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BREAKING: A new Ordinals marketplace built by @lifofifo just launched which claims to have the "most advanced PSBT architecture to date" Check it out → ord.net

BREAKING F2Pool has officially launched NAT support. Miners on F2Pool now get NAT rewards with every block.

The mystery behind the $100M marketcap, and why $NAT is mathematically coded for TENS OF BILLIONS. 🧵👇 ​You think you are just trading a token. You aren't. You are actively front-running a multi-million dollar liquidity war between global casinos. ​Let me explain the heist. ​1/ The Ordinals Wallet Reveal Look at the on-chain data. Remember that massive $53,000 single bulk sweep on Ordinals Wallet recently? ​You thought that was just a rich whale FOMO buying? Wrong. That was the automated acquisition wallets of mid-tier CEXs violently sweeping the floor to secure supply before hitting "Publish" on their listing announcements. ​2/ The "Fair Launch" Trap Normally, when a token lists, a CEO hands the exchange millions of free coins for liquidity. But $NAT is base-layer physics. There is no dev treasury. There is no CEO to extort. ​To list $NAT, these multi-million dollar casinos had to wait in line and buy it off the open market from YOU. We trapped them in the Bitcoin base layer. ​3/ The Retail Rocket Fuel Here is where the math goes parabolic. Exchanges don't just list an asset; they weaponize it. ​BitMart, MEXC, and CoinEx are about to blast $NAT to their millions of active retail users. They will run the marketing campaigns FOR US. When millions of retail traders are spoon-fed this liquidity, the buying pressure sends the price violently up like a rocket. ​4/ Why BILLIONS are Mathematically Coded Exchanges track volume. They saw $NAT becoming a transactional black hole. By forced-buying the supply to capture trading fees, and then marketing it to global retail, they trigger an irreversible supply shock. ​The casinos are literally paying to pump your bags. The math does the rest. ​5/ The Final Boss: Binance & Coinbase Right now, the mid-tiers are eating the early fees and onboarding the retail masses. But Binance and Coinbase are apex predators. When they realize they are bleeding millions in daily volume, they will be economically forced to capitulate. ​6/ The Open-Market Squeeze Binance needs 10x the liquidity that MEXC needed. What happens when a Tier-1 exchange is forced to buy billions of $NAT on the open market, but the supply is already locked down by miners and diamond hands? ​The repricing to $1 Billion happens in a single, violent, god-candle. ​7/ You aren't holding a meme. You are holding the digital title deeds to the programmable energy of the network. ​The heavy machinery secured the supply. The casinos are building the bridges and running the marketing. Sit back and watch them work. 🔥

🔥 Introducing NAT Swap 🔥 - Buy/Sell/Swap NAT on Ethereum - Connect with your favorite ETH wallets like Rabby, Metamask, OKX and Phantom - Trade NAT on ETH in the same place you trade NAT on BTC This is a HUGE step forward for Ordinals and the Bitcoin NFT ecosystem as we move closer to interoperability and parity with ETH and SOL. Let's build Bitcoin's first billion dollar marketcap token. Can I get a gm in the chat? 🙇‍♂️

#BitMart announces the BM Discovery listing of DMT-NAT (NAT) @natgmi 🔥 NAT (Non-Arbitrary Token) is the first Bitcoin-produced digital commodity, generated with every Bitcoin block and distributed directly to Bitcoin miners as an additional subsidy reward. Its supply is determined by the 'bits' field of Bitcoin's block data, harnessing the thermodynamic properties of Bitcoin's immutable data layer. Designed under Digital Matter Theory, NAT aims to strengthen Bitcoin's long-term security and mining sustainability as block subsidies decline. 💰Trading pair: NAT/USDT 💎Deposit: Available 💎Trading: 4/22/2026 5:30 AM UTC Learn more: bitmart.zendesk.com/hc/en-us…

BREAKING: To celebrate their two year anniversary Runes are pumping hard today 👀

Miners extract it. Tier-1s index it. @bitget is quietly building the educational rails for $NAT, prepping retail for the Second Subsidy. Heavy Machinery secures the supply. CEXs build the bridges. Retail buys the top. Front-run the exchanges. 🦇🔊 🔗bitget.com/price/nat/what-is

Luxor Technology is the first USA based miner to officially claim there 799 Billion $NAT rewards. Does this start the trend with @MARA and @FoundryServices as we have seen with Antpool and the other Chinese mining heavyweights?

