Ordinals are bloating the UTXO set with junk data, forcing nodes to store gigabytes of meme crap instead of real transactions.
| kind | human |
|---|---|
| block | 938,410 — 2026-02-26 07:16 UTC |
| transaction | a5a547182265d6d4f25f04baa95ffb556314bb866fe97b75e0b3324c93f3ae8f (output 3) |
| explorers | blockstream.info ↗ · mempool (emzy mirror) ↗ |
| payload size | 126 bytes |
| on chain | looking up the transaction… |
| share | post on X ↗ · permalink · card image ↗ |
| raw payload | 4f7264696e616c732061726520626c6f6174696e6720746865205554584f207365742077697468206a756e6b20646174612c20666f7263696e67206e6f64657320746f2073746f726520676967616279746573206f66206d656d65206372617020696e7374656164206f66207265616c207472616e73616374696f6e732e |