Inscription permanence

Status on blockspacelabs.com: Research.

What it studies #

The Labs site asks: "How often inscribed sats are spent or move, and where they go."

An inscription is bound to a single sat. The inscribed bytes stay on Bitcoin for good, but the sat that carries them moves whenever its output is spent. This study measures how often that happens and where the sats end up. The sats and ordinals page explains how a sat is tracked from output to output.

The data it will use #

"blockspace.to spent sats and the holders appendix's sat moves":

• blockspace.to, the Labs ord explorer, keeps the sat ranges of spent outputs, its spent sats index (see spent sats);
• the holders appendix, which keeps holdings up to date block by block, records each move of an inscribed sat from one holder to another.

The card links to https://blockspace.to. It is a descriptive card; no results are claimed.

Related research #

blockspace.to: spent sats is the Live project the study builds on, and who holds blockspace the Live project behind the appendix.

Related #

• blockspacelabs.com
• blockspace.to
• Spent sats (blockspace.to)
• Sats and ordinals
• Holders and share of backing
• spent sats
• the appendix

Sources #

1. The blockspacelabs.com page (index.html) · blockspacelabs.com
2. ord /status (the blockspace.to ord server) · blockspace.to/status
3. Blockspace Holdings records