By Pepe The Expert

If you find 2009 sats and are able to isolate them for me to inscribe on, I will cut you in on the proceeds from the songs we turn into Ordinals.

I’d especially love to find January 14, 2009 sats. The song from that day is called “I’m Drunk Because The Economy Sucks”.

— 16 years of song a day (@songadaymann) March 15, 2023

You inscribed your first ordinal song, inscription #1501, following in the footsteps of @ScrillaVentura who was the first to inscribe a song on ordinals. What are your thoughts about ordinals? Is it a cultural movement or a passing fad?

I love the idea and vibe of ordinals a lot. Language is something I’ve always lamented in the NFT space. “Minting” is for currency, not art. Why are we calling them “non-fungible tokens”…it’s a terrible name.

Back in 2017 there was a fight to call them anything else, like digital objects or DOTs. But ordinals, inscribing – this language is great. I don’t know if they are a passing fad or what, but the other main thing that I find enticing is the ability to put all the actual data right on chain. That’s super fun.

You hold the Guinness World Record for “Most Consecutive Days Writing a Song.” How much work did you put into making this happen?

I mean, I wrote a song a day? That’s the work part! In terms of actually getting in the book, they contacted me. It was quite straight foward.

Can you talk about your project A Song A Day and it’s parallels with BTC founding timeline?

BTC’s genesis block was on January 3rd, 2009. That is just 3 days after I wrote my first song a day song. They are both projects born of the financial crisis. I was unemployed, and had nothing better to do than write a song a day. BTC is famously a response to the collapse of banks in 2008.

Do you plan to inscribe more songs on ordinals protocol?

My plan right now is to take all 365 songs from that first year, 2009, and inscribe them on sats that were mined on the same day that I wrote each song. So far I’ve done one: Song #99 inscribed on a sat mined on April 9th, 2009. It’s on sale now!

You are also into hunting rare sats. What has been your experience with this and have you found any rare Sats and what do you plan to inscribe on them?

It’s super fun to find old sats. They aren’t “rare” exactly. Something like 15% of all sats in existence are from 2009, because the rate of BTC mined at that time was so high. So there’s actually a TON of them. They’re not rare, they are just hard to find because even though there’s lots of them, the sheer number of sats in general is just staggering. As I mentioned, my main goal is to find one sat for every day in 2009, and inscribe each song written on that on to each companion sat.

Will you be listing your song ordinal on marketplaces like ordswap or ordinalswallet?

I am still trying to figure out the best way to list the songs. For now, I think I’m going to do everything OTC. Please reach out if you’re interested!