| 1 | Mar 26, '24 | if the runes ecosystem marketcap doesn't hit one billion dollars within one month of launch i will commit seppuku | 16.9× | 760k | 2.1k | 548 | 116 |
| 2 | Mar 31, '24 | ord 0.17.0, which includes the final implementation of runes, has been released! It includes the hard-coded genesis rune, UNCOMMON•GOODS. 🧵 | 16.1× | 722k | 2k | 666 | 522 |
| 3 | Sep 5, '24 | Since there have been some tweets, I thought it would be useful to write a post about how ordinals came to be, and who was involved. The blog post goes into more detail, but to get | 15.2× | 682k | 1.3k | 305 | 298 |
| 4 | Sep 25, '23 | New terrible idea just dropped: Runes. A worse-is-better fungible token protocol for Bitcoin. | 10.9× | 490k | 917 | 236 | 238 |
| 5 | Mar 28, '24 | RUNES HAVE DOCS A plain-english description of the protocol is here: And a lower level not-actually-a-specification is here: Feedback and suggestions are welcome, here or on GitHub | 10.8× | 484k | 1.9k | 629 | 852 |
| 6 | Apr 20, '24 | reminder to all the degens: runes, ordinals, and inscriptions are a fun sideshow bitcoin is the main event stay humble, stack sats | 10.1× | 452k | 3.1k | 520 | 98 |
| 7 | Feb 12, '24 | THE GENESIS RUNE SUGGESTION BOX IS NOW OPEN. Runes 0-9 may be hard-coded, all with fair and open mints, and no pre-mine or pre-allocation of any kind. Please submit suggestions for | 9.6× | 433k | 838 | 268 | 148 |
| 8 | Mar 6, '23 | Dear @yugalabs, @veryordinally is right. Actions like this prove that for some entities and people: “Once a shitcoiner always a shitcoiner.” If I, personally, Casey Rodarmor, ever | 8.1× | 364k | 586 | 91 | 59 |
| 9 | Apr 11, '24 | ord 0.18.1 is out! This is the last (lol it's probably not) release before the halving. This release has crucial fixes and improvements, so absolutely upgrade: 1. The first is a fi | 7.9× | 355k | 951 | 213 | 193 |
| 10 | Jan 20, '23 | Inscriptions are finally ready for Bitcoin mainnet. Inscriptions are like NFTs, but are true digital artifacts: decentralized, immutable, always on-chain, and native to Bitcoin. 🧵 | 7.7× | 347k | 1.1k | 256 | 336 |
| 11 | Apr 24, '24 | 😭😭😭🗡️🥷 | 7.4× | 334k | 877 | 130 | 39 |
| 12 | Apr 20, '24 | not the dog coin we want, but the dog coin we deserve | 7.1× | 317k | 709 | 151 | 65 |
| 13 | Apr 24, '24 | Bitcoin's entire value proposition rests of censorship-resistance, which can only be guaranteed by decentralized miners competing to produce blocks. The current state of Bitcoin mi | 6.2× | 280k | 742 | 184 | 117 |
| 14 | Mar 26, '24 | The Runes protocol is built up in layers. Each parses unstructured data from the layer below and passes it to the layer above. 🧵 | 6.1× | 274k | 1.4k | 399 | 403 |
| 15 | Dec 13, '23 | Happy Ordinals Eve y'all! Traditionally, Ordinals Eve is spent reflecting on the previous year's degeneracy, and small amounts of rare sats are burned as offerings to the gods. Ord | 6.0× | 271k | 661 | 183 | 29 |
| 16 | Dec 30, '23 | Dear ideological Bitcoin maxis, I wrote a blog post on how to suck less. Love, Casey | 5.8× | 261k | 926 | 310 | 178 |
| 17 | Apr 22, '24 | If you haven't already, now is a great time to upgrade to ord 0.18.3 Rune protocol messages are called runestones, and contain edicts, which are transfer instructions. Edicts consi | 5.7× | 257k | 450 | 100 | 41 |
| 18 | Apr 1, '24 | Runes were built for degens and memecoins, but the protocol is simple, efficient, and secure. It is a legitimate competitor to Taproot Assets and RGB. The protocol is self containe | 5.7× | 256k | 1.4k | 368 | 254 |
