Bitcoin has around 188M UTXOs
7.3M are runic UTXOs
At block 840000 (runes launch) there were 178M UTXOs
Of the 10M newly created UTXOs over 70% were runic
Do with that information what you will
It's been a while but we finally have a new release of `ord`. The biggest feature is a full address index, allowing users to query aggregated information of an addresse's utxos and any assets therein.
It's crunch time for Runes ▣! @rodarmor has been diligently slaving away, but so far I have only been reviewing PRs and not actually doing any core runes protocol work. @ordinalorg's mandate is scoped to ordinals only, so I don't accept any funding from OOI for runes work.
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UTXOs are like parcels of land. At the moment most of these are quite primitive, think sleepy villages not thriving metropolises.
The goal should be to bundle as much activity as possible into them. Crypto exchange UTXOs probably have the most activity ascribed to them, that's
Resist the Reorg! We just released ord version 8.2, which brings the ability to recover from chain reorgs without deleting and reindexing. We hope that this will be especially good for anyone using ord as part of their infrastructure.
Mint Mechanics (Part One of Sixty-Nine):
NodeMonkes had in mind to allocate 1,000 slots to charitable donors who emailed us, however, the response has been orders of magnitude greater than expected (thank you), and we are unable to accommodate everyone who applied.
Zero white
The rumor of recursion is going around. I did merge a banger 5 line change from @rodarmor into the master branch of `ord`, but these change have not been deployed to ordinals.com yet. We plan to add more recursive endpoints and then make a release later this week.
We packaged `ord` up into a nice little Christmas present, hope you enjoy v0.22.1!
We got everything from database improvements, to rune burning, to new recursive endpoints and even testnet4 support.
Check it out 🧵
