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Ordinal Inscribers are now paying Bitcoin mining pools to construct blocks for them with zero or minimal financial transactions, so that all of their images get inscribed in sequential order. They are not using the normal block construction methods. They are including these in the next block over the counter or behind closed doors. This has happened 3 times so far with 3 different pools. Luxor, Foundry, and the latest one was from Terra Pool. These out of band blocks are creating a secondary marketplace outside of Bitcoin's normal block construction methods. Miners are now talking about selling blocks before they are found. Thoughts?

someone 2y ago

IMO miners will get richer. May invest in more mining equipment. Difficulty increase means harder bitcoin.

I see this as fiat injection to bitcoin economy.

The inscribers could also do regular meaningless bitcoin transactions with high fees to stop plebs. This is similar I think.

While the inscriber miners are taking those fiats, the old benevolent miners will reap the transaction fees.

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