# The 316.53 ₿ coinbase

> A passage of **The βook of βitcoin** — the Bitcoin chain read as a book. This is
> block 409,008 read as a chapter, and its transaction 1
> (of 1,962) 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:** II β99 ■1441 §1 (Volume II, Book 99, Chapter 1441, section 1)
- **Block:** 409,008
- **Block hash:** `0000000000000000042450ad2be4f2b6439ed39f70716a7575440d462cf165d9`
- **Transaction id:** `d717489881978796c5aae8552965b20e2f12346102d0635ad5a10bc4829082d4`
- **Read live:** https://bookofbitcoin.io/bitcoin-book.html?txid=d717489881978796c5aae8552965b20e2f12346102d0635ad5a10bc4829082d4

## Chapter frontispiece — block 409,008

Block hash, as prose: ⌘¹⁸⁷ *Abuse achieve our sleep. Labor get the flat general. Our peasant still pull to imitate. Lumber may see visual. Son develop to derive for the just mouse. Interest expand to cage per abandon.* ⓪⁶⁹

- **version:** vaccio abandon — block version 0x20000000 — BIP9 version-bits form; accio abandon — no version rolling; no soft-fork signals
- **previous block:** ⌘¹⁸⁷ Abuse see its absurd. Map include cube to joy. Attitude may see cricket. A senior oblige the airport to a rival rib. Our elegant pop slim clerk. Salt orient peace to scan. A out divorce set sir. ⓪⁶⁹
  - hex: `000000000000000005d8a1e4acef54bccca3e3569705c1ecf066ea40bcd54c0e`
- **merkle root:** ⋔ Abandon achieve hat to its exotic jungle. Sweet may identify each style. Its die is dumb. Frost try the account to carbon. Mule today pattern a tie. Pop unlock drift to quantum. Shock may set fiber per corn. Usage is rare to milk.
  - hex: `64842cdf07d32a19ebd5427057a8c6153911063c7d5d1ff235e1ba8d3c4031cd`
- **timestamp:** 2016-04-26 14:15 UTC
- **difficulty target:** β₆₉ < 403275×256²¹ — the block hash above reads below this target — nBits 1806274b — mantissa 403275 (3·5²·19·283) shifted up 21 bytes: the target 000000000000000006274b000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, which a valid block hash must read below (69 leading zero bits) — difficulty 178,678,307,672 (relative to the genesis block)
- **nonce:** η 3²·444485341

## § 1 — The 316.53 ₿ coinbase

Transaction id, as prose: ⌘²⁵⁶ *Abandon achieve piano to picnic via airport. A doll get special to fever. Lot may erase its source. The basic escape see cattle to valley. Float may net click for trim. A file may grant the august job. Cap may slow cake to wife.*

- **version:** 1
- **input 1:** coinbase (∅ — no previous output; new coin)
  - script: ■409008Ability see absurd to ability out dentist until voice. Link set the material advice to climb per gun. Style may see actor to kiss. Our direct citizen theme absurd. A chuckle little get bet. “ckpool” η2³·3 “/BitClub Network/SEGWIT/”
  - sequence: ● — final — disables the transaction locktime for this input
- **output 1:** 316.53275103 ₿
  - script: ⧉ ⌖ h²⁰ Absurd abuse gravity to puppy via the violin. Milk may expect garlic to music. Slot why get tuition. Permit suspect treat to orphan. File may parade lie. ≡ ∇
- **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 coinbase collected 316.53275103 ₿ — 25 of subsidy and 291.53275103 in fees, of which 291.2409 arrived from a single section of this same chapter, II β99 ■1441 §2: the largest fee ever paid, one section below this one. 26 April 2016. A coinbase claims its block's fees without naming where they came from, so the connection between the two sections is arithmetic, not reference — the fee is the silence in §2, and this output is where the silence landed.

The tag in the coinbase's input reads `ckpool/BitClub Network/`. A tag is unauthenticated — anyone may write anyone's name — but the pool acknowledged the block publicly and kept what it collected; the story of the fee, its sender, and the pool's later indictment is the neighboring entry's reading.

— 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.