Community takeover Rune #6 Block 840,000

Satoshi•
Nakamoto

Satoshi left. The dev left. The rune stayed.

Etched into Bitcoin’s fourth halving block. 21,000,000 supply and 8 decimals, the same as the original. No team. No treasury. No permission needed. Just the community, holding the keys.

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840,000 Halving #4 tx #22 · etched Apr 20, 2024

1. The takeover

Bitcoin never needed Satoshi.

That’s the whole point. The creator walked away and the network got stronger, because nobody owned it. So when the people behind this rune went quiet, we did the most Bitcoin thing possible: we kept going.

Thirteen years later, in the first minutes of Bitcoin’s fourth halving, someone paid 0.97 BTC in fees to etch a name into block 840,000: SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO. It was the 22nd transaction in the block and the 6th rune ever created.

It minted out. It topped the charts for minting fees. It listed on exchanges and hit $8.94. Then, like its namesake, the people behind it went silent.

A rune doesn’t need its etcher. It has no contract to upgrade and no admin key to lose. It’s 43 bytes in an OP_RETURN, secured by the same proof-of-work as every satoshi you own. All it needs is people who care. That’s us.

No dev

The etcher went quiet. So did Bitcoin’s creator. Both kept running without them.

No treasury

No war chest, no salaries, no tax. Contributions are memes, code and conviction.

No permission

Runes have no admin keys. Supply is fixed at 21,000,000 forever. Nobody can print more.

No face

Satoshi never showed one. Our mascot is a hood, and anyone can wear it.

2. The rune

Born in the halving block.

April 20, 2024, 00:09 UTC. Block 840,000 cut the subsidy to 3.125 BTC and switched on the Runes protocol. SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO was in it. Everything below is on-chain, permanent and verifiable.

Rune ID 840000:22 Block 840,000, transaction 22. The only ID that matters.
Rune number#6One of the very first runes ever etched
Supply21,000,000Same as Bitcoin. Hard-capped.
Divisibility8Same as Bitcoin: 1 丰 = 100,000,000 units
Symbol丰fēng: “abundance”
Etching fee0.97 BTC97,000,000 sats to land in the halving block
Etched00:09:27UTC, April 20, 2024
Public mint168,000mints × 100 丰. Fully minted, closed forever.
TurboOnOpted in to future protocol upgrades

The actual runestone

43 bytes that live in Bitcoin forever

This is output #1 of the etching transaction, decoded live in your browser. Hover a field to see its bytes.

Decode any tx mempool.space ↗

3. Supply

21 million. No more.

Minting closed in the first days of the Runes era. There’s no contract, no mint function and no admin. The supply on-chain is the supply forever.

  • 16,800,000 · 80%
    Public fair mint: 168,000 mints of 100 丰
  • 4,200,000 · 20%
    Premine allocated to the etcher at etching
  • 949.62 burned
    Destroyed on-chain, out of circulation forever
21M 丰 SATOSHI
“Lost coins only make everyone else’s coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone.”Satoshi Nakamoto, 2010

4. The timechain

Live from the chain.

Real-time data straight from mempool.space and CoinGecko. No middlemen, no API keys, refreshed every minute.

丰 SATOSHI price live
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Market cap
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24h vol —
All-time high
$8.94
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Bitcoin
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fees —
Block height
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chain tip
Rune age
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days since block 840,000
Blocks survived
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and counting
$1 buys
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丰 SATOSHI
1 BTC buys
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丰 SATOSHI
Next halving · block 1,050,000 —
—days
—hours
—min
—sec
you are here
丰 840,000
etched—1,050,000
halving #5

SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO was born in the first block of this epoch. At the next halving, the last rune names unlock and its first epoch closes.

Sources: mempool.space · CoinGecko

5. How to buy

Four steps. One ID.

Runes live natively on Bitcoin. No bridges, no wrapped tokens. Just a Bitcoin wallet that speaks Runes.

  1. 01

    Get a Runes wallet

    Install a Bitcoin wallet with Runes support. Runes are held on your Ordinals/Taproot address (starts with bc1p).

  2. 02

    Fund it with BTC

    Buy bitcoin on any exchange and send it to your wallet’s payment address. Keep a little extra for network fees.

  3. 03

    Open a Runes market

    Connect your wallet to a Runes marketplace and search SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO.

