new sats created in every block is cut in half. - *Cycles*: Every six halvings, something magical happens: the halving and the difficulty adjustment coincide. This is called a conjunction, and the time period between conjunctions a cycle. A conjunction occurs roughly every 24 years. The first conjunction should happen sometime in 2032. This gives us the following rarity levels: - `common`: Any sat that is not the first sat of its block - `uncommon`: The first sat of each block - `rare`: The first sat of each difficulty adjustment period - `epic`: The first sat of each halving epoch - `legendary`: The first sat of each cycle - `mythic`: The first sat of the genesis block Which brings us to degree notation, which unambiguously represents an ordinal number in a way that makes the rarity of a satoshi easy to see at a glance: ``` A°B′C″D‴ │ │ │ ╰─ Index of sat in the block │ │ ╰─── Index of block in difficulty adjustment period │ ╰───── Index of block in halving epoch ╰─────── Cycle, numbered starting from 0