-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ========================================= The 2024 Chess Olympiad Game Inscriptions ========================================= The Chess Olympiad is a celebrated event that happens every two years at which the best players from all over the world face each other in a national team competition. The 45th Chess Olympiad of 2024 was held in Budapest, Hungary from September 10th to the 23rd. As usual, many brilliant and memorable games were played. To better commemorate this momentous occasion, all games of the Open and Women's sections have been inscribed into the Bitcoin blockchain. The games, and this message, are all part of a collection that can be viewed here: https://ordinals.com/children/36b5ce7138cc49d297973326dc541e201b41ca19e96c14851f0ae3f35dc4baa9i0. These games will exist, as long as Bitcoin exists, on a worldwide network of computers that has no single point of ownership or control. Inscriptions are as permanent as a piece of digital information can be in this era. They are similar to, but more robust than "NFTs", because they are not merely retained as links to external systems. All of the game data and viewer code is actually stored immutably within Bitcoin's blockchain. This is, I believe, the first and largest collection of chess games ever inscribed into Bitcoin. Congratulations to all the players for being selected as representatives of your respective countries! As a bonus momento I would like to distribute these games to as many of you as I can, for free. Everyone can view these games, but if you played a game, you and your opponent are entitled to own it. Unfortunately this is on a first come first served basis, since there is only one inscription of each game and only one person can own a particular inscription. My intent is to introduce players to the concept of inscriptions and demonstrate how they can be accepted and collected. Most of you probably believe these digital artifacts are worthless, but people collect all manner of odd things. These inscriptions are, in my opinion, more interesting than most that have been created to date. They are fully interactive, playable games from a significant historical event. Who knows, someday they could have value. I will reserve these exclusively for players for at least a year from this inscription date, or possibly longer if players continue to make requests. If you have a mobile phone, you can accept these inscriptions. I will pay all fees to send them to you if you are interested. Please note, I will not ask for any payment. Anybody that does ask for payment or your wallet seed phrase is trying to scam you. The only thing required to send you the inscription of your game is a public wallet address. If you don't undestand what these last two sentences mean and you are still interested you should find a friend that can help you understand how Bitcoin works. If you are an Olympiad participant, you can send me a message on Lichess.org @NiteKnight, or Chess.com @KGNiteKnight. By doing so, I will be able to see your profile and better understand that you are likely who you claim to be. This is the most practical method I can think of to get the games into the hands of the proper players. In addition, if for some reason I am banished from Lichess and Chess.com you can contact me via email at [email protected] where we can make other arrangements to validate your identity. I am attaching a cryptographic public key for [email protected] to this posting for future proof of communication in case you are truly paranoid. Eternal thanks goes out to the Lichess developers for the javascript that powers these inscriptions, and Mark Crowther of The Week in Chess for the PGN content. I encourage everyone to donate to Lichess and TWIC, two fine organizations that have done so much for chess. If there are any errors or omissions in the games I do apologize for Mark's mistakes. Final Note: All games were inscribed between Bitcoin blocks 860960 and 862640, during and slightly after the competition. All games were minted to the address bc1pq0fqgckd99vx527rcupeltnhl3zcgqyscnn03x6sk8kqr02ktm9sfh9spz. All games are under the parent 36b5ce7138cc49d297973326dc541e201b41ca19e96c14851f0ae3f35dc4baa9i0. Anything else should be considered a fake. Cheers to All! 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The 45th Chess Olympiad of 2024 was held in Budapest, Hungary from September 10th to the 23rd. As usual, many brilliant and memorable games were played. To better commemorate this momentous occasion, all games of the Open and Women's sections have been inscribed into the Bitcoin blockchain. The games, and this message, are all part of a collection that can be viewed here: https://ordinals.com/children/36b5ce7138cc49d297973326dc541e201b41ca19e96c14851f0ae3f35dc4baa9i0. These games will exist, as long as Bitcoin exists, on a worldwide network of computers that has no single point of ownership or control. Inscriptions are as permanent as a piece of digital information can be in this era. They are similar to, but more robust than "NFTs", because they are not merely retained as links to external systems. All of the game data and viewer code is actually stored immutably within Bitcoin's blockchain. This is, I believe, the first and largest collection of chess games ever inscribed into Bitcoin. Congratulations to all the players for being selected as representatives of your respective countries! As a bonus momento I would like to distribute these games to as many of you as I can, for free. Everyone can view these games, but if you played a game, you and your opponent are entitled to own it. Unfortunately this is on a first come first served basis, since there is only one inscription of each game and only one person can own a particular inscription. My intent is to introduce players to the concept of inscriptions and demonstrate how they can be accepted and collected. Most of you probably believe these digital artifacts are worthless, but people collect all manner of odd things. These inscriptions are, in my opinion, more interesting than most that have been created to date. They are fully interactive, playable games from a significant historical event. Who knows, someday they could have value. I will reserve these exclusively for players for at least a year from this inscription date, or possibly longer if players continue to make requests. If you have a mobile phone, you can accept these inscriptions. I will pay all fees to send them to you if you are interested. Please note, I will not ask for any payment. Anybody that does ask for payment or your wallet seed phrase is trying to scam you. The only thing required to send you the inscription of your game is a public wallet address. If you don't undestand what these last two sentences mean and you are still interested you should find a friend that can help you understand how Bitcoin works. If you are an Olympiad participant, you can send me a message on Lichess.org @NiteKnight, or Chess.com @KGNiteKnight. By doing so, I will be able to see your profile and better understand that you are likely who you claim to be. This is the most practical method I can think of to get the games into the hands of the proper players. In addition, if for some reason I am banished from Lichess and Chess.com you can contact me via email at [email protected] where we can make other arrangements to validate your identity. I am attaching a cryptographic public key for [email protected] to this posting for future proof of communication in case you are truly paranoid. Eternal thanks goes out to the Lichess developers for the javascript that powers these inscriptions, and Mark Crowther of The Week in Chess for the PGN content. I encourage everyone to donate to Lichess and TWIC, two fine organizations that have done so much for chess. If there are any errors or omissions in the games I do apologize for Mark's mistakes. Final Note: All games were inscribed between Bitcoin blocks 860960 and 862640, during and slightly after the competition. All games were minted to the address bc1pq0fqgckd99vx527rcupeltnhl3zcgqyscnn03x6sk8kqr02ktm9sfh9spz. All games are under the parent 36b5ce7138cc49d297973326dc541e201b41ca19e96c14851f0ae3f35dc4baa9i0. Anything else should be considered a fake. Cheers to All! 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