Why is the crypto community going crazy over this 18-digit number?

The BTC.TOP mining pool discovered a hash block containing the combination 21e8, also known as E8. The crypto community started talking about the shadow of the “Unified Field Theory”.

00000000000000000021e800 – at first glance, there is nothing remarkable in this line of 18 zeros, followed by 21e8 and two more zeros. There is also nothing noteworthy about the full hash 00000000000000000021e800c1e8df51b22c1588e5a624bea17e9faa34b2dc4a. Yet this series of numbers and letters has greatly disturbed the cryptocurrency community, which is now discussing breakthroughs in quantum computing, time travel, the return of Satoshi and the hidden meaning of bitcoin.

On June 19, block number 528249 was discovered by the BTC.TOP mining pool. At first glance, there was nothing unusual in the block: it weighed just over 1 MB, had almost 6,500 inputs, 1,047 outputs and 125 Segwit transactions. But when viewing a block through the Blockchair tool, when you hover over the block hash, the number 00000000000000000021e800 appears.

For some, the appearance of so many zeros followed by 21 (the number of bitcoin's total supply) is simply a coincidence; the situation is as common as the roulette wheel stopping on red for the eighteenth time in a row after half a million revolutions. For others, it's an almost impossible occurrence that signals someone's tampering.

This strange phenomenon was discovered by Mark Wilcox, who almost immediately tweeted the hash of the block, causing half of crypto Twitter to immediately panic and the other half to wonder what the hash meant.

Humans are programmed to see hidden meaning in everything, so it's not surprising that 18 zeros in a row can attract interest. But besides zeros, there is something else interesting there, for those who like to be surprised or see in something something that is not there. The combination 21e8, also known as E8, refers to the "Theory of Everything" or "Unified Field Theory". There's even a website, 21e8.com, that displays a fractal diagram based on the rotation of elementary particles that is part of the E8 theory.

The last time Bitcoin enthusiasts got excited about a block hash with an unusually large number of zeros was when Satoshi mined the primary block - 000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f. They also found a hidden meaning in the meaning of this hash block, firstly, it contains two hex zeros, more than required, and secondly, it took six days to mine it. It took God the same amount to create the world. This mockery of Satoshi about the creation of the world may also be far-fetched.. 

In fact, a block containing an unusually large number of zeros could have been obtained either by chance or not by chance. In the first case, these zeros have no meaning, and in the second, they mean that someone calculated a block with a higher difficulty on purpose, and then such a person has a level of computing power that is currently unattainable.

It has been estimated that it would take 2,500 years to create this hash if working at a rate of 1 exahash per second (which is approximately 2.5% of the current number of hashes your miner finds in second of the BTC network). For this feat to happen intentionally, it would have to be performed on an as-yet undiscovered quantum computer or by a time traveler using future advances in computing power. 

As a less sensational hypothesis, one user suggested that the hash block number was the work of Andrew DeSantis, who works on a quantum computer and regularly publishes cryptic messages that shade the E8 theory. DeSantis himself wrote in a response to the original post that the likelihood that this hash is not random is negligible.

According to https://chaining.ru