Ladies and gentlemen, wow!
The first ~ 4 MB block in Bitcoin history, mined by Luxor
Biggest block EVER
[https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000515e202c8ae73c8155fc472422d7593af87aa74f2cf3d](https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000515e202c8ae73c8155fc472422d7593af87aa74f2cf3d)​
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EDIT: the 3.94MB transaction that filled the block served to add this jpeg to the timechain, here the inscription on [ordinals.com](https://ordinals.com)
[https://ordinals.com/inscription/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0aei0](https://ordinals.com/inscription/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0aei0)​
Very dumb IMHO
a 3.94 MB tx only to add 1 jpeg to the timechain.. [https://ordinals.com/inscription/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0aei0](https://ordinals.com/inscription/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0aei0)
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I would much rather see such a block full of real monetary transactions, from thousands of people, instead of this idiocy
So anyone can put anything on the blockchain now? Including disturbing content while forcing full node runners to download and keep it?
Yes, Bitcoin as a protocol/technology will survive this, but this is dangerous to people involved.
With no fee too. They did this on purpose.
How to we get rid of ordinals? Are with stuck with after Taproot?
Just make a hardfork you jpeg people.
Disgusting.
Comments tell me some people on this sub are for free market until there is one. Miners put what they want on the block they mine.
was probably Luxor itself, in fact all the space is taken by a single 3.94 MB (!), zero fee transaction
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https://mempool.space/tx/0301e0480b374b32851a9462db29dc19fe830a7f7d7a88b81612b9d42099c0ae
And paid no fees
Leak some government secrets on there.
Can someone please explain what happened? I am confused. What will happen if a certain bad actor tries to fill up the block space in the similar way thereby blocking the actual legitimate transactions?
As long as they pay for the space, it is ok but it seems that they paid very little for this. how can this happen?
do you know what ~ means? couldn’t you just say there is a new record high? why pretend it is 4?
Write a script that will prune the transaction from your node.
gross. All those blocks of colour and the PNG encoding is larger than jpeg.
Luke was right.. again.