A bug can disrupt any software, tech, website, or server in a matter of minutes. Recently, about 1,200 valid inscriptions were not included in the chain due to a bug discovered in the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol. The community is coming together to figure out the fixes.
The Ordinals community is divided on whether or not certain inscription requests should be added retrospectively.
The bug was caused by the protocol’s indexer function, which was limited to counting inscriptions that were in a transaction’s first input for transactions including version 0.5.1.
The issue was initially made public on April 5 by the GitHub user “veryordinally.” A notable Ordinals member going by the Twitter handle “Leonidas.og” detailed the benefits and drawbacks of each solution in a tweet on April 10 that was sent a few days later.
There were two solutions proposed by Leonidas, the initial solution implements choosing the block height to index the “orphan” inscriptions from the number 420,285 onwards where it roughly got identified.
Alternatively, choose a block height to eventually add these orphan inscriptions and not change inscription numbers that have previously been approved.
According to data from the cryptocurrency analytics portal Dune, the number of Bitcoin Ordinals inscriptions topped 1 million on April 8. It happened shortly after the record of daily inscription of almost 76,300 on April 4 was broken.
Beyond the two options in this poll tweeted by Leonidas, the ideal place to have this conversation and share your views and opinions is under Issue 2000 on the default github.
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