Introduction

Casey Rodarmor joins me to chat about Ordinals and Inscriptions. Now we get into the pros and cons of this, and whether it is bad for Bitcoin. We chat:

• What Ordinals and Inscriptions are
• The ‘bull’ case for Ordinals and Inscriptions
• Do they spam the bitcoin blockchain?
• Witness data on the input side, not output side
• Is it harder to validate?
• Can it even be stopped?
• Marginal consumption of block space

Links:

• Twitter: @rodarmor
• Site: Ordinals.com
• Podcast: https://hellpodcast.money/
• BitMEX post: https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/
• Andrew Poelstra’s commentary: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html

Sponsors:

• Swan Bitcoin
• Cory's blog post for Swan: Bitcoiners, it's winning time
• Mempool.space
• Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)
• CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)
• Buildonl2.com
• BTCPrague.com