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. Mint prices 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

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