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I just realized that there is a lot I need to learn about Ordinals. While I don’t support the concept at all, but I am absolutely blank on what is the underlying tech that makes them work.

For example, I never knew that sats are “numbered” if a block reward gives for example 50 sats. The individual sats are numbered?

Is my understanding correct?

So if I send a Satoshi into a mixer, I can identify who has that specific Satoshi when it comes out?
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almost⚡️heaven 2y ago

sats aren’t numbered. I believe the ordinals program is what assigns them a number. So if you aren’t interested in ordinals, your sats are just sats. And their sats are just sats.

If someone told me their sat was special bc another program says it has a link to a website where I can look at a jpg, I would say I don’t care. It’s still just one sat.

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TKay 2y ago

That’s what I thought too. But how are these folks assigning jpegs to sats?

I can understand a transaction having information, similar to the genesis block. but I don’t see how can a single sat intrinsically have information.

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bloodymary 2y ago

With datas appended to the utxo:

Unspent transaction output

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bloodymary 2y ago

That’s it