Coder Brings Ordinals to Litecoin as Bitcoin Inscriptions Surpass 154K

 

Ordinal Inscriptions and the ability to mint content other than transactions on the Bitcoin network have taken the blockchain by storm, with over 154,000 inscriptions being made to date, according to Dune analytics. Now, a developer has made the Ordinals project work for the proof-of-work blockchain Litecoin.

Launched in 2011, Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency that is meant to process transactions faster than Bitcoin. Charlie Lee, a former Google employee, made Litecoin. He sold all of his Litecoin in 2017 to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

Indigo Nakamoto, a fake Twitter user, offered 5 LTC (around $500) to anyone who could move Ordinals to the Litecoin blockchain on February 10.

On Sunday, software engineer Anthony Guerrera started the Litecoin Ordinals project on GitHub. He did this by forking the Bitcoin Ordinals repository that Casey Rodarmor posted in January.