Episode Details

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