zzOrdinals Protocol

Hunting rare zats

Finding the interesting zats already sitting in your balance.

Rare zats are not created by hunting — they are found. Any transparent balance may already contain the first zat of a block, or a zat with an unusual number, simply because of where it came from.

Method

  1. Move funds you want to search into a dedicated transparent wallet.
  2. Let the indexer sync so every output can be traced back to its mining block.
  3. List the zats in each output and check them against the rarity tiers.
  4. Isolate anything interesting into its own output before spending anything else.
bash
zord wallet zats --rarity uncommon
zord wallet split --ordinal 1249000000000

Where rare zats turn up

  • Mining payouts, which contain the first zats of blocks by definition.
  • Old wallets holding coins that have not moved in years.
  • Large withdrawals from services that never split their outputs.

Protecting what you find

A rare zat is destroyed as a collectible the moment it is paid out as a fee, merged into a large change output, or shielded. Keep hunted zats in their own outputs, and use a wallet that never spends them automatically. Label them with their zOrdinal so you can recognise them later.
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