$BIT Documentation
Technical and conceptual reference for $BIT — a Bitcoin-native fungible token mined from the bits field of every block.
$BIT is a Bitcoin-native fungible token deployed via TAP Protocol on Ordinals, with supply derived from the bits field of every Bitcoin block. These docs are the technical and conceptual reference: what $BIT is, how the mint works, the tokenomics, and how to participate.
The bit of Bitcoin. Mined from the bits field of every Bitcoin block since genesis.
Sections
What is $BIT
The token, the thesis, and what it is not.
The bits field
Field 11 in the DMT registry — encoding, range, verification.
Mint spec
TAP dmt-mint payload format and validation rules.
Tokenomics
Per-block emission, supply curve, retarget effects.
How to mint
Walkthrough for inscribing a $BIT mint.
FAQ
Common questions and edge cases.
Status
$BIT is live. The canonical deploy is at inscription 9424802e38fc889969417cd90df4c4147209d2a83ed83798c0c4aa4391ad36e5i0. Any unminted Bitcoin block is mintable on a first-valid-inscription-wins basis. See How to mint for the flow.