> Core devs would have tried to somehow contain the effects of ordinals Be practical. What do you mean here? Do you mean a fork should have been rushed out to make ordinals non-consensus-valid? If yes, how do you define an 'ordinal'? For the most part, those transactions looked like normal (Taproot) transactions. In fact, the 'epic ordinals' are simply the first satoshi mined after each halving. In order to filter out the epic ordinals, *you would have to filter out the coinbase transaction after each halving*! If you research ordinals, you'll realise there was no quick fix. And even if there was, it's not responsible to rush out a node upgrade every week to try to squash the latest silly hack. It was somewhat obvious that ordinals (and NFTs and so on) were just fads > Core devs would have tried to somehow contain the effects of ordinals. Since this didn't happen, I can only conclude .... It *could* be an evil Core-munist conspiracy. Or it could be that the topic of Ordinals requires more subtle thought ... (Epic ordinals, and other ordinal stuff, are discussed in detail here: https://www.nervos.org/knowledge-base/guide_to_inscriptions)