{"id":35006,"date":"2021-01-19T16:12:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T14:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35006"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:18:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:18:36","slug":"biblical-message-found-in-bitcoin-block-666666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/biblical-message-found-in-bitcoin-block-666666\/","title":{"rendered":"Biblical message found in Bitcoin block 666,666"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unknown person added a quote from the sixth book of the New Testament to Bitcoin block 666,666.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good,&#8221; reads a quotation from Romans 12:21 in the Epistle to the Romans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This message was embedded in the 666,666th block of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bitcoin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HpnPWrCjyW\">pic.twitter.com\/HpnPWrCjyW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Documenting Bitcoin \ud83d\udcc4 (@DocumentBitcoin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DocumentBitcoin\/status\/1351352557290086400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nAmounts totaling about $160 in the first cryptocurrency were sent to two addresses, the first characters of which spell the words &#8220;God&#8221; and &#8220;Bible&#8221; in English.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_122464\" style=\"width: 622px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122464\" class=\"wp-image-122464 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-395.png\" alt=\"\u0412 \u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u0435 \u0431\u0438\u0442\u043a\u043e\u0438\u043d\u0430 #666 666 \u043d\u0430\u0448\u043b\u0438 \u0431\u0438\u0431\u043b\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u043f\u043e\u0441\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435\" width=\"612\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-395.png 612w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image1-395-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-122464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transaction addresses. Data: Blockchain.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The sender paid more than $50 in fees \u2014 five times the day\\&#8217;s peak average transaction fee, according to Bitinfocharts. The elevated fee was likely intended to guarantee inclusion of the transaction in a block.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"k9wj358oR8\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-not-emojis-how-to-leave-a-message-in-the-blockchain-of-the-first-cryptocurrency\">Bitcoin instead of emoji: how to leave a message in the blockchain of the first cryptocurrency<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cBitcoin instead of emoji: how to leave a message in the blockchain of the first cryptocurrency\u201d \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/exclusive\/bitkoin-vmesto-emodzi-kak-ostavit-soobshhenie-v-blokchejne-pervoj-kriptovalyuty\/embed#?secret=aCzcjXszEJ#?secret=k9wj358oR8\" data-secret=\"k9wj358oR8\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back in December, the oldest mining pool <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoins-oldest-mining-pool-immortalises-bullish-newspaper-headline-in-a-block\">enshrined in the Bitcoin block<\/a> a &#8216;bull&#8217; newspaper headline.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news stream, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quote from the sixth book of the New Testament was added to Bitcoin block 666,666 by an unknown person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,2041],"class_list":["post-35006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-blocks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"124","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35008,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006\/revisions\/35008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}