How to Mint?

A Bitcoin Text inscription service can be used to mint using the template below.

A reliable service that charges only a small service fee is https://unisat.io/inscribe

Alien Ordinals does not receive any service fees or minting fees

Before Minting

1. Prepare a Bitcoin Taproot Address using an ordinal aware wallet like Unisat

2. Fund your wallet. Gas fees for mininting vary from 5000 to 15000 sats depending on network congestion 15000 sats = 0.00015000 BTC or $10

3. If you are new to ordinals, prepare a second Taproot Address to hold your ordinals. It is possible to lose your ordinal by "spending" your ordinal on gas fees. Using a separate wallet to hold ordinals reduces this risk.

4. Find a valid "Power Block" using a Bitcoin Explorer https://blockstream.info/

5. Preview the Alien Ordinal before you mint

6. Check availability using an ordinal search like https://unisat.io/search Only the first mint with a "dep", "tick" and "blk" combination will be valid

   1. For example use https://geniidata.com/ordinals/inscriptions?q=072690fbaa155d308922ffe73578245d942a9ee3caa6ba9b4cc1c23bbfba9afdi0 to search for all DMT Ordinals. If you find an ordinal with "blk":"1111" then Power Block 111 is already taken.

   2. Another example is shown in Check Previous Mints

7. Prepare the "Minting Text" using the template

Minting Template

Replace "000000" with a valid "Power Block" number for your mint to be valid.

{"p":"tap","op":"dmt-mint","dep":"072690fbaa155d308922ffe73578245d942a9ee3caa6ba9b4cc1c23bbfba9afdi0","tick":"alien","blk":"000000"}

The resulting mining text should be one long line similar to:

{"p":"tap","op":"dmt-mint","dep":"072690fbaa155d308922ffe73578245d942a9ee3caa6ba9b4cc1c23bbfba9afdi0","tick":"alien","blk":"511563"}

Inscribe

Use a minting service. A popular service is https://unisat.io/inscribe

1. Select "Text" inscription

2. Select "Single" inscription

3. Input the Minting Text

4. Click "Next"

5. Verify the Minting Text contents

6. Select "To Single Address"

7. Enter the receiving Taproot address

8. Select "Normal" sats/vB

9. Review total cost

10. Submit & Pay Invoice

11. It can take about 2-3 blocks for your ordinal to arrive (or longer if the blockchain is congested)

Customizing "sats in item"

Set "sats in item" or the UTXO output size to 546 so that your ordinal can be stored and transferred to Legacy wallet types without encountering trouble.

There are 4 main Bitcoin wallet types, and they all serve different purposes and have different 'dust limits'. The 'dust limit' of a wallet sets a boundary on the smallest UTXO size (in sats) a wallet can contain, safeguarding users against dust attacks.

Wallet Type	Legacy	Native Segwit	Nested Segwit	Taproot
Wallet Script Type	P2PKH	P2WPKH	P2SH-P2WPKH	P2TR
Address Starting with	1	bc1q	3	bc1p
Dust Limit	546 sats	294 sats	540 sats	330 sats

1. Legacy addresses were the original Bitcoin address format.

2. Nested & Native Segwit addresses are commonly used as Payment Wallets.

3. Taproot Wallets are optimized and used for Ordinal Wallets - To store inscriptions, Rare Sats & Runes.

For more information see Bitcoin Best Practices on Magic Eden

Bitcoin Best Practices: Wallet Dust Limits & Address Types | Magic Eden Help Center

Reinscribing Satoshis

Satoshis can be reinscribed to mint new Alien Ordinals. Alien Ordinals inscribed on the same satoshi experience quantum entanglement.

Entangled Alien Ordinals will transfer together. On marketplaces, a sale of any entangled Alien Ordinal will transfer all other entangled Alien Ordinals without additional payment.

Entangled Alien Ordinals is a permanent state. There is no way to split entangled Alien Ordinals to separate satoshis.