Chain WhispersLaudato si' on the blockchain (June 2015)
On 18 June 2015 the Vatican published Laudato si', Pope Francis's letter on climate change and "care for our common home". That night someone copied the whole letter, as the Vatican's web page (HTML, with its footnotes), into Bitcoin: 77 transactions in blocks 361,547 to 361,562, from 23:35 to 02:27 UTC. The paragraphs are numbered, so the upload can be followed in order. Who sent it is not known.
Open the live timeline 77 messages so far, written into Bitcoin
Key messages and news
- News: L'Espresso publishes a leaked Italian draft three days before the embargo; the Vatican says it is not the final text and suspends the reporter's press pass. source
- News: The Vatican publishes Laudato si' (dated 24 May 2015): climate change is real, mostly man-made, and hits the poor hardest. source
- The first part: the title page and paragraphs 1-10
$@*6|000000000000298279<<p align="center"><font color="#663300">ENCYCLICAL LETTER<i><br /> <font size="4"> <b>LAUDATO SI <br /> </b> </font></i>OF THE HOLY FATHER<br /> <b>FRANCIS<br /> </b>ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME</font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p> </p> Praise be to you, my Lord .</i> In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. Praise be to you, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, and who
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