{"id":79741,"date":"2023-06-05T16:10:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=79741"},"modified":"2025-09-11T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T09:45:21","slug":"ordinals-update-unlocks-cursed-inscriptions-nfts-on-the-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ordinals-update-unlocks-cursed-inscriptions-nfts-on-the-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordinals update unlocks \u2018Cursed Inscriptions\u2019 NFTs on the protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals have released version 0.6.0. The update partially indexes more than 71,000 \u201cCursed Inscriptions\u201d and will enable trading them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just released a new version of ord (0.6.0), which implements the first steps in recognizing more types of inscriptions (cursed inscriptions). Additionally you can now pass in RPC credentials through command-line flags, environmental vars or a config file.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xi6C92cC6z\">https:\/\/t.co\/Xi6C92cC6z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 raph (@raphjaph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raphjaph\/status\/1665367103342362625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cursed Inscriptions are a universal term that covers Bitcoin NFTs, intentionally or inadvertently issued with incorrect operation codes. These digital artifacts are assigned negative ordinal numbers. They exist on the Bitcoin blockchain, but are not tied to a specific satoshi in their genesis block and cannot be transferred to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release, marketplaces will allow users to trade \u201cincorrect\u201d Ordinals.<\/p>\n<p>The protocol team deliberately excluded from the update certain types of \u201cCursed Inscriptions,\u201d such as those with unrecognizable even tags like OP_66. They plan to address this task in a future update.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis is our solution to a critical problem in protocol development, which allows expanding it without changing existing inscription numbers. Cursed Inscriptions are the keystone of the architecture that supports growth and expansion without compromising stability,\u201d noted the developer going by the handle ordinally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3\/9 Cursed inscriptions are our solution to a critical challenge in protocol development \u2013 they allow for extensions to the protocol without changing existing inscription numbers. They\u2019re the keystone in the arch that supports growth and expansion without compromising stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ordinally (@veryordinally) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/veryordinally\/status\/1665364704275886082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The publisher of The Ordinal Show newsletter noted that, unlike indexed artifacts, the corrected negative numbers of \u201cCursed Inscriptions\u201d after the update may continue to change. New artifacts of this type will immediately have \u201cnormal\u201d immutable numbers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Version 0.6.0 of the Ordinals Protocol just went live!<\/p>\n<p>Here is everything you need to know about this major update:<\/p>\n<p>Many previously unrecognized inscriptions are now indexed by the Ordinals Protocol as \u201cCursed Inscriptions\u201d. This is important because over 70k existing but\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mh1pArg2p9\">pic.twitter.com\/Mh1pArg2p9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leonidas.og (@LeonidasNFT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeonidasNFT\/status\/1665437076450336768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As of the end of May, the total number of NFTs on the Bitcoin blockchain issued via the Ordinals protocol surpassed 10 million. More than 80% of them are linked to BRC-20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals have released version 0.6.0. 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