Ordinals are bloating the UTXO set with garbage data, forcing nodes to store gigabytes of JPEGs instead of real Bitcoin transactions.
| kind | human |
|---|---|
| block | 938,411 — 2026-02-26 07:26 UTC |
| transaction | f4f391f79d4fc8c078ac841e902d3e01208e0ff995b96ab2623b1721e5cf7163 (output 3) |
| explorers | blockstream.info ↗ · mempool (emzy mirror) ↗ |
| payload size | 133 bytes |
| on chain | looking up the transaction… |
| share | post on X ↗ · permalink · card image ↗ |
| raw payload | 4f7264696e616c732061726520626c6f6174696e6720746865205554584f207365742077697468206761726261676520646174612c20666f7263696e67206e6f64657320746f2073746f726520676967616279746573206f66204a5045477320696e7374656164206f66207265616c20426974636f696e207472616e73616374696f6e732e |