Quote from: Kruw on February 13, 2024, 02:51:07 PM

Regular Bitcoin users are not forced to pay higher fees just because someone else is paying hundreds of times more than necessary to get confirmed in the next block.

Ordinals were paying more than what was necessary, many blocks were filled with artificially increased fees. So, regular Bitcoin user wants to get transaction confirmed in the next few blocks, when 20 and more upcoming blocks are filled with ordinals who pay enormously high transaction fees, you are forced to pay high fee to get it confirmed soon and not to wait for weeks and months.

Quote from: DaveF on February 13, 2024, 03:01:46 PM

FuD plays a lot into it so a few people with some marketing and some Influencers who are getting paid push it, and the people who don't understand buy them.

What is a thing that they don't understand? It's super simple, they pay basically to make it possible to paste transaction on ordiscan.com and get image as a result. It's just very strange for me that they pay for this instead of right click + save as.

Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 04:49:48 AM

Ordinals scam is currently new so it can attract a lot of people the same way ICO scam did in early days. In fact this is the main reason why they keep changing the name and coming up with a new one for the same garbage they sell people:
ICO, IDO, IBO, IEO, ITO, STO, DeFi, NFT, Ordinals

- Influx of newcomers
2017 altcoin pumps is the best example. When there are newcomers who don't yet know any better, they become the best target for such useless junk. They are the target of advertisement and they buy the junk with enthusiasm thinking they've struck oil and are about to get rich, specially when they look at bitcoin history (price went from $0.001 to $50000) and think it can repeat with the junk they've bought!

As far as I understand,Ordinals, ICO, NFT and etc basically take away money from people who lack critical thinking. That's bad but life is tough.