In 2014, a Bitcoin miner hid a cat inside block 322,917 — drawn in plain ASCII text and left there for good. It was the first cat, and the first animal, ever put on a blockchain. This is that cat.
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Bitcat has been sitting in the Bitcoin blockchain since 2014. The cats everyone trades today didn't show up until nine years later.
No token. No roadmap. Just someone proving you could put art on a blockchain — years before anyone said the word NFT.
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On 28 September 2014, the miner who solved Bitcoin block 322,917 left a cat in it — drawn out of plain text characters and dropped straight into the ledger.
There was no coin behind it. Nothing to buy, nothing to trade. Someone just wanted to prove you could put art on a blockchain, and they did it years before the word NFT existed.
It's archived today as entry 592 in Messages from the Mines, still sitting in the Bitcoin ledger where it was left. Every cat you know came after it — Popcat and Mog in 2023, Mew and Wen in 2024. $BTCAT brings the original on chain as a token on Solana. Same cat, new ticker.