Ord Mac Mint Commands for Runes and some tips for determining fee rate

If you have your Bitcoin Node running, and you have Ord running, and on top of all that, you're rocking and rolling with Sparrow. Oh and you have split your UTXO's, so yes, you've done a lot, congrats, you're ready to try minting.

Here's the commands to mint, note you do need to fill in your own addresses and follow your specific directory structure.

Minting on Signet using default wallet in Ord Client

ord --signet --cookie-file /Volumes/YourSSDName/Bitcoin/signet/.cookie --data-dir /Volumes/YourSSDName/Ord wallet mint --destination <enterDestinationAddressHere> --fee-rate <fee rate> --rune RUNE•NAME•HERE

Minting on Signet using named wallet in Ord Client

ord --signet --cookie-file /Volumes/YourSSDName/Bitcoin/signet/.cookie --data-dir /Volumes/YourSSDName/Ord wallet --name <wallet name> mint --destination <enterDestinationAddressHere> --fee-rate <fee rate> --rune <RUNE•NAME•HERE>

Minting on Mainnet using default wallet in Ord Client

ord --cookie-file /Volumes/YourSSDName/Bitcoin/signet/.cookie --data-dir /Volumes/YourSSDName/Ord wallet mint --destination <enterDestinationAddressHere> --fee-rate <fee rate> --rune <RUNE•NAME•HERE>

Minting on Mainnet using named wallet in Ord Client

ord --cookie-file /Volumes/MorganSSD/Bitcoin/signet/.cookie --data-dir /Volumes/MorganSSD/Ord wallet --name <wallet name> mint --destination <enterDestinationAddressHere> --fee-rate <fee rate> --rune <RUNE•NAME•HERE>

Picking your fee rate

Use Mempool.space to pick your fee rate. You can look at the current block and see the average fee rate at the top. Below that is the low and high, example below:

In this example, the first block in orange, to the right of the dotted line is the current block. You would need to set your fee rate at 128 at the minimum...but, that's probably too low.

Looking on the right, you'll see the last two blocks had a min of 133 and 130. Setting too close to the minimum could mean it takes multiple blocks, and if you're in a hot mint, it could mint out before your transaction goes through.

Not financial advice, but. I typically bid between 20% - 80% above the average. So in this case I would bid between 166 - 250, going higher if it's a mint I really want to get in the block.

Destination address

For the destination address you've got a myriad of options. I'm far from an expert but the two different suggestions I've heard are:

• My preferred way - Use your Ord address from XVerse or Unisat
• Make another wallet in Ord, load it into Sparrow, and then make it the destination address. Note - there are some risks here since you could get things confused and end up sending out your Runes accidentally when minting. So I would be very careful if you do this.