Bitcoin Ordinal’s Community Debates fix for inscription validation error
A few solutions are being discussed to fix a code bug found in the Bitcoin (BTC) native Ordinals protocol that has prevented over 1,200 inscriptions from being validated.
While almost all members of the Ordinals community agree that these inscription requests should be re-included, the community debates whether or not they should be added retroactively.
The error came from the indexing feature of the protocol that only counts inscriptions that were in the first entry of a transaction sent up to and including version 0.5.1 of the protocol.
A prominent Ordinals member known on Twitter as “Leonidas.og” summarized the pros and cons of each solution in an April 10 tweet, which came a few days after the issue was first made public on April 5 by GitHub user “quite common ».
The first solution involves choosing a block height to retroactively index the so-called “orphan” inscriptions from inscription number 420,285 onwards, which is approximately where the first orphan inscription was identified.
“This feels like the ‘purist’ solution because it means that the ordinals protocol will match the logical order of the chain correctly,” explained Leonidas.and, despite acknowledging that the reshuffle “could cause other complications.”
The alternative is not to change inscription numbers that have already been validated and to choose a block height to add these orphaned inscriptions at some point in the future, explained Leonidas. and:
“This would not change any existing inscription numbers, so the ~1,200 orphans will not be assigned inscription numbers officially in the protocol. It will be up to the market to value them as ‘misprints’ or not.”
Another member of the Ordinals GitHub community, “Yilak”, argued not to change the order because only a fraction of inscription owners have been affected.
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At the time of writing, 67.5% of 1,266 voters are in favor of not changing the registration numbers according to a Twitter poll created by Leonidas.og.
On April 8, the number of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions passed 1 million according to data from the crypto-analysis platform Dune. It came just days after daily new registrations hit a record of over 76,300 on April 4.
Ordinals are considered to be digital artifacts on the Bitcoin network, similar to that of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and can compromise images, PDFs, video or audio formats.
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