- Ordinals are taking over Bitcoin.
- However, Bitcoin is struggling to handle Ordinals’ success.
- Issues like network congestion and high network fees are rising.
- A Bitcoin Core Dev has a solution, but people don’t like it.
Since its inception, Ordinals have been breaking record after record, forever changing Bitcoin. However, its unprecedented success came with a myriad of problems that the network hasn’t previously seen.
Now, Bitcoin is going through its most challenging test yet. Over 400,000 transactions sit in limbo on Bitcoin’s mempool, exchanges are struggling with withdrawals, users are panicking, and the list of problems continues. Interestingly, only Bitcoin core developers can solve it.
However, there’s a problem. The developers are calling for a ban on ordinals and have started a war in the Bitcoin community.
How did it Start?
On Monday, May 8, Luke Dashjr, a…