Block 9
Any of the 5,000,000,000 sats mined in block 9, sats 45,000,000,000 to 49,999,999,999: the block whose bitcoin went into the first transaction.
How a sat qualifies
Block 9 paid a 50 BTC subsidy, 5,000,000,000 sats. Ordinal theory numbers sats in the order they were mined, 5,000,000,000 per block at the time, so block 9's sats are sats 45,000,000,000 (9 × 5,000,000,000) to 49,999,999,999. Every one of them is a Block 9 sat; nothing else is required.
In the site's words, block 9 is "the block whose bitcoin went into the first transaction". Its first 10 BTC are the Block 9, 1st tx sats, and the first bitcoin of those is 450x. Block 9 is also one of the 19 Nakamoto blocks and lies in the vintage range, so its sats carry those types too.
Why collectors care
Block 9's bitcoin went into the first transaction, and the block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto (it is a Nakamoto block). Its 5,000,000,000 sats are fixed and fully mined.
On this site
Of all the historic ranges, block 9 is the one the index tracks whole: every one of its sats, wherever it moves (vintage, Block 78, Block 286, Block 666 and the Nakamoto blocks are followed only through their special sats). It is a range row: it is counted by how many of its sats an output holds, and it is traded in chunks, priced per sat (see unit price).
Inside block 9
Some of its sats are special on their own and have rows of their own:
- 450x: the first 100,000,000 sats.
- Block 9 alpha and Block 9 omega: the 50 first and 50 last sats of its bitcoins.
- Block 9 palindrome: the 50,000 sat numbers in it that read the same backwards.
A sale is placed under the rarest row holding all the sats it sold, so a chunk lying inside 450x is a 450x sale, not a Block 9 one.
How many
- Sats in the range: 5,000,000,000, all mined.
- In small outputs, extracted by a collector: 66,410,707.
- Addresses holding some: 50,412.
- Carrying an inscription: 177,460.
Supply and market
| Category | Will exist | Mined | Extracted | Last sale | Floor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block 9 | 5,000,000,000 | 5,000,000,000 | 66,410,707 | 13,707 sats | 84 sats |
As of block 972,427. Prices are per sat.