Bitcoin Ordinals News

Bitcoin Core dev Gloria Zhao says the data limit for OP_RETURN will be raised in October, infuriating several Bitcoin users who prefer images, text and audio to stay off the blockchain.

Bitcoin may be decentralized, but its price isn’t immune to the influence of whales, protocol upgrades, ETF approvals and global regulations.

Saifedean Ammous says he would “throw in a few sats” to fund a developer dedicated to making Bitcoin spam more costly.

The change will remove a limit on the amount of arbitrary data that can be added to Bitcoin transactions.

The growing BTCFi sector and potential interest rate cuts on the horizon may create more demand for Bitcoin as a productive, yield-bearing asset.

NFT sales dropped 63% year-over-year in Q1 2025, but Pudgy Penguins, Doodles and Milady Maker outperformed the broader market.

Understand the process of tokenizing real-world assets on the Bitcoin blockchain, from creating digital representations to ensuring secure transactions and ownership.

Bridging the gap between miners and collectors to harness blockchain inscriptions as functional assets reveals immense untapped potential.

The startup is onboarding BTC miners representing a “sizable amount” of the Bitcoin network’s total hashrate, according to Alex Luce. 

The Bitcoin halving has catalyzed a wave of interest in creating DeFi capabilities for Bitcoin, the world’s first blockchain network.

The Stacks Network’s Nakamoto Upgrade is ushering in a new era of scalability for DeFi on the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Bitcoin Runes, a leading NFT protocol, generated $162.4 million in fees with over 15.6 million transactions, showing potential for a long-term market impact.

Users can choose to complete quest-like directives to receive Airheads or outright purchase the inscribed art through a “Whale Pass.”

The integration comes due to growing institutional demand for Bitcoin, according to Stacks’ ecosystem investor lead.

Several PolitiFi and animal-themed memecoins continued to soar in the second quarter despite the broader market downturn, which NFTs contributed to.