Bitcoin Users Mysteriously Spend Thousands Of Dollars To Incorporate Data On Blockchain

The owner of the mysterious Bitcoin is a question mark. (photo: dock. pexels)

JAKARTA - An unidentified Bitcoin owner has just spent about $64,000 to record nearly 9 megabitas of raw binary data on the Bitcoin blockchain.

According to a January 7 post on X (formerly Twitter) from the Ordinary Ord.io rover, more than 1 Bitcoin was used to make 332 records around 11:20 UTC on January 6 consisting of "data of raw binaries."

However, it seems that no one has an answer to what the data shows, where a user even tries to use OpenAI's ChatGPT to solve it without success.

"Some people say it might be encrypted so it's possible, unlikely/very difficult to decrypt FYI," commented konstrukter, host of The Ordinary Show, on a January 7 post.

Meanwhile, users are also wondering who recorded the data at first. Bitcoin addresses involved in this series of mysterious notes bc1pnp...zwd0th entitled "Without Name" in Ord.io.

This encrypted data includes various symbols of English, Greek, and math.

Interestingly, two of the 332 records are characterized by a peperoni digital pizza, described by Ord.io meaning it contains the satoshi of the 10,000 BTC used to buy two pepperoni pizzas from Papa John's by Bitcoin's initial contributor, How come Hanyecz, on May 22, 2010.

The mystery of this latest record comes just a day after 26.9 BTC worth 1.17 million US dollars (IDR 18.1 billion) was sent to the first Bitcoin Genesis wallet ever created on January 5, sparking various theories from industry experts.

Coinbase director Conor Grogan contemplated whether Satoshi Nakamoto "banged" and transferred Bitcoin from Binance or someone "only burned a million dollars."

Pro-XRP lawyer Jeremy Hogan, on the other hand, argued that someone might do so to pursue an anonymous Bitcoin creator, as it would force them to report the funds to the United States Internal Revenue Service or violate the law.

However, some have pointed out that the theory would only hold reason if Nakamoto was subject to US tax laws.