Ordinals

Example inscriptions

https://ordinals.com/inscriptions

How Inscriptions work

https://docs.ordinals.com/inscriptions.html

ETH NFTs vs Inscriptions

https://docs.ordinals.com/faq.html#ethereum-nfts

Why bitcoiners should support inscriptions

https://docs.ordinals.com/faq.html#bitcoiners

Luxor mines block with huge inscription with no tx fee

https://twitter.com/LuxorTechTeam/status/1620921129287430144

https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000515e202c8ae73c8155fc472422d7593af87aa74f2cf3d

https://mempool.space/tx/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0ae

Poelstra’s comments

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html

BitMEX Research’s opinion

https://blog.bitmex.com/ordinals-data/

Credit: Casey Rodarmor, Luxor, Andrew Poelstra

Bitcoin developer funding

https://twitter.com/jamesob/status/1618949541407113217

Credit: James Obeirne

Bitcoin developer funding sources are pulling back

Async payments on LN

Still an open problem on the Lightning Network. Unfortunately POP PTLCs does not solve this problem

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2023-January/003820.html

https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/989#issuecomment-1325389542

https://i.imgur.com/28ssUuB.png

Credit: Valentince Wallace, Michael Matulef (sourcing)

How SHA256 works

Really cool tool to visualze each individual step of the sha256 algorithm

https://sha256algorithm.com/

Overview of Debt Capital Markets for Bitcoin Miners

https://braiins.com/blog/debt-capital-markets-in-bitcoin-mining-part-1

Credit: Braiins

Unenforceable fee obligations in multiparty protocols with Taproot inputs (Taproot bug?)

There is a bug in Taproot that allows the same Tapleaf to be repeated multiple times in the same Taproot, potentially at different Taplevels incurring different Tapfee rates.

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-February/021444.html

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-February/021452.html

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-February/021457.html

Credit: Yuval Kogman, Andrew Poelstra, Russell O’Connor