17.2 Coinbase wordcloud

0. Introduction
There's a lot of very odd phrases and parts of phrases in the bitcoin coinbase. Some are just signatures for pools; others are somewhat more artistic in nature. And who could forget the Eligius "prayers-in-the-coinbase" shenanigans?


1. Quick and easy
I thought I could write a very quick wordcloud for the words in the coinbase. I used the dictionary that comes with every unix install ( /usr/share/dict/words ) and fgrep. I grepped words four letters and longer only.

It took about half an hour to run the 250000 or so words against the coinbase, and get back with found words and their frequencies. Note that I'm only including dictionary words here and a word is defined as starting or ending with punctuation, so some of your coinbase favourites won't be here.It does however include proper names, which scrabble has taught me is just plain wrong! Oh well.

2. Results
The colours and axes don't mean anything; it's just supposed to be pretty rather than very informative. It'd probably make a good t-shirt too.

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