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Web3 Should Be Built on Bitcoin

The Bitcoin community must eliminate its anti-innovation attitude to fulfill the first cryptocurrency's potential, or risk losing talent and capital to developer-friendly chains like Ethereum.

By Alex Adelman

Mar 31, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. UTC

Mar 31, 2023

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Bitcoin Ordinals Custody Solutions Would Be Better if They Embraced Bitcoiner Values

The perfect Ordinals wallet should (1) integrate Ordinals support without requiring a full node, (2) be easy to use for the average collector, (3) follow Bitcoin's great cultural tradition of embracing self-custody and trustless transacting.

By Johann Sheafson

Mar 16, 2023 at 10:48 p.m. UTC

Mar 16, 2023

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Bored Ape-Parent Yuga Labs' Next NFTs Will Live on Bitcoin Blockchain

Called TwelveFold, the 300-piece Ordinals generative art collection serves as a “visual allegory for the cartography of data on the Bitcoin blockchain.”

By Cam Thompson

Feb 27, 2023 at 11:00 p.m. UTC

Feb 27, 2023

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Bitcoin NFTs: What Are Ordinal NFTs and How Do You Mint One?

NFTs on Bitcoin are different from the Ethereum NFTs most people are familiar with. Here’s what you need to know.

By George Kaloudis

Feb 23, 2023 at 5:51 p.m. UTC

Feb 23, 2023

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Money reimagined

Bitcoin Ordinals Can Lift the Entire Crypto Ecosystem

The arrival of the Ordinals Protocol, which allows for the creation of Bitcoin NFTs, has coincided with a big jump in the price of Bitcoin. Add that to the SEC's exemption of Bitcoin from the label of security, and we see a bullish bitcoin picture emerging.

By Michael J. Casey

Feb 17, 2023 at 6:28 p.m. UTC

Feb 17, 2023

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Bitcoin NFTs Challenge the Blockchain’s Largest Use Case: Money

The Bitcoin community has been abuzz with conversations around how Ordinal Inscriptions could signal a technical improvement to NFTs. But the increased fees and transaction speeds associated with them could stifle Bitcoin’s primary use case as a medium of exchange.

By Isaiah Douglass

Feb 17, 2023 at 1:45 p.m. UTC

Feb 17, 2023

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Bitcoin Punks: Ordinal NFT Collection Soars in Value

Late Wednesday, one Ordinal Punk NFT minted on the Bitcoin-native Ordinals Protocol sold for 9.5 BTC, roughly $214,000.

By Cam Thompson

Feb 9, 2023 at 6:47 p.m. UTC

Feb 9, 2023

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin Network Activity Spikes to Two-Year High Thanks to NFTs, CryptoQuant Says

Transactions are coming from the popularity of the recently deployed Ordinals protocol, which allows for NFT-like tokens to be stored on-chain.

By Sam Reynolds

Feb 9, 2023 at 10:51 a.m. UTC

Feb 9, 2023

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin NFTs Explode in Popularity as BitMEX Research Shows 13,000 Ordinals

Interest has skyrocketed following the first Ordinals transaction on Dec. 14.

By Frederick Munawa

Feb 8, 2023 at 10:47 p.m. UTC

Feb 8, 2023

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Bitcoin’s Newfound NFT Hype Attracts Interest of BSV Developer Twetch

Twetch has already built a suite of NFT apps on the Bitcoin SV blockchain. So the new push by Ordinals to bring NFTs to the Bitcoin blockchain looks like an opportunity for expansion.

By Frederick Munawa

Feb 8, 2023 at 6:35 p.m. UTC

Feb 8, 2023

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