Do we have any statistics about Ordinal profitability? I mean, the medium priority fee right now is 154 sat/vb, and an Ordinal transaction is way above the median size. If it takes 10 bucks to have a median sized transaction confirmed, then how much does one pay to create an Ordinal? A thousand? And another thousand to sell it? How's this profitable?
The only thing we know for sure is that someone attacks Bitcoin with transactions like this:
https://mempool.space/tx/51818e244c6dd93ece167ab78fe934068e229cdccd54d294e88226d2bb9f800dThere is a huge amount of dust transactions. So, this is strong evidence that some people spam the network and one of the possibilities is that they use money earned from selling ordinals. Of course I don't have the time to try to prove it, but don't you thinks that's a possibility?