The videos stored on Bitcoin’s blockchain forever
There are videos on the Bitcoin blockchain. Using various methodologies, artists and trolls have crammed GIFs and MP4s on-chain for years.
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Ordinals Scrapyard turns Bitcoin NFT wreckage into tax write-offs
New website Ordinals Scrapyard is bidding $0.001 for any Bitcoin Inscription, including NFTs that once sold for over $1M apiece.
FixTheFilters: Bitcoin arguments go viral over relaxing Core data storage
Bitcoin developers are arguing furiously about setting standards for the use of OP_Return for non-financial data storage.
Bitcoin devs continue fight over ‘arbitrary’ data storage
Non-financial data like media inscriptions continues to fill up Bitcoin’s blockchain, and the debate about how to address it continues.
Rare sats and Runes failed to solve Bitcoin’s security budget
Like all of Casey Rodarmor’s protocols for speculative trading on Bitcoin, Runes failed to raise Bitcoin miners' revenue above its average.
Bitcoiners seek to bypass Luke Dashjr for OP_CAT soft fork
Bitcoin’s code review process is under scrutiny after Bitcoin Core contributor Bryan Bishop volunteered to replace Luke Dashjr.
This Bitcoin halving is the most expensive ever
This year is an especially rich Bitcoin halving, with Runes and the so-called 'Epic Sat' adding speculative fervor to global celebrations.
Could Bitcoin Ordinals give rise to rare sats futures market?
Following the launch of Bitcoin Ordinals early last year, individual and potentially rare sats can now be numbered and traded like NFTs.
Ordinals founder Casey Rodarmor to launch Runes at Bitcoin halving
The founder of Bitcoin Ordinals and their NFT-like Inscriptions is launching a fungible token standard and BRC-20 competitor called Runes.
Why is Luke Dashjr the only Bitcoiner who can assign BIP numbers?
Bitcoin Core developer and miner Luke Dashjr is also the sole administrator of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal upgrade process.