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Rare Sats

Satoshis distinguished by ordinal-theory rarity, such as block firsts and cycle boundaries, tracked as collectible outputs.

Chain
Bitcoin
Carrier
Ordinal theory rarity classes
Ownership model
utxo
Operations
identify, transfer
Also written
rare-sats, raresats

Where it came from

Created outside Bitcoin Universe by Casey Rodarmor, 2023.

Where the specification lives

Rare Sats has no Bitcoin Universe specification repository. Its specification is Ordinal theory handbook, maintained upstream.

Bitcoin Universe indexes or implements it in Universe-operated ord server.

Support in Bitcoin Universe products

Where it appears

  • Core: view, view-collection, view-activity
  • Wallet: view, send, receive

Implemented

  • viewlive-read-only
  • view-collectionlive-read-only
  • view-activitylive-read-only

Not implemented, and why

list
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
update-listing
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
unlist
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
buy
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
make-offer
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
accept-offer
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
cancel-offer
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
sell
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
settle
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.
reconcile
Production Rare Sats trading requires an external marketplace; local execution exists only in the development/test simulator.

Operational behaviour

Indexing

State is read from Operator-configured local ord server with sat index.

What must be true before any change is accepted: Live checks require sat-index readiness, matching network, checkpoint stability, and no reported reorg.

Confirmation

The simulator enforces configured confirmations; live production does not settle orders.

Reorganisation

Live checks fail closed when ord reports a reorg; no local production order state exists to roll back.

Freshness

Two stable index checkpoints and explicit reorg state are required; no numeric lag ceiling is configured.

Provenance

Capability facts on this page were generated from backend/packages/ecosystem-contracts/lib/protocols.js in bitcoinuniverseio/core at 15dd03b5986a. Implemented behaviour is not the same as production availability: see how to read our status.