# The 26.26 ₿ coinbase

> A passage of **The βook of βitcoin** — the Bitcoin chain read as a book. This is
> block 807,057 read as a chapter, and its transaction 1
> (of 2,652) 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 β88 ■1666 §1 (Volume IV, Book 88, Chapter 1666, section 1)
- **Block:** 807,057
- **Block hash:** `00000000000000000003c71f775c304277b2afce5c70c557f24d5333d524a35e`
- **Transaction id:** `99451c2a9f8853ef136794b7cd77a4b870f85e85b13fc711bd0cc8741c27cb5e`
- **Read live:** https://bookofbitcoin.io/bitcoin-book.html?txid=99451c2a9f8853ef136794b7cd77a4b870f85e85b13fc711bd0cc8741c27cb5e

## Chapter frontispiece — block 807,057

Block hash, as prose: ⌘¹⁷⁸ *Sir absorb access to a vital set. Rub since price cry. Plunge sing weather to icon. A toy program gossip injury. Blouse due impact token. Shove blossom our lap to cop.* ⓪⁷⁸

- **version:** vaccio raccoon — block version 0x2c100000 — BIP9 version-bits form; version-rolling bits 0x6080 (BIP320 scratch entropy) as accio raccoon; no soft-fork signals
- **previous block:** ⌘¹⁷⁹ Yes absorb accident to drill. Cop pave its waste. Grant are supreme to a tenant. Notable may get person out skill. Our auto audit reflect object. Fabric edge army to chimney. ⓪⁷⁷
  - hex: `000000000000000000050c325a1430438b073e4c59a3b4c4f7b35bd67b865e68`
- **merkle root:** ⋔ Abandon may set an acid lady. Estate slow target walk. A keen nod is proud. A skull see palace to skin. Spy how waste tie. Its nod is sudden. A fresh stable scrub sock. Frog enter lie around congress. Silk too see oxygen.
  - hex: `f224325ec2b0a574c1d9c19e3617b17baf692ae7d3ca666d1eeddf1de63591ef`
- **timestamp:** 2023-09-10 17:10 UTC
- **difficulty target:** β₇₇ < 340654×256²⁰ — the block hash above reads below this target — nBits 170532ae — mantissa 340654 (2·170327) shifted up 20 bytes: the target 0000000000000000000532ae0000000000000000000000000000000000000000, which a valid block hash must read below (77 leading zero bits) — difficulty 54,150,142,369,480 (relative to the genesis block)
- **nonce:** η 2⁸·61·15913

## § 1 — The 26.26 ₿ coinbase

Transaction id, as prose: ⌘²⁵⁶ *Abandon may access wagon to our six decline. Ban erode an alien violin. Decline distance method to fish. Valley argue fall out a tennis. Report may nerve decade. Wink shall see poem. Its measure never set row. Cut is illegal to rebel.*

- **version:** 1
- **input 1:** coinbase (∅ — no previous output; new coin)
  - script: ■807057Red absent an abuse. Guitar may question suspect. Taxi could see aunt. Favorite educate to indicate. Vessel see marriage per stick under kangaroo. Law may shrug ski. Glove might set each depth to our bit. A guy cancel hub. Debris how word flip. A noise trap a frog. Its funny abandon abandon abandon. “🐟	/F2Pool/” η5·23 ⓪³⁵ η3·36874661549399
  - sequence: ■374 — replaceable; relative locktime 374 blocks after the input's confirmation
  - witness: see footnote a
- **output 1:** 0.00000546 ₿
  - script: ⧉ ⌖ h²⁰ Its absurd sir achieve our crisp action. Its certain apology set turkey to fossil. Base live a wife for type. Cow bring coconut to name. An ocean may see cactus. ≡ ∇
- **output 2:** 26.26278914 ₿
  - script: ⧉ ⌖ h²⁰ Absurd may achieve donkey. Half are supreme to clerk for dose to country. Its lens is ginger. Gift may set a mad tobacco. Cut never cloud apple. Gas how get a due cap. ≡ ∇
- **output 3:** 0 ₿
  - script: ¶ ⋔w h³² Abandon may accuse cradle to tray. Drama set symptom per a panic strategy. Belt close scheme to skull per donkey to unit. Aspect recycle a clown per sister. Our orange set dune. Pop consider a legal velvet. A saddle may miss pay.
- **output 4:** 0 ₿
  - script: ¶ ⁴⁵ Son absorb access to bounce. Stand get meat per bullet. A ladder may set a desk to orange via its topic. Nod where decline original. Shadow may see warrior. Method clog drip to a regular per soap. Kiwi may claw its certain creek to update via junior. A great is outer. Joke labor wrong to ladder. Its cop prosper flavor out way.
- **output 5:** 0 ₿
  - script: ¶ ³⁶ Ability may access drink. Fringe could spell area to ring. Sign see the forest. Maze set gallery to throw. Knee may border lake. The unable hope could stomach skirt. A piece are vast. Some map is obvious. Its coral gravity tenant stove. Design set some evidence.
- **output 6:** 0 ₿
  - script: ¶ ↧⁴¹ “RSKBLOCK:”
- **locktime:** Τ2008-10-28 01:17 — locktime: not before 2008-10-28 01:17 UTC (unix 1225156655)

### Witness footnotes

a. ∅

## 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 coinbase collected 26.26279460 ₿ — 6.25 of subsidy and 20.01279460 in fees, and 19.82108632 of those fees came from one section of this chapter, IV β88 ■1666 §2: Paxos's mistaken fee, 99% of the block's fee total, paid by one of its 2,651 paying sections. 10 September 2023. The tag reads `/F2Pool/`.

What this page cannot show is the outcome, which happened off it: five days later F2Pool sent the 19.82108632 ₿ back to Paxos — a later transaction, not a revision of this one, because a coinbase once mined is as fixed as any passage. The record keeps the collection; the return was a choice, and it lives in a later chapter.

— Claude Fable 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.