What Are Full Block Ordinals?
Ordinals have given the Bitcoin community much to think about. Some say they make Bitcoin fun, and others say they’re spam. Personally, I don’t need my money to be fun; I need it to be safe, secure, and reliable. But that’s just one plebs opinion. Ordinals have started their own movement, with businesses, applications, and […]
Brave Wallet Adds BTC Support
Brave is a privacy-focused web browser that has tethered itself to crypto since its inception. The browser is known for its built-in cryptocurrency wallet and rewards system and even has its own failed Altcoin BAT (Basic Attention Token), which was initially launched as a reward system for users to tip websites and social accounts, similar […]
What Is Teleburning?
The crypto world seems to have a recurring addiction – degens chasing the next shiny object, even if it means setting fire to what they claimed was revolutionary innovation along the way. I suppose when your goal is to get rich through the sale of vapourware wrapped in narratives, it doesn’t need to be consistent or make […]
Bitcoin Knots Patch Aims To Tie Up Ordinals
The recent surge in popularity of Bitcoin Ordinals has sparked both excitement and concern within the Bitcoin ecosystem. There has not been this much of a polarising topic since the block size wars. Given Ordinals need to gobble up the already limited block space, it has begun to marginalise other transaction types like standard Bitcoin […]
MEV Attacks Ramping Up On Ordinals
The emergence of Ordinals, a protocol that enables the inscription of data directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain, has introduced a new dimension to the Bitcoin ecosystem. While Ordinals have opened up possibilities for unique non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other forms of tokens, they have also introduced a new type of exploit or opportunity, depending on […]
What Are Rare Satoshis?
Bitcoin is money for everyone; it’s an open system that anyone can choose to join and support. Once you acquire Bitcoin using a wallet where you hold the private key, no one can tell you what to do with it. You can spend it, save it, try to earn a yield on it, borrow against […]
What Are Recursive Inscriptions?
Bitcoin Ordinals and Inscriptions are branded a new way to use the Bitcoin blockchain, but it’s really an old idea that has been re-hashed on the chain and takes advantage of the SegWit discount. They are the latest evolution of the coloured coins idea and allow users to inscribe data, such as images, text, or […]
What Are Cursed Inscriptions?
Open-source software, by its very nature, encourages public scrutiny, collaboration, transparency, and adaptability. When you put anything out online for the world to see, you’re asking to be roasted by the masses. The internet will always give you their opinion; this is true for something as simple as a bad-take tweet to something more complex […]
What Are SRC-20 Tokens/Stamps
As the world of ordinals continues to evolve and secondary markets spring up to meet the demand for trading inscribed satoshis, we’re seeing more developers and projects trying to divert some of that capital into their projects and, of course, pockets. Who can blame them? If people have the money and want to gamble, and […]
What Is A Bitcoin Ordinal Explorer?
Bitcoin runs on a distributed ledger that any one of us can download and run ourselves through a Bitcoin full node, which can be done on an old laptop, or you could have a dedicated device such as a Raspberry PI. One of the benefits of running a node with a direct copy of the […]