Omnity Ordinals Indexer is now live on mainn... but wait, what does it mean? How does it work?
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Ordinals are data put into Bitcoin sats directly by broadcasting a transaction. They include pictures, videos, text, music, all with metadata
This data is stored on Bitcoin for storage, not usage
until now 👀
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To browse Ordinals you need:
-a fully sync'd Bitcoin v28.0+
-ord
-a really good computer
This takes time, money, and some technical know-how. Anyone can do it, but it's challenging to integrate with dapps and with Bitcoin DeFi
Enter the Omnity Onchain Indexers
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Omnity took this task to the ICP blockchain, a modular system supporting data storage and fast lookups
Bitcoin full nodes run directly on ICP, making Ordinals immediately available to index. That index is now sync'd with over 200GB of Bitcoin data!
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👆 This link looks strange because it's hosted on the ICP blockchain. You'll use the ICP blockchain in your browser to query the ICP blockchain sourcing data from Bitcoin in the same node! It's fast!!!
Omnity used this for Bitcoin runes for over a year with 99.96% uptime 🔥
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