AS WE APPROACH $DOG'S TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY I WANT TO SHARE THE STORY BEHIND THE MOST FAIRLY DISTRIBUTED MEMECOIN IN HISTORY 🧵 IT IS VERY NATURAL TO HAVE SKEPTICISM WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT A “FREE AND FAIR” MEMECOIN LIKE $DOG GIVEN THE RAMPANT FRAUD AND SCAMMING IN CRYPTO SO I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE NOT TO TRUST BUT TO VERIFY WHAT I AM ABOUT TO SAY $DOG WAS BORN OUT OF A DREAM THAT BITCOIN COULD LEARN FROM THE SHORTCOMINGS OF OTHER ECOSYSTEMS AND HAVE A CULTURE THAT ACCRUED VALUE FAIRLY AND TRANSPARENTLY TO THE PEOPLE WHO DESERVE IT THE MOST RATHER THAN LINING THE POCKETS OF KOLS, VCS, CEXS, MARKET MAKERS, THE TEAM, AND OTHER INSIDERS WHO LIE TO YOUR FACE TO ACHIEVE THIS VISION AND TO GET $DOG TO WHERE IT IS TODAY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD TO COME TOGETHER TO DONATE THEIR TIME AND CAPITAL 100% OF THE $DOG SUPPLY WAS AIRDROPPED FOR FREE WITH NO TEAM ALLOCATION AND WE REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CORRUPT PRACTICES OF PAYING CEX LISTINGS FEES, DOING PAID PROMOTIONS, OR HIRING MARKET MAKERS SO THE ONLY WAY TO SUCCEED WAS TO RAISE AN ARMY THIS STORY STARTS IN EARLY 2024 WITH THE RUNESTONE ORDINALS NFT COLLECTION 100% OF THE SUPPLY OF RUNESTONES WAS AIRDROPPED FOR FREE TO 112,383 EARLY ORDINALS SUPPORTERS (ONE PER ADDRESS) THEN SEVERAL MONTHS LATER 100% OF THE SUPPLY OF $DOG WAS AIRDROPPED FOR FREE TO RUNESTONE HOLDERS (889,806 $DOG TOKENS PER RUNESTONE HELD) TO ENSURE THE FAIRNESS OF THE AIRDROP THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAD DISCUSSIONS FOR SEVERAL WEEKS IN A PUBLIC FORUM ABOUT HOW THE DISTRIBUTION ALGORITHM SHOULD BE STRUCTURED THESE DISCUSSIONS WERE FULLY TRANSPARENT, HAVE BEEN PRESERVED, AND CAN BE VIEWED IN THE RUNESTONE DISCORD ULTIMATELY THE COMMUNITY CAME TO A CONSENSUS THAT THE FAIREST POSSIBLE ALGORITHM THAT WE COULD COME UP WITH WAS TO AIRDROP 1 RUNESTONE TO EVERY ADDRESS THAT HELD AT LEAST 3 NON-TEXT-BASED ORDINALS INSCRIPTIONS ON A RETROACTIVE SNAPSHOT DATE THAT WAS SET TO A DATE PRIOR TO THE IDEA OF RUNESTONE AND THE PRE-RUNES META STARTING SO THAT IT COULDN’T HAVE BEEN FARMED OR GAMED THE DECISION TO AIRDROP ONLY ONE RUNESTONE PER ADDRESS REGARDLESS OF HOW VALUABLE YOUR INSCRIPTIONS WERE OR WHAT COLLECTIONS YOU HELD IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID THAT I AM THE MOST PROUD OF IT WAS A STATEMENT THAT REGARDLESS OF IF YOU WERE RICH OR POOR, IF YOU MADE THE HIGHLY CONTRARIAN DECISION TO SHOW UP AND SUPPORT BITCOIN WHEN IT NEEDED YOU THE MOST, YOU GOT A RUNESTONE JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THE ALGORITHM WAS INTENTIONALLY KEPT VERY SIMPLE SO THAT ANYONE