One mug, one block.

Block Mug is one potter's shop. Every mug is thrown by hand, one at a time, and before it is fired it is stamped with the height of the bitcoin block being mined at that moment. That height is the mug's name, its page on this site, and its place on the chain. No two mugs share one.

Why sats

Each mug's price is stamped into the clay in sats, and that is the only price it will ever have. Paying in sats over Lightning keeps the exchange simple: no card processor, no currency conversion on the mug itself, no account to open. Only the shipping is quoted at checkout, in sats, from the current rate.

What the stamps mark

Four impressions, always in the same places. On the foot, the Block Mug mark and the block height. On the wall, where the drinker sees it, the price in sats. Low on the wall beside the handle, the maker's own stamp. Every mug's photos include close-ups of each.

Sets

Mugs come in sets: a dozen or so of one form thrown in one session, tweaked a little from the first to the last. Each set has a number, a name and a short account of what changed. A mug's number within its set follows block order, so "Set 3 · No. 5 of 11" says exactly where it sits.

The chain

The home page is the chain itself: every mug in block order, newest at the tip, with the count of empty blocks between neighbours. Sold mugs stay on it, dimmed, so any mug can be checked against its height, set and number years from now. The site is the permanent record.

The end of the project

[END-OF-PROJECT RULE: once chosen, the rule for how long a set has to sell through before the project ends is stated here.]

Privacy

Nothing about a buyer appears anywhere public, and shipping details are deleted 30 days after delivery. The details are on the policies page.