Charlie Spears

Bitcoin Accelerationist | Bitcoin Mining w/ Nakamotor | Ordinals Project

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What are OrdinalHub Badges?

OrdinalHub badges are a collection of 1,000 Inscriptions on Bitcoin Ordinals. The custom art was produced by the OrdinalHub design team and we inscribed 1,000 Badges on March, 21, 2023 in the 261,548 - 297,110 number range.

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These Bitcoin Ordinals Collections have outperformed Bitcoin

Bitcoin is up 262% so far in 2023, but several Bitcoin Ordinals collections have outperformed Bitcoin itself! Let's take a look at how a few of these collections have performed relative to the OG blockchain.

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What is Teleburning?

Jason Williams burned his $169,000 Bored Ape Yacht Club #1626 on Ethereum and Inscribed it forever onto Bitcoin Ordinals. Since then, we've seen Milady Makers, ENS Addresses, and many Ordinals collections be teleburned from ETH to Bitcoin. But what actually is teleburning?

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How to Teleburn an NFT to Bitcoin Ordinals

Teleburning your Ethereum NFT to Bitcoin Ordinals is super easy and quick! Migrate your NFT to Bitcoin where it will live forever. Here's a guide on how to do it yourself!

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How 1 man caused the Bitcoin Ordinals bear market

1 person is solely responsible for causing the collapse in inscription volume during the month of October by inventing a simple tool that "sniped" BRC-20 transactions. This caused activity of new inscriptions on bitcoin ordinals to plummet. Let's dive into how he did it!

What are "Ghost Inscriptions"?

We recently discovered a new type of inscription, a "missing" inscription type that didn't even have the chance to be recognized as "cursed". Some of us have started calling them "ghost inscriptions". Perhaps the nomenclature, definition of "ghost inscription" will evolve with time, but let's dive in and explain what

What is an Inscription "envelope"?

"Enveloping" is one of the least understood parts of how Inscriptions actually work, but also one of the most interesting & unexplored innovations that have come out of "Ordinal Theory". Understanding envelopes also opens up a discussion on what the definition of an "Inscription" really is and also sets the stage

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What is "GORD"?

We've been hard at work the past few months building our own version of the ord client from the ground up. As of right now, our live site & everything we do is running off of our own Gord client. Why did we do this and what does it accomplish?

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Cypherpunks Inscribe Code

Cypherpunk Ghosts cofounders Eloc & NuroNatahala were inspired by the movement & works of the cypherpunks & the cypherpunk mailing list.

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Paz - OGs & Ordinal Faces

Paz discovered Bitcoin Ordinals while studying at University. He spend the next several weeks working round the clock to launch one of the premiere OG Inscription Collections.

Aiko Desho - So much more than just the PFP

Zero has been crafting the Aiko Desho story for over a year, well before discovering Ordinals & Inscriptions. "Aiko Desho" is a Japanese term for when 2 players tie in a game of "Rock, Paper, Scissors", hinting at the relational nature of the project between Zero, her cofounder(s), and the

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Swapski: Bitcoin is the Art Gallery

Swapski has been around a long time but is "finally coming into [his] own" with Ordinals. He's spent a few years on Ethereum & other chains, mulling over how to do his own thing in the space. With Ordinals on Bitcoin, Swapski hits his stride.

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Post-OXBT chat with BitGod

From new twitter account to 130k in 3 months, BitGod has carried the banner for the most talked about BRC20 launch to-date: $OXBT. The token now has the most unique addresses over the largest cap BRC20, $ORDI, by a factor of 3. Now BitGod & crew set their sights towards RedactedBTC.

Announcing: SatScanner

We are proud to announce the alpha version of "SatScanner" (available to badge holders right now).  SatScanner takes a wallet address and searches through the bitcoin you own (UTXO set) to find any unique satoshis that you may own.  Certain satoshis have sold in excess of $1,000 – maybe you

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Bitcoin fees vs Ethereum gas

A lot of users new to Bitcoin may mistakenly use the term "gas" to refer to the cost to send a transaction on Bitcoin. However, the proper term for this cost is "fees". Furthermore, "fees" and "gas" have somewhat different mechanics. Let's dig in -- Network cost For decentralized networks

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Pepes for $PEPE

In this collaborative feature, OrdinalHub's Charlie Spears teams up with Galaxy Digital's Brandon Bailey (beezy) to co-interview Inscribed Pepes founder, 0wl. Inscribed Pepes were one of the first projects to launch on Bitcoin during those early chaotic days. While so much has happened over the past 4 months, Inscribed Pepes

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What is a "taproot address"?

You may have heard that you need a "taproot address" to "receive an Inscription". While this is not technically the case, it is generally good practice to use a taproot-enabled wallet so that you don't run into any problems. But what does "taproot address" mean? Taproot was an upgrade to

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The Difference between Inscriptions & NFTs

Inscriptions have some unique qualities that make them different than NFTs. Both NFTs and Inscriptions are types of "Digital Artifacts", but Inscriptions are immutable whereas most NFTs are not necessarily immutable. Inscriptions can be a video, pdf, or any type of data, but they are currently most commonly images the

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What are Common, Uncommon, and Rare Sats?

You may have heard the term "Uncommon sat". What is it and why is it special? A satoshi is the smallest unit of a bitcoin – a bitcoin contains 100 million satoshis. We use Ordinal Theory to number those satoshis, and when they're numbered we call them "Ordinals". There are many

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How to calculate the cost to create an Inscription

How much does it cost to create an Inscription? It's a pretty simple rule of thumb – the bigger the file you try to inscribe the more it will cost.

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The Biggest Bitcoin Ordinal Transactions Ever

It's the Superbowl ring, the Grammy, the Heavyweight Championship belt. The ultimate flex is filling up a whole block with 1 massive Inscription transaction, and there's only 4 members of the 4megger Pantheon.

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BRC-20 mania

"I don't know what BRC-20 is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask." If you thought Ordinal Theory just meant JPEGs on Bitcoin you've probably been in shock the past week. BRC-20 speculators drove the Bitcoin network to new all time high daily transactions yesterday and some estimates

Sat hunting

There's always a much deeper rabbithole. Maybe you've been learning about Bitcoin, aped into some Inscriptions, learned to run a full node, and maybe even gotten the ord client running. But now you're looking beyond the JPEGs & PFPs and delving into the world that is Special Satoshis. We may not

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A List of Ordinals Shows

We're tracking all the Ordinals-focused podcasts & twitter spaces so that you can stay abreast of what's up! 🖼️

How "experimental" BRC-20 drove Inscription count this week

A new experimental token standard by domodata drove Inscription activity & mempool fees to ATHs for 2023 this past week. "BRC-20", a reference to Ethereum's ERC-20, is a "a fun experimental standard [allowing you to] create off-chain balance states with inscriptions". BRC-20 adds the creation & transfer of token balances within the