Some solutions are being discussed to fix code bugs found in Bitcoin- Prevented native Ordinals protocol from validating more than 1,200 inscriptions.
While nearly all Ordinals community members agree that these glyph requests should be reincluded, the community is debating whether they should be added retroactively.
The bug comes from the protocol's indexer function, which only counts inscriptions in the first input of transactions submitted to and including protocol version 0.5.1. A prominent Ordinals member known on Twitter as "Leonidas.og" summed up the pros and cons of each solution in an April 10 tweet, first made public by GitHub user "veryordinally" on April 5 This question was posted a few days later. “This feels like a ‘purist’ solution, as it means that the ordinal protocol will correctly match the logical order on-chain,” Leonidas.og explained, although he acknowledged that the shuffling “may cause other complications.”
Another approach, Leonidas.og explained, is to not change the already verified inscription numbers, and choose a block height to add these orphaned inscriptions sometime in the future: "This will not change any existing inscription numbers, so the approximately 1,200 orphans will not be formally assigned inscription numbers in the agreement. Whether they are considered 'typos' will depend on the market."
Another Ordinals GitHub community member "Yilak" advocated not changing the order, as only a small number of inscription owners were affected. According to a Twitter poll created by Leonidas.og, at the time of writing, 67.5 percent of the 1,266 voters voted in favor of not changing the inscription number.
On April 8, the number of Bitcoin Ordinals surpassed 1 million, according to data from crypto analytics platform Dune. Just a few days ago, April 4 set a record of more than 76,300 daily new inscriptions. Serial numbers are considered digital artifacts on the Bitcoin network, similar to non-fungible tokens. They can corrupt image, PDF, video or audio formats.
