Protocol · January 21, 2023
Ordinals protocol launched
Price at event
$22,700
Today
$61,577
Since then
×2.7
Casey Rodarmor inscribes the first ordinal. On-chain NFTs and arbitrary data on Bitcoin. Reignites a fee-market the network hadn't seen since 2017. Maximalist civil war optional.
⸺ Sources ⸺
- primaryOrdinal Theory Handbook (official Ordinals documentation, docs.ordinals.com) ↗
- primaryHow Ordinals Came to Be — Casey Rodarmor's blog (creator's own account; notes inscriptions enabled on mainnet 2023-01-09 and announced ready 2023-01-20) ↗
- referenceChainalysis: Ordinals — A New Innovation Powering Bitcoin NFTs (confirms "On January 21, 2023, developer Casey Rodarmor launched Ordinals") ↗