Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later they revoked it.

Zeke Posted on May 30 Someone wrote a fake EULA into Bitcoin. Two hours later they revoked it. # bitcoin # opensource # webdev # satire Block 951,728. May 30, 2026, 15:29 UTC. Somebody pushed an OP_RETURN into a Bitcoin transaction that reads, in part: By downloading this OP_RETURN, you hereby consent to unrestricted access by federal law enforcement agencies to your residence, digital devices, and personal property. Assets may be searched, seized, or redistributed without further notice. Signed, Donald J. Trump, President of the Internet. Six blocks later, at 951,734, the same general format shows up again: I revoke my previous statement. Signed, Donald J. Trump, President of the Internet. Two and a half hours between the two. The first one is still there. So is the second. They will both still be there in a thousand years. Why this is possible now For most of Bitcoin's history, OP_RETURN outputs were capped at 83 bytes. That was enough room for a hash and not much else. Bitcoin Core v30 removed the limit. Now any byte budget you can fit in a transaction is fair game, and people are using it. Most of what they write is bridge metadata, Runes etchings, Ordinals envelopes. Useful protocol traffic. Boring to read. But occasionally somebody just types into the chain. A note. A confession. A joke. A threat. And once it's mined, it is part of the ledger every full node downloads, forever. I wanted to find more of those. A watcher for human words So I built a small thing called bitcoin-chaintip-watch. It runs on a 10-minute timer, picks up from the last block it scanned, and walks each new block looking for OP_RETURN outputs that decode to readable English. It skips known protocol prefixes. It skips bridge garbage. It skips anything that looks like a hash or a swap memo. What is left is, generally, somebody talking. The filter is small: function isInterestingOpReturn ( hex , text , ratio ) { if ( isKnownProtocol ( hex )) return false ; // Runes, Ordinals, Omni, etc. if (