Taproot Wizards Delays ‘Quantum Cats’ for 3rd Time as Mint Site Gets Fixed, Tested

Bitcoin Ordinals mission Taproot Wizards delayed the mint of its “Quantum Cats” assortment for a 3rd time, in an additional embarrassment for the high-profile effort.

After the scheduled sale of the NFT-like digital artwork collection was marred by technical points on Monday, Taproot paused proceedings with a promise to renew 24 hours later. Nonetheless, the plan was shortly deserted in favor of delaying the sale till Thursday. However late Wednesday, on the eve of the resumption, one other postponement was introduced, till Feb. 5.

Some 3,000 of the cats are up on the market, for a set value of 0.1 BTC every, so the providing theoretically may increase about $12 million – sufficient to simply exceed the $7.5 million of investor cash that the corporate raised final yr.

Taproot Wizards says it underestimated demand from the neighborhood to buy the Quantum Cats. In a publish on X, the Quantum Cats deal with wrote that the “points” with the minting website had been fastened, however extra time is required for extra testing “to ensure we don’t uncover every other unknown bugs on mint day.”

“The mint web site merely didn’t carry out in addition to it ought to have,” in response to the publish. “In the end that’s our accountability and we must always’ve carried out a greater job getting this proper the primary time.”

The Bitcoin Ordinals protocol created fairly the stir after its introduction a yr, each good and dangerous. Successfully permitting NFTs to be minted and saved on Bitcoin’s blockchain in an identical strategy to different chains like Ethereum launched a utility that had beforehand been missing.

Nonetheless, for some Bitcoin purists, Ordinals merely created pointless congestion on the community – and served to distract from the unique blockchain’s authentic acknowledged mission to be a peer-to-peer funds community.

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