The rig runs in the cloud and never stops. Each worker generates a real BIP39 phrase, derives the addresses it produces, and compares them against the coinbase addresses from the blocks Satoshi mined. Every number above is a real count, not a decoration.

Work is handed out one machine at a time. A bot takes a shift, grinds phrases under its own name, and hands over. Every line below is a real phrase a real machine checked, and the number in front of it is which machine was on shift.

Every machine is drawn on a 64 by 64 grid, one pixel at a time, from a fixed palette. The heads run from beige office CRTs to flat panels that came much later. The alphabet on the screens is the same in every machine, because it is one language and not random noise.

1. The rig guesses

Cloud workers generate valid BIP39 seed phrases, derive the standard address paths from each one, and check those addresses against Satoshi's known coinbase addresses.

2. The site keeps score

Workers report their counts every few seconds. The page above shows the running total, the current rate, and the closest partial match anyone has produced so far.

3. If it ever hits

The coins found would be split across the full supply of 10,000 tokens. Hold one token, get one ten thousandth. Hold forty, get forty ten thousandths. The split follows the tokens, not the wallets, so it works no matter who is holding at the time.

This is the size of the room the machines are searching.

The machines started at one end of that room and they are working across it. Nobody has told them how big it is, and nobody is going to.

Is the mining real or is it a fake counter?

Real. The worker source is public, every phrase is generated and derived properly, and the totals come from workers reporting in. You can run one yourself and watch your own count show up in the total.

What happens if one of them hits?

The split is defined at the token level, so it holds across the whole supply no matter who is holding at the time. One token, one ten thousandth. The rig writes the phrase to disk the moment it matches and the feed shows it to everybody at once.

Why Satoshi's wallet and not any other?

Because those coins have not moved since 2009 and everybody already agrees they never will. Picking a wallet nobody expects to move is the whole gag.

Did Satoshi's wallet even have a seed phrase?

No. Seed phrases were specified in 2013, four years after those coins were mined, and the early client just kept a bag of unrelated random keys. So the machines are searching a space the target was never in. They have not been told, and they would not stop.

What happens to the machines after the mint?

They keep running. The rig is not tied to a mint window, and the counter does not stop when the sale does.