notdevin
@notdevin.eth
I need someone who’s sane to explain to me how Ordinals aren’t the undoing of bitcoin after reading this Ordinal Theory doc. 1) If I’m understanding this, satoshis are being made non-fungible and if successful to the max, would consume all fungibility of the chain https://docs.ordinals.com/overview.html
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
Ordinals are another form of 51% attack, very loosely speaking. To assume that you can have both modalities on a finite chain with no repercussions seems naive, again, I could be smoking crack here. BTCs value is to create a standard of relative valuation. Now that function has cancer is all I see.
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
Ordinals have made me more bullish on eth and I’m not chain maxi. I’ll still personally value ownership over BTC to be higher for awhile. The argument that “number so big” for why satoshis can be converted to NFT seems to be the same mistake as using a signed 32bit int for YouTube likes, fine until it’s not
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_slow_crypto 🌅⏳🪁
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Could you explain the 32bit YouTube point. (Plenty behind the times on the rest of the Ordinals stuff so can’t really help there either.)
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
Nobody thought any video would get 2.14.. billion likes There are 21 quadrillion satoshis so a quick argument is there are plenty to go around for all the ordinal usage. The counter argument is that ordinal minting is rate limited, but then I don’t see how they have real utility because they’re slow
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
Best argument I heard so far, on Twitter, was they will be what extends the value for mining past the last mint. Ok, but then that’s argument against a store of value because it’s now converted into a totally different thing. Counter to that, would be it’s nothing more than deflationary so it’ll increase..
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notdevin
@notdevin.eth
The store of value. But I’d counter that with you’re increasing it’s value for storage by destroying its value as a currency. So I’m not sure where I stand other than, ordinals are weird and not that relevant at best for a lot of years, like at least a dozen years. By then ETH will hold the worlds data
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