Tried fooling around with native support for a WASM inscription type, the idea being to support inscribing and executing `.wasm` files directly. 🧵 Unfortunately, although you can create a standalone WASM binary with a main that can be imported and run, most toolchains (at least Rust, which I experimented with), also require at least one .JS file which provides the glue code between the WASM binary and the browser.

ord 0.21.3 has been released!

There are some very nice new goodies, so let's dive in 🧵

github.com/ordinals/ord/r… You can now add metadata when burning inscriptions. This is unstructured, human-readable metadata which shows up on the page of burned inscriptions.

I think this is really fun, since it increases the expressivity of inscriptions.

github.com/ordinals/ord/p…

WE HEBBEN EEN SERIEUS PROBLEEM

If you're using ord to send runes, upgrade to ord 0.21.2!

This fixes a somewhat serieus bug where `ord wallet send` would not create a change output in certain cases, which could lead to losing runes. 🧵

github.com/ordinals/ord/r… The bug was fixed in this PR. When using `ord wallet send`, the wallet must select input UTXOs containing enough runes to cover the amount being sent.

The bug was that, if an input was selected with multiple runes, rune A and rune B, and you were sending rune A, the wallet would not create a change output to receive the rune B which was in the inputs but was not being sent.

github.com/ordinals/ord/p…

Runes protocol messages are called runestones, and malformed runestones are "cenotaphs".

They sound scary, but in reality I think they're a safe and straightforward way to handle protocol upgrades and make sure clients stays in sync.

🧵 We just merged a PR that adds all of the types used by the Runes protocol to the "ordinals" library crate.

This should allow runes integrators to safely produce and consume runestones, without having to write a runestone decoder or encoder from scratch.

github.com/ordinals/ord/b…

The Runes protocol is built up in layers. Each parses unstructured data from the layer below and passes it to the layer above.

🧵 Every time a new block is mined, the ord Index[0] instantiates an Updater[1] to update the state of the index.

[0]

[1] github.com/ordinals/ord/b…
github.com/ordinals/ord/b…

Craig Wright is a fraud and BSV is a scam.

https://twitter.com/ODELL/status/1623202547526782978

Shitcoins are pointless rent seeking, but whatever 🤷‍♀️ I'm a big tent bitcoiner. Water's warm, come swim!

Craig Wright, however, is actively attacking bitcoin by mounting legal attacks against bitcoin devs.

These attacks are so colossally stupid, they shouldn't be working. But…

Ordinals haters can either protest at the corner of Seethe St. and Cope Ave., or they can build. 🧵 1. Help onboard new users to Bitcoin and Lightning! Increased use of bitcoin will force inscribers to compete and pay higher fees.

Don't be afraid to ask newbie questions in official ordinals project spaces, including GitHub discussions!

github.com/casey/ord/disc… 🧵 I've been maintaining a tool called Just for years, and often when something is going wrong for Just users, it's because things are wrong with their terminal, their shell, or their config files.

github.com/casey/just/

Damn it's been a spicy few days!

Many thoughts on the impact of inscriptions on Bitcoin in no particular order: Inscriptions receive the 75% segwit discount, but that discount isn't arbitrary, it reflects the lower cost of that data incurred by full nodes. Witnesses, the discounted portion of a transaction, are input data, and so never enter the UTXO set.

Inscriptions are finally ready for Bitcoin mainnet.

Inscriptions are like NFTs, but are true digital artifacts: decentralized, immutable, always on-chain, and native to Bitcoin. 🧵

rodarmor.com/blog/inscribin… Inscriptions are made on sats, which are tracked and transferred using ordinal theory, which gives sats individual identities and allows them to be tracked and transferred across transactions.

rodarmor.com/blog/ordinal-t…

The question that everyone should be asking about Ethereum is not whether or not it's decentralized. It's not. The true open question is: Can it it resist regulation and nation-state attackers?

🧵 If you think Ethereum is decentralized, think again. The chain is a continuous parade of hard forks pushed through by a relatively small cadre consisting of devs, investors, and firms.

Congratulations are in order for @ordinalsindex!

With their submission of a 555 sat UTXO starting with ordinal 2317234675546, born less than two weeks after the genesis block, they have won the 200,000 sat reward for ordinal bounty 1!

ordinals.com/ordinal/231723…

🧵

https://twitter.com/rodarmor/status/1569735621245272065

For those who don't know, ordinals are serial numbers for satoshis, recently described to me as "the most degen math project on bitcoin".

rodarmor.com/blog/ordinal-t…

Ordinal numbers start at 0 and and increase with every sat mined, until eventually topping out at 2099999997689999.

Ordinal names, on the other hand, start at long and get shorter. Ordinal 0 is "nvtdijuwxlp". Ordinal 2099999997689999 is "a". This is done because if names started short and increased in length, all the short names, from "a" to "pduluri", would all be locked in the unspendable genesis block coinbase output.