# Cursed inscriptions

Research: which rules cursed each inscription, by height, and how the books bind them to sats.

URL: https://blockspace.wiki/research/cursed-inscriptions/

**Status on [blockspacelabs.com](https://blockspacelabs.com): Research.**

## What it studies

The Labs site asks "which rules cursed each inscription, by height, and how the books bind them to sats."

A [cursed inscription](https://blockspace.wiki/glossary/cursed-inscription/) is one that [ord](https://blockspace.wiki/glossary/ord/) numbers apart from the "blessed" inscriptions, with a negative number. ord's status page counts the two separately. The study has two parts. The first sorts the cursed inscriptions by the rule that cursed them and the block they appeared in. The second checks how the [BTI](https://blockspace.wiki/glossary/bti/) books bind them to the sats they sit on.

The second part has a known gap behind it. A check of 2026-10-19 found that 582 of the top 100,000 inscriptions by size had no sat binding in BTI below the export ceiling, and that they were cursed numbers.

## The data it will use

"ord inscription index and BTI": the ord index behind [blockspace.to](/projects/blockspace.to/), and BTI's sat bindings.

## The figures on the card

It is one of the Research cards that shows a current figure, because one already exists with an "as of". At 2026-10-20 09:07:08 UTC the card read **472,043 cursed** and **127,697,223 blessed** inscriptions. The wiki's own reading, as of block 972,320, 2026-10-20 12:17:53 UTC: 472,043 cursed and 127,698,141 blessed.

No result of the study is claimed. [Inscriptions](/concepts/inscriptions/) explains how inscriptions are made and numbered.

Sources:

- The blockspacelabs.com page (index.html) · https://blockspacelabs.com
- Blockspace Labs facts (data/facts.json) · https://blockspacelabs.com
- Blockspace Holdings records
- ord /status (the blockspace.to ord server) · https://blockspace.to/status

Live figures: ord as of block 972,320, 2026-10-20 12:17:53 UTC

Updated: 2026-10-20