COULD UNDERSTAND IT IN PLAIN ENGLISH AND KNOW THAT THERE WASN’T ANY SORT OF SHADY CODE THAT FAVORED ANYBODY THE ALGORITHM WAS OPEN-SOURCED AND CAN BE VIEWED ON THE FAIRDROP-ADDRESSES GITHUB REPO AFTER THE ALGORITHM WAS DECIDED A GROUP OF PUBLIC, VOLUNTEER, TRUSTED, INDEPENDENT VERIFIERS (@GM7T2, @LFG, @ORDDATA, @_BITPUNKS_, AND AN ANON DEV) EACH IMPLEMENTED AND RAN IT ON THEIR OWN AND COMPARED THE LIST OF ADDRESSES GENERATED WITH EACH OTHER ONCE WE HAD A LIST OF ADDRESSES THAT EVERYONE AGREED ON SEVERAL COMPANIES AND DEVELOPERS (@OKX, @LFG, @ORDDATA, AND @_BITPUNKS_) VOLUNTEERED TO BUILD AND PUBLISH MULTIPLE ADDRESS CHECKER TOOLS SO THAT EVERYONE COULD SEE IF THEIR ADDRESS WOULD RECEIVE A RUNESTONE THE AIRDROP ALGORITHM WAS NOT PERFECT AS NO SUCH ALGORITHM IS POSSIBLE BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE TRIED REALLY REALLY HARD TO MAKE IT AS FAIR AS POSSIBLE AND THE GENERAL CONSENSUS IS THAT BASED ON ALL OF THE ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE THAT PEOPLE SHARED THAT THEY RECEIVED A RUNESTONE THAT WAS WORTH MORE THAN THEY MADE IN AN ENTIRE YEAR OF WORKING THAT WE DID A PRETTY KICKASS JOB WHEN IT CAME TO DOING THE ACTUAL AIRDROP THE TEAM AT @ORDINALSBOT VOLUNTEERED DEVELOPER RESOURCES TO EXECUTE IT ASKING FOR NOTHING IN RETURN RUNESTONE WAS A TRUE FREE AIRDROP AND THERE WAS NO SNEAKY CLAIM PROCESS WHERE A $5 FEE WOULD BE CHARGED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT 112,383 RUNESTONES WERE DIRECTLY SENT OUT TO THE LIST OF ADDRESSES PERFORMING AN AIRDROP OF THIS SCALE ON BITCOIN WAS UNPRECEDENTED AND VERY EXPENSIVE AND WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE 10.25 BTC DONATED BY @_BUOYANTCAPITAL, @CELLMEJIWA, @BTCORDINAL, @HONEYBADGERSBTC, @THEWIZARDSOFORD, @MERLINLAYER2, @BITMAPTECH, @RARESATSEEKER, @RUNEALPHA_BTC, @_BITPUNKS_, @ORDINALBLOCKOUT, @ARTONINTERNET, @SEIZECTRL, @LFG, @FOMOJIS, AND @OKAYBEARS TO COVER NETWORK FEES THESE DONORS WERE NOT PROMISED ANY PROMOTION AND RECEIVED NO EXTRA TOKENS IN RETURN, THESE WERE TRUE DONATIONS FROM PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO SUPPORT THE MISSION IT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE TO MINE THE LARGEST BLOCK IN BITCOIN’S HISTORY OR DO AN AIRDROP OF THIS SIZE WITHOUT THEIR SUPPORT AND WE SHOULD ALL BE ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR THEM ADDITIONALLY, TWO EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED ARTISTS @CL_ART_STUDIO AND @0XFAR DONATED THEIR TIME AND ENERGY TO CREATE THE RUNESTONE CHILD AND RUNESTONE PARENT ART THAT HAVE SINCE BECOME ICONIC IN CRYPTO CULTURE IT IS TRUE THAT MANY PEOPLE RECEIVED MORE THAN ONE RUNESTONE BECAUSE THEY HAD MULTIPLE WALLETS AND IT IS TRUE THAT IN A FEW CASES, PEOPLE