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The German government has lost all their crypto…
So why does their wallet have that now? $409.86 in the?
It turns out that there are people who would like to send a message to the German government.
Once they started dumping their BTC, it became easy to find out which wallet address was theirs and in the last 3 days they have received 18 transactions.
Unfortunately, we cannot repeat most of the messages related to wallets sent by the German government – otherwise this edition would be sent straight to spam.
So instead we’ll mention one that’s about BTC itself (rather than BTC maxi’s view on the German government):
“Eine Schoene, zensurfreie Buehne gebt Ihr uns” OP_Return data from a $1.23 Bitcoin transaction read on July 13.
Translated, that means: “You give us a beautiful, censorship-free stage.”
Wait, what is ‘OP_Return’ data?
OP_Return is a field used for data storage that can be associated with a BTC transaction.
The problem is that any Bitcoin associated with OP_Return transactions can never be traded again, because the so-called opcode marks the output of a transaction as invalid.
Long story short: BTC sent with OP_Return data is purely symbolic (and is essentially no longer in circulation).
Okay, now you know!