counter

Also: counters, Bitcoin Counters, numbered file event

A Bitcoin Counter is "a numbered file event": a file committed to Bitcoin as the description of a Counterparty asset, carried in a Counterparty taproot envelope, and given a global, gap-free number in order of creation, from #0. It passes two tests at once: the bytes are the description of a valid Counterparty issuance or fairminter deploy, and they reached the chain inside witness data. Either test alone is nothing.

Counter #0 is XDUALS, at block 902,005, five blocks after Counterparty's taproot activation at block 902,000. The protocol adds nothing on chain: it is a numbering lens over events Counterparty already parses.

Used by: counters.fun, counters.gallery

Used on #

• Data the other sites publish
• counterparty + ord
• Counterparty
• fairminter
• liquidity pool
• pointer counter
• price per KB
• reinscription
• reveal transaction
• rolling hash
• Counterparty taproot envelope
• XCP asset
• counters.fun
• counters.gallery
• Counterparty

Sources #

1. Bitcoin Counters build reference v3 · github.com/BitcoinCounters/counters/blob/HEAD/docs/build-reference-v3.md
2. Bitcoin Counters v3, indexer and wallet: README (BitcoinCounters/counters) · github.com/BitcoinCounters/counters