Blog Featured The Wizardry of Shadow Hats Forgotten Runes Shadow Hats on Bitcoin Ordinals performed a "Ritual" to inscribe 666 Shadows. Let's dive into how we did it!
Learn Featured What is the Jubilee? The "Jubilee" is a update to the ord client that makes certain types of inscriptions on Bitcoin Ordinals no longer cursed. Let's dive in and learn more about it!
Ecosystem Featured First 10k Ordinals Breakdown We've got 5 contenders for "first" 10k, and the winner is totally dependent on definition. A couple are more obvious than the others, but we want to at least cover the range of methodologies and review the landscape of early ordinals collections.
Ecosystem Featured What is CBRC-20? CBRC-20, or "Cy[Bord]" is a new metaprotocol token standard on Bitcoin Ordinals that significantly improves transaction efficiency & utilizes several new features of the ord client.
Product 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.
Blog 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.
Blog Featured 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?
Learn 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!
Ecosystem 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
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"
Featured 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?
Ecosystem Cypherpunks Inscribe Code Cypherpunk Ghosts cofounders Eloc & NuroNatahala were inspired by the movement & works of the cypherpunks & the cypherpunk mailing list.
Ecosystem 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,
Ecosystem 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.
Blog Featured 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
Learn 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&
Featured 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
Learn 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
Learn 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
Learn What are Uncommon, Rare, and Epic Sats? You may have heard the term "Uncommon sat". What is it and why is it special in the world of Bitcoin Ordinals? An Uncommon Sat is the first sat in a newly produced Bitcoin block.
Learn How much does it actually cost to inscribe an ordinal? 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.
Blog 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.
