BLOCK #TIP · TODAY
SYNC: PENDING1 INSCRIPTION FOUND — ASCII CAT
TITLE THE FIRST CAT IN CRYPTO
STATUS NOW PAIRED WITH BTC
The first cat ever inscribed into a cryptocurrency's ledger — welded to Bitcoin's own chain, confirmed a little more permanently with every block since.
LINKED OUTPUT — IMMUTABLE
embedded 28/09/2014
Intermission — years of mining between now and block 322,917
SYNC: PENDINGBlock 322,917 was mined on 28 September 2014. Somewhere inside it, a miner left behind a small ASCII drawing of a cat — logged today as entry 592 of 11,288 in the Messages from the Mines archive. Hundreds of thousands of blocks have been mined on top of it since. This one hasn't moved.
ORIGIN STORY
SYNC: PENDINGOver 10 years ago a Bitcoin miner embedded the first cat to ever exist on the blockchain. On Block 322,917, this playful ASCII cat — Bitcat — was cleverly embedded into Bitcoin's permanent ledger as a quirky, digital mark of creativity and culture within the crypto community.
To see this iconic piece of blockchain history, explore the "Messages from the Mines" archive, where Bitcat sits as entry 592 out of 11,288. Visit messagesfromthemines.brangerbriz.com and search Block ID 322,917 (mined on 28/9/2014) to view Bitcat.