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Nick Hansen (Luxor) on Ordinals, Blockspace, and Mining Pools (EP.407)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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Ordinal Theory

Casey Raderborn was one of the earliest people to be excited about ordinals. Ordinal theory is something that's been around for a long time and predates everything happening now by potentially years. The key unlock came maybe if it would be around eight weeks ago when Casey Raderborn decided you can actually inscribe some extra data to one of these ordinals. And so with using the witness data that's inherent in a tap in a tap root script, you're able to attach some extraData to this ordinal. Here we are on March 13th,. And we have eclipsed over 450,000 inscriptions. That number is not slowing down because they're compressing

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