block 1,000
The Dawn
January 2009 — Satoshi still mining alone. Difficulty: 1.
Orbital · Voidglass · 12-fold · Nucleus
00000000c937983704a73af28acdec37b049d214adbda81d7e2a3dd146f6ed09
956 living relics, lifted from Bitcoin’s milestone blocks. The one breathing above you was found at block 840000: the fourth halving.
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The rule
Nothing here was picked by hand. Every thousandth block that Bitcoin has ever mined, from block 1000 in January 2009 to block 956000 today, belongs to the collection. Each relic’s geometry is grown deterministically from its block’s hash, nonce, and difficulty. The block is the seed; the art is its fingerprint.
Milestone blocks are where the chain’s history actually happened. All four halvings end in 000, so all four are here: 210000 · 420000 · 630000 · 840000. And roughly once a week Bitcoin mines a new thousandth block, so the collection keeps breathing with the chain itself.
956
relics, one per milestone block
4
halvings among them
17 yrs
of Bitcoin history spanned
Seven relics, seventeen years
block 1,000
January 2009 — Satoshi still mining alone. Difficulty: 1.
Orbital · Voidglass · 12-fold · Nucleus
block 21,000
August 2009 — the network is a handful of machines.
Lotus · Astral · 12-fold · Third Eye
block 210,000
November 2012 — the 50 BTC era ends. The heartbeat proves itself.
Singularity · Ember DMT · 12-fold · Third Eye
block 420,000
July 2016 — mining is an industry now.
Lotus · Ember DMT · 8-fold · Nucleus
block 630,000
May 2020 — the world locked down; the chain did not.
Lotus · Abyss · 16-fold · Void
block 840,000
April 2024 — nineteen leading zeros in the hash.
Lattice · Ember DMT · 24-fold · Third Eye
block 956,000
June 2026 — the newest milestone. One more arrives each week.
Spiral · Voidglass · 24-fold · Third Eye
The lifespan dial
The fine ring around each mandala is an astrolabe of the halving schedule. Thirty-two ticks, one per halving, spanning roughly 130 years from genesis to the final satoshi. Past halvings burn solid; future ones wait faint. A luminous gem marks the exact moment this block was found.
Look at any relic today and the gem sits near the top of the circle, because all of us, and everything Bitcoin has been so far, live in the dawn of that schedule. Someone reading these relics decades from now will see their gems where we can only see empty ticks.
The dial, like everything else, is computed from the block alone. No servers, no dependencies: the art is a single self-contained inscription, legible as long as something can run it.