Someone Has Been Recording the Same Poem on Bitcoin for Two Weeks. What Does It Say?

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A mysterious sender has written the same poem 26 times on the Bitcoin blockchain since October 12, 2026. Spotted by Galaxy Research, this series of transactions is intriguing as much by its content as by its regularity. Two copies of a second text bring the total to 28 messages in just 12 days.

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The poem, written in English, reads: “Thoughtless quartz clocks drift / blocks stack each a strict proof / timechain keeps score. » In French: “The quartz clocks drift without thinking / the blocks pile up, each providing rigorous proof / the chain of time keeps the accounts. »

Someone has been repeatedly posting a short poem to the Bitcoin blockchain over the last 2 weeks and it caught our attention…

"Thoughtless quartz clocks drift, while blocks stack, each a strict proof, the timechain keeps score."

26 identical copies so far. What is it? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/7jzftGBcXT

The reference to the timechain, a term used by Satoshi Nakamoto in the early days of Bitcoin, seems to echo the very functioning of the network. The text can be consulted in particular in block 971 914, dated October 17, 2026.

Transactions use the OP_RETURN function, which allows arbitrary data to be integrated into the blockchain. Each message is recorded in 103 bytes of output, exceeding the old default retransmission limit of 83 bytes.

Since Bitcoin Core 30.0, released in October 2025, this restriction has been significantly relaxed. A controversial development, with some community members believing that Bitcoin should not be used to store data unrelated to financial transactions.

Analysis of movements reveals a particularly methodical operation. The sender transfers approximately 0.327 BTC to three addresses assigned to a custody service, before collecting their funds a few hours later.

Each cycle lasts between 13 and 18 hours. Since October 19, nine operations have followed one another without interruption. Over 28 deposits and 14 round trips, Galaxy Research only recorded 8,015 satoshis in mining fees, to which is added a one-time deduction of 100,000 satoshis made by the service. The funds remaining in the same circuit, the possibility of a classic laundering operation seems unlikely.

Three hypotheses are considered by Galaxy Research: an attempt to artificially inflate the volumes of a service, a computer test executed directly on the Bitcoin network or an artificial intelligence agent with its own wallet.

Machine-translated from French