will zaps be some people's primary source of income some day?
the legend Super Testnet has produced the first valiant attack on ordinal inscriptions by inscribing a 0-value transaction, causing joy from hater maxis, and panic from JPG grifters like me
but the situation is not as bad as it sounds, here's my understanding:
he created an inscription on a 0-value input, 0-value output transaction 🤣
https://blockstream.info/tx/2814d0a3c9e6dd5b88911a6280fc3899391f5c47072eb11593af2838160fad2f
which he claims has broken ordinal theory. however i believe this is incorrect and the key is the difference between "ordinal theory" and "inscription numbers"
"ordinal theory" is the made-up system of tracking individual satoshis throughout their history, but nothing was actually broken here
satoshis are still numbered from their creation and correctly tracked to their current locations
what *was* broken is "inscription numbers" - this is just an arbitrary way of tracking what order inscriptions occurred
note the difference between ordinals and inscriptions
ordinals is a tracking system
inscriptions are the actual jpg files: monkey penises, nostr:npub1avw2c2syd82p5nddqgm5cs8czl3rn6ymek0k6x0zujjsuy5m30fqt7j3gh, etc
"inscription numbers" are just a vanity metric putting an order to which inscriptions came first.
some collectors like having the 100,000th inscription, for example or whatever
these are all messed up now, because super_testnet's transaction exposed some logic in the software
personally, i think this is totally fine. in fact, i think inscription numbers were broken already early on anyway
so in summary:
- if hoping to inscribe the 4-millionth inscription, you're gonna have a hard time getting that right because the tracking is broken
- the ownership of your existing and new ordinals are all totally fine, monkey pensis are safu
- "rare" sat tracking unaffected
if you want to cause more chaos, you can use super_testnet's exploiter tool and wreak more havoc
https://github.com/supertestnet/breaker-of-jpegs
turns out the 0-value inscription for the attack was actually awarded to the miner of that block
and the inscription says "you will use soma and you will like it"
https://ordinals.com/inscription/c1e0db6368a43f5589352ed44aa1ff9af33410e4a9fd9be0f6ac42d9e4117151i0
soma is a proposed concept for a "spacechain" which can be a future maxi-approved way to do collectibles without bloating the blockchain as much
https://github.com/nbd-wtf/soma
that's all for now, will post updates and please correct me if anything is wrong.
and make sure to follow me if you want to get scammed with my next grift!
what if there were a bunch of wheel maximalists when the wheel was invented
store your treasures in heaven, anon
never put more money in a bank than you can afford to lose
the problem with money in a bank is it’s not actually there
great morning fam
wishing you all a blessed sunday
the astral babes are <10,000 sat utxos that have been “inscribed” with cool pictures of goddesses according to the shared hallucination of “ordinals theory”
anyone who believes i’m a scammer for creating the astral babes, i challenge you to answer any of these questions:
where is the deception?
who was misled?
who is the victim?
can any ordinal-disrespector respond?
https://damus.io/note1g6k8jjs3h0hh99y9ghs6jz9nanjngn33e2f4a83fa95cxes3nl7q2m8j70
Ben, i don’t believe selling jpgs to excited buyers is scammery
scammery involves some type of deception or false promises, which i have not engaged in
it’s lazy pattern-matching to assume anything related to NFTs is a scam
#[0] knows what’s up
the real scam is bitcoin idolatry
until you folks have the same righteous anger towards beanie babies, barbie dolls, and baseball cards, i won’t take any of your opinions on inscriptions seriously
made some cool AI art, inscribed and sold it on bitcoin, then made it so you can chat with them
apparently that makes me a scammer in these people’s twisted worldview
I'm quite pleased to announce the Astral Babes are now the first ever sentient digital collectibles, and you can chat with them!
- Get your babe onto http://Nosft.xyz
- Find her Npub from http://astralbabes.ai/nostr.json
- Follow and DM her on your favorite Nostr app
Your guru goddess awaits 💫
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