Growing the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem

Recorded: March 1, 2023 Duration: 1:04:28

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Hi everybody, good morning, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you may be in the world today. We are going to kick off here in about a minute or two as all of our speakers join up on stage, including some special guests who have been kind enough to
join us and spend a little time as well. Very excited to have you. If this is your first time, a big, big welcome to this week's Crypto Internet Show. This is our weekly series talking about everything, stacks the broader ecosystems and
Building on Bitcoin layers today's topic is one that has really taken the Web 3 Industry by storm and that is Bitcoin Ornals. We did a talk recently all about this
Leonidas, Patrick, Jamil, and so other speakers as well. And I went about two and a half hours really dissecting what Bitcoin or Noles were. The early initial pieces of the ecosystem just shortly almost mere hours
after we began seeing the initial inscriptions. And today, fast forward so much has occurred in that what seems like a short amount of time since we all spoke. And today we want to continue that discussion. We want to look at how we can continue to
grow this ecosystem, but really where everything goes from here with Bitcoin ordinals. To take us a step back, not only has this taken the industry by storm, but also those in the world of NFTs, non-fungible tokens,
to developers and builders, to applications, marketplaces, you name it, we're seeing a lot of interest get into the world of developing on Bitcoin. And it's kind of fascinating because it feels like we've really jumped into Bitcoin.
to this new thriving developing ecosystem with a little bit of a head start as we get started here. Looks like we've got all of our speakers, but one and as that next one joins here in just a moment, just to kind of recap the headlines and some of our speakers today will have a ton of announcements so I won't go
on those. But just a moment ago, I checked due analytics, we are now over 232,000 total inscriptions. That is more than double what we had. Again, when we kick this discussion off just under
few weeks or about 10 days ago. We're seeing over 13,000 daily inscriptions that's as of today, just a few hours into the working day for many around the world. But also some notable headlines as we wait for our last guest to join here in just a moment. Ornals debuted
Just a few weeks ago in mid February, it was created by Casey Rottermore and you can find Casey on Twitter @Rottermore as well. Maybe he'll secretly show up here in just a few moments as well. We'll cover what Ornals are. If you're new to this, what
it means to inscribe as well. But some more headlines. Gamma can't stop won't stop tons of bleeding features and amazing announcements saw the first 100,000 inscriptions in less than 48 hours. Also
has a no code tool also doing bulk inscriptions just launched something yesterday xverse we've got Ken the founder on here today. Now allows for was one of the first wallets I believe the first wallet pardon me Ken to allow for the inscription of NFTs directly within a wallet hero.
who we have on here now also supports Ornals Megaponds as Mark joins here in just a moment was also one of the first to do an original Mint of a collection and partnership with experts that Mint kicked off yesterday February 28th. We were excited.
We've now got an ordinal conference that's going to be happening during Bitcoin Miami in May this year. We also had a first acquisition with Luxor mining acquiring ordinal hub on the 21st of February. Anthony on chain,
developer in the WebThru ecosystem for the original ordinal's protocol to Litecoin, which was an interesting development to see and also excited to get the technical take on that. Gossamer Capital becomes the first VC firm to inscribe an inscription on the
Bitcoin blockchain. We also have NeoSwap, a big shout out to John and the team close not only $2 million, but also has a big announcement today around Ornals and their swapping feature. Ornals market sees over a million dollars in volume within 24 hours and then