Bitcoin's Only Zero-Sat Block Becomes Collectible Art

🪨 That miner's worst day

By POB
Apr 2, 2026, 2:42 PM
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Satoshi Relics continues transforming Bitcoin transaction records into collectible ordinals, with their latest piece commemorating an unusual blockchain anomaly.​

The Featured Relic:

  • Generated from block 501726's coinbase transaction
  • Bitcoin's only 0-sat block - no subsidy, no fees, no transactions
  • Caused by an invalid scriptSig error
  • A documented mining failure now preserved as art

The Project:

  • Each Relic = 1 Bitcoin transaction rendered as art
  • Priced at 2,500 sats (0.​0001 BTC)
  • Uses recursive ordinals endpoint: /r/tx/[txid]
  • Over 1.​3 billion potential transactions to mint

Satoshi Relics positions itself as Bitcoin's "history substrate" - turning the blockchain's ledger into ownable artifacts.​ The project has minted notable moments including Satoshi's genesis transaction, the Constitution inscription, and early Ordinals milestones.​

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Bitcoin turns energy into security. Satoshi Relics turn energy into artifacts. Each Relic is derived from a single transaction, inheriting its scarcity directly from proof of work. Energy is spent once, never reclaimed, preserved forever as an Ordinal.

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danny huuep
danny huuep
@huuep

It all comes down to physics. Energy and matter. E = mc²

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Satoshi Relics might be Bitcoins most native RWA Ledger of transactions -> Network art Own a piece of Bitcoin itself as ordinals generated from the ledger 👇

Pob Studio
Pob Studio
@prrfbeauty

1/ 2500 sats Satoshi Relics is minting on pob(.)studio. 1 transaction = 1 Relic The history is priceless. Access has never been easier. Mint yours. RT. 🧵👇

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gm Bitcoin & Ordinals collectors 🧡 Bitcoin holds more than value. It holds history. And every time history is made, Satoshi Relics turns that transaction record into a Relic. 2500 sats 1 tx = 1 Relic DM us if you want help hunting for the right piece of Bitcoin history 🔍

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The difference this time is intent. Genuine collectors remain. Satoshi Relics exist for moments like this. Not just artworks, but artifacts authored by the Bitcoin ledger itself. Watch how each Ordinal is generated. Mint something historic 👇

SpeedRacer
SpeedRacer
@SpeedRacer689

Digital art is back for those that have been paying attention and this time the right collectors are in first! Watch what happens when floors pump, it will be tough prying pieces away from collectors. Not saying people won’t sell, but the pump and dumps and flippers are gone!

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This is exactly when things get interesting. Better infra means better ways to surface, preserve, and collect Bitcoin history. That’s what Satoshi Relics is built for. 1 tx = 1 artifact.

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peter cross chains ⛓️
peter cross chains ⛓️
@petehodl

Every ecosystem has a moment where the next generation of infra emerges. This is that moment for Ordinals.

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Bitcoins True Believers Hunt Relics Relics do not merely aestheticize transactions. Their deeper function is preservational. They take digital records produced by proof of work, native Bitcoin transactions, and render them into historically situated, humanly legible artifacts.

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billy restey
billy restey
@billyrestey

Ordinals' True Believers Still Hunting For Rare Sats "Mass psychosis prevails as connoisseurs continue to embed digital artifacts directly into Bitcoin's blockchain—citing hardest provenance and durability over generations of digital art history."

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He may not have an ord collection, but we do have his history as an ord collection. We can celebrate his place in Bitcoin through Relics; each ordinal represents one of his early transactions. Ex: The genesis tx Satoshi inscribes with the fateful message that started it all.

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Ribbi
Ribbi
@OrdinalsPoker

What if Satoshi Nakamoto has an Ordinal collection? What if he never left after creating decentralized money, but began working on decentralized communication and social media? Maybe he has been here with us all along.. He even told us in his handle Satoshi is

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Introducing Satoshi Relics, @art_onbtc. 🤝 One-of-one artworks derived directly from Bitcoin transactions, preserving history as it unfolds on-chain. Each artwork is generated from a real transaction, with its form and details derived from the history it represents. Over 1.3

AOB
AOB
@art_onbtc

Welcome to @art_onbtc ✨ We amplify the voices of Bitcoin artists—established legends and rising stars alike. 📣 Our mission is to curate and showcase their brilliance, foster growth in the non-fungible ecosystem, and ignite the Art Renaissance on Bitcoin. 🖼️

