Bitcoin Ordinals and Runes platform OrdinalsBot has created the largest ordinal text ever, weighing a whopping 3.969 megabytes. Document number 70,614,708, the OrdinalsBot team announced Friday, contains a copy of Logos Network's “Declaration of Freedom in Cyberspace.”
Brian Lawlan, co-founder of OrdinalsBot, told Decrypt that the size of the text has nothing to do with the length of the document and more to do with printing the document as an image large enough to read.
“It's really interesting because the actual text content is like two kilobytes if you build that,” Laughlan said. “It's tiny, but what they've done is add an image and blow up the image to be that big — to get that high point and really make a statement.”
It's not the first time we've seen Bitcoin Ordinals text size break in recent months, but the increase has been relatively small lately – and there's not much room for growth given the limitations of the Bitcoin blockchain. In this case, the new record holder is only 0.001MB larger than the previous record holder from March.
Storage capacity on the Bitcoin blockchain improved significantly in 2017, Laughlan explained. The Segregated Witness (SegWit) update pushed the previous 1 megabyte maximum bitcoin block size to 4 MB. Attempts to write anything substantial will fail.
“Part of our job is to make sure we don't do that,” Laughlan said. “What we do is mainly craft. [the Ordinal] Locally, send it to our local Bitcoin nodes, and see if everything goes through—but we won't even look at it if it's over 4MB. It doesn't matter because we know it will fail.
Following the launch of the Ordinals protocol in January 2023, the Ordinals Bot came online as a way for Bitcoin enthusiasts to tap into the new craze with an easy-to-use interface. This March, the OrdinalsBot platform was used to record Ordinals for rapper French Montana, followed by another music NFT by Wu-Tang Klan Ghostface Killah in April.
According to the Logos Network statement and the 3.968MB Runestone text from March, OrdinalsBot has worked with Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital to add large amounts of data to a single block of the Bitcoin blockchain. In this case, the total block came in at 3.99MB, almost all of which was taken up by Logos text.
“Our engineers and the engineers at Marathon are some of the best Bitcoin developers in the world,” said OrdinalsBot Co-Founder Toby Lewis. “Watching them do it, especially when going for the big block, you feel like history is being made every time.”
“They're testing parameters. [and] Lewis added: “A good adjustment because you don't really know what's going to work.” But it's an exciting time from testnet to production.
Boasting over 200,000 users on its platform, OrdinalsBot claims to have played a role in creating eight of the top 10 files recorded on Bitcoin, including the aforementioned Runestone, Orth Games' text for the BitBoy One game console, and Inscribed Pep.
OrdinalsBot provides backend support for the Magic Eden text service. In April, OrdinalsBot launched the Trio Ordinals utility token using the BRC-20 Bitcoin token standard.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa and Andrew Hayward.
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