{"id":88580,"date":"2023-12-22T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T11:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88580"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:55:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T15:55:55","slug":"ocean-a-decentralised-bitcoin-pool-clarifies-its-position-on-ordinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/ocean-a-decentralised-bitcoin-pool-clarifies-its-position-on-ordinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean, a decentralised Bitcoin pool, clarifies its position on Ordinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ocean pool left Bitcoin miners&#8217; discretion to decide whether to process blocks containing non-financial transactions such as the creation <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-ordinals-and-brc-20-tokens\">Ordinals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Dashjr\u2014the younger, head of the structure\u2014is an uncompromising opponent of &#8216;inscriptions&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zBMSQYHpez\">https:\/\/t.co\/zBMSQYHpez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OCEAN (@ocean_mining) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ocean_mining\/status\/1737788756042694937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The company, founded by Dash and Jack Dorsey, updated its decentralisation policy. According to the statement, the main change was granting miners autonomy to choose block templates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cCreating block templates has become so centralised that we can achieve significant progress simply by looking ahead. What Ocean offers, providing miners with a choice among several options, is an unprecedented step in the right direction,\u201d said the head of the platform&#8217;s sales department under the pseudonym Bitcoin Mechanic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the Bitcoin Core client developer Dashjr previously <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-core-developer-luke-dashjr-the-younger-criticised-ordinals-for-network-spam\">\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0443\u0448\u0438\u043b\u0441\u044f \u0441 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0439<\/a> on Ordinals, which, in his view, clutter the network. He believes that the creators of \u00ab\u043d\u0430\u0434\u043f\u0438\u0441\u0435\u0439\u00bb use a vulnerability in Bitcoin&#8217;s software that the team intends to fully fix by Bitcoin Knots v27.<\/p>\n<p>Ocean proposed miners three possible operating modes, including the use of:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The pool software that filters out the majority of non-financial transactions;<\/li>\n<li>Bitcoin Core with built-in protection against Ordinals;<\/li>\n<li>the unmodified original client.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, if the first two options do not involve a fee, under the third path users would pay a &#8216;competitive&#8217; 2% fee.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOur fees are structured in a way that incentivises miners to make a choice that will benefit the Bitcoin network in the long term,\u201d Ocean emphasised.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As noted, in December the boom around Ordinals <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/ordinals-boom-pushes-bitcoin-fees-to-record-highs\">led to a sharp rise<\/a> in Bitcoin fees and miners&#8217; revenues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ocean pool left Bitcoin miners&#8217; discretion to decide whether to process blocks containing non-financial transactions such as the creation {{AOPEN_1}}Ordinals{{ACLOSE_1}}. Luke Dashjr\u2014the younger, head of the structure\u2014is an uncompromising opponent of &#8216;inscriptions&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,1176],"class_list":["post-88580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-ordinals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"34","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88582,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88580\/revisions\/88582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}