{"id":163440,"date":"2023-05-06T11:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/developer-inserts-bug-in-bitcoin-ordinals-how-bad-is-it"},"modified":"2023-05-06T11:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:22:48","slug":"developer-inserts-bug-in-bitcoin-ordinals-how-bad-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/developer-inserts-bug-in-bitcoin-ordinals-how-bad-is-it","title":{"rendered":"Developer Inserts \u2018Bug\u2019 in Bitcoin Ordinals\u2014How Bad Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/developer-inserts-bug-in-bitcoin-ordinals-how-bad-is-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/supertestnet\/breaker-of-jpegs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">transaction<\/a> in question, which did not include any satoshis (smallest unit of BTC), was found in block 788200.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The Ordinals protocol] validated the inscription (3492721) attached to the input, which sounds like a bug,\u201d Ludo Galabru, staff engineer at Hiro Systems commented on the issue on GitHub. \u201cPhilosophically, the satoshi inscribed was transferred to the miner as a transaction fee, but was nevertheless inscribed by its previous owner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor agreed that \u201cit shouldn\u2019t be possible to inscribe sats that you don\u2019t own,\u201d suggesting the transaction is indeed a bug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transaction in question, which did not include any satoshis (smallest unit of BTC), was found in block 788200. \u201c[The Ordinals protocol] validated the inscription (3492721) attached to the input, which sounds like a bug,\u201d Ludo Galabru, staff engineer at Hiro Systems commented on the issue on GitHub. \u201cPhilosophically, the satoshi inscribed was transferred to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}