Beyond JPEGs: Why the Fight Over Ordinals Is Actually a Fight for Bitcoin’s Permissionless Future
The battle over BIP-110 and the related BIP-444 represents a fundamental schism in the Bitcoin community over whether the network should remain a neutral data protocol or become a curated financial ledger. Philosophical:...
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