Ordinals Advocate Leonidas proposes an open-source Bitcoin Mode client with the aim of relaxing the default limits of the existing client on transaction size and minimum output amount. The proposal addressed the strategic rules of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots, not the Bitcoin Consensus Rules themselves.
Adjust two default limits
On platform X, Leonidas indicates that the new client plans to raise the single transaction size ceiling to 3.9 million weight units, which is significantly higher than the default 400,000 weight units of Bitcoin Core. At the same time, the client intends to lower the dost threshold to 1 hearing, below the 294 to 546 normally required by the current Bitcoin Core standard transaction.
This means that Ordinals users can in the future write in a transaction a larger inscription or even put the whole set into a single transaction. The lower dost threshold will also make it easier for very small-faced output to be transmitted online.
It's about strategy, not consensus.
According to Leonidas, some of the trading strategies implemented over the years by Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots do not fall within the consensus rules of the Bitcoin Agreement. He raised this client in the hope of removing what he called the redundant restrictions and, following the expansion of the user base, pushing Bitcoin Core to revisit these default policies.
Currently, Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots remain the two most widely used Bitcoin clients. Bitcoin $DOG Mode has been identified as one of their alternative options, mainly for users who want to be freer to handle Ordinals and Runes transactions.
Ordinals Thermal Backslide and Push New Solutions
A few months before the proposal was released, Leonidas had just declared the Ordinals Early Browser Project Ord.io closed. The team stated at the time that the project funds had been depleted and that no sustainable business path was visible in the short term.
Ord.io went online in 2023 and accumulated over 1 million users before the closure. Its associated consumption application Zap has also ceased operations. The team stated that the Open Data of Ord.io would be kept on GitHub and open to other teams taking over the project.
Ordinals and Runes have been divided since the launch. Proponents see it as a form of a bitcoin-based digital asset, while opponents believe that they occupy valuable block space. After halving Bitcoin in 2024, Runes had generated some $135 million in transaction revenue in the first week on the line, but since then related transactions have declined.