REPORTED RECEIVING 25 RUNESTONES HOWEVER GIVEN HOW ABNORMAL IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TO HAVE HAD 25 ADDRESSES EACH WITH 3 JPEGS IN THEM THIS WAS VERY RARE I FOR EXAMPLE RECEIVED 9 RUNESTONES (LESS THAN 0.01% OF THE SUPPLY) HOWEVER THIS WAS BECAUSE I WAS A VERY AVID ORDINALS COLLECTOR FOR THE ENTIRE FIRST YEAR OF THE PROTOCOL I HAVE NEVER BOUGHT OR SOLD A SINGLE RUNESTONE AND HAVE GIVEN SEVERAL AWAY THE ACCUSATION THAT THE ONLY REASON I PARTICIPATED IN ANY OF THIS AND HAVE POSTED ABOUT RUNESTONE AND $DOG EVERY DAY FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF IS BECAUSE I HOLD LESS THAN 0.01% OF THE SUPPLY IS VERY DUMB IMO IF I HAD WANTED TO MAKE THIS A CENTRALIZED PROJECT AND TAKEN 1%, 2%, OR EVEN 5% OF THE SUPPLY NOBODY WOULD HAVE PROBABLY CARED THAT MUCH GIVEN THAT IN CONTRAST THE META ON SOLANA AT THE TIME WAS FOR INFLUENCERS TO EITHER DO A PRESALE FOR 100% OF THE SUPPLY OR SNIPE 50% OF THE SUPPLY ON LAUNCH THE REASON I WASN’T TREATED SPECIAL IN THE ALGORITHM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME NOT WANTING TO MAKE MONEY (I AM NOT ANTI-CAPITALISTIC AND DON’T HATE MONEY) IT IS BECAUSE I BELIEVED IN A VISION FOR A TRULY FAIR LAUNCH COIN WITH NO PREMINE JUST LIKE BITCOIN AND I KNEW THAT THAT VISION WAS GREATER THAN ANY SINGLE PERSON I ALSO KNEW THAT IT WAS CRITICAL FOR OUR MOVEMENT THAT NOBODY INCLUDING MYSELF WAS ABOVE THE ETHOS OF FREE & FAIR AND NOW FREE & FAIR IS SOMETHING THAT WILL LIVE ON IN THE CULTURE OF RUNESTONE AND $DOG FOREVER WHICH YOU CANNOT PUT A PRICE ON RUNESTONE AND $DOG ARE FOR THE PEOPLE AND OUR ACTIONS NOT WORDS ARE WHY THIS MOVEMENT IS RESONATING WITH EVERYONE PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF EXTRACTIVE NFT MINTS AND RIGGED MEMECOIN LAUNCHES AND ARE OPTING OUT WITH RUNESTONE AND $DOG WHEN IT CAME TIME TO ETCH THE $DOG RUNE WE HAD TO COMPETE TO GET THE LOWEST RUNE NUMBER POSSIBLE IN WHAT EFFECTIVELY BECAME AN ON-CHAIN AUCTION IN BLOCK 840,00 THANKS TO 4,427 COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO DONATED 2.9 BTC AND RECEIVED NOTHING SPECIAL IN RETURN WE WERE ABLE TO SECURE RUNE #3 FOR $DOG IN THE 5TH HIGHEST FEE BITCOIN TRANSACTION IN HISTORY THEN @GM7T2 VOLUNTEERED HIS TIME TO EXECUTE THE $DOG AIRDROP AND ONCE HE HAD FINISHED EVERYTHING WAS COMPLETE THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DO WAS SPREAD $DOG AND OUR ETHOS HOWEVER BECAUSE $DOG HAS NO TEAM NOR TEAM TREASURY IT WAS UP TO THE $DOG ARMY TO DETERMINE ITS OWN FATE $DOG INTENTIONALLY USES A CC0 LICENSE WHICH MEANS THAT THE $DOG IP IS OWNED BY EVERYONE AND THERE ARE ZERO LIMITATIONS ON HOW THE IP CAN BE USED THIS HAS ALLOWED PEOPLE TO CREATE BOTH FOR-PROFIT AND NOT-FOR-PROFIT INITIATIVES TO