{"id":5151,"date":"2023-02-15T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02b800d7f00025e1"},"modified":"2023-02-15T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T21:41:07","slug":"bitcoin-nfts-surpasses-100000-inscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/bitcoin-nfts-surpasses-100000-inscriptions","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin NFTs Protocol Ordinals Surpasses 100,000 Inscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just five days after reaching 50,000 inscriptions, Bitcoiners using the Ordinals protocol have now inscribed more than 100,000 pieces of data onto the Bitcoin blockchain. Since the project\u2019s launch<\/a> in January 2023, a seemingly endless stream of pictures, audio files and PDFs have been uploaded. <\/p>\n

As previously described<\/a>, inscriptions, through the Ordinals protocol, allow users to embed data, usually images, directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain, effectively enabling NFTs on Bitcoin. A full write-up on the technical ins-and-outs of the protocol can be found here.<\/a> In addition, Matt Odell has recorded an episode of Citadel Dispatch with the creator of the protocol, Casey Rodarmor<\/a>, which you can listen to here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prominent projects on Ordinals include Bitcoin Shrooms<\/a>, Astral Babes<\/a> and Bitcoin Punks<\/a>, which are Bitcoin-based uploads of the original Ethereum CryptoPunks. One of these has now sold<\/a> for as much as 9.5 BTC, or approximately $215,000 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n

You can explore all of the various inscriptions via the inscriptions explorer<\/a>. The platform has been rapidly adopted by a wide array of users, from artists to businesses. It has seen an explosion in usage in recent weeks, likely a result of the growing popularity of NFTs and the promise of a NFTs directly built onto the Bitcoin platform, inheriting all of the qualities that make Bitcoin the leading Layer 1 blockchain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are now more than 100,000 pieces of data inscribed directly onto the Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2730,"featured_media":3333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[584,93,1130,336],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technical","tag-inscriptions","tag-news","tag-nfts","tag-ordinals"],"author_data":{"id":2730,"name":"BtcCasey","nicename":"casey","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/jn_tjlo_400x400.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20220601_btcfinal_best-protected-a-computer-for-bitcoin-transactions-installing-linux-mint-arman-parman.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}