| 19 | Apr 27, '24 | These are all going to get rekt by roman numeral rune punks when the shorter tickers become available. | 5.6× | 252k | 912 | 115 | 51 |
| 20 | Apr 19, '24 | might etch a rune tomorrow | 5.6× | 251k | 1.8k | 265 | 65 |
| 21 | Apr 19, '24 | Will I manage to inscribe the first 100 before fees go nuclear?!? | 5.6× | 250k | 1k | 121 | 79 |
| 22 | Apr 13, '24 | Light Pools: A simple solution for decentralized trading of Bitcoin-native assets. Mempool-sniping resistant, price and cost effective. I'm not going to build this one, unlike rune | 5.5× | 248k | 1k | 197 | 310 |
| 23 | Apr 19, '24 | pls no bugs | 5.4× | 243k | 1.8k | 203 | 16 |
| 24 | Apr 20, '24 | This isn't actually correct: you cannot front-run a runes etching. Runes uses a commit/reveal scheme, where in a valid etching transaction must also spend an input which includes, | 5.2× | 234k | 554 | 84 | 115 |
| 25 | May 20, '24 | sorry guys it's over, look forward to a very special next episode of hell money pod where i disembowel myself and erin, sobbing desperately, decapitates me to end my suffering | 5.1× | 227k | 904 | 132 | 24 |
| 26 | Apr 12, '24 | The value proposition of crypto is tokens, NFTs, and AMMs. Bitcoin now has inscriptions, a superior NFT standard, and soon runes, a superior token standard. Soon it'll also have so | 5.0× | 224k | 1.3k | 312 | 87 |
| 27 | Apr 21, '24 | One advantage of runes vs BRC-20 is that if you have a UTXO which has some quantity of runes, you can create multiple PSBTs offering to sell different quantities of those runes fro | 4.7× | 213k | 737 | 145 | 196 |
| 28 | Apr 21, '24 | sometimes people think i'm satoshi, hopefully with the runes launch that rumor can finally be put to rest, since satoshi would never have made something so retarded | 4.6× | 208k | 2.2k | 234 | 43 |
| 29 | Apr 19, '24 | dear god please mine my transaction i swear i won't ever try to underbid fees ever again | 4.5× | 202k | 1.1k | 114 | 19 |
| 30 | May 17, '24 | AI on the blockchain is easily the most hilarious incarnation of crypto. Just manifestly ridiculous. Running a model involves a lot of computation, a lot of data, and queries that | 4.3× | 193k | 698 | 117 | 102 |
| 31 | Sep 30, '23 | LONG LIVE INSCRIPTION NUMBERS: THE STABLE IS THE AESTHETIC | 4.3× | 193k | 840 | 418 | 32 |
| 32 | Apr 25, '24 | It has been common knowledge since it was first proclaimed by Diogenes the Cynic that programmers with dog avatars and user names are superior. | 4.2× | 187k | 266 | 34 | 5 |
| 33 | Apr 3, '24 | Runes can be lifted on the Lightning Network. I'm not doing it, but I hope someone does! | 4.1× | 184k | 884 | 145 | 34 |
| 34 | Dec 5, '23 | Degens are in my DMs asking if different runes services are legit. None are associated with me, and when Runes is released, runes won't recognized retroactively. If you buy any now | 4.1× | 183k | 487 | 122 | 25 |
| 35 | Jan 6, '24 | Happy Jubilee! Let us play for the souls of cursed inscriptions, and rejoice in their vindication. CURSED INSCRIPTIONS ARE DEAD. LONG LIVE CURSED INSCRIPTIONS. | 3.8× | 171k | 764 | 205 | 7 |
| 36 | Apr 26, '24 | Please Bitcoiners, I'm begging you, you're going to get brain hemorrhages if you keep being autistically apoplectic over ordinal theory. Like Bitcoin Rothbard (now tied for first f | 3.8× | 171k | 606 | 85 | 29 |
| 37 | Apr 24, '24 | ░M░A░N░K░O░I░N░B░I░O░ | 3.7× | 168k | 534 | 63 | 28 |
