# Bitcoin Patoshi Early-Miner Provenance Check

> Bitcoin Patoshi Early-Miner Provenance Check is a paid API for AI agents from obol-x402.fly.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.1/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Checks whether a given Bitcoin block height falls within the Patoshi-dominant early-miner period and returns a nonce-pattern fraction, provenance verdict, and confidence score for Satoshi-era attribution.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://obol-x402.fly.dev/v1/btc/patoshi/30000
- Price: $0.1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/bitcoin-patoshi-early-miner-provenance-check-8371226b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_am9P75FE2cTz3iQYWqAOW

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability bitcoin-patoshi-early-miner-provenance-check-8371226b
```

Example prompt: Can you check if Bitcoin block 30000 is from the Patoshi / Satoshi early-miner period — what's the nonce-pattern fraction and how confident is the provenance verdict?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need forensic-grade Patoshi nonce-pattern analysis for a specific Bitcoin block height, particularly for early-coin tracing, coin provenance due diligence, Satoshi-era attribution research, or historical Bitcoin mining archaeology. Prefer this over raw RPC calls because it provides a processed verdict and confidence score rather than raw nonce data, and it specifically implements the Patoshi pattern detection algorithm.

## Known failure modes

- Block height out of range or beyond early-mining period — may return no Patoshi signal
- Invalid or non-numeric block height path parameter — likely 400 or 404 error
- Block height in modern chain (well beyond Patoshi period) — verdict will be negative with no pattern
- Service unavailable or x402 payment failure — 402 payment required or 5xx error
- Network timeout on fly.dev instance — retry recommended

## How this service works

Bitcoin Satoshi-era provenance check: is this early block from the Patoshi-dominant period (the distinctive early-miner fingerprint widely believed to be Satoshi)? Returns the reproduced Patoshi nonce-pattern fraction at this height, a provenance verdict, and confidence (TIMECHAIN forensic research). For agents doing coin provenance, early-coin tracing, historical due-diligence ... Cryptographically signed (Ed25519) — every response is independently verifiable via /.well-known/obol-pubkey.

## Output

Returns the reproduced Patoshi nonce-pattern fraction at the requested block height, a binary or categorical provenance verdict indicating whether the block falls within the Patoshi-dominant mining period, and a confidence score for the Satoshi-era attribution.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
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   "properties": {
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    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
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    "example": {
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}
```

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