Getting OP_RETURN Bitcoin Messages

This is mainly a note to myself as every time I want to do this I end up searching through my history doing something like this.

history | grep hexyl

So here’s the code to extract the OP_RETURN message from the bitcoin blockchain. This needs to be run on the machine running your full node.

bitcoin-cli getblockhash 0|xargs -I '{}' bitcoin-cli getblock '{}' 0| xxd -r -p | hexyl -n 256

The output looks like this for the Genesis block.

OP_RETURN for the bitcoin Genesis block

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