Cheshire Cat — The First Cat on the Blockchain

Field notes

The archive reconstructs the message by reading the visible prefixes of eight Base58Check vanity addresses in transaction-output order, stopping at repeated padding or random-looking suffixes. It explains why characters such as “1” appear as look-alikes under Base58’s omitted-character rules, then compares the result with Chapter VI of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The page records block 154,769, a November 25, 2011 date, and the complete transaction ID for external checking.