Bitcoin core developers encourage censorship of the blockchain after meme-driven development

• The Ordinals protocol’s NFTs created by Casey Rodarmor are taking over blockspace on the Bitcoin blockchain and encouraging conversations about “censorship.”
• Bitcoin core developers Adam Back and Luke Dashjr recently spoke out to censor unwanted transactions using the new NFTs.
• BTC developers and believers weighed in on “inscriptions,” including 277 digital artifacts, urging miners to censor transactions.

Bitcoin core developers have criticized the “Ordinals protocol”, a type of NFT launched on the Ethereum mainnet, which recently spread to Bitcoin. BTC maximalists, who believe Bitcoin is a superior digital asset compared to other cryptocurrencies, have recommended “censorship” of the new NFTs, known as “inscriptions”, on the Bitcoin blockchain.

While Ethereum developers work to make the ETH blockchain censorship-resistant, the BTC community, influencers and core developers are urging miners to censor “unsolicited transactions” in inscriptions.

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Bitcoin censorship debate follows after Ordinals protocols bring meme NFTs to the mainnet

The Ordinals protocol, an NFT project launched on Bitcoin’s mainnet on January 21, has sparked a debate in the crypto community about whether NFT-like “digital artifacts” are appropriate for the Bitcoin blockchain.

The development has divided society. Casey Rodarmour, the creator of the Ordinals protocol announced that “Inscriptions” are finally ready for the BTC network. Rodarmour’s NFT-like project is decentralized, immutable, always on-chain and native to Bitcoin.

Inscriptions are made on satoshis, which are tracked and transferred using ordinal theory, this gives them individual identities and allows them to be tracked and transferred across transactions. Inscriptions have started appearing on the Bitcoin mainnet.

Rodarmour’s project has divided the BTC community, with some arguing that the development offers more economic use cases for Bitcoin, while others say it is moving away from Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer cash system. Some Bitcoin supporters and core developers go a step further and encourage miners to “censor” unwanted transactions.

Ethereum supporters criticize call for “censorship” on BTC blockchain

Anthony Sassano, an Ethereum spokesperson and developer called the Bitcoin community “censorship”. While the Ethereum and ETH development community consider making the blockchain “censorship-resistant” one of their goals, Bitcoin core developers such as Adam Back and Luke Dashjr have taken a different stance, announcing in the past 48 hours that miners should censor such transactions on the blockchain.

The crypto community is concerned that users may view “inscriptions” as status symbols, and this may exclude marginalized individuals from participating in the Bitcoin network. Developers are concerned that meme culture is being brought to Bitcoin, suggesting that developers are taking the “stupidity” elsewhere.

Not long after, Blockstream CEO Back is one of those who want such “unwanted” transactions to be censored. TSassano took a shot at Blockstream CEO was criticized by Ethereum developer Sassano, for encouraging miners to censor inscription transactions he was criticized by Ethereum developer Sassano.