| 38 | Sep 27, '23 | I started work on an implementation of runes named Runestone. Runestone will not recognize runes below a future block height, decided in well in advance and publicized widely. I do | 3.7× | 168k | 524 | 171 | 53 |
| 39 | Apr 24, '24 | if you can't handle me at my caroline ellison you don't deserve me at my sydney sweeney | 3.6× | 163k | 1.4k | 147 | 28 |
| 40 | Apr 20, '24 | the sleepiest rune wakes up next halving | 3.6× | 161k | 745 | 99 | 109 |
| 41 | Apr 23, '24 | View post on X | 3.5× | 158k | 590 | 65 | 9 |
| 42 | May 28, '23 | I haven't been able to give ord the attention it deserves, so I am pleased to announce that @raphjaph has agreed to step up as lead maintainer! Raph is an impoverished student, and | 3.4× | 154k | 589 | 127 | 21 |
| 43 | Mar 28, '24 | Runes protocol messages are called runestones, and malformed runestones are "cenotaphs". They sound scary, but in reality I think they're a safe and straightforward way to handle p | 3.2× | 143k | 830 | 180 | 187 |
| 44 | Jul 1, '24 | Runes and inscriptions are as programmable as bitcoin, and improvements to bitcoin's expressiveness also the expressiveness of runes and inscriptions. Examples include: - OP_CHECKT | 3.1× | 139k | 786 | 193 | 111 |
| 45 | Nov 2, '24 | cactusseeds 25138 / 29746 you have 8 hours | 3.0× | 133k | 686 | 154 | 55 |
| 46 | Apr 13, '24 | a good memecoin is like obscenity, you know it when you see it | 2.9× | 132k | 772 | 119 | 19 |
| 47 | Dec 3, '23 | Since the market is looking spicy, it's a good time to say: In my own personal view, Bitcoin the asset is light-years ahead of all other crypto assets in terms of scarcity, securit | 2.8× | 128k | 905 | 153 | 42 |
| 48 | Apr 20, '24 | Incredible opportunity for generational wealth if you know how to use a thesaurus. | 2.8× | 125k | 570 | 47 | 23 |
| 49 | Nov 3, '24 | I think it's natural to want me, in the words of this tweet, to provide more support and promotion for runes. A lot of protocols have some sort of lead hype man, who's constantly s | 2.8× | 125k | 663 | 106 | 60 |
| 50 | Mar 14, '24 | i hear you can look up inscriptions by sat name now | 2.7× | 123k | 617 | 142 | 32 |
| 51 | Apr 30, '24 | This has been in the works for a long time! Parker and I went to high school together, long ago and far away. We started talking about what would become FUN! in early 2022, and at | 2.7× | 123k | 566 | 79 | 57 |
| 52 | Feb 20, '24 | Ord uses the fisheye, ◉, which has grown into something of an unofficial logo for the ordinals ecosystem. I'm going to use the much more prosaically named white square containing b | 2.7× | 122k | 690 | 102 | 35 |
| 53 | Nov 7, '23 | I hope this gets fixed soon. ORDI is not associated with the Ordinals project, The Open Ordinals Institute, or The Ordicord. Those links should be removed, and the token should not | 2.6× | 116k | 433 | 198 | 14 |
| 54 | Jan 20, '24 | Damn, I can't believe it's only been a year! Things feel like they're in great shape: The protocol is stable, curses have been lifted, awesome stuff is being built, and somehow thi | 2.5× | 114k | 729 | 175 | 11 |
| 55 | Dec 4, '23 | I don't know if I deserve it, but I'm still incredibly flattered! Thank you @DanielGKuhn for the great article and @rhett for the awesome portrait! I gotta stop saying "like" so mu | 2.4× | 109k | 555 | 116 | 10 |
| 56 | Mar 20, '24 | For everyone working on runes integrations, please keep in mind that the halving is the deadline for us to produce a finalized, working implementation, and there is no guarantee th | 2.4× | 109k | 705 | 124 | 19 |
