Casey Rodarmor joins me to chat about Ordinals and Inscriptions. Now we get into the pros and cons of this, and whether it is bad for Bitcoin. We chat:

- What Ordinals and Inscriptions are

- The ‘bull’ case for Ordinals and Inscriptions

- Do they spam the bitcoin blockchain?

- Witness data on the input side, not output side

- Is it harder to validate?

- Can it even be stopped?

- Marginal consumption of block space

Links:

- Twitter: @rodarmor

- Site: Ordinals.com

- Podcast: https://hellpodcast.money/

- BitMEX post: https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/

- Andrew Poelstra’s commentary: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html

Sponsors:

- Swan Bitcoin

- Cory's blog post for Swan: Bitcoiners, it's winning time

- Mempool.space

- Unchained Capital (code LIVERA)

- CoinKite.com(code LIVERA)

- Buildonl2.com

- BTCPrague.com