Bitcoin’s New Runestone Undertaking Airdrops ‘Largest Inscription Ever’

Yesterday, Runestone, a Bitcoin Ordinals mission led by the nameless collector and NFT professional LeonidasNFT, achieved a historic milestone by mining “the most important inscription ever, AGAIN!” 

Unchallenged in dimension at 3.97 MB, ‘Inscription 63,150,674’ was mined via a collaboration between Marathon Digital’s Slipstream, a service for direct Bitcoin transaction submissions by way of its MARA mining pool, and OrdinalsBot, which streamlines Ordinals, utilizing Casey Rodarmor’s protocol. 

Leonidas articulated the rationale for the Runestone initiative in a recent post on X, stating, “The highest blockchain on the planet ought to have the highest meme coin on the planet.”

To attain this imaginative and prescient, he advocates for an in depth airdrop approach, emphasizing, “The highest meme coin on the planet needs to be distributed via a considerable free airdrop with none allocation to the crew, to probably the most devoted group.”

Unlocking Airdrop Eligibility

To find out eligibility for a one in every of these main inscriptions, customers are required to stick their Bitcoin tackle into the Runestone airdrop’s interface. Over 112,000 Ordinals wallets qualify, offered they maintain at the very least three inscriptions from block 826,600 onwards, excluding “textual content/plain” or “software/JSON” varieties.

Airdrop eligibility additionally extends to “cursed inscriptions” — Ordinals that the Ord indexer initially missed, a instrument designed for monitoring and registering inscriptions, ensuing of their absence from wallets and marketplaces.

Notably, the current pre-market base value for one in every of these property on the Solana-powered decentralized Whales Market platform stands at $545.