Commoners

Mint History

How the Mint Worked

Before the mint, collectors were encouraged to source one or more virgin uncommon sats from marketplaces such as Magisat and hold them in a supported wallet.

Everyone inscribed the same Commoners HTML file. There was no "Commoner selection" at mint time; the first 10,000 inscriptions that satisfied the rules became the official collection, and the final Commoners were assigned later during reveal.

Minting Technical Notes

During the mint, our indexer scanned recent inscriptions and surfaced live totals of confirmed and pending mints in the progress bar on the homepage and this page.

For a Commoner to count, it needed to satisfy the indexing rules below and land within the first 10,000 inscriptions that met them.

Basic inscription rules

• - Inscribed on an uncommon sat
• - Content type was text/html
• - Content matched the Commoners HTML file
• - The uncommon sat had not been reinscribed
• - The inscription did not have a parent inscription
• - The inscription did not have a child inscription
• - The inscription did not have a metaprotocol value
• - The inscription did not have metadata

Historical notes

• - The mint indexer accepted additional whitespace, but substantive edits to the HTML could prevent an inscription from being indexed correctly.
• - Delegate inscriptions could still index correctly as long as the delegate pointed at the correct Commoners HTML. The sat provenance came from the inscribed sat, not the delegate target.
• - The indexer did not rely on one exact opcode pattern. Alternative inscription constructions could still count once they displayed correctly in ord, even if the live pending counter missed them at first.

Rarity Among Commoners

Trait rarity was separate from sat provenance. Some collectors inscribed on rarer or historically earlier sats, including 8 Commoners inscribed on sats from 2009 Bitcoin blocks. That history can make a specific inscription more collectible, but it does not change the rarity of the underlying Commoner artwork.