Bitcoin 2023 Year in review
This year showed the calm before the storm: the market seems to be heating up for a 2024 bull market, the next Bitcoin halving, and the COPA v Wright trial will kick the year off early.
Latest BRC-20 News
Panda Wallet launches world’s first on-chain lock-to-mint smart contract
Open-sourced Web3 browser extension Panda Wallet announced the launch of locktomint.com, where users can mint tokens against an on-chain smart contract enforced in Bitcoin script.
HODL: First LRC-20 token mints out in 9 hours
hodl was deployed with a 21 million supply, but for mints of hodl to be valid, they must be accompanied by a lock of at least 0.021 BSV for 52,000 blocks.
Bitcoin is the exchange
sCrypt released a blog and implementation of token limit orders using Bitcoin script—an evolution of the on-chain Order Lock technology, allowing purchases of tokens and NFTs directly on-chain.
How will Ordinals affect Bitcoin?
In this podcast, Joshua Henslee goes in-depth on the impact of Ordinals on Bitcoin, the value of costs, and why he will remain a BSV blockchain player despite all the action in BTC nowadays.
On-chain trading is the future of online commerce
Many economists and pundits are questioning the necessity of blockchain technology, as they ask what is the purpose of the Bitcoin system, if it requires the use of banking, accounts and dollars to operate.
BRC-20 and Bitcoin NFTs—A new era for Bitcoin?
Thanks to the smart folks who created the Ordinals, the BTC network exploded with activity recently, but sadly the network performance slowed to a halt, forcing even Binance to halt withdrawals.
Will BTC fork over Ordinals? Joshua Henslee weighs in
Apart from the possible BTC fork over Ordinals, Joshua Henslee says possible scenarios include an increase in block size or, worst, not doing anything at all, which would eventually kill it.
Joshua Henslee explores cause behind BSV’s 30% price pump against BTC
In this video, Joshua Henslee gives his take on the sudden jump in BSV price, which may indicate that the market is seeing something of value in the big block Bitcoin chains.
BRC-20 tokens prove demand for on-chain exchange
BTC proved it could tokenize with BRC-20 hitting a $100 million market cap, shattering the 'crypto' industry's long-held assumption that it wasn't capable and opening a new era in the digital currency space.
$Ordi is the black Swan—Joshua Henslee talks about BRC-20 tokens and more
The rising prices of $Ordi signals the beginning of hyperbitcoinization, while it is something to look forward to, it is also possible that another fork is just around the corner.
BRC-20 tokens reach $100 million marketcap in 60 days
BRC-20 only has three functions—deploy, mint, and transfer—and without Bitcoin script, the indexing of valid transactions is complex, but this did not stop the protocol from growing.