Rare/Exotic Sats

Rare Sats

With the original version of the Ordinals protocol came the handbook that in part detailed a native rarity scheme and collectability thesis for satoshis. Rare sats are defined as follows:

• common: Any sat that not the first sat of its block. The overwhelming majority of sats are and will be commons.

• uncommon: The first sat of a block.

• rare: The first sat mined after each difficulty adjustment (one every 2016 blocks, ~2 weeks).

• epic: The first sat mined after each Bitcoin block reward halving (one every 210,000 blocks, ~4 years).

• legendary: The first sat mined after each cycle (one every 1,260,000 blocks, ~24 years). A cycle is when the block halving and difficulty adjustment coincide.

• mythic: The first sat in the genesis block; the first sat ever mined. There will only ever be one mythic and it resides in Satoshi's wallet.

Exotic Sats

Apart from the above scheme outlined in the Ordinals Handbook, the community has continued to explore other types of sats in existence and what story can be told with them. Some popular examples of exotic sats include:

• block 9: Sats mined in block 9 in 2009. The first blocks with sats that are in circulation.

• block 78: Sats from block 78, mined by Hal Finney and the first block mined by someone other than Satoshi Nakamoto.

• vintage: Sats mined in the first 1,000 blocks.

• palindrome: Sats with palindromic numbers.

• black: The last sat mined in each of the rare sat categories. For example, a black epic sat is the last sat of each halving period.

• alpha: The first sat of a bitcoin.

• omega: The last sat of a bitcoin.