The Bitcoin Core v27 update is aiming to eject Ordinals from the Bitcoin blockchain. Proponents of the phenomenon should fork to their own chain.
Bitcoin Ordinals burst onto the scene in 2023 essentially as nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on the Bitcoin blockchain. The ensuing debate over Ordinals created a considerable fissure in the Bitcoin community, which had been relatively united since the great Bitcoin block size debate of 2016.
Rather than risk splintering the Bitcoin community into factions just as massive Wall Street firms gear up to issue Bitcoin ETFs, Bitcoin Ordinal supporters might consider a hard fork of Bitcoin (BTC) similar to Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) so as to keep their NFT on-chain dream alive without the risk of their collectibles being nullified by Bitcoin core developers.
Hard forks occur when a blockchain splits into two. The original fork continues on as the pre-existing protocol and ledger. In this case, there would be no Ordinals moving forward on the original chain. The new fork changes the protocol in some way–such as an increase in block size–and then rolls it out as a coin oftentimes proclaiming to be the real Bitcoin as Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned.