  4. 04

    Verify, then buy

    Before you sign, confirm the Rune ID is 840000:22. Then welcome home, Satoshi.

Don’t trust. Verify.

Copycats exist. The real one has exactly these properties:

Rune ID
840000:22
Name
SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO
Number
#6
Symbol
丰
Supply
21,000,000
Divisibility
8

Names like SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO•INU or I•AM•SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO are different runes. If the ID isn’t 840000:22, it isn’t this one. Nobody from the community will DM you first, and nobody will ever ask for your seed phrase.

6. The toolbox

Meme it. Build it. Play it.

A takeover runs on culture. These tools are free, run entirely in your browser, and everything they make is yours.

Satoshi Studio

Memes, laser-eyes PFPs & belief cards

Open studio →
Rune Lab

Calculator, name-unlock checker & runestone decoder

Open lab →
Arcade

Rune Rush: stack 丰, dodge the FUD

Play →
Brand & raid kit

Logos, banners, stickers & ready-to-post raids

Grab the kit →

7. Lore

From the whitepaper to the takeover.

  1. The whitepaper

    “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” hits a cryptography mailing list, signed Satoshi Nakamoto.

  2. The genesis block

    Block 0 is mined with a headline in its coinbase: “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”

  3. The last forum post

    Satoshi’s final post on BitcoinTalk. Then, silence.

  4. “I’ve moved on to other things.”

    The creator hands Bitcoin to everyone and disappears for good. The original community takeover.

  5. Runes proposed

    Casey Rodarmor, creator of Ordinals, proposes Runes: a simple, UTXO-based fungible token protocol for Bitcoin.

  6. Block 840,000: etched

    The fourth halving activates Runes. SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO lands as transaction #22 and becomes rune #6, after 0.97 BTC in fees.

  7. Minted out

    All 168,000 mints are claimed. Ord.io ranks it #1 of all runes by minting fees: roughly 373 BTC spent to mint it.

  8. Listings & ATH

    Centralized exchanges including Gate.io and Bitrue list it. Price peaks at $8.94, around $188M fully diluted.

  9. The long quiet

    Exchange markets dry up and the original team goes silent. The rune doesn’t care. It’s still in every block’s UTXO set.

  10. The community takeover

    Holders pick up the keys. New site, new memes, same 43 bytes. It’s in good hands with … everyone.

  11. Block 1,050,000

    Halving #5. Every rune name is unlocked and SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO completes its first epoch. Party at the block.

8. Community goals

Goals, not promises.

Nobody is paid and nobody is in charge. This is a public to-do list. If you can ship one of these, ship it.

9. Join the node

Run it with us.

Every holder is a node in this community. Follow, post, meme, build. Pick your channel.

Raid kit

One click, one post. Spread the word.

All templates →

10. FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is this affiliated with Satoshi Nakamoto?

No. Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin and has been silent since 2011. SATOSHI•NAKAMOTO is a rune named in tribute. Satoshi has nothing to do with it, and neither does any company.

What is a CTO (community takeover)?

When a token’s original team goes quiet, holders can step up and run the socials, website, memes and outreach themselves. Nothing about the token changes: the supply, the ID and the on-chain history stay exactly the same. Only the people carrying it forward do.

What’s a rune?

Runes is a fungible-token protocol built directly on Bitcoin, created by Casey Rodarmor and activated at the 2024 halving. Balances live in Bitcoin UTXOs and are moved by small messages (“runestones”) in OP_RETURN outputs. No smart contracts, no sidechains.

Can anyone mint more or change the supply?

No. The mint terms were fixed at etching: 168,000 mints of 100, all of them claimed in April 2024. There is no admin key or upgrade path. Total supply is 21,000,000, minus anything burned.

How do I know I’m buying the real one?

Check the Rune ID: 840000:22. It’s the only unique identifier. Names can look similar, but IDs can’t be faked. See the verify box above, or check it yourself on ordinals.com.

Is there a team, treasury or tax?

No team, no treasury, no tax, no presale. This website is a community effort and costs nothing to use. If anyone asks you to send funds “to the CTO wallet”, it’s a scam.

How can I help?

Make memes in the Studio, post with the raid kit, welcome newcomers, translate the site, or improve this code. Everything here is CC0, so fork it and ship it.

We are all Satoshi.

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