A contributor to Taproot Wizards has launched a script to reject Ordinals inscriptions.
In an X put up printed on Tuesday, Rijndael, Taproot Wizards’ chief know-how officer, introduced that he had printed a script to “rid your node of inscriptions.”
“Merry Christmas, ord disrespectoors! I’ve a present only for you! This [script] will rid your node of inscriptions,” Rijndael wrote.
The script was crafted with the aim of inducing nodes to reject blocks containing inscriptions, he elaborated.
“If the financial majority of nodes does that, the miners will select to construct on a sequence tip that doesn’t have inscriptions, or they promote right into a smaller market,” he famous.
The launch of the script confronted criticism from some trade observers, one in all whom stated that the script was a “answer on your [Rijndal’s] betrayed conscience.”
“Go run the script or admit that you just’re simply advantage signaling on twitter and are bored with stopping inscriptions,” Rijndal stated in response to X person GhostOfPashka. “I handed you the answer. For those who select to not use it, you’ve no person accountable however your self.”
James Test, the lead analyst at Glassnode, instructed Cointelegraph that the software program is unlikely to achieve traction, regardless of Ordinals having confronted criticism prior to now.
“It’s purely to display that almost all of us who’re complaining about Ordinals, are within the minority,” Test instructed Cointelegraph. “The software program is now obtainable to invalidate them on their node, however one would robotically notice it basically simply bricks your node as they’re legitimate transactions.”
“It’s a demonstration of the mexican stand-off that Bitcoin governance is all about,” Test famous.
Rijndael additionally admitted that creating the software program solely took roughly quarter-hour, and he conceded that the script’s effectiveness could possibly be readily undermined by modifying an Ordinal fingerprint underneath numerous circumstances.
The Ordinals censorship debate regained prominence lately when OCEAN, a Bitcoin mining firm headed by Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr, started rejecting Ordinals transactions.
Their firm expressed considerations concerning the susceptibility to denial-of-service assaults and a rise in congestion inside the mempool, a queue of pending transactions awaiting validation from a node earlier than being included right into a block on the blockchain.