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Shibescription

The numbered inscription object of the Doginals lineage.

Updated 2026-09-114 min readshibescription · inscriptions

Also called
Doginal, inscription
First
#0, 24 February 2023
Bound to
A shibe / UTXO
Gold-leaf Shiba study hanging in a dark gallery

A Shibescription is a Doginal as catalogued by an indexer: an envelope of bytes, a content type, and a serial number assigned in the order the indexer saw valid inscriptions. Shibescription #0 (24 February 2023, image-bearing in contemporary accounts) is the origin stamp. Numbers after that are only as canonical as the software counting them.

Numbering is not consensus

Bitcoin Ordinals numbers satoshis; inscriptions inherit a sat’s identity as it moves. Doginals attempts the same for shibes. Because early Dogecoin subsidies were random, two honest implementations can disagree about which shibe is which until they share a subsidy table. That is why “my Shibescription number” should always be cited with an indexer.

We do not hang a forgery of #0. The original bytes live on the chain. See them on the Doge Soft explorer. Reproducing them here would confuse provenance with illustration.

Sources

Primary texts for this chapter. The full index lives on Doginals sources.