Bitcoin ordinals and runes platform OrdinalsBot has created the largest ordinal inscription to date, weighing 3.969MB. Inscription number 70,614,708, released by the OrdinalsBot team on Friday, contains a copy of the “Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace.” logos network.
OrdinalsBot co-founder Brian Laughlan said: decryption The point is that the size of the inscription has less to do with the length of the document and more to do with publishing the image as a large enough image to read the document.
“It’s really interesting because if you build the actual text content, it’s about 2KB,” Laughlan said. “It’s small, but what they did was add an image and enlarge it to that size, just to get the top spot and really make a statement.”
This is not the first time in recent months that Bitcoin ordinal inscription size records have been broken, but recent increases have been relatively modest, and given the limitations of the Bitcoin blockchain, there is no room for further growth. In this case, the new record’s inscription is only 0.001 MB larger than the previous record holder last March.
Laughlan explained that the storage capacity of the Bitcoin blockchain was significantly upgraded in 2017. The Segregated Witness (SegWit) update expanded the previous maximum size of a Bitcoin block from 1MB to 4MB. Attempts to carve something bigger fail.
“Part of our job is to make sure we don’t do that,” Laughlan said. “What we will essentially do is produce (Ordinal) locally, send it to a local Bitcoin node and make sure everything goes as it should. But if it’s over 4MB, we won’t even look at it. There’s no point in doing it because you know you’re going to fail.”
Following the launch of the Ordinals protocol in January 2023, OrdinalsBot came online as a way for Bitcoin enthusiasts to capitalize on the new craze with an easy-to-use interface. This March, the OrdinalsBot platform was used to engrave music Ordinals from rapper French Montana, followed in April with another music NFT from Wu-Tang Klan’s Ghostface Killah.
For large inscription projects such as the Logos Network Declaration and March’s 3.968MB Runestone inscription, 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 entire block came out to be 3.99 MB, with the Logos inscription taking up almost all of it.
“Our engineers and those at Marathon are some of the best Bitcoin developers in the world,” said Toby Lewis, co-founder of OrdinalsBot. “Watching them in action, it feels like history is being made every time, especially as we head towards the biggest blocks.”
“They’re testing parameters and fine-tuning them, because they don’t know what’s actually going to work,” Lewis added. “But from testnet to production, it’s a really exciting moment.”
Boasting over 200,000 users on its platform, OrdinalsBot is responsible for creating eight of the top ten largest files ever recorded on Bitcoin, including the aforementioned Runestone, the Ordz Games inscription on the BitBoy One gaming console, and Inscribed Pepes. They claim that they did.
OrdinalsBot also provides backend support for Magic Eden’s inscription service. Last April, OrdinalsBot launched the Trio Ordinals utility token using the BRC-20 Bitcoin token standard.
Editors: Ryan Ozawa and Andrew Hayward
