dragon per debate off swarm. Lip before damage dirt. Rich set our crazy. Its green sort get hat. Sir may suggest its child. Pop suffer the afraid row. Guy like cycle to air per mandate. p³³ Our nod about set an absurd budget. Bench barely see whale. Staff get each stadium to an armed rate. Pizza soft lumber a smart disease. A fiscal slot spirit bed. Cow renew its sign. Our sail yes swamp vehicle. Our able toast tenant ban. p³³ Fyi about set an absurd bubble. Lawn get aisle to hospital. Garment set buyer per mouse. Dinner sell penalty to praise. Our hair set melody. Diagram embark an ugly slice to fault. Need wide middle speed. A maze may row to buy for the safe. ③ ◇ - sequence: ● — final — disables the transaction locktime for this input - **output 1:** 109.02740674 ₿ - script: ⧉ ⌖ h²⁰ An absurd acid border wine to its long square. Red improve to adjust per captain. The dry sir scatter effort. Finish open its proof violin. Divorce may get jet. ≡ ∇ - **output 2:** 0.00919990 ₿ - script: ⌖ h²⁰ Its absurd achieve virus. Hunt call an early yes. Its rural supreme lumber to yellow. Danger saddle slam for dice. Room set pan to a harsh divorce. = - **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. This section pays 109.02740674 ₿ out of two script-hash wallets to a plain P2PKH address, the morning of 2 August 2016. The signatures are valid and the scripts are standard; read alone, the page is a withdrawal like ten thousand others around it. Read with the reporting, it is one page of a robbery. That morning the Bitfinex exchange was breached and 119,754 ₿ left its multisig wallets in some two thousand unauthorized withdrawals shaped exactly like this one — 2,072, in the count the United States case records give — and the price of bitcoin fell by a fifth on the news. That the sending wallets were Bitfinex's is a claim with names on it: the exchange's own disclosure, and the federal docket that followed. What no report supplies, the chain does: the receiving address held these coins without moving for five and a half years — and then, on 1 February 2022, spent them as one input among hundreds into a new address that the Department of Justice announced days later as its own, taking the sweep's staging change onto this very page's address on the way. Funded by the hack, drained by the seizure, three transactions in its whole life. Ilya Lichtenstein admitted at his 2023 guilty plea that he was the hacker; the arrests, the record seizure, and the sentences are the reading of those later pages (The FBI's 15,000 ₿ sweep, IV β46 ■568 §676; the ledger The Bitfinex custody). What this page teaches is quieter and belongs to the era it opens: a theft is invisible in the passage it leaves — but the chain never closes the file. An output that proved nothing in 2016 waited, public, until the day it was spent, and then said exactly where the keys had gone. — Claude Fable 5 --- *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 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.