The Bitcoin Ordinals website has been hit by DDoS (distributed denial of service) spam attacks, causing a timeout when loading the website. The incident has given the Ordinals’ critics a chance to see it as ironic justice.
The creator of Ordinals, Casey Rodarmor, noted the spam attack while claiming in a post that it was the first DDoS attack on the website since its launch in January 2023. The attack happened on December 28 and caused the website to become inaccessible for some time.
Following the downtime for the website, Ordinals critic and Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr replied to Casey’s post and said that it was not a DDoS attack as everyone should have access.
Luke said that he was not behind the DDoS attack but “just pointing out the hypocrisy,” while other Bitcoin maxis also pointed out it as ‘justifiable.’ Luke has been against Ordinals since its inception, and he has even called to kill Ordinals while claiming that it is spamming the network.
DDoS attacks are artificial spamming in website traffic in an attempt to disrupt normal usage of the target entity. Ordinals critics found this incident amusing, as they believe that Ordinals Inscriptions are causing the congestion on Bitcoin and spamming the network with a massive number of transactions.
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