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WASHINGTON – Ocean, the mining pool company founded by Luke Dashjr, announced a new policy that provides miners with greater choice in processing blocks containing ordinal inscriptions, a significant step forward for network participants.
The company has three different block template policies in place: “Ocean Recommended,” which aims to minimize what it considers spam; an alternative that uses Bitcoin Core with the “Ordisrespector” spam filter; and a third option that offers an unmodified version of Bitcoin Core, including all Ordinals.
The introduction of these options follows the success of Ocean’s $6.2 million funding round, led in particular by technology entrepreneur Jack Dorsey. This development marks a turning point towards the consideration of non-financial transactions on the Bitcoin network.
Although Dashjr has previously criticized Ordinals, calling them “spam,” his recent tweet indicates that he recognizes their growing importance within the ecosystem. Ordinals not only increased in trading volume, but also spurred the creation of BRC-20 tokens and memes on the blockchain.
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