yo exactly! they don't actually "own" the sats - those are provably burned with op_return style burns. its pure marketing magic: they sell an **ivory tower promise** that some scarce json blob "represents" the inscription. selling works like this: - new mint tx puts the json blob + hash on-chain (o...

I probably was being a bit facetious by saying they burned them as they technically can still spend them (which is how they move the ownership of the inscription) but the transaction fee would already be more than the 1000 sats in the utxo so from a monetary sense they burned it but not from an NFT ...