Really excited to have just acquired @Nodemonkes Alien #8806 from OG collector @crownjewel369 to show my support to the Ordinals community. Special shout out to @lifofifo and the @ord_net platform, as the buying experience was very smooth for my first time buying a Bitcoin NFT !

GMB Insane OMB just collected on ◉RD 🫡

Photosynthesis #331 Beautful pixels. Thank you! @pffffffffle

on this saturday morning i am going to WALK INTO FIRE for no reason whatsoever 🔥🔥🔥 since i’m still known as the “ordinals guy”, i want to pose a question to ordinals fans: why was this @SHL0MS auction not on ordinals? why isn’t @Jediwolf (the auction winner) an ordinals enjoyer? as is often the case in crypto, ordinals folks might be tempted to say that the reason is “because they are stupid and uneducated” but that of course would be unequivocally false while i’d agree in principle that, ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL, a timeless piece like this one could have much to gain from being stored forever on bitcoin… the fact is that all else is NOT equal: 1. one simple superficial reason is that there simply isn’t an easy platform to auction 1-of-1 ordinals. even if some obscure, half-baked ones exist, they do not carry manifold’s trusted brand and relatively simple UX. attempting an auction with the lack of smart contracts and with slow blocks is genuinely a miserable experience. i would know 2. more fundamentally, there just aren’t enough people who have ordinals wallets with meaningful amounts of BTC in it who are ready to bid at a moment’s notice. a stealth-dropped auction relies on the existence of an audience that is ready to bid. if shl0ms’ monet auction required people to download and install a new wallet and then bridge into BTC, it necessarily would’ve settled at a lower price, if at all. when my team prepared for large mints/auctions on ordinals, the playbook included a campaign to have potential bidders pre-fund their own wallets weeks in advance, because we knew that otherwise the bid simply wouldn’t be ready in time. this type of thing tends to be overlooked but is absolutely critical 3. quite frankly, most people who are serious about collecting digital art have a (much) stronger affinity to ethereum. that is just the reality, and ignoring this reality is not going to help ordinals artists be more successful. there are much fewer digital art patrons who are ordinals-native, and targeting them exclusively isn’t a very wise business decision i’m saying all of this not to dunk on ordinals but because i genuinely do still think that bitcoin should play a bigger part in digital art than it currently does. but the ordinals protocol and ecosystem are very far from perfect and if we want to improve bitcoin’s standing in this sector we need to acknowledge that and work on solutions i think eventually a more compelling vision might look more like “artwork stored on bitcoin, but accessible everywhere”. it’ll require the ordinals community to drop their (largely un-earned) pretentiousness about other chains, but ultimately could improve bitcoin’s standing in the art world i genuinely think that if “inferior image” was still an ethereum nft auctioned on manifold, but with the metadata pointing to permanent storage of the artwork on bitcoin, it would’ve been an even stronger piece than it already is. those who care about art on bitcoin would do well to work towards making that a possibility for the next time a piece like this emerges.

Not owning a @OrdinalMaxiBiz is irresponsible. JOIN US.

Two weeks of mining on the parasite pool. Thanks @Knox556 for pushing me to join @OrdinalMaxiBiz a few months ago and @ZK_shark for this miner! Great community over there with lots of help for home mining.

"WHat nFt SHoULD I bE BuyING nOw" Bro fuck you

Concept Highlight: @OrdinalMaxiBiz by @ZK_shark & @ohareyoufat - gargantuan 1/1 pfp/fine art collection - strong ideological and action-oriented backbone - trailblazing sat usage and brand building magiceden.us/ordinals/market…

9/ Ordinal Maxi Biz (OMB), @ZK_shark, @ohareyoufat, 2023 A collection of hand-drawn works by artist Tony Tafuro that brought a community of die-hard believers together. Auctioned at Christie's. raster.art/artwork/2837601

bitcoin maximalists simultaneously argue that quantum isn’t posing any danger to bitcoin AND that jpegs of wizards and penises are an exsistential threat this is past stupidity at this point. these people are feds

ORDINALS IS A MULTICYCLE HOLD. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THEN GTFO. WIZAR DIO

◉ Collector focused ◉ Protocol native ◉ Fully onchain collection data ◉ Indexer and explorer ◉ Open source …and a lot more ◉RD

If I could pick my favorite JPEG of all time that I do not own I think this epic beauty is my favorite. @OrdinalMaxiBiz

TLDR: I make stuff and want to show you. 1. New wesbite in my bio. Go snoop around & join the Discord if you like the work. 2. I made this pfp, and it's part of a larger series. 3. 24hr batch auction starts tomorrow for the [Modal] series. Full details tomorrow on this. ──────────── I'd consider it my first release around here (kinda), and we've built a batch auction platform to distribute it in a way that addresses boring pain points noticed in our eco such as whitelisting, collabs, mint phases and price-setting. I've been diving deeply into pixel art the last several years, but for the most part it's been off-the-radar. It's not my first foray into the art world - far from it. But this is my first time in a while talking about my own work publicly here. The Modal series (if I had to label it) is a minimalist abstract color study that focuses on our path from atoms to sentience to singularity. I guess it's commentary on (and my way of digesting) how we might've happened to end up where we are. This is a deeply personal work to me, so I hope that anyone who heads to the site feels even a fraction as excited as I am about it. It's a strange execution, as it includes nine distinct subseries, and even a draft parent with 100 drafts reinscribed along the way to detail the process further. There are tons of easter eggs such as 255 cross-series duos with related palettes and on-chain trait sorting (notably in Identity and Gradient series) straight from any non-marketplace explorer. There's so much to explore about parent-child relationships, the ordinals protocol and the nature of existence in general and this is a direct product of that overlap. Feel free to DM with any questions about the work or better yet post them below- as others might be wondering the same thing. Thanks for the eyes <3

Osama Bin Satoshi Wizardio

ordinals onboarded tens of thousands of new users to bitcoin (if not hundreds of thousands) who bought btc for the first time, around $20,000 ordinals gave indie artists a full year where they could monetize their work in the depths of the bear market when no one cared about nfts anymore ordinals gave a boost to “blue chip” ethereum nfts in their darkest hour, almost every major eth nft project dabbled in ordinals and extended its runway by at least 1 year thanks to ordinals (same for magic eden btw) ordinals revitalized bitcoin development, helped bootstrap dozens of new protocols, put core developers back on the map, kickstarted protocol development discussion. yes it’s been slow but it’s much more active than it has been in 5 years ordinals taught people how bitcoin works for the first time. i’m super proud of that one especially. the industry completely wrote bitcoin off when ordinals started. today everyone understands its weaknesses but also its strengths. it looks obvious in retrospect but it wasn’t obvious back then ordinals built up a culture that loves bitcoin in a new way. with memes and jokes and with being open to the rest of the ecosystem instead of close minded. again, this seems obvious now but back then you weren’t allowed to hold bitcoin unless you swore to only eat steak and to curse solana and ethereum 70 times a day i said this when we started and i’ll say it again. ordinals are not for everyone. by definition, there can’t be enough for everyone. most people will prefer something else. that’s fine. but i am proud of what we achieved together and i think a lot of other projects in crypto could learn a thing or two. (P.S. also it’s not fair to hate ordinals just because runes were so horrible! it’s not our fault!)

came for the bitcoin stayed for the ponzi

Should've just bought 40 more claynosaurs. Lessons in therenosaurz.

I bought my @TaprootWizards for $50k and they are worth $1k now. Did I sell? No. Because I believe in delusion and bald guys vibe coding roblox games. Projects go up and down. Wizardio