Do Ordinals Make Bitcoin Better or Worse Money? With Rob Hamilton

Rob Hamilton is a co-founder and the CEO of AnchorWatch. In this interview, we discuss ordinals and ordinal inscriptions: what they are, how they work, what risks and benefits do they present to Bitcoin, how would we mitigate negative impacts, and how the rest of the ecosystem is responding.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:05:10 What are ordinals?
00:23:13 The current ordinal debate
00:30:07 Can we undo ordinals?; Bitcoin and ethics
00:40:38 Will the blockchain become bloated?
00:45:50 Ordinal inscriptions
00:59:10 Bitcoin’s security budget; pruning
01:05:44 Can we have fun on Bitcoin?
01:15:56 Value of ordinals; Bitcoin’s response

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“Bitcoin exists. Any sort of moralistic lens of perspectives of what it should be doing is a conversation, but Bitcoin works as this anarchic system where there’s no one in control, and everyone gets to use it however they want; and if people can’t do that the project fails.”
— Rob Hamilton

Rob Hamilton is a co-founder and the CEO of AnchorWatch. In this interview, we discuss ordinals and ordinal inscriptions: what they are, how they work, what risks and benefits do they present to Bitcoin, how would we mitigate negative impacts, and how the rest of the ecosystem is responding.

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