In its latest report, BitMEX Research examined how BRC-20 Tokens and Ordinal images are affecting Bitcoin node verification. The study looked at Ordinal-related data on Bitcoin, including the transaction count and data size, to determine their impact on node operators. BRC-20 Tokens Strain Bitcoin Nodes More Than Images The September 8 report revealed that BRC-20 tokens create more problems for some Bitcoin node runners than Ordinal images. Notably, the former make up 92.5 million transactions while the latter account for only 2.7 million, yet both use about 30GB of storage.…
Here’s How BRC-20 Tokens and Images Are Speeding Up Bitcoin Node Verification
