A rift has emerged in the bitcoin community over the rise of “Bitcoin Ordinals,” which are essentially non-fungible tokens (NFTs) embedded in bitcoin transactions. While some view Ordinals as an innovative new use of the bitcoin blockchain, others see them as spam that detracts from bitcoin’s core purpose.
The proposed fork would enable Ordinals to grow without the chance of being nullified by future updates made in the Bitcoin Core version. It might also be appealing to miners who gained from the boost in transaction fees during the Ordinals surge of 2023.
Rather than fight what seems to be growing resistance from bitcoin developers and key voices, proponents of Bitcoin Ordinals are now calling for a hard fork to create a new blockchain where their NFT experiment can continue unchecked.
This would mirror previous bitcoin forks like Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV, which splintered off to follow a different technical roadmap. By forking, the Ordinals community could build on its own terms, while allowing bitcoin to retain its current technical design.
With bitcoin poised for a new wave of institutional investment, avoiding internal conflict could be prudent. For the Ordinals supporters, a fork may be the only path forward if they hope to keep innovating with NFTs on a public blockchain.
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