War and Peace on the XRP Ledger

Every character below is fetched from transaction memos at read time. This site stores no copy of the book.

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What happened here

How a chapter comes back

  1. The index in this repository gives the chapter's byte range in the book — not its text.
  2. That range maps to a run of transactions, each carrying 1019 bytes of memo.
  3. The browser asks a public node for that stretch of the account's history — one request, up to 400 transactions.
  4. Payloads are concatenated and trimmed to the exact byte range.
  5. SHA-256 of the result is compared against the digest in the index.

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The numbers behind it

Source text: War and Peace, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, Project Gutenberg ebook #2600 (public domain).