Fulfilling intent

When you read the official ordinal documentation, a core theme emerges: ordinals are digital artifacts. Their philosophy and vision is about more than just NFTs; it's about true, on-chain permanence and achieving artifact status for ordinals.

Imagine a physical artifact. A rare coin, say, held safe for untold years in the dark, secret clutch of a Viking hoard, now dug from the earth by your grasping hands. It…
— Ordinal Docs

Ordinals are described as vessels of history—scarce, coveted elements of our past, waiting to be rediscovered by new generations. While the standard does not prescribe a thematic vision for ordinals, it unmistakably conjures the imagery of ancient artifacts. Artifacts characterized by great reverence and respect for their history, craftsmanship, and the stories they tell.

We believe a project faithful to the ordinal vision and to Bitcoin would be one that embodies Bitcoin's own story as digital artifacts.

Satoshi Relics is Bitcoin history turned into true digital artifacts. It is the most faithful project to the ordinal digital artifact vision, "written" into the very standard itself.

Technically Enshrined

One might argue that this is reading too much into the intent of the standard, but there are technical foundations that back Relic as a canonical Ordinals collection.

Relics leverages the very core and canon of the ordinal standard, rather than being grafted onto it. In the recursive API specification that powers recursive ordinals, you'll find:

Relic ordinals are not merely images but transformational objects that breathe life into Bitcoin history: transaction data is ingested and transformed into dynamic generative art. Relics do not exist without the opportunity provided by the standard.

Satoshi Relics is powered by what the standard makes possible: Bitcoin history, on Bitcoin, for Bitcoin. Relics is the project this part of the standard was destined for.

Real Memetic Scarcity

All ordinals inherit Bitcoin's security and UTXO scarcity, but most collections simply manufacture rarity arbitrarily—X number of rare traits, Y number of editions. Relics is different.

1 tx = 1 relic. Bitcoin enforces such that every transaction is unique and Relic is pegged to this guarantee. Only one Relic can ever exist for the genesis transaction, a halving coinbase, or your first Bitcoin transfer. Scarcity is authentic, enforced by cryptography, protocol, and time itself.

Satoshi Relic is fully backed by Bitcoin itself, inheriting all its scarcity from the chain—not from us, or any artist, but from Bitcoin's own unstoppable ledger.

Alternative energy transformation

It is generally understood that Bitcoin is an energy to asset transformation function. Each new BTC is the product of energy consumed in consensus. BTC is the fungible capture of energy.

Every block, other than the coinbase, contains transactions that reflect the activity and history of the network.

Because each transaction is unique, we argue that transactions are the non-fungible capture of energy. Consensus secures each transaction just the same as it does the Bitcoin minted.

Satoshi Relic, the transaction artifact collection, is the non-fungible capture of energy on Bitcoin in an ownable, preservable form. A complement to the fungible form of energy transformation, BTC.

A Bitcoin Story, On Bitcoin

The meme of Relics is simple, powerful, and effective: Bitcoin history should become digital artifacts on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is the first, oldest, and most storied blockchain. Its transactions reverberate culture and lore—Pizza Day, halvenings, first transfers, famous messages. These moments are celebrated across crypto. You will be hard pressed to find a crypto native who has not heard of Bitcoin's story.

Bitcoin is unique not because of the technology, but because it is unrepeatable. Only one blockchain can be the first to exist. The oldest. The most storied. The most celebrated.

Relics makes this story collectible. It’s the first time you can truly own "Bitcoin history" as a digital artifact and natively on Bitcoin.

A Time-Honored Practice

From its inception, Bitcoin has been a vessel for messages and history. The genesis transaction itself contains a headline marking the 2008 financial crisis. Inscribing permanent echoes of our past has always been Bitcoin culture.

Satoshi Relics isn't inventing a novelty—it's extending Bitcoin's own archival mission and allowing you to own these echoes as artifacts. Partaking in Relics would be a time-honored practice.

A Once in an Industry Opportunity

In digital collectibles, first-mover advantage is real. Whoever first claims a meme—especially one as primal as "Bitcoin history"—defines the category. As it stands, no ordinal collection truly "owns" this meme. Relics will.

Satoshi Relics will be THE Bitcoin history collection—the first, the most complete, and the one that sets the standard for the vertical. As the first collection Satoshi Relics is the best shot to participate in this new category.

“Spam?” Really?

Some might call all Ordinals “spam,” but few things are more quintessentially Bitcoin than commemorating its own story on its own chain. Relics is on the least-spammy, most value-adding end of the spectrum, offering positive externalities for all of Bitcoin. (We argue that Satoshi Relics breaks the anti-spam argument due to the lack of nuance in defining spam.)

Satoshi Relics is a collection with a clear-cut reason to exist, uniquely necessary for Bitcoin's history to be recorded and celebrated, and for collectors and whales to recognize its value.

Art That Celebrates Bitcoin

Generative art is often abstract, but the art of Relic is readable: you can visually parse the txid, BTC moved, features of the transaction, and even underlying hex data—from the artwork itself.

Like true artifacts, Relics carry not just artistic but informational value—a window to culture, history, and the stories of the chain. This isn’t just generative art; it's generative artifact. Stories, not just bytes, are captured in Relics.

Satoshi Relic is Bitcoin history, manifest. Its visual design is unmistakably rooted in Bitcoin’s own visual and cultural language.

Artifact Art

Relics are crafted to feel like something you’d see in a museum: stone textures, ancient colors, a weight of time and meaning. Unique to Relics, every piece ages with its underlying transaction, evolving each year just like a real artifact weathering the centuries.

The “Relic aesthetic” stands out. Dynamic, deeply-rooted in the history theme, and instantly recognizable as the digital artifacts of Bitcoin history.

It’s Not Just Art

Unlike most generative sets labeled by simply a number, every Satoshi Relic can carry a unique title, description, and metadata. This captures the story of its underlying transaction and is stored permanently on-chain along with the digital artifact. This makes every Satoshi Relic a fully individuated, archival artifact. The history can not be confused both because of Bitcoin security and the metadata.

Satoshi Relics isn't just an art collection; it's a living, permanent index of our collective Bitcoin history.

A Dapp to Explore History

Satoshi Relics launches with a custom dapp, purpose-built to make history explorable. You don't just see a Satoshi Relic as a static image; you interact, read transaction metadata, view timelapses, and experience the full story. This is not a roadmap promise; it's real, and it exists now. No other collection comes with such a complete experience on mint day.

Satoshi Relics is a complete ecosystem, not just an ordinal collection. You are buying into a full history experience built for Bitcoin, by Bitcoiners.

Built With Experience

We are Proof of Beauty Studio. Our passion: unveiling the beauty encoded in blockchains. Satoshi Relics is our magnum opus, forged from years of hard-won experience.

Since 2020, our team has specialized in history-based collections on multiple blockchains. We carefully design for value, liquidity, safety, and permanence. Our mint mechanism is refined, simple, and maximally secure for collectors.

Satoshi Relics wasn’t an accident. It is the product of years of technology, learning, passion, and commitment to the vision of digital artifacts. Pob Studio exists to make history into artifacts.

Are you not entertained?

We genuinely believe Relic is a special project—a once-in-a-lifetime project—crafted with every ounce of creativity and experience we can offer. Why? Because Bitcoin history deserves the best shot at success for collectors.

We’ve made our case. Relics is novel, unique, and ultimately the most Bitcoin of all Bitcoin collections.