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Title is sensationalism. Actual paper title is "A Quantitative Analysis of the Impact of Arbitrary Blockchain Content on Bitcoin" — see also Illegal Numbers [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number



The paper isn't wrong though. There are supposedly numbers that correspond to illegal jpg images in the bitcoin block chain.


> There are supposedly numbers that correspond to illegal jpg images in the bitcoin block chain.

How did they come about? Do you have a source for this?


Thats's precisely what the paper linked in the OP describes?


Thanks, we've reverted the title from the submitted “Illegal content embedded in the blockchain” to that of the paper.




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