Ordinals
The Ordinals Team is Creating a Non-Profit to Support Bitcoin NFT Developers
The team behind the Ordinals protocol, led by Casey Rodarmor, has created the Open Ordinals Institute to grow its ecosystem without compromising neutrality.
Bitcoin NFTs Back in Spotlight as Ordinals Cross 350K Daily Inscriptions
Bitcoin Ordinals, a method of generating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through a process called inscribing, debuted in January, bringing the NFT and smart contract narrative to the Bitcoin blockchain.
Influencer Formerly Associated with Azuki Postpones NFT Drop After Plagiarism Accusations
Pseudonymous NFT researcher and artist Elena admitted to tracing other pixel art to pad out her upcoming collection Atomic Ordinals.
Litecoin Starts June Strong as Investors Eye August Halving, Uptick in Activity
LTC has outperformed both bitcoin and ether over the last 30 days.
BRC-721E Token Standard Converts Ethereum NFTs to Bitcoin NFTs
The new token standard allows traders to burn their ERC-721 NFTs and transfer them to inscriptions on the Bitcoin network.
Bitcoin's Hot Ordinals Economy is Getting a Dollar-Backed Stablecoin
Bitcoin’s quickly maturing ordinals scene has come a long way since January.
In NFT Sales, Bitcoin Jumps to No. 2 Spot in a Matter of Months
According to data platform CryptoSlam, NFTs on Bitcoin have grossed about $167 million in the past thirty days, creeping up on Ethereum’s number one position.
The Blocksize Wars Revisited: How Bitcoin’s Civil War Still Resonates Today
Today’s debates over non-monetary uses of Bitcoin like ordinals and BRC-20 tokens echo the battle between Big and Small Blockers between 2015 and 2017. This article, by Daniel Kuhn, is part of our “CoinDesk Turns 10” series.
BRC-20 Explained: How Tokens on Bitcoin Work and Why They Are Controversial
The idea of putting tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain isn’t anything new, but previous efforts haven’t exploded in popularity like BRC-20.
Frogs, Fevers and Fees: Bitcoin’s New Governance Challenge
The creation of Bitcoin-based meme coins using the new BRC-20 standard has driven up Bitcoin fees as they use more data than a basic Bitcoin transaction. But while some developers in the Bitcoin community are proposing a filter to block Bitcoin NFT projects, such censorship could run counter to Bitcoin's open-source characteristics, CoinDesk's chief content officer Michael Casey argues.
