Rob Hamilton is a co-founder and the CEO of AnchorWatch. In this interview, we discuss ordinals and ordinal inscriptions: what they are, how they work, what risks and benefits do they present to Bitcoin, how would we mitigate negative impacts, and how the rest of the ecosystem is responding.

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:05:10 What are ordinals? 00:23:13 The current ordinal debate 00:30:07 Can we undo ordinals?; Bitcoin and ethics 00:40:38 Will the blockchain become bloated? 00:45:50 Ordinal inscriptions 00:59:10 Bitcoin’s security budget; pruning 01:05:44 Can we have fun on Bitcoin? 01:15:56 Value of ordinals; Bitcoin’s response