If you are running core bitcoin you can easily read Satoshi's first message directly out of the blockchain. The famous "The Times 03/Jan/2009..."

bitcoin-cli getblock 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f 2 | jq -r '.tx[].hex' | xxd -r -p | strings

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Simply beautiful ๐Ÿ™

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Nice. I will try that

Yeah it's kinda neat. I used jq to grab the hex. Made it human readable. Then strings to get rid of all the junk around it. All you're left with is the message and nothing else.

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