Critics scream ‘hypocrisy’ when Ordinals website suffers DDoS spam attack.
The Bitcoin Ordinals website continues to be hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, causing the website to time out. Critics who like to accuse the Bitcoin network of “spam” see it as a form of ironic justice.
On December 27, Turns creator Casey Rodermore reported a DDoS attack on his website — the first he said had happened since it launched in January.
“Anyone have any idea what's going on with the first DDoS?” Rodermore said in an X (formerly Twitter) post.
Anyone have an idea what's going on with the first DDoS? pic.twitter.com/AWO9E7urbS
— Casey (@rodarmor) December 27, 2023
A DDoS attack is a malicious, unsolicited attempt to disrupt normal traffic on a targeted server or network by flooding the target or surrounding infrastructure with Internet traffic.
The Ordinals website has been unstable all day. Currently reduced at the time of publication.
Many critics find it ironic that the Bitcoin Ordinals website is effectively spammed, especially from people looking at ordinary articles doing the same thing on the Bitcoin network.
Among the critics, Luke Dashiere – founder of Bitcoin mining company OCEAN – pointed out the “hypocrisy” of calling it a DDoS attack.
“How dare you call it DDoS. It is very certain that all participants are paying their internet bills.
“Disclaimer: I'm not endorsing DDoS, just pointing out the hypocrisy,” he added. Meanwhile, other critics of Ordinal were straight to the point.
“MeanHash” warned Rodermore against calling an attacker who could spam its services. “You don't want to censor actual TCP/IP packets, do you?” Another Bitcoiner asked “Southern hands”.
In a separate thread, Dashjr went so far as to compare standard-issue spam to “rape” in a now-deleted X post.
BREAKING: Cat-eater @LUKEDASHJR says witch gpgs are worse than rape pic.twitter.com/VEXRxuWpsy
— Udi Wertheimer (@udiWertheimer) December 27, 2023
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The latest DDoS attack comes a day after Taproot Wizards' Chief Technology Officer “Rijndael” launched a code script — perhaps jokingly — that allegedly allows hateful node operators to censor ordinal blocks on Bitcoin on Dec. 26.
The move was seen as a “tell or shut up” shot at Ordinals critics.
Spam or not, it's not harming the ordinary Bitcoin network, argues Andrew Poelstra, director of research at Bitcoin Infrastructure, who recently spoke with Cointelegraph.
“Switches, while having a disproportionate impact on the payments market, are a small part of the overall Bitcoin economy and do not pose the threat of meaningfully displacing Bitcoin on its own network.”
Poelstra admits that there is no technical way to eliminate tokens from Bitcoin, but says that articles like the Invincible token are a “passing fad.”
“All we can do is protect them,” he said.
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