Ordinals Explained | What are Ordinals? Episode 2
Defining Bitcoin Ordinals The Role of Ordinals in Bitcoin Bitcoin ordinals refer to the unique identification numbers assigned to each satoshi on the blockchain. They serve as a timestamp and…
Inaugural Bitcoin Ordinals Trading Fund Attracts Institutional Interest as It Goes Live
Institutional investors are taking a bold step into the world of Ordinals as the sector’s first managed fund goes live, promising to actively trade and invest in Ordinals-related assets. Led…
Someone Is Inscribing All of WikiLeak’s Infamous Afghan War Logs on Bitcoin
Julian Assange holds up a copy of the Guardian newspaper during a press conference in London on July 26, 2010. Andrew Winning / Reuters file What’s started with a mysterious…
Automated Bitcoin Inscription Service OrdinalsBot Raises $1 Million
In a significant development for the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem, OrdinalsBot has successfully procured more than $1 million in seed funding. Founded only earlier this year, on February 7, 2023, the…
Runes: An Attempt At A Serious Protocol, Or Another Children’s Toy?
Casey Rodamor, the creator of the Ordinals protocol and reference implementation, recently dropped a proposal for a replacement to the BRC-20 fungible token protocol: Runes. It took roughly seven hours…
Bitcoin Ordinals Creator Proposes Overhaul of Inscription Numbering
Casey Rodarmor, the chief coder behind the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol, announced Tuesday that he is proposing a significant change to the software, one that could be viewed with skepticism by its…
A Bitcoin Maximalist’s Ode To Ordinals
This is an opinion editorial by L. Asher Corson, a partner at UTXO Management. As a Bitcoin Maximalist, I love Ordinals. Other Maximalists should also consider loving Ordinals, as they…
Bitcoin Magazine Inscribes Cover of Latest Print Issue As Recursive Ordinal
Bitcoin Magazine has just launched its latest Ordinal inscription, honoring the new tradition of publishing the print edition covers directly to the Bitcoin blockchain. This time, the company inscribed both…
No, Bitcoin Ordinals Do Not Inscribe Data Onto Sats
This is an opinion editorial by Bitcoms, a Bitcoin writer. “So quick bright things come to confusion” –William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” “Inscriptions” are a way of writing pieces…
Ordinals, Inscriptions And BRC-20 Can’t Break Bitcoin
This is an opinion editorial by Roy Sheinfeld, the co-founder and CEO of Breez, a Lightning Network mobile app. The more wonderful something is, the more passion it will arouse.…