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The Bitcoin ordinal size record has been broken again: how much bigger can they get?
Bitcoin ordinals AND Runes the OrdinalsBot platform created the largest Ordinals inscription to date, weighing in at a whopping 3,969 megabytes. Registration number 70,614,708the OrdinalsBot team announced Friday, contains a copy of “A Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace” by Logo network.
OrdinalsBot co-founder Brian Laughlan told Decrypt that the size of the inscription had less to do with the length of the document, and more to do with serving the document as an image large enough to read.
“It’s really interesting because the actual text content, if you constructed it, would be about two kilobytes,” Laughlan said. “It’s tiny, but what they did was add an image and enlarge it to that size, just to get first place and really make a statement.”
It is not the first time in recent months that we have witnessed the Bitcoin The ordinal signup size record has been broken, but increases lately have been relatively minimal and there isn’t much more room to grow given the limitations of the Bitcoin blockchain. In this case, the new record entry was only 0.001 MB larger than the file previous record holder from March.
Storage capacity on the Bitcoin blockchain was significantly improved in 2017, Laughlan explained. The Segregated Witness (SegWit) update has surpassed the previous maximum size of 1 megabyte of a Bitcoin block to 4 MB. Attempts to inscribe anything larger will fail.
“Part of our job is to make sure we don’t do that,” Laughlan said. “What we will essentially do is create [the Ordinal] locally, send it to our local Bitcoin nodes and see if everything goes through, but we won’t even look at it if it’s over 4MB. It doesn’t make sense because we know it will fail.
Following the launch of the Sort them protocol in January 2023, OrdinalsBot came online as a way for Bitcoin enthusiasts to take advantage of the new craze with an easy-to-use interface. This March, the OrdinalsBot platform was used to inscribe Ordinals music for rapper French Montana, followed by another Wu-Tang Klan music NFT Ghostface Killah in April.
For large membership projects such as Logos Network Declaration and 3.968MB Runestone Since signing up in March, OrdinalsBot has partnered with Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital to add larger amounts of data to a single Bitcoin blockchain block. In this case the total block it came in at 3.99 MBalmost all taken from the Logos inscription.
“Our engineers and Marathon engineers are some of the best Bitcoin developers in the world,” said OrdinalsBot co-founder Toby Lewis. “Watching them work, especially when it’s the biggest block, you get the feeling that history has been made every time.”
“They are testing the parameters [and] fine-tuning things,” Lewis added, “because they really don’t know what will work. But going from testnet to production is a really exciting time.”
With over 200,000 users on its platform, OrdinalsBot claims to have played a role in the creation of eight of the ten largest files ever hacked into Bitcoin, including the aforementioned Runestone, Ordz Games’ entry for the BitBoy One game consoleand Pepes inscribed.
OrdinalsBot also provides backend support for Magic Eden’s membership services. In April, OrdinalsBot launched the Trio Ordinals utility token using the Bitcoin BRC-20 token standard.
By Ryan Ozawa AND Andrea Hayward