Casey Rodarmor
Creator of Ordinals and inscriptions and the ord software; a Bitcoin Takeover guest in February 2023.
Guest on 6 February 2023, weeks after ord 0.4.0. He explained why he did not want to sell NFTs on Ethereum and how Ordinals came out of that.[2][3]
Ordinals
Casey Rodarmor's GitHub account, casey, dates from March 2008 and links to rodarmor.com[1]. On Bitcoin Takeover he said that in late 2021 “I started looking into making NFTs on Ethereum”, but decided he could not feel good about selling them there[2]. He then said: “And I came up with the scheme that now is called ordinals”[3].
Inscriptions
He said Ordinals “actually I found out later had been proposed before”, and that the whole protocol “fits on a T-shirt, essentially”[4]. He described putting inscription content “in what is called the witness”[5]. The ord README describes his software as an index, block explorer and command-line wallet[6]; see Ordinals and inscriptions.
On Luke Dashjr
Asked about Luke Dashjr's opposition, Rodarmor said “I respect Luke deeply as a Bitcoin developer”, and that he had pointed Dashjr to the pattern inscriptions use so a mempool filter could be written[7].
On Bitcoin Takeover
Episodes with Casey Rodarmor as a guest, from the show's feed (bitcoin-takeover.com/audio/feed.xml).
- S13 E3: Casey Rodarmor on Ordinals, Inscriptions & Bitcoin Culture 06 Feb 2023 · ▶ mp3 [archived][8]
References
- primaryGitHub profile casey (Casey Rodarmor), account created 2 Mar 2008 [archived]
- episodeCasey Rodarmor on Ordinals (6 Feb 2023): looking into NFTs on Ethereum in late 2021▶ listen at 6:01timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeCasey Rodarmor on Ordinals (6 Feb 2023): “the scheme that now is called ordinals”▶ listen at 7:28timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeCasey Rodarmor on Ordinals (6 Feb 2023): ordinals “had been proposed before”▶ listen at 8:12timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeCasey Rodarmor on Ordinals (6 Feb 2023; transcript titled S13 E3, file s12_e13): inscriptions in the witness▶ listen at 8:44timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- primaryord README, GitHub ordinals/ord [archived]
- episodeCasey Rodarmor on Ordinals (6 Feb 2023): on Luke Dashjr and a mempool filter patch▶ listen at 18:35timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
- episodeS13 E3: Casey Rodarmor on Ordinals, Inscriptions & Bitcoin Culture [archived]