Bitcoiner claims to have found ‘long lost Satoshi Bitcoin code’ with personal notations

October 7, 2022 Coin Telegraph

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According to Jim Blasko, he was able to uncover raw data and files from Bitcoin v0.1 including notations from Satoshi Nakamoto using "a little browser hacking."

Jim Blasko, a crypto enthusiast, has claimed to have unearthed “the official oldest known uploaded copy of Satoshi's Bitcoin” code, originally uploaded in August 2009.

In an Oct. 7 post on Facebook, Blasko said he found code dating back prior to the earliest days Satoshi went public with Bitcoin BTC by “using some browser hacking” on open-source software development platform SourceForge, where the cryptocurrency was registered in November 2008. He included claims that it took the BTC creator six months to mine 1 million coins “as block 20,000 wouldn't come until July 22nd 2009 and others like Hal [Finney]” were also mining.

“This particular upload was thought to have been lost for at least 10 years, but after doing research on some old coins I made, I went to [SourceForge] and with a little browser hacking I found the lost Bitcoin v0.1 raw data and files,” said Blasko. “Since 2012 it was thought that the raw code and the files were gone as they had been scraped from the [SourceForge] search engine for some reason [...] I did some digging and I was able to find the original code.”

According to the two SourceForge links provided by Blasko, Satoshi’s personal notations included remarks on why Bitcoin used base-58 “instead of standard base-64 encoding” and questioned what to do about errors in the future:

The first Bitcoin block — the Genesis Block — was mined on Jan. 3, 2009, following Satoshi releasing the cryptocurrency’s white paper in 2008. Satoshi's identity continues to be a source of speculation among many in the space, with the pseudonymous creator being remembered with statues, papers, memes, and nonfungible tokens.

Cointelegraph was unable to verify the authenticity of Blasko’s claims at the time of publication. This story may be updated.

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Bargain? World Wide Web’s source code NFT sells for $5.4M at Sotheby’s

July 1, 2021 Coin Telegraph

Bargain? World Wide Web’s source code NFT sells for .4M at Sotheby’s

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The source code for the World Wide Web has been sold by the inventor for $5.4 million.

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has sold an NFT of the web's source code for $5.4 million at fine art auction house Sotheby’s.

The piece titled ‘This Changed Everything’ includes a time-stamped file of the source code's 9,555 lines, a high-fidelity image, a 30-minute animation of the code being written, along with a letter written by Berners-Lee.

While $5.4M is a significant sum, it’s a far cry from the $69 million record set in March for Beeple’s Everydays and less than some observers had predicted. Delphi Digital’s Piers Kicks said he’d been expecting a sale around $10M, noting:

Huh, it only fetched $5M.

Of course internet memes go for more than this...https://t.co/WHPhNFY1LY
— Piers Kicks ️ (@pierskicks) June 30, 2021

According to Berners-Lee, he and his wife will donate the proceeds of the auction to causes supported by the family.

In a statement to the press released by Sotheby’s, Berners-Lee discussed the future of the internet and expressed his hope that it would remain open to allow it to be a continual source of creativity, technical innovation, and social transformation. These ideals were the inspiration behind Berners-Lee move into the NFT space, he said:

“NFTs, be they artworks or digital artifacts like this, are the latest playful creations in this realm, and the most appropriate means of ownership that exists. They are the ideal way to package the origins behind the web.”

The high-profile auction of the web's source code isn’t the only multi-million dollar sale of a digital artwork hosted by a premier auction house this week. On June 30th, Christie’s Auction house closed a $2.1 million auction for the works of transgender digital art FEWOCiOUS.

The NFT “Hello, i’m Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life,” includes five individual pieces each depicting a year in the artist's formative years from ages 14 to 18 as he transitioned to male. The works illustrate the artist’s struggles with loneliness and identity as he strove to become an artist.

at a loss for words right now thank you so much to everyone for making me feel so loved, believing in my art and believing in me, it means the world ❤️ i’ll never forget this feeling or these last few weeks #FEWOCiOUSxCHRISTIES FOREVER pic.twitter.com/1BYNXX2SPN
— FEWOCiOUS (@fewocious) June 30, 2021

The trajectory of the young artist’s career is indicative of the upward mobility the digital market offers to digital artists. FEWOCiOUS made his first tokenized sale on the marketplace SuperRare for $6,000 in September of last year and was soon selling artworks valued at over $1 million on Nifty Gateway.

Data provided by Cryptoart.io shows that combined sales from the digital art markets have shrunk to $18.3 million in June from their peak of $205 million in March. Winklevoss-owned marketplace Nifty Gateway saw a 94% decline in sales from a peak of $145 million to $7.6 million.

Some digital asset platforms have prospered. Relative newcomer to the digital art space, hic et nunc, has seen sales grow 276% from $717,000 in March to $2.7 million in June, capturing capturing 14.7% of the market.

Sotheby’s will auction World Wide Web source code as NFT

June 15, 2021 Coin Telegraph

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Describing NFTs as the "most appropriate means of ownership that exists," a 65-year-old computer scientist will release a tokenized version of the world wide web code next week.

British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the original source code for the World Wide Web, is making the data part of a nonfungible token through luxury auction house Sotheby’s.

According to a Tuesday announcement from Sotheby’s, the auction house will be putting up the World Wide Web nonfungible token, or NFT, for bids starting on June 23. Bidding for the NFT, named “This Changed Everything” and containing timestamped documentation of the code, will start at $1,000.

*Preview of "This Changed Everything" NFT. Source: Sotheby's*

First created in 1989 before there were web browsers, Amazon, or even shareable memes, the roughly 10,000 lines of code — written using Python — includes implementations of HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, HTTP, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol, and URIs, or Uniform Resource Identifiers, languages and protocols. The computer scientist has also included a letter explaining how he created the code and his signature.

“NFTs, be they artworks or a digital artefact like this, are the latest playful creations in [the realm of technological transformation], and the most appropriate means of ownership that exists,” said Berners-Lee. “They are the ideal way to package the origins behind the web.”

Berners-Lee never patented the WWW source code, choosing instead to make it free for all. Perhaps as a result, current estimates put the computer scientist’s net worth at roughly $10 million, rather than potentially in the trillions or quadrillions. According to Sotheby's, all the proceeds for the NFT sale will benefit initiatives that Berners-Lee and his wife support.

Sotheby’s is seemingly becoming more well known for high-profile NFT auctions. In March, the auction house announced it would be offering tokenized art by a creator known as Pak. Last week, its London salesroom sold a CryptoPunk for $11.8 million, reportedly a world record for the type of artwork.

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