Breaking: Bitcoin Ordinals And BRC-20 Will Cease To Exist, Says Bitcoin Core Dev Luke Dashjr

Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr on Wednesday said “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability in Bitcoin Core to spam the blockchain. Once the vulnerability is fixed before v27 is released next year, Ordinals and BRC-20 will cease to exist. The ordinals and BRC-20 users and miners are criticizing the decision of Bitcoin developers.

Bitcoin Core Dev Remarks Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 As Spam

Bitcoin core developer Luke Dashjr took to X on December 6 to reveal that developers are trying to take out Bitcoin inscriptions before the v27 update next year. It means ordinals and BRC-20 will no longer exist.

Luke Dashjr clarifies that Bitcoin Core has allowed users to set limits on extra data size in transactions through the “-datacarriersize” setting since 2013. However, Inscriptions have found a way to bypass this limit by obfuscating their data as program code.

“This bug was recently fixed in Bitcoin Knots v25.1. It took longer than usual due to my workflow being severely disrupted at the end of last year (v24 was skipped entirely), he added.

Bitcoin Core remains vulnerable in its upcoming v26 release. He hopes for a resolution before the release of v27 next year.

He further clarifies community questions over miners losing income if ordinals and BRC-20 cease to exist. He said Bitcoin works in consensus with a majority of miners being honest, and not harming the blockchain. For some reason, the spam-filtered blocks have higher fees.

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