Way back in 2020, when I was graduating from college, I worked on "Operation Urgent colors" (I named personal projects like that)
The goal? To create a future where I get to create crypto-art they way I want to.
Safe to say w/ @prrfbeauty, dream met.
Still pinching my arms.
Inscribed this Satoshi Relic with 11 leading zeros. There are only 3 bitcoin transactions with 11 zeros!
Look at those rays !
This is an inexpensive, conceptually deep generative project. It will probably mint slow, but that's by design.
This is a public call for support.
Ordinals has advanced rapidly this year, with new updates to the standard enabling entirely new forms of creation. But nearly all major indexers, including @ord_io, @ordiscan_com, @unisat and others, are still running outdated versions.
Major Bitcoin wallet providers, @xverse, @phantom, and others currently support the changes, but third party indexers still require updates.
When indexers don’t upgrade, they simply can’t detect or surface the latest innovations being built on the protocol. New inscriptions that follow the updated standard go unseen, not because they’re invalid, but because the infrastructure isn’t current.
Upgrading to the latest Ordinals software resolves this immediately.
There’s a real duty of care here: creators are building with the newest capabilities, but the ecosystem can only grow if indexers stay current. Several new projects, including our own, depend on these updates being supported.
We’re asking the ecosystem to help move this forward.
TX ID ↔️ 1/1 Art
Start hunting transactions now and generate unique artwork for each tx id on Pob Studio.
Some pieces will be part of the Mythic collection, others will make for great additions to the Standard 10K set.
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This has been refreshingly vindicating to us; we been grinding at tx based art for years, and to see it as still one of the more intimate and memetic forms of blockchain art is so cool.
We been at this meta since 2020.
Our art speaks to both the data and the heritage of the transaction. To that end, we'd urge folks to explore how we tokenize txs into ordinals.
We extract everything from ASCII art to messages in OP_RETURN and visualize it.
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We'd like to introduce ourselves here.
We use btc tx features/mechanics to visualize the transaction as ordinals ranging from block it was mined, to the spending scripts
Our collection is coming soon; but for now, we have also visualized the art as rows of colors per your idea!
Today the U.S. Government inscribed economic data on Bitcoin, the worlds most secure data ledger.
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Economic truth, set in stone on Bitcoin 🧡
We turned that transaction into a Satoshi Relic.
We are closing in on minting, so heres the minting deets.
Two collections: Mythics and Standard.
Mythics: GOAT history. History that defines the crypto generation. Hand curated by us. Auctioned off over time.
Standard: Open grabs. Mint any tx you want as long you are first.
We updated our extraction system to handle the abs unit of a tx for labitbu.
Behold:
- Control block animated webp ✅
- OP_RETURN ASCII Art ✅
- All 10k sat indexes ✅
- Tx labeled for posterity ✅
- Sat indexes embedded into relic art ✅
Bitcoin is crazy and we love it.
It pays to be a bitcoin nerd.
Soon you will be able to speculate w/ all the bitcoin lore you know.
Relics is all about Bitcoin lore. If you know where the gems of history are, relics will handsomely reward you with opportunity to own them.
Generational scarcity incoming.
Bitcoiners have stored messages in:
- Coinbase message
- OP_RETURN
- fake p2pkh outputs
- p2sh script spends
- taproot envelopes
- now: taproot control blocks w/ labitbu
where else can we creatively put a message in?
We have one idea but you gotta be quite rich for it… 🧵
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
It was programmed from the start that bitcoin was going to change banking forever.
This speaks to Bitcoin as something more than just currency. Through all of its existence, Bitcoiners always had a deep wanting to express itself through itself.
Relics is a homage to this passion and once over, through Bitcoin, express deep reverence to our history.
How well do you know Bitcoin history?
Before OP_RETURN, anyone could use OP_PUSHDATA in a tx output to embed data
Only Miners have the extra privilege of writing in the coinbase message and still do. Think: “mined by,” etc.
Onchain messages pre-2014? Raw protocol graffiti. 🟧
@CyphrGM Been good! Grinding the endgame project for us in Satoshi relics. Been the real dream to bring a flavor of hash to Bitcoin and we can finally after many years finally do it.
In ways like Satoshi Relics, a collection of Ordinals on Bitcoin made from the 1.2B+ transaction history on the network.
An archive of inscriptions that tell you when and what happened in a tx but also let you own a part of the story. Maybe it serves Aeneas one day for Bitcoin?