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by chrisbolt 790 days ago
That transaction appears to have an image attached: https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/btc/2fc565c... (see Ordinals Inscription)
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Wow they spent $5k to put some incredibly ugly AI generated art on the blockchain. Money well spent.
But it's on a halving block, so whoever did it has bragging rights in a way. In twenty years they can point to it and say "I did that." I fear that ordinal inscriptions will start making the blockchain unwieldy, but I'm not educated enough to know if the mining cost of adding them is a good enough defense against such spam on the bitcoin chain.
Some people pay a lot of money for paper bills with interesting serial numbers, far above the bill's denomination. This is no different.