Bitcoin Ordinals surpass 10M inscriptions as creator Rodarmor steps down
The number of Ordinals has grown from one to 10 million in less than six months. The number of Ordinals inscriptions on the Bitcoin (BTC) network has surpassed the 10 million mark, just days after its creator stepped down as the project’s caretaker. On May 28, Casey Rodarmor announced on Twitter he had stepped down as the project’s lead maintainer, claiming that he’d been unable to give Ordinals the attention it deserved. Rodarmor handed the role over to pseudonymous coder Raphjaph. I haven't been able to give ord the attention it deserves, so I am pleased to announce that @raphjaph has agreed to step up as lead maintainer! Raph is an impoverished student, and his work on ord will be entirely funded by donations. If you can, please consider donating!… — Casey (@rodarmor) May 28, 2023 Launched in January, the Ordinals protocol rapidly became the most popular way to mint new assets on the Bitcoin blockchain Ordinals originally began as a way of “inscribing” data in the witness ...