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16:9 Bitcoin, BRC-20 (geralt/Pixabay)
Technology
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BRC-20 Creator Domo Addresses Thorny Governance Issues With New 'Lead Maintainer' Appointments
Governance on Bitcoin is often a thorny subject, as highlighted at the start of this year when Ordinals marketplace UniSat and Domo came into a potential conflict
16:9 Bitcoin, BRC-20 (geralt/Pixabay)
By Jamie Crawley
Mar 11, 2024 at 4:15 p.m. UTC
Mar 11, 2024
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Quantum Cats for sale on Magic Eden NFT Marketplace (Magic Eden)
Technology
Ordinals
Taproot Wizards' New Bitcoin NFTs Already Trading at Twice the Initial Sale Price
Even after a weeklong minting process marred by technical issues, the Quantum Cats digital images were going for more than $10,000 each on the NFT marketplace Magic Eden, on t...
Quantum Cats for sale on Magic Eden NFT Marketplace (Magic Eden)
By Bradley Keoun
Feb 6, 2024 at 11:02 p.m. UTC
Feb 6, 2024
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Screenshot of "Quantum Cats" collection from the project's website. (Quantum Cats/Taproot Wizards)
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Ordinals
Bitcoin NFT Project Taproot Wizards Sells Out First Collection, Raking in $13M
All 3,000 of the "Quantum Cats" digital images were claimed by the end of Monday's public mint, selling for a fixed price of 0.1 BTC ($4,265) each – despite severe technical i...
Screenshot of "Quantum Cats" collection from the project's website. (Quantum Cats/Taproot Wizards)
By Jamie CrawleyBradley Keoun
Feb 5, 2024 at 8:26 p.m. UTC
Feb 5, 2024
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Screenshot of "Quantum Cats" collection from the project's website. (Quantum Cats/Taproot Wizards)
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Bitcoin
Taproot Wizards Debut Sale of Bitcoin NFTs 'Quantum Cats' Marred by Tech Issues
The collection was on sale for 0.1 BTC ($4,300) each, meaning upwards of 300 BTC ($13 million) could have been raised if the full series of 3,000 had been placed.
Screenshot of "Quantum Cats" collection from the project's website. (Quantum Cats/Taproot Wizards)
By Jamie Crawley
Jan 29, 2024 at 7:47 p.m. UTC
Jan 29, 2024
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DOGE Meme shiba inu (Atsuko Sato)
Technology
Ordinals
OKX Starts Inscription Support for Atomicals, Stamps, Runes and Doginals
OKX says wallet support is coming first, with a marketplace to follow
DOGE Meme shiba inu (Atsuko Sato)
By Sam Reynolds
Jan 29, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. UTC
Jan 29, 2024
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"Genesis Cat" from the Taproot Wizards Quantum Cats collection of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions. (Taproot Wizards, modified by CoinDesk)
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Ordinals
Bitcoin-Based Digital Art Image 'Genesis Cat' Sells for $254K in Sotheby's Auction
The sale of the digital image from the Taproot Wizards project came as popularity surges for the NFT-like creations minted atop the Bitcoin blockchain's Ordinals protocol. All...
"Genesis Cat" from the Taproot Wizards Quantum Cats collection of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions. (Taproot Wizards, modified by CoinDesk)
By Bradley Keoun
Jan 22, 2024 at 8:32 p.m. UTC
Jan 22, 2024
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Image of some of Luke Dashjr's proposed code changes, from pull request #28408. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)
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Ordinals protocol
Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down
Luke Dashjr's technical proposal sounded innocuous enough: to make the popular Bitcoin Core software "effective with newer datacarrying styles." In reality, the effort represe...
Image of some of Luke Dashjr's proposed code changes, from pull request #28408. (GitHub, modified by CoinDesk)
By Bradley Keoun
Jan 9, 2024 at 7:28 p.m. UTC
Jan 9, 2024
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Opposition conflict chess (Artur Shamsutdinov/Unsplash)
Technology
Brc 20
BRC-20 Marketplace, Creator Take Opposing Positions on Proposed Network Upgrade
BRC-20 marketplace UniSat said it will follow a proposed change in the token standard that has met with opposition from Domo, the pseudonymous creator of BRC-20.
Opposition conflict chess (Artur Shamsutdinov/Unsplash)
By Jamie Crawley
Jan 3, 2024 at 10:56 a.m. UTC
Jan 3, 2024
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Screenshot of BitcoinShrooms website showing items from the collection. (Bitcoinshrooms.com)
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Bitcoin
'Bitcoin NFT' Hysteria Comes to Sotheby's as Super-Mario-Style Mushroom Character Tops $200K
In the historic auction house's first-ever sale of the Ordinals inscriptions known as "NFTs on Bitcoin," a batch of three pixelated images from a mushroom-themed collection dr...
Screenshot of BitcoinShrooms website showing items from the collection. (Bitcoinshrooms.com)
By Bradley Keoun
Dec 14, 2023 at 9:39 p.m. UTC
Dec 14, 2023
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Bitcoin Ordinals Token Ecosystem Emerges as Latest Crypto Play, Led by ORDI Hype
Overall capitalization of such tokens has risen over 21% in the past 24 hours, outperforming most other token sectors.
(CoinDesk)
By Shaurya Malwa
Nov 16, 2023 at 10:41 a.m. UTC
Nov 16, 2023
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