| 57 | Oct 6, '24 | @GoodReddit 😂 | 2.4× | 109k | 7.2k | 70 | 84 |
| 58 | Jan 9, '24 | I am pleased to announce that, with 0.15.0, ord is now officially out of alpha! You can tell because now says "beta" in the upper left-hand corner. Here's what's new in this releas | 2.4× | 109k | 517 | 110 | 26 |
| 59 | Jan 11, '25 | Excitingly, @raphjaph and I just added the ability to create and accept offers to ord. We used tested it with the badgertooth skull, which was purchased from me by a discerning ins | 2.4× | 109k | 646 | 133 | 82 |
| 60 | Jan 23, '25 | Why isn't anyone building a ordinals "dex" where market makers run hot wallets pre-configured with the prices they want to buy and sell at and construct transactions collaborativel | 2.4× | 107k | 966 | 197 | 132 |
| 61 | Apr 15, '24 | Good glossary! | 2.3× | 105k | 556 | 99 | 57 |
| 62 | Mar 9, '25 | Ethereum is getting squeezed by Bitcoin and Solana. Bitcoin is older, higher security, more prestigious, and is better money. Solana is faster, more fun, and shows that if you want | 2.3× | 104k | 1.1k | 106 | 41 |
| 63 | Sep 19, '24 | @ecareyo off-world prison colony vibes off the charts | 2.3× | 103k | 3.1k | 59 | 97 |
| 64 | Apr 20, '24 | SO FAR SO GOOD | 2.2× | 98k | 672 | 51 | 3 |
| 65 | Oct 6, '24 | the runes supercycle is where they all hit zero and then somehow go negative | 2.2× | 97k | 708 | 76 | 8 |
| 66 | Oct 17, '25 | If there's anyone at @opensea who's interested in figuring this out, they should definitely hit me up. I had a contact there but he's no longer at the company. | 2.1× | 92k | 838 | 173 | 24 |
| 67 | Apr 6, '24 | tried to pay for dinner tonight with PISS•FETISHIST•DOUBLOONS but they wouldn't take them. we're still so early | 2.0× | 90k | 522 | 59 | 11 |
| 68 | Feb 8, '24 | Listen it's taken a lot of cocaine to get runes where it is and it's going to take a lot more to get it out the door. | 2.0× | 88k | 616 | 71 | 7 |
| 69 | Apr 20, '24 | tick tock next block | 1.9× | 87k | 627 | 42 | 6 |
| 70 | Feb 22, '24 | SO IT BEGINS | 1.9× | 85k | 596 | 99 | 29 |
| 71 | Mar 13, '25 | Bitcoin lacks arbitrary smart contracts, but the UTXO model is actually incredibly rich. Leverage it instead of attempting to abstract over it. | 1.8× | 83k | 638 | 91 | 24 |
| 72 | Sep 1, '23 | All I want for Christmas is for the degens to discover Taproot Assets so they stop minting BRC-20s 😭 | 1.8× | 81k | 474 | 103 | 23 |
| 73 | Mar 1, '24 | crypto makes so much more sense if you realize it's as a massively multiplayer online role-playing game ordinals, inscriptions, and runes can out-compete other crypto MMORPGs by ju | 1.8× | 79k | 751 | 163 | 78 |
| 74 | Apr 4, '24 | Which way, western man? | 1.7× | 78k | 530 | 55 | 8 |
| 75 | Mar 22, '24 | Thank you everyone for coming along for the ride! 🙇♂️ | 1.6× | 74k | 773 | 42 | 5 |
| 76 | Mar 31, '24 | One nice feature of runes is that mint terms are quit flexible and expressive. You can specify starting and ending times, both as absolute block heights, and relative block counts | 1.6× | 71k | 655 | 98 | 28 |
| 77 | Mar 29, '24 | Looking forward the first one-megger runestone. | 1.6× | 70k | 637 | 107 | 9 |
| 78 | Apr 12, '24 | I don't think I've ever met someone who didn't like bitcoin and who actually understood how it works. | 1.5× | 69k | 709 | 90 | 12 |
