How Ordinals Came to Be

If you do just foo, the following justfile will write a single byte 0x0A to a file named bar: x := "\n" foo: printf '{{x}}' > bar Let's find out where that 0x0A byte comes from. just is written in Rust, and the just parser has a function called cook_string, which transforms a just string token containing escape sequences into a UTF-8 string....

Bitcoin has inscriptions and will soon have runes, protocols for bitcoin-native digital artifacts and tokens. However, these assets still suffer from a lack of decentralized trading venues. Assets on other chains are commonly traded using automatic market makers, or AMMs. AMMs pool assets and use simple formulae to dynamically price swaps between...

If you ask me my views, they will be nearly indistinguishable from those of, for lack of a better term, ideological Bitcoin maximalists. I loathe the state, have no particular respect for authority, and believe that Bitcoin is the path away from the debauched debasement of our lives and civilization that fiat currency has wrought. However, I do...

When a dev tells you that something is weird and hard and they have to change behavior that users rely on, the correct response is somewhere between "Cool story, bro." and "Wah, wah, wah, are the bits being mean to you?". Developers serve users, not the other way around. For this and other reasons, the ord developers recommit to the stability and...

I'm not sure creating a new fungible token protocol for Bitcoin is a good idea. Fungible tokens are 99.9% scams and memes. However, they don't appear to be going away any time soon, similar to the way in which casinos don't appear to be going away any time soon. Creating a good fungible token protocol for Bitcoin might bring significant...