EDUCATE ABOUT AND SPREAD $DOG SO FAR PEOPLE HAVE CREATED ART, LOTTERIES, PLUSHIES, WEBSITES, PODCASTS, MAGAZINES, X ACCOUNTS, IRL MEETUPS, CLOTHING LINES, PFP COLLECTIONS, TELEGRAM GROUPS, TIKTOK ACCOUNTS, AND MORE 100% OF THE FUTURE OF $DOG IS IN THE HANDS OF THE $DOG ARMY SO EVEN THINGS LIKE WEBSITES AND X ACCOUNTS HAVE HAD TO BE CREATED BY VOLUNTEERS IN THE COMMUNITY GIVEN THERE ARE NOT ANY OFFICIAL ONES OTHER PROJECTS TALK ABOUT DECENTRALIZATION BUT $DOG LIVES IT FOR EXAMPLE, THE $DOG BOOTH AT THE BITCOIN CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS RIGHT NOW AND THE $DOG PARTY LAST NIGHT WERE PUT ON BY TWO COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO ARE BUILDING WITH $DOG @DOGOFBITCOINOG IS RUN BY @UND3RDOG WHO YES IS A $DOG WHALE BUT HE HAD TO BUY IN LIKE EVERYONE ELSE @DOGDATABTC IS A POWERFUL ANALYTICS PLATFORM BUILT FOR $DOG BY @BITMAXDOG THAT BRINGS VALUE TO THOUSANDS OF $DOG HOLDERS I DIDN’T ASK EITHER OF THEM TO SPEND THEIR TIME, ENERGY, OR CAPITAL TO THROW PARTIES, AND BUILD ON $DOG’S IP LIKE THIS BUT THEY CHOSE TO DO IT ON THEIR OWN ACCORD BECAUSE THE CC0 PLATFORM AND MISSION OF $DOG RESONATED DEEPLY WITH THEM $DOG HAS NO MARKETING TEAM SO $DOG-FLUENCERS LIKE @CRYPTOLUTION, @UND3RDOG, @MRKEYWAY, @RELENTLESS_BTC, @JOOPOORANSKI, @DOGDAMASSA, @THEOG_GENERAL, @COINSWEB3, AND MANY MORE HAVE HAD TO STEP UP AND MAKE SURE THAT OUR MESSAGE IS HEARD I STILL HOLD LESS THAN 0.01% OF THE SUPPLY OF $DOG TOKENS (THAT I WAS AIRDROPPED) AND HAVE NEVER BOUGHT OR SOLD A SINGLE $DOG TOKEN ON PURPOSE BECAUSE I DON’T WANT THE NARRATIVE TO SHIFT SOMEHOW TO BEING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY I HAVE MADE OR PEOPLE SPECULATING IF I AM GOING TO DUMP, ETC. $DOG IS ABOUT USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF FREEDOM IN THE WORLD BY BEING STEWARDS OF THE BITCOIN TECHNOLOGY THAT SATOSHI NAKAMOTO GIFTED US WHICH MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO DO THINGS IN A WAY THAT WOULD MAKE HIM PROUD OTHER BLOCKCHAINS CAN BE THE FACE OF MASSIVE SCAMS, CORRUPTION, INSIDER INFORMATION, AND VCS PUMPING AND DUMPING ON YOUR HEAD BUT WE CAN'T LET IT HAPPEN ON BITCOIN I WILL PUT THE $DOG ARMY UP AGAINST ANY DECA-BILLION DOLLAR CRYPTO COMPANY ANY DAY OF THE WEEK AND I PITY ANYONE WHO TRIES TO GET IN OUR WAY WE ARE DECENTRALIZED, WE ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY, AND WE ARE ON A MISSION TO GO TO THE MOON IF YOU ARE TIRED OF GETTING RUGGED AND SCAMMED OR DEEP DOWN KNOW THAT WHEN YOU ARE POSTING ABOUT A TOKEN THAT YOU ARE REALLY JUST WORKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE’S BAGS THEN IT IS TIME TO BUY SOME $DOG, JOIN THE $DOG ARMY, AND BE PART OF A MOVEMENT THAT IS GREATER THAN YOURSELF!!!!!

