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Lost sats

Research: sats that coinbase transactions never claimed, so they exist in no output: where and when they were lost.

Status on blockspacelabs.com: Research.

What it studies #

The Labs site describes lost sats as "sats that coinbase transactions never claimed, so they exist in no output", and asks "where and when they were lost."

ord, which numbers every sat, counts them on its status page. The count says how many; the study asks which blocks lost them, and when.

The data it will use #

"ord sat index (/status lost_sats)": the count that the ord server behind blockspace.to reports on its public status page.

The figure on the card #

It is one of the Research cards that shows a current figure, because one already exists with an "as of". The card read 2,895,844,904 lost sats at 2026-10-20 09:07:08 UTC. The wiki's own reading is 2,895,844,904 (as of block 972,304, 2026-10-20 10:17:29 UTC), from https://blockspace.to/status.

The count is the study's starting point. Where and when the sats were lost is the open question, and the card claims no answer yet.

Sats and ordinals explains how ord numbers sats. Cursed inscriptions is another Research card read from the same ord index.

Sources #

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

Live figures: ord as of block 972,304, 2026-10-20 10:17:29 UTC. Refreshed hourly.

Updated 2026-10-20 · This page as Markdown