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Ordinal inscriptions have continued to dominate activity on the Bitcoin network over the past week despite the cryptocurrency\u2019s recent price decline and suggestions that the hype around Bitcoin NFTs have \u201cdied.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Aug. 21, Ordinals developer “Leonidas” pointed out that Bitcoin<\/a> had 530,788 transactions over the past 24 hours, with 450,785 of those transactions being Ordinals related.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the midst of everyone claiming “Ordinals are dead” they have literally accounted for 84.9% of the activity on Bitcoin,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Over the past 24 hours Bitcoin had 530,788 transactions.<\/p>\n 450,785 of those transactions were Ordinals related.<\/p>\n In the midst of everyone claiming “Ordinals are dead” they have literally accounted for 84.9% of the activity on Bitcoin.<\/p>\n You can’t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n \u2014 Leonidas (@LeonidasNFT) August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Data from Dune Analytics backs up the trend as it reports<\/a> that there were more than 400,000 ordinal inscriptions on Aug. 20, while Bitinfocharts reports a daily Bitcoin transaction count of around 556,000.<\/p>\n This means that more than three-quarters of the current network activity was Ordinals related on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n 85% of on-chain bitcoin transactions in the past 24 hours are ordinals related<\/p>\n EIGHTY FIVE PERCENT<\/p>\n the main usecase of the bitcoin chain is ORDINALS pic.twitter.com\/PCZt4if5jf<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Udi Wertheimer (@udiWertheimer) August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Industry researcher Eric Wall added to that, observing that over the week, 54% of the transactions on the Bitcoin network were Ordinals.<\/p>\n According to Dune, the total number of Ordinal inscriptions is 25.5 million which has generated $53.4 million in fees on the Bitcoin network.<\/p>\n Inscriptions are currently dominated by BRC-20 token<\/a> minting, with 1.9 million of them minted last week. <\/p>\n The recent observations paint a different picture to a DappRadar report on Aug. 17 that claimed<\/a> that Ordinals NFT usage and sales volume had tanked since its peak in May, prompting some crypto observers to declare the hype as having \u201cdied down.\u201d<\/p>\n However, this hype has died down in recent months, which has likely contributed to the decline in #trading<\/a> volume. It is unclear what the future holds for Bitcoin Ordinals NFTs.<\/p>\n \u2014 Cheeky Crypto (@CheekyCrypto) August 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n However, the report tracked the sales and trading volume of NFTs minted on the Bitcoin network, not the actual inscription activity which still appears to be high. <\/p>\n\n
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What does the future hold for #Bitcoin<\/a> Ordinals NFTs?<\/p>\n