The Original Permissionless JPEG: From malware payload to Bitcoin blockchain

1 rmcdaniel 1 6/5/2025, 10:39:59 AM theoriginalpermissionlessjpeg.com ↗

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rmcdaniel · 1d ago
Last week I extracted that image from the original binary and inscribed it on the Bitcoin blockchain using the Ordinals protocol (#96901750).

Why post it here? • It’s an example of re-contextualising early malware as digital art. • Everything (report, source binary, inscription TX) is public, so you can verify the provenance end-to-end. • It touches a lot of HN interests: software archaeology, Bitcoin internals, NFT standards, and long-term data preservation.

Site: https://theoriginalpermissionlessjpeg.com/