By Pepe The Expert

First of all explain the concept and function of Ordimint.com?

Ordimint.com is a website where you can inscribe, receive, store, send and soon also trade your Ordinals. We are Bitcoin only and come from the Bitcoin community. We just love to build tools around lightning and bitcoin.

You write in your FAQ that in order to use your platform one must get Alby and Nostr as pre-requirements. Can you please explain this to a normie? What are the pros and cons of this?

We will soon also integrate other non custodial wallets but getAlby is very usefull. It stores your Nostr private key and from that key you can also generate Bitcoin addresses. These addresses are then used to store your ordinals.

As you see you are always in full controll of your private keys and don’t have to trust us.

We have seen an orchestrated crackdown on freespeech by the deep state eg #TwitterFiles saga. Do you see ordinals minted on Bitcoin as the most secure freespeech in comparison to say social media which is mostly heavily censored today?

I would say we don’t need ORdinals for that. There are great other solutions like Nostr. But yeah, Ordinals are the most censorship resistant method to publish content, that is for sure. Will be interessting if people will use it for that one day.

Are ordinals a good thing for the Bitcoin network and for the mass adoption of btc? I ask this because some Bitcoin purists are reportedly unhappy about #Ordinals

In my opinion Ordinals are very good fort he Bitcoin eco system. They help to secure the chain with higher fees and bring also a lot of people and new developers to the network.

And most of all it is finally something new. There was nothing happening regarding upgrades since the taproot upgrade and people got a bit bored. This is also a reason why everyone is so hyped I think.

I know there are some people who think Bitcoin is only sound money and nothing else. I dont share this opinion.

Bitcoin is much more than that. But most people are very positive about the topic. Many reached out to us but not in public because there were afraid of those people (Bitcoin purists).

Someone inscribed a pornographic picture on the Bitcoin blockchain #Goatse using ordinals protocol. The inscription is permanently now stored on the Bitcoin network. What are your thoughts on this? In future someone could potentially inscribe revenge porn or other illegal material. How do you propose a solution to the problem?

I think there is no real solution for that. It would be possible to have a public blocklist for ordinal explorer operators which contain problematic ordinals.

So these pictures stay on the chain but don’t show up on ordinal explorers.

But you must also know that your node has not something like a filesystem where all those pictures are.

The data is stored encrypted and even if you have access to a node it is not that easy to optain the data.

Some are calling ordinals”crypto grafitti” what are your thoughts on this assertion? And by the way I love graffiti.

I also like graffiti. Only old and boring people hate it. That fits maybe also to the criticts of ordinals, they are the charly mungers of bitcoin. They hate everything new.

But software which never changes will fail, we knew this since many years. So that is why I am happy about ordinals.

Now that the Bitcoin network is being used for digital collectibles, what other uses do you forsee on the BTC network?

It would be interesting to have something like the BOLT standard also for ordinal explorers. Than we have something like a new layer 2 where we can run immutable code within every browser.

What are your thoughts on dynamic ordinals that can point to off chain data? An example is Inscription 84701 which we inscribed and can point to different off chain content. We were the first to accomplish this with our work titled “Scan Me Ordinal Everydays” read about it here: 

Yeah I see a lot of potential in that. It is some kind of second layer for bitcoin. You can also connect ordinals and reference to other ordinals. As you can run also java script code inside an Ordinal I can think of many interesting use cases in the nearer future.

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