Let's learn how to deploy a smart contract on the Base testnet and claim the “Early Builder on Base Testnet” NFT!

Steps:

Add Base Goerli Testnet Claim faucet Deploy a Smart Contract Claim the NFT

1. Add Base Goerli Testnet:

URL: https://chainlist.org/chain/84531 Click "add to metamask"

1. Claim Testnet tokens on faucet:

URL: https://faucet.quicknode.com/base Connect wallet and claim tokens

1. Deploy a Smart Contract:

Go to: https://thirdweb.com/thirdweb.eth/DropERC721

First Connect your wallet and then click “Deploy Now” Upload any mage of your choosing and give the contract a name and a symbol. Make sure you select “Base Goerli Testnet” on the Network/Chain option and deploy > Confirm 2 txn in your wallet.

Now deploy the contract, congratulations you have deployed your first smart contract on the Base Test Network 🔥

1. Claim Your NFT:

Now we need to claim our NFT, First go to the "contracts section" and copy the contract address

Then go to the NFT claim page: https://quests.base.org/ Connect your wallet and press "start Quest" then paste your smart contract address and verify

Once verified, you can claim your NFT

And you're done for now!

Stay tuned for more aidrop info! and do give a follow ❤️‍🔥

I've been working on a numbering scheme for satoshis that allows tracking and transferring individual sats. These numbers are called ordinals, and constitute a numeric namespace for Bitcoin. Satoshis are numbered in the order in which they're mined, and transferred from transaction inputs to transaction outputs in first-in-first-out order. More details are available in the BIP.

Ordinals don't require a separate token, another blockchain, or any changes to Bitcoin. They work right now.

Ordinals can be represented in a few ways:

With raw notation, like so 1905530482684727°. The number is the ordinal number, and the "°" is the Romance language ordinal symbol.

With decimal notation, like so 738848.482684727°. The first number is the block height, and the second is the index of the ordinal within the block.

With degree notation, like so 0°108848′992″482684727‴. We'll get to that in a moment.

A block explorer is available at ordinals.com. You can explore recent blocks, and look up ordinals by number, decimal, degree, or name.

Arbitrary assets, such as NFTs, security tokens, accounts, or stablecoins can be attached to Ordinals.

Ordinals is an open-source project, developed on GitHub. The project consists of a BIP describing the ordinal scheme, an index that communicates with a Bitcoin Core node to track the location of all ordinals, a wallet that allows making ordinal-aware transactions, a block explorer for interactive exploration of the blockchain, and functionality for minting ordinal NFTs.

Rarity Since ordinals can be tracked and transferred, people will naturally want to collect them. Ordinal theorists can decide for themselves which sats are rare and desirable, but I wanted to provide some hints.

Bitcoin has periodic events, some frequent, some more uncommon, and these naturally lend themselves to a system of rarity. These periodic events are:

Blocks: A new block is mined approximately every 10 minutes, from now until the end of time. Difficulty adjustments: Every 2016 blocks, or approximately every two weeks, the Bitcoin network responds to changes in hashrate by adjusting the difficulty target which blocks must meet in order to be accepted. Halvings: Every 210,000 blocks, or roughly every four years, the amount of new sats created in every block is cut in half. Cycles: Every six halvings, something magical happens: the halving and the difficulty adjustment coincide. This is called a conjunction, and the time period between conjunctions a cycle. A conjunction occurs roughly every 24 years. The first conjunction should happen some time in 2032.

This gives us the following rarity levels:

common: Any sat that is not the first sat of its block
uncommon: The first sat of each block rare: The first sat of each difficulty adjustment period epic: The first sat of each halving epoch legendary: The first sat of each cycle mythic: The first sat of the genesis block Which brings us to degree notation, which unambiguously represents an ordinal in a way that makes rarity easy to see at a glance:

A°B′C″D‴

│ │ │ ╰─ Index of sat in the block

│ │ ╰─── Index of block in difficulty adjustment period

│ ╰───── Index of block in halving epoch ╰─────── Cycle, numbered starting from 0

Ordinal theorists often use the terms "hour", "minute", "second", and "third" for A, B, C, and D, respectively.