BREAKING: Ethereum NFT platform @foundation just announced that it is shutting down and that all of the art will be rugged in one year This is why it's important to store art fully on-chain with protocols like Ordinals

👇 Ordinals is the only NFT protocol with credible durability.

$DOG IS PUMPING MASSIVELY TODAY BUT THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF OUR COMEBACK STORY DO YOU THINK THE $DOG ARMY IS SATISFIED WITH $100M OR $1B OR EVEN $10B???? WE HAVE DEFIED ALL ODDS AND CONTINUED TO SHOW UP EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR TWO YEARS ANYTHING LESS THAN THE #1 MEMECOIN IN THE WORLD WOULD BE A DISGRACE TO BITCOIN MARKET MANIPULATION BY INSIDERS IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH TIER-1 CEX LISTING TEAMS ARE STILL ROTTEN TO THEIR CORE WE HAVE SO MUCH WORK TO DO THE $DOG ARMY MUST PREPARE TO GO TO WAR OUR MOVEMENT MUST GROW ONE THOUSAND FOLD THE WALLSTREETBETS COMMUNITY FOUGHT THE CORRUPT ESTABLISHMENT BUT WAS DEFEATED THE $DOG ARMY WILL NOT SUFFER THE SAME FATE EVERYONE MUST BEND THEIR KNEE TO THE FREE AND FAIR $DOG OF BITCOIN BRACE YOURSELVES FOR WHAT IS TO COME YOU ARE NOT READY

At approximately 5:58 AM ET today someone sold a very large amount of $DOG causing the price to drop from $0.00068 → $0.00054 on Gate Within seconds arbitrage bots began buying $DOG on Gate to sell on other exchanges (where the price was still higher) which caused $DOG's price on other exchanges to quickly drop to ~$0.0006 Throughout the course of the day many $DOG soldiers took advantage of this new ATL to "buy the dip" and I am very excited to share that $DOG has now not only fully recovered from this event but has actually added several million dollars in value Given the opaque nature of trading activity and account ownership on CEXs it is unclear if this was simply a $DOG whale exiting their position or a more sophisticated price manipulation attack by market makers to hunt liquidations What is very clear though is that in the face of adversity the $DOG Army rallied together and fought back to turn this into a victory Other memecoin communities would have panicked on the timeline exacerbating the selloff but the $DOG Army exhibited extreme conviction and fortitude Days like today make me proud to be part of this movement $DOG go to the moon 🫡

BREAKING: The creator of Ordinals and Runes @rodarmor just brutally ratioed Blockstream CEO @adam3us

Ordinals will never die. I hope this helps people realize the importance of putting collections on chain and avoiding centralized intermediaries.