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Hello friends, happy Sunday. Today we are reading parts of two pieces which on the surface

aren't really about the same thing, but which I think have more in common than it might seem,

as I will try to prove to you by the end of this conversation. The first piece is by L. Asher Corset, a partner at

UTXO Management, and was originally published in Bitcoin Magazine. The piece is titled,

A Bitcoin maximalists owed to ordinals. El Asher writes, as a Bitcoin maximalist, I love ordinals.

Other maximalists should also consider loving ordinals

as they demonstrate Bitcoin superiority in ways not previously possible. Ordinals enable

functionalities that undermine the need for other blockchains to even exist. The use cases

that were demonstrated on other blockchains are now possible natively on Bitcoin.

Despite Bitcoin's strengthening position, some self-proclaimed maximalists on

X, formerly Twitter, bizarrely celebrated decreased network fees, and declared Ordinals have failed.

This seemingly implies that Bitcoin might somehow benefit from a failure of the Ordinals

protocol and lower minor earnings. But ordinals haven't failed, and the interest isn't nearly

over. To the contrary, trading volume

across digital artifacts, unique Satoshi's, and BRC 20 tokens has been historic. According to CryptoSlam,

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