Ordinals are bloating the UTXO set with junk data, forcing honest nodes to store gigabytes of garbage just to validate Bitcoin.
| kind | human |
|---|---|
| block | 938,452 — 2026-02-26 16:31 UTC |
| transaction | 7fd1f696fd1f28b237a3f6cd4a54c073e5dd6d504ec9e1833df2365f9e9d3ca7 (output 3) |
| explorers | blockstream.info ↗ · mempool (emzy mirror) ↗ |
| payload size | 127 bytes |
| on chain | looking up the transaction… |
| share | post on X ↗ · permalink · card image ↗ |
| raw payload | 4f7264696e616c732061726520626c6f6174696e6720746865205554584f207365742077697468206a756e6b20646174612c20666f7263696e6720686f6e657374206e6f64657320746f2073746f726520676967616279746573206f662067617262616765206a75737420746f2076616c696461746520426974636f696e2e |