5.1.4.1. Anti-CCP content in the Bitcoin blockchain (在比特币区块链的反中共内容)
Blockchain technologies, such as Bitcoin, provide essentially uncensorable (at a transaction cost), because the messages are put together with financial transactions which are extremely valuable to its users.
As mentioned by Dan Kaminsky at: https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/len-sassaman-tribute#video-black-ops-of-tcp-ip-by-dan-kaminsky-2011 this forms a type of Samizdat (Soviet underground propagation of censored materials, 秘密出版物, самиздат).
Services that can be used to easily view this data online include:
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http://bitfossil.org/ is a website that indexes especially formatted images uploaded to the blockchaian.
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https://bitcoinstrings.com/ dumps all ASCII printable strings of length 20 ore more online
We have been able to find the following anti-CCP information in the blockchain so far:
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2014: http://bitfossil.org/fe0dfa51337dfce616a0e0305d10eed867e56a9f0f006b0521ec1ea32851a342/index.htm is about the Hong Kong (香港) 2014 protests. It contains text and images in the AtomSea & EMBII format. Part of the text is ripped from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-29421909 "Hong Kong democracy protesters defiant on National Day Tens of thousands of people have been blocking parts of the city for days."
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2017: blk00776.txt transaction 3845e630032578cb825d587b759eb499511d691f93962f4b9f5b2e06ef9570c7 says:
Tiananmen massacre ←-- I dare China to censor this.
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2017 1ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e from 2017 contains an image of Tank Man (坦克人) encoded as standard transaction SHAs. The image is mentioned at: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145 with indexer URL https://cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg but that link is not working
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2017 blk00808.txt transaction 91b9b44532e094522e905012c04f207df1bcad8d9df7232679cb16859a008bdd (TODO why not visible at https://bitcoinstrings.com/blk00808.txt) contains a full text reproduction of: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/01/china-tell-truth-about-tiananmen-anniversary "China: Tell the Truth About Tiananmen on Anniversary" from Human Rights Watch (人权观察). The text is preceeded by a Chinese version of the same.
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2021-01-18: tx 0072a67e116e7bec2ca36d9ab71e61bd3732f201c76ab04eb06dae7c3c6f8ab8:
source of humanity and the mother of truth dp
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TODO meaning of "dp". Part of a quote by Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader) which was delivered in his Nobel Prize speech in absentia: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2010/xiaobo/lecture/, fuller quote:
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Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.
But of course, there are crypto-Wumao (五毛)'s there too!!! The incongruence of a dictatorship and uncensorability is just mind blowing:
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2016 transaction 4921ae59b6ca89c2cd78e3d0850abd657f88a3ecc13c9c667872bf2740841dee, by a miner who earned 12 BTC:
South China Sea belongs to China-pc
Neutral references:
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blk01341.txt tx 3d2226aa2591acfb0d3c9206b9bb2058b0a488ad6d0e9c61e0c8f3c53d0d4b90 "EW Hello Xi Jingping" (mispelled). "EW" is a service identifier, not part of the message.
On the test blockchain (boring!):
Bibliography:
Other blockchains:
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2019-02-25 https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795 "Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship" mentions the insertion of the Yue Xin letter and Changsheng Bio-Technology vaccine data falsification incident (长生生物, 2018) information in the Ethereum blockchain. This gives the transaction in the screenshot: https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028662/chinas-netizens-use-blockchain-spread-censored-news
Blockchain technologies, such as Bitcoin, provide essentially uncensorable (at a transaction cost), because the messages are put together with financial transactions which are extremely valuable to its users.
As mentioned by Dan Kaminsky at: https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain/len-sassaman-tribute#video-black-ops-of-tcp-ip-by-dan-kaminsky-2011 this forms a type of Samizdat (Soviet underground propagation of censored materials, 秘密出版物, самиздат).
Services that can be used to easily view this data online include:
-
http://bitfossil.org/ is a website that indexes especially formatted images uploaded to the blockchaian.
-
https://bitcoinstrings.com/ dumps all ASCII printable strings of length 20 ore more online
We have been able to find the following anti-CCP information in the blockchain so far:
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2014: http://bitfossil.org/fe0dfa51337dfce616a0e0305d10eed867e56a9f0f006b0521ec1ea32851a342/index.htm is about the Hong Kong (香港) 2014 protests. It contains text and images in the AtomSea & EMBII format. Part of the text is ripped from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-29421909 "Hong Kong democracy protesters defiant on National Day Tens of thousands of people have been blocking parts of the city for days."
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2017: blk00776.txt transaction 3845e630032578cb825d587b759eb499511d691f93962f4b9f5b2e06ef9570c7 says:
Tiananmen massacre ←-- I dare China to censor this.
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2017 1ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e from 2017 contains an image of Tank Man (坦克人) encoded as standard transaction SHAs. The image is mentioned at: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/191157608/#q191162145 with indexer URL https://cryptograffiti.info/#ca4f11131eca6b4d61daf707a470cfccd1ef3d80a6f8b70f1f07616b451ca64e.jpg but that link is not working
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2017 blk00808.txt transaction 91b9b44532e094522e905012c04f207df1bcad8d9df7232679cb16859a008bdd (TODO why not visible at https://bitcoinstrings.com/blk00808.txt) contains a full text reproduction of: https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/06/01/china-tell-truth-about-tiananmen-anniversary "China: Tell the Truth About Tiananmen on Anniversary" from Human Rights Watch (人权观察). The text is preceeded by a Chinese version of the same.
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2021-01-18: tx 0072a67e116e7bec2ca36d9ab71e61bd3732f201c76ab04eb06dae7c3c6f8ab8:
source of humanity and the mother of truth dp
+ TODO meaning of "dp". Part of a quote by Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波, 1955-2017, Tiananmen leader) which was delivered in his Nobel Prize speech in absentia: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2010/xiaobo/lecture/, fuller quote:
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Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.
But of course, there are crypto-Wumao (五毛)'s there too!!! The incongruence of a dictatorship and uncensorability is just mind blowing:
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2016 transaction 4921ae59b6ca89c2cd78e3d0850abd657f88a3ecc13c9c667872bf2740841dee, by a miner who earned 12 BTC:
South China Sea belongs to China-pc
Neutral references:
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blk01341.txt tx 3d2226aa2591acfb0d3c9206b9bb2058b0a488ad6d0e9c61e0c8f3c53d0d4b90 "EW Hello Xi Jingping" (mispelled). "EW" is a service identifier, not part of the message.
On the test blockchain (boring!):
Bibliography:
Other blockchains:
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2019-02-25 https://theconversation.com/chinese-internet-users-turn-to-the-blockchain-to-fight-against-government-censorship-111795 "Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government censorship" mentions the insertion of the Yue Xin letter and Changsheng Bio-Technology vaccine data falsification incident (长生生物, 2018) information in the Ethereum blockchain. This gives the transaction in the screenshot: https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028662/chinas-netizens-use-blockchain-spread-censored-news