{"id":78625,"date":"2023-05-11T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=78625"},"modified":"2025-09-11T06:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:24:47","slug":"developer-proposes-banning-brc-20-tokens-and-ordinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/developer-proposes-banning-brc-20-tokens-and-ordinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer proposes banning BRC-20 tokens and Ordinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr insists on applying a &#8220;spam filter&#8221; for tokens of the <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/brc-20-token-market-cap-hits-650-million\">BRC-20<\/a> standard and <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-nfts-how-the-ordinals-project-is-shaping-the-bitcoin-blockchain\">Ordinals<\/a> because of their negative impact on Bitcoin&#8217;s network. He wrote about it in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.linuxfoundation.org\/pipermail\/bitcoin-dev\/2023-May\/021631.html\">note<\/a> to colleagues and miners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Measures should have been taken months ago. Spam filtering has been standard in Bitcoin Core from day one,&#8221; the programmer said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, such an approach would help &#8220;screen out&#8221; transactions related to Ordinals and BRC-20, which Dashjr called &#8220;garbage.&#8221; He noted that changes could be made in two ways: via a BIP or an upgrade to the network client.<\/p>\n<p>The developer argues that the filter could be implemented immediately as a &#8220;bug fix&#8221; and there is no need to wait for a major update or a soft fork.<\/p>\n<p>On May 1, amid a spike in Ordinals activity, the daily transactions on the Bitcoin network reached an all-time high of 685,711.<\/p>\n<p>Binance twice paused withdrawals of the cryptocurrency due to network congestion. Some in the community suggested that the situation could have arisen from the growing popularity of bitcoin NFTs.<\/p>\n<p>Some users criticized Dashjr&#8217;s proposal. MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor noted that Ordinals are a &#8220;catalyst for mass adoption of Bitcoin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I stopped by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PBDsPodcast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PBDsPodcast<\/a> this morning to discuss currencies, crypto, politics, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bitcoin?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bitcoin<\/a>, banking, macro, money, and the media with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patrickbetdavid?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@patrickbetdavid<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IctlB4l7gN\">https:\/\/t.co\/IctlB4l7gN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e6ljbGM124\">pic.twitter.com\/e6ljbGM124<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1656042431505154072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ethereum advocate Ryan Berckmans said that developers want to &#8220;kill&#8221; technologies based on the first cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">bitcoin-core devs want to kill ordinals &#038; BRC-20s<\/p>\n<p>Miners likely want to double down on ordinals &#038; BRC-20s to increase fees and the value of private mempools<\/p>\n<p>Ordinals &#038; BRC-20 holders want the right to exist and pursue growth<\/p>\n<p>Civil war <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QeoAHJpPN4\">https:\/\/t.co\/QeoAHJpPN4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Berckmans ryanb.eth?? (@ryanberckmans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanberckmans\/status\/1655938572720181253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Miners are likely to seek to boost their profits through higher fees and the value of private mempools. Owners of Ordinals and BRC-20s stand for the right to exist. Civil war,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this January, unknown individuals stole more than 200 BTC from Luke Dashjr. According to the developer, he &#8220;has no idea&#8221; how the attackers gained access to his key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr is pushing for a spam filter for BRC-20 and Ordinals tokens because of their negative impact on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1138,1176],"class_list":["post-78625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-opinions","tag-ordinals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78627,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625\/revisions\/78627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}