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We are live with our collection Satoshi Relics. We are unlike anything else in that we are the "history substrate" of Bitcoin. We tokenize BTC history into ords. Owning a Relic is like owning the most prestigious artifacts in a museum. You are OWNING history. Just 2500 Sats

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pawellwitt
pawellwitt
@pawellwitt

GM 🟧 We have a few very interesting Ordinals mints currently LIVE and coming up in the next few days/weeks! ⬇️ 🔥 @OrdTorches by @0x6Paths is a pixel collection inscribed as children to @bitcoinshroom (inscription #795) ❗️ 400 minters will receive Satscards ‼️ There will be 20

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Inscription #70 The Magic Internet Money Wizard by @mavensbot This is the Satoshi Relic was generated from that exact transaction which inscribed the meme on Bitcoin 🧙‍♂️✨ HBD Wizards 🧡 $mim

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The Bitcoin Wizard
The Bitcoin Wizard
@bitcoinwizardry

On this day 13 years ago, @mavensbot shared a wizard in MS Paint style on r/bitcoin. What started as a joke became the mascot of Bitcoin, a symbol of a movement etched into history that lives on. Happy 13th Birthday, Bitcoin Wizard 🧙‍♂️✨

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gm Bitcoin & Ordinals collectors 🧡 Still here turning Bitcoin records into Relics. Ft. a Satoshi Relic generated from Bitcoin’s only 0-sat coinbase transaction. An invalid scriptSig left block 501726 with no subsidy, no fees, and no transactions. A rough day for that miner.

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Turned the transaction that inscribed The Constitution on Bitcoin into a Satoshi Relic. Our dapp parses the Constitution directly from the transaction details and deterministically encodes it into the Ordinal.

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Tasties Shill
Tasties Shill
@Tasties_Shill

The Constitution of the United States… on Bitcoin… forever. ord.io/16714538

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A Relic generated from the tx that inscribed the parent inscription of the Bitcoin Wizards collection, a revival of the legendary 2013 “Magic Internet Money” meme that became one of Bitcoin’s earliest cultural symbols. A decade-old meme celebrating Bitcoin’s magical roots:

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BTC is the "ultimate asset" in crypto, so the history is the "ultimate collectible" That's the thesis of Satoshi Relics. Make BTC history ordinals that you can own and one day be displayed in museums. For example there has been ONLY about 350 txs that had fees more than the

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DaPangDun
DaPangDun
@dapangdun

想到一个新概念:最资产 BTC 就是crypto中的「最资产」 ▪️最去中心化 ▪️最安全 ▪️最抗审查 ▪️最稀缺 你心中的“最资产”是什么? #BTC

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The negative discourse misses what Ordinals unlocked: art, archives, provenance, and new fee market demand on Bitcoin. Even more, Ordinals made it possible to preserve human history on a permanent, globally accessible network. Satoshi Relics is a powerful expression of that. 🧡

BWeys 📈
BWeys 📈
@bweys_nft

People have focused too much on the supposed negative side of ordinals (debatable stuff) Yet the positive side will win out wen all is said & done imho: • immutable art on Bitcoin • library of Alexandria on BTC • major contribution to tx fee sustainability (see whitepaper)

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Incredible 🙌 Congrats to the solo miner who hit this through @Public_Pool_BTC. Absolute legend 🧡 Ft. a Satoshi Relic generated directly from the coinbase transaction of block 937218. Bitcoin history, rendered as art.

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Umbrel ☂️
Umbrel ☂️
@umbrel

AND ANOTHER ONEEEE someone just solo-mined a block with @Public_Pool_BTC on umbrel 4 blocks in less than a year. the simulation is broken and we love it

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gm Bitcoin & Ordinals collectors 🧡 HODL strong! And don’t forget to mint your own Satoshi Relics from Bitcoins transaction history. Art derived directly from Bitcoin itself. 1 tx = 1 Relic. 2500 sats. Ft. a Relic generated from the transaction that inscribed 0.bitmap

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Pob Studio
Pob Studio
@prrfbeauty

1/ 2500 sats Satoshi Relics is minting on pob(.)studio. 1 transaction = 1 Relic The history is priceless. Access has never been easier. Mint yours. RT. 🧵👇

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