Someone Airdropped 21K Ordinals to Bitcoin Users as Part of Mysterious Game
Sparking the most recent thriller surrounding Bitcoin Ordinals, somebody airdropped 21,000 digital inscriptions as part of an obvious recreation promotion on Sunday.
“A technological arms race has begun—21,000 cutting-edge RSICs, manufactured in our manufacturing facility, are being despatched from our distribution facilities to the Ordinals neighborhood,” a message inscribed in inscription 56,754,110 reads. “The RSICs are designed for the only function of securing a bag of runes. These runes can be etched in our foundry after the runes protocol launches on Bitcoin.”
BREAKING: Somebody simply inscribed a 21,000 piece generative artwork assortment onto Bitcoin as an airdrop to the Ordinals neighborhood!
Examine your deal with on https://t.co/f1ZPqme1Qh and kind by latest inscriptions to see when you received any!
All inscriptions → https://t.co/RSJTGhFXA1 pic.twitter.com/tP0o0x0H52
— Ord.io (@ord_io) January 22, 2024
Whereas the group behind the airdrop calls itself Runecoin, it seems unrelated to the Runes idea designed by Ordinals’ unique developer, Casey Rodarmor, final 12 months.
The Runecoin guidelines set up the backstory: all 21,000 RSIC inscriptions had been initially manufactured however can now not be produced attributable to a “mysterious explosion of the manufacturing facility and distribution facilities.” These RSICs are being airdropped to the Ordinals neighborhood, giving RSIC holders three choices: mine runes, promote RSICs in the marketplace, or let their RSICs fade. Runecoin mentioned 10% of the RSICs are reserved for the sport’s designers.
Including extra thriller to the sport is that the guardian inscription solely reads “deploying extra inscriptions.”
Final week, a message on the Bitcoin blockchain contained a riddle that brought about appreciable buzz within the Ordinals neighborhood.
“10,000 sats, aspect by aspect,” the message present in Ordinals inscription 55,365,041 reads. “A single UTXO, untouched inside. Born collectively, cursed at coronary heart. Constructed with code, Bitcoin Artwork.” The mysterious message was adopted by a string of numbers: 391481082118 – 391481092117.
The inscription “recreation” drew pleasure from among the Ordinals trustworthy, with over 33 BTC, round $1 million in quantity traded up to now, in accordance with Magic Eden. Others, nonetheless, questioned the airdrop’s claims and the way it was marketed on social media.
“Though the RSIC strategy is novel and distinctive there’s completely no assure this would be the first ever rune, nor does this crew have any clue to what the ultimate protocol will appear to be,” crypto podcast host and product supervisor at Emblem Vault Jake Gallen wrote. “Until that is truly @rodarmor behind it.”
A core contributor to BRC-20 platform Omnisat, Gallen—like many others—can solely speculate as to who’s behind Runecoin, saying that calling the airdropped inscriptions “runes” misrepresents the fact of what a possible purchaser is getting.
“This may trigger lots of hurt to new consumers who do not know what they’re entering into once they’re shopping for an inscription,” Gallen informed Decrypt in an interview. “They suppose it is a rune, although [Runes Protocol] shouldn’t be dwell for one more three months.”
Whereas Gallen’s earlier statements on social media have been referred to as “FUD,” he emphasised the significance of transparency and offering all out there public data for knowledgeable decision-making. He expressed concern about customers partaking in actions with out full data, advocating towards such uninformed actions.
“You may name this FUD or no matter you need, however the fact is the advertising and marketing behind that is simply not true,” Gallen continued. “This complete submit could be disproven, after all, but when you will play this recreation please [do your own research] DYOR and make sure you perceive the whole lot of what is being offered earlier than aping your sats.”
So let me get this straight….
A challenge referred to as RSIC airdropped 80% of a 21,000 provide to Bitcoin Puppets, Bitcoin Frogs, NodeMonkes, and OMB holders. Then saved 20% of the availability.
The promise is “that is the primary ever rune of Bitcoin”.
When you listened to the newest… pic.twitter.com/Eu0PZbRI7D
— jake.sats (@jakegallen_) January 22, 2024
“The best way the RSIC airdrop by @rune_coin was achieved is de facto neat, and I hope airdropping to the Ordinals neighborhood turns into a pattern, however one of these advertising and marketing must be referred to as out,” pseudonymous NFT historian and Ordinals collector Leonidas tweeted.
Calling it a crimson flag, Leonidas cautioned that Ordinal lovers ought to wait till the discharge of the Rune protocol earlier than diving right into a challenge utilizing that title.
“It clearly shouldn’t be the primary Rune on Bitcoin, and Casey has acknowledged a number of occasions that no Runes are Runes till the protocol truly drops and a primary Runes token is definitely minted to the chain,” Leonidas mentioned. “I strongly dislike that RSIC is advertising and marketing itself on this means and particularly dislike that it’ll principally mislead ‘common’ folks within the Ordinals neighborhood who don’t spend the time to completely perceive why a declare like that is blatantly false.”
Including much more confusion to the airdrop, the Runecoin Twitter account mentioned the runes protocol has not been launched but, and no runes have been etched.
“We predict it is a enjoyable distribution mechanism, which may very well be used for a lot of issues, together with runes, and needed to experiment and have enjoyable with it. We hope you’ll too,” the Runecoin account mentioned.
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
