So I discovered the hidden -dedication parameter, and encoded a short message into block 86043 which I mined. I've verified the message is in the blockchain by grepping through the primecoin blockchain files on a few other machines. Is there any proper way to view these messages (such as to check for more in other blocks)? Or do I need to build my own blockchain parser for this?
(EDIT: I tried the linux strings utility. I only see the original block's message, and my own's message. Guess no one else has done this.)
(EDIT2: I tried the strings utility on Bitcoin's blockchain. Doesn't look like stuffing information into a blockchain is that unique of a prank, drat.)
(EDIT: I tried the linux strings utility. I only see the original block's message, and my own's message. Guess no one else has done this.)
(EDIT2: I tried the strings utility on Bitcoin's blockchain. Doesn't look like stuffing information into a blockchain is that unique of a prank, drat.)
Hahaha this is great, there's a couple there now, maybe a couple people picked up on your advice:
Quote
Sunny King - dedicated to Satoshi Nakamoto and all who have fought for the freedom of mankind
Mined by XertroV
the dopefish lives
SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE
Mined by XertroV
the dopefish lives
SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE
What happened?
I put messages inside two of the blocks I mined. Sunny King's primecoin genesis block and a block by XertoV also had messages in them. You can see them in the blockchain by running "strings -n 16 ~/.primecoin/blocks/blk00000.dat" on a Linux machine for example. (You also get a few lines of gibberish, which I'm not sure if they are intentional.) I don't think there currently exists an easy way to inspect the messages further, such as to find what block they're in.
