Title: ELI5: What is Ordinals and how they work? Post by: a298b112 on February 20, 2023, 10:51:52 AM So lately Ordinals becoming a hot topic. I don't understand how it works. Can someone please explain like if I am five?
Title: Re: ELI5: What is Ordinals and how they work? Post by: 1miau on February 21, 2023, 01:41:34 AM So lately Ordinals becoming a hot topic. I don't understand how it works. Can someone please explain like if I am five? I believe to get a good understanding of the topic, you can read their website, it's explained very well and to understand the general meaning, we also don't need to be a coder: https://docs.ordinals.com/introduction.htmlThe most important parts are probably: Overview Ordinal theory: https://docs.ordinals.com/overview.html Digital artefacts: https://docs.ordinals.com/digital-artifacts.html Inscriptions: https://docs.ordinals.com/inscriptions.html It's a bit text to read but their summary is very decent. There's also an FAQ for common questions: https://docs.ordinals.com/faq.html Probably, the FAQ is already answering most of your questions. :) Bitcointalk has also a technical discussion topic about it: NFTs in the Bitcoin blockchain - Ordinal Theory (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437464.0) Title: Re: ELI5: What is Ordinals and how they work? Post by: pooya87 on February 21, 2023, 03:52:36 AM Forget about the official website and the documentation, it is filled with lies and misinformation.
For example "Individual satoshis can be inscribed with arbitrary content, creating unique Bitcoin-native digital artifacts that can be held in Bitcoin wallets and transferred using Bitcoin transactions." is filled with misinformation. The satoshis are not inscribed, the content is not unique and there is no way to guarantee its uniqueness, you also can not and do no transfer the content itself to anybody when you send coins. Another way of looking at Ordinals is (to put simply) a brand new scam method to sell tiny amounts of bitcoin to idiots at much higher prices.
There are no NFTs, no arts, no ownership, ... being transferred here, individual satoshis have no extra value, ... and all the other lies they tell in step 3. Bottom line is anybody who paid more than $1.28 for the example above is being ripped off while contributing to an attack on Bitcoin. Arguing over UTXOs and how they are involved in this spam attack is pointless in my opinion :P Title: Re: ELI5: What is Ordinals and how they work? Post by: a298b112 on February 21, 2023, 08:54:09 AM Forget about the official website and the documentation, it is filled with lies and misinformation. For example "Individual satoshis can be inscribed with arbitrary content, creating unique Bitcoin-native digital artifacts that can be held in Bitcoin wallets and transferred using Bitcoin transactions." is filled with misinformation. The satoshis are not inscribed, the content is not unique and there is no way to guarantee its uniqueness, you also can not and do no transfer the content itself to anybody when you send coins. Another way of looking at Ordinals is (to put simply) a brand new scam method to sell tiny amounts of bitcoin to idiots at much higher prices.
There are no NFTs, no arts, no ownership, ... being transferred here, individual satoshis have no extra value, ... and all the other lies they tell in step 3. Bottom line is anybody who paid more than $1.28 for the example above is being ripped off while contributing to an attack on Bitcoin. Arguing over UTXOs and how they are involved in this spam attack is pointless in my opinion :P this! I also have same questions, but before asking those questions I wanted to understand how Ordinals work in a hope that those questions will be resolved. For example, if a single sat can be inscribed with a artifact, say there is a sat that has mp3 inscribed, where is the mp3 is kept/saved/hosted? Title: Re: ELI5: What is Ordinals and how they work? Post by: NeuroticFish on February 21, 2023, 09:24:09 AM For example, if a single sat can be inscribed with a artifact, say there is a sat that has mp3 inscribed, where is the mp3 is kept/saved/hosted? You didn't pay attention to what pooya87 told you. I'll quote it again: "The satoshis are not inscribed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5440546.msg61794921#msg61794921)" The data you are asking about is in the Taproot script. And you can have anything there, from byte representation of an image or mp3 to something much shorter, like the link to a website. That data, the Taproot script, is stored in the transaction, hence on the blockchain. You can see (https://mempool.space/) that since this ordinals crap has started some of the blocks are even larger than 3 MB. At least this is how I understand all this. Title: Re: ELI5: What is Ordinals and how they work? Post by: DdmrDdmr on February 21, 2023, 09:53:23 AM You can also get a pretty good idea of how much Ordinals are bloating the blockchain here:
https://dune.com/ddmrddmr/ordinals-data Unless I messed up somewhere, the data shows that roughly half of the blocksize is being used up by Ordinals these days, with some blocks on the verge of being solely carrying Ordinals (in terms of their occupied space on the block). Looks like something we could do without ... Title: Re: ELI5: What is Ordinals and how they work? Post by: BlackHatCoiner on February 21, 2023, 10:18:33 AM Can someone please explain like if I am five? People want to make money easily somehow, so they come up with ideas that redefine their wealth. Since bitcoins are fungible, some decided to disregard that fact, and begin a sort of campaign where they recognize value in some fractions of bitcoin. It's just like NFTs, with the addition that if people take this shit seriously, it can worsens the currency's fungibility. |