People are leaving messages inside Bitcoin. Forever.
Every one of these was etched into an OP_RETURN output on the blockchain — threats, confessions, prayers, ads, haiku. Immutable. Unstoppable. We scan every block, decode every OP_RETURN protocol, and keep the human messages front and centre.
The Permanent Record is built and run by @xbtoshi. It reads public Bitcoin data from open nodes, decodes every OP_RETURN output, and labels human-readable messages with an AI classifier; the labels are a reading aid, not a judgement, and nothing here is financial advice.
Corrections, questions about a monitored address, press, or anything else: send a direct message on X. Bugs and ideas are welcome as issues on GitHub, where the whole site is open source. Know an address that is collecting messages? Suggest it and a human reviews it before it is monitored.