The Flood
A story about freedom, censorship resistance, and why filtering Bitcoin is like trying to empty the ocean with a bucket.
Once Upon a Time in Bitcoin
Bitcoin was born with a promise: censorship-resistant money. No gatekeepers. No middlemen. No one to tell you what transactions are "acceptable."
But some forgot the first rule of Bitcoin: you cannot stop the signal. Mining pools started filtering transactions they deemed "unwanted." OP_RETURN outputs, inscriptions, arbitrary data—anything that didn't fit their narrow view of what Bitcoin "should" be.
Ocean Mining Pool became the most vocal advocate of this philosophy. They built sophisticated filters to keep Bitcoin "clean." They wanted to decide what belongs on the blockchain and what doesn't.
They forgot one thing: Bitcoin doesn't care about your feelings.
The Great Flood
If they want to filter the ocean, let's show them how futile that is. Let's flood the blockchain.
FloodFish was born from a simple idea: you cannot censor what everyone does. If one person inscribes a fish, you can filter it. If a thousand people inscribe fish, you're working overtime. If everyone inscribes fish, you've lost.
The Fish
A harmless ASCII fish in an OP_RETURN. Unstoppable flood begins.
The Reward
3.125 FLOODFISH per block. Shared by everyone who participates.
The Treasure
Ocean blocks are rare. Each mint in an Ocean block earns the full 3.125 FLOODFISH.
How the Flood Works
Inscribe Your Fish
Send a Bitcoin transaction with <°))))>< in an OP_RETURN output. That's it. You're flooding.
Wait for the Block
When your transaction is mined, everyone who inscribed a fish in that block shares 3.125 FLOODFISH. It's a reward pool, like Bitcoin's coinbase. Flood together, earn together.
Flood Forever
As long as Bitcoin produces blocks rewards, FloodFish produces rewards.
The Ocean Twist
Here's where it gets interesting. If your fish is mined by Ocean Mining Pool—the very pool that wanted to filter transactions—they get a special rule: each mint is worth the full 3.125 FLOODFISH (max reward), regardless of how many other fish are in the block.
It's not punishment. It's celebration. Ocean blocks are rare. When they finally include your fish, it's a victory worth rewarding.
For all other mining pools, the 3.125 FLOODFISH reward is shared proportionally among all participants in the block. The more fish in the block, the smaller each share—unless it's Ocean.
Why This Matters
FloodFish isn't just a token. It's a demonstration. A proof of concept. A reminder that Bitcoin is permissionless.
When you try to filter Bitcoin, you're not protecting it—you're breaking its core promise. You're saying "this transaction is good, that one is bad." You become the middleman Bitcoin was designed to eliminate.
You cannot empty the ocean with a bucket. You cannot filter the flood.
Every fish inscribed is a vote for freedom. Every block that includes fish is a block that chose censorship resistance over arbitrary rules. Every FLOODFISH earned is a reward for participation in the commons.
"The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime."
— Satoshi Nakamoto
Bitcoin doesn't care if you inscribe fish. It doesn't care if you write poetry in OP_RETURN. It doesn't care about your opinions on what "should" be on the blockchain. Bitcoin just is.
FloodFish is here to remind everyone of that truth. We're not attacking Bitcoin. We're celebrating what makes it unique: its resistance to control, its openness to everyone, its indifference to judgment.
Join the Flood
One fish is a drop. A million fish is a flood. An ocean of fish is unstoppable.
Inscribe your fish. Share the block. Earn your reward. Demonstrate that filtering Bitcoin is futile. Be part of the flood.
The flood is coming. Will you swim or drown?