Now for some examples. This ordinal is common: 1°1′1″1‴

│ │ │ ╰─ Not first sat in block

│ │ ╰─── Not first block in difficutly adjustment period

│ ╰───── Not first block in halving epoch

╰─────── Second cycle

This ordinal is uncommon: 1°1′1″0‴
│ │ │ ╰─ First sat in block
│ │ ╰─── Not first block in difficutly adjustment period
│ ╰───── Not first block in halving epoch
╰─────── Second cycle

This ordinal is rare: 1°1′0″0‴
│ │ │ ╰─ First sat in block
│ │ ╰─── First block in difficulty adjustment period
│ ╰───── Not the first block in halving epoch
╰─────── Second cycle

This ordinal is epic: 1°0′1″0‴
│ │ │ ╰─ First sat in block
│ │ ╰─── Not first block in difficulty adjustment period
│ ╰───── First block in halving epoch
╰─────── Second cycle

This ordinal is legendary: 1°0′0″0‴
│ │ │ ╰─ First sat in block
│ │ ╰─── First block in difficulty adjustment period
│ ╰───── First block in halving epoch
╰─────── Second cycle

And this ordinal is mythic: 0°0′0″0‴
│ │ │ ╰─ First sat in block
│ │ ╰─── First block in difficulty adjustment period
│ ╰───── First block in halving epoch
╰─────── First cycle
If the block offset is zero, it may be omitted.

This is the uncommon ordinal from above: 1°1′1″
│ │ ╰─ Not first block in difficutly adjustment period
│ ╰─── Not first block in halving epoch
╰───── Second cycle
Supply Total Supply
common: 2.1 quadrillion
uncommon: 6,929,999
rare: 3437
epic: 32
legendary: 5
mythic: 1

Current Supply
common: 1.9 quadrillion
uncommon: 745,855
rare: 369
epic: 3
legendary: 0 mythic: 1 At the moment, even uncommon ordinals are quite rare. As of this writing, 745,855 uncommon ordinals have been mined - one per 25.6 bitcoin in circulation. Names Each ordinal has a name, consisting of the letters A through Z, that get shorter the larger the ordinal is. They could start short and get longer, but then all the good, short names would be trapped in the unspendable genesis block. As an example, 1905530482684727°'s name is "iaiufjszmoba". The name of the last ordinal to be mined is "a". Every combination of 10 characters or less is out there, or will be out there, some day. Exotics Ordinals may be prized for reasons other than their name or rarity. This might be due to a quality of the number itself, like having an integer square or cube root. Or it might be due to a connection to a historical event, such as ordinals from block 477,120, the block in which SegWit activated, or ordinal 2099999997689999°, the last ordinal that will ever be mined. Such ordinals are termed "exotic". Which ordinals are exotic and what makes them so is subjective. Ordinal theorists are are encouraged to seek out exotics based on criteria of their own devising. Archaeology A lively community of archaeologists devoted to cataloging and collecting early NFTs has sprung up. Here's a great summary of historical NFTs by Chainleft. A commonly accepted cut-off for early NFTs is March 19th, 2018, the date the first ERC-721 contract, SU SQUARES, was deployed on Ethereum. Whether or not ordinals are of interest to NFT archaeologists is an open question! In one sense, ordinals were created in early 2022, when I finalized the Ordinals specification. In this sense, they are not of historical interest. In another sense though, ordinals were in fact created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009 when he mined the Bitcoin genesis block. In this sense, ordinals, and especially early ordinals, are certainly of historical interest. I personally favor the latter view. This is not least because the ordinals were independently discovered on at least two separate occasions, long before the era of modern NFTs began. On August 21st, 2012, Charlie Lee posted a proposal to add proof-of-stake to Bitcoin to the Bitocin Talk forum. This wasn't an asset scheme, but did use the ordinal algorithm, and was implemented but never deployed. On October 8th, 2012, jl2012 posted a scheme to the the same forum which uses decimal notation and has all the important properties of ordinals. The scheme was discussed but never implemented. These independent inventions of ordinals indicate in some way that ordinals were discovered, or rediscovered, and not invented. The ordinals are an inevitability of the mathematics of Bitcoin, stemming not from their modern documentation, but from their ancient genesis. They are the culmination of a sequence of events set in motion with the mining of the first block, so many years ago.

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