So mempool.space recently added features to spot Runes and Ordinals transactions, and Bitcoin monetary maximalists totally lost it. As a Bitcoiner and observer of Bitcoin culture, this whole drama felt completely normal and predictable.
Over time, an ideological split has emerged between Bitcoin monetary maximalists „, who see Bitcoin as only money and nothing else,” and those open to buildings things on Bitcoin, whether it be innovative or crypto-esq, like Ordinals, Runes and Tokens.
With this split mindset now entrenched, the mempool.space backlash was inevitable.
To clarify some FUD going around:
The Mempool Open Source Project does not support “ord” daemon integration – https://t.co/VXxVsvUuQN only displays data contained in Bitcoin’s mempool and blockchain and from the Lightning network.
This means that if you lookup a transaction…
— mempool (@mempool) October 12, 2024
From the purist viewpoint, anything beyond the Bitcoin protocol is heresy.
So, even just
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