The Bitcoin Ordinals adventure could end soon. This is what a Bitcoin Core developer suggested when he reported a bug on the network relating to circumvention of data size limits. Once this vulnerability is fixed, these registrations may disappear. Details !
The Bitcoin blockchain spammed by the creators of Ordinals
Since its creation at the start of the year, the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol has caused a lot of ink to flow. Indeed, this bold invention of Casey Rodarmor has brought together a multitude of Bitcoin NFT projects, with a whole host of consequences: network congestion, increased transaction fees, etc.
So, the Ordinals and the BRC-20s don’t just make people happy. A Bitcoin Core developer has just announced something not very pleasant to users of this protocol.
“ We are happy to announce that Bitcoin Knots v25.1 testing completed successfully and they are now deployed in production. Among other improvements, This update fixes this long-standing vulnerability exploited by modern spammers. Therefore, our blocks will now include many more real transactions and will help stop the DoS attack being carried out on the Bitcoin network.
So, in addition to our already established advantages (transparency, no custody and no permission), we now offer honest miners the first easy option to contribute to blocks full of real transactions, a block size many times larger in terms of transaction confirmation, without the blocks actually being larger. »
For Luke Dashjr, whose tweet was mentioned in this publication, the creators of Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 abused this vulnerability in Bitcoin Core to “ spam the blockchain ». Its code also allowed users to limit the size of additional data. They got there easily. by obfuscating their data as program code, registrations circumvent this limit “, he added.
Therefore, any new registration on the Ordinal protocol will no longer be authorized after this bug has been corrected. Existing registrations, moreover, will not suffer from any deletion.
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