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A Primer on BRC-20: Innovation or an Attack on Bitcoin?

A Primer on BRC-20: Innovation or an Attack on Bitcoin?

Update: 2023-05-07
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Bitcoin has recently set records for transactions. Fees are dramatically higher than they were a few months ago. Ordinals have ballooned to more than a million inscriptions per week. BRC-20 is a primitive token standard that uses ordinals to create a form of Bitcoin-native token. Just a couple months old, the market cap of BRC-20 tokens is over $400m and a great debate rages: is this Bitcoin builder innovation - or a new attack vector on the network? 

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Bitcoin Builders is produced and hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore. Lead researcher is Scott Hill. Edited by Kyle Barbour-Hoffman. Images by Midjourney. Theme music is "Everybody Dance" by True Ripper, licensed via Track Club. Ad music is "Easy's First Tiger" by Bossfight

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A Primer on BRC-20: Innovation or an Attack on Bitcoin?

A Primer on BRC-20: Innovation or an Attack on Bitcoin?