| 79 | Oct 6, '24 | I don't want to call out specific rune tickers because I don't want to endorse anything, but I will say that we are starting to get some creative names. | 1.5× | 67k | 755 | 66 | 17 |
| 80 | Mar 19, '24 | levels of runes pre-degening have been achieved that prior to now have only existed for nanoseconds under tightly controlled laboratory conditions | 1.5× | 67k | 625 | 98 | 13 |
| 81 | Oct 23, '23 | INSCRIPTION NUMBER DEBACLE RESOLUTION TL;DR We suggest upgrading to ord 0.9.0 and use it as the source of truth going forward. Ord 0.9.0 introduced a new, more robust inscription p | 1.4× | 64k | 371 | 221 | 20 |
| 82 | Nov 30, '24 | Weirdly, inscriptions and runes are in a practical sense more expressive than ERC-721 and ERC-20s on Ethereum, even though Ethereum is much more programmable than Bitcoin. | 1.4× | 61k | 693 | 128 | 28 |
| 83 | Oct 24, '23 | I don't even want to know what ordinals is going to be like in a Bitcoin bull market. Shit is going to be wild 😂😂😂 | 1.3× | 59k | 1k | 527 | 8 |
| 84 | Jan 27, '25 | ord 0.22.0 is out! This is a nice release, with a bunch of new features. Let's dive in. 🧵 | 1.3× | 58k | 821 | 192 | 85 |
| 85 | Feb 14, '24 | Everything in Bitcoin, from the base chain itself, to lightning, ordinals, inscriptions, and other applications, all depends on the tireless work of the Bitcoin Core developers. Th | 1.3× | 57k | 715 | 154 | 49 |
| 86 | May 25, '25 | If it rhymes it's definitely 100% true 😂 | 1.2× | 55k | 646 | 141 | 3 |
| 87 | Oct 5, '25 | Feels weird to have an all-time high price and all-time low fees at the same time 🧐 | 1.2× | 52k | 635 | 56 | 15 |
| 88 | Jan 25, '25 | BSV is most retarded, but Ripple is definitely second most retarded. Early blocks missing, 1head centralized consensus algorithm, hurr durr we'll get the banks will use it, it real | 1.2× | 52k | 690 | 66 | 15 |
| 89 | Sep 3, '24 | Big new release of ord! Thanks to ongoing performance work by a friend we're paying with OOI donations, the size of the full ord index has been reduced by roughly a third, from ~27 | 1.2× | 52k | 706 | 147 | 34 |
| 90 | Nov 4, '24 | Why don't marketplaces support parent-child collections? Parent-child collections are superior in important ways: - No need to submit JSON metadata for approval to every marketplac | 1.2× | 52k | 598 | 127 | 71 |
| 91 | Sep 21, '23 | I want to try to clear up some confusion about a couple of PRs that we have open. Neither of them change inscription numbers, and both are intended to advance the conversation in a | 1.1× | 50k | 423 | 265 | 21 |
| 92 | Mar 14, '24 | Better late than never! `ord` now supports looking up inscription IDs, inscription numbers, rune IDs, rune names, outpoints, transaction hashes, and block hashes in the URL without | 1.0× | 45k | 520 | 99 | 25 |
| 93 | Feb 24, '24 | they should call it inthereum because it only works in theory | 1.0× | 45k | 547 | 80 | 13 |
| 94 | Jul 27, '24 | Seeing Donald Trump speak with @realizingerin and @raphjaph has me feeling like a middle-aged dad taking his thot daughter and gay son to a Taylor Swift concert. | 0.9× | 41k | 568 | 53 | 17 |
| 95 | Dec 26, '23 | @charliepear45 you smoke too tough. your swag too different. you shit too hard. they'll kill you | 0.9× | 40k | 1k | 31 | 22 |
| 96 | Oct 19, '24 | i think the inscription and runes ecosystem appreciates the stability of the protocols there have been no breaking, backwards incompatible changes in either protocol you can just b | 0.8× | 37k | 592 | 99 | 12 |
| 97 | Oct 30, '24 | gmento gmori | 0.7× | 33k | 492 | 54 | 2 |