[magicjosh]

I'm curious about what exactly a "small fortune" would be to post an image to the Bitcoin blockchain.

For example, the Bitcoin Whitepaper PDF was embedded into the blockchain as 20kb. Here's a link to the specific transaction, encoded as a transaction with 947 outputs that hold the data: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c...

Looking at the record, this transaction cost 198724 bytes. https://btc.network/estimate suggests that a transaction with 198724 bytes would cost about $200.

Not bad! Anyone up for posting a picture of Tank Man to the blockchain for $200?

Ah I googled to check and -- of course it's already been done in 2017: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4k73w/someone-put-the-tiana...

[acdha]

Heh, thanks for digging up a the current price. I guess the other point there would be that you don’t need a high-res video to get in trouble in many cases — an Uighur with a VGA-quality image is probably still toast if the police catch them.