Bitcoin Ordinals community debates fix after inscription validation bug

A fewer solutions are being discussed to hole a codification bug recovered successful the Bitcoin (BTC)-native Ordinals protocol which has prevented implicit 1,200 inscriptions from being validated.

While astir each subordinate of the Ordinals assemblage agrees that these inscription requests should beryllium reincluded, the assemblage is debating whether they should beryllium added retroactively oregon not.

The bug came from the indexer relation of the protocol lone counting inscriptions that were successful the archetypal input of a transaction submitted up to and including mentation 0.5.1 of the protocol.

One salient Ordinals subordinate known connected Twitter arsenic “Leonidas.og” summarized the pros and cons of each solution successful an April 10 tweet, coming a fewer days aft the issue was archetypal made nationalist connected April 5 by the GitHub idiosyncratic “veryordinally.”

A bug was recovered successful the ordinals protocol that caused ~1,200 inscriptions that should person been valid to not get included. The archetypal of these "orphan" inscriptions happened conscionable earlier inscription fig 420,285. The bug was caused by the ordinals protocol lone counting…

— Leonidas.og (@LeonidasNFT) April 10, 2023

The archetypal solution involves selecting a artifact tallness to retroactively scale the alleged “orphan” inscriptions from inscription fig 420,285 onwards, which is astir wherever the archetypal orphan inscription was identified.

“This feels similar the ‘purist’ solution due to the fact that it means the ordinals protocol would correctly lucifer the logical ordering on-chain,” Leonidas.og explained, contempt acknowledging that the reshuffling “may origin different complications.”

We presently person 1206 “hidden” inscriptions that are not indexed owed to https://t.co/VZHCNaBmw0 - articulation the treatment connected GitHub connected this absorbing statement and decentralized protocol improvement issue

— ordinally (@veryordinally) April 10, 2023

The alternate is to not alteration inscription numbers that person already been validated and to prime a artifact tallness to adhd these orphan inscriptions successful astatine immoderate clip successful the future, Leonidas.og explained:

“This would not alteration immoderate existing inscription numbers truthful the ~1,200 orphans would not beryllium assigned inscription numbers officially successful the protocol. It would beryllium up to the marketplace to worth them arsenic 'misprints' oregon not.”

Another Ordinals GitHub assemblage member, “Yilak” argued successful favour of not changing up the bid due to the fact that lone a fraction of inscription owners person been impacted.

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At the clip of writing, 67.5% of 1,266 voters are successful favour of not changing the inscription numbers according to a Twitter canvass created by Leonidas.og.

On April 8, the fig of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions surpassed 1 cardinal according to data from the crypto analytics level Dune. It came conscionable days aft regular caller inscriptions deed a grounds of implicit 76,300 connected April 4.

Ordinals are considered to beryllium integer artifacts connected the Bitcoin network, akin to that of nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and tin compromise of images, PDFs, video oregon audio formats.

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