A finite registry

The Four-Byte Registry

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claimed of 4,294,967,296

Every possible 4-byte file is a single point in a space of 4,294,967,296. Claim one. The moment it's yours, no one else can ever take those exact four bytes again. Read them however you like — as text, as a number, or as a color.

Up to 4 bytes of UTF-8 text

A whole number, 0 to 4,294,967,295 Stored big-endian as four bytes.

RGB + alpha → four bytes

Alpha (4th byte): 101 — a transparent claim still holds the point.

Stake a random point in the space Most random points have never been touched.

As text

love

As number (uint32)

1,819,047,789

As color (RGBA)

#6C6F7665

Raw bytes (hex)

6C 6F 76 65

The raw bytes advanced — edit directly in hex

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Claims are stored in shared storage, so what you mint here is visible to every visitor and can't be taken twice. The percentage above is real: organic claims will barely scratch 4.29 billion — which is rather the point of a space you could, in principle, fill.