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…
Bitcoin’s First Ever EVM Transaction Takes Place Paving Way For ZK Rollup
Bitcoin startup Chainway has taken a significant stride in the space with its introduction of the first Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) transaction on bitcoin. This is part of Chainway’s continued…
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…
ZK Rollups Are Coming To Bitcoin. Here’s All You Need To Know
Zero-knowledge (ZK) rollups are coming to Bitcoin. Recently, two different projects took turnkey steps into turning this development into a reality for the original cryptocurrency, an advancement that could help…
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…