When I was browsing Twitter today, I found that many people in the Ordinals circle were talking about Cursed Inscription (cursed inscription), which seemed to be trending from niche to popularity.
What the hell is that cursed inscription ? How to participate? What's the risk? Odaily Planet Daily integrated the views and opinions of several Ordinals big Vs, trying to answer the above questions.
The "cursed inscription" came about because several bugs and missing features made the Ordinals code unable to recognize certain inscriptions, so Ordinals founder Casey proposed the concept of "cursed" inscriptions: modifying Ordinals to recognize the above-mentioned currently invalid , including retroactive inscriptions in older chunks but treating these new inscriptions as "curses" and assigning them negative inscription numbers. Since they will not receive positive inscription numbers, they will not destroy existing inscription numbers. (This is why the Cursed Glyph is also known as the Negative Glyph.)
The Ordinals team stated that it will be fixed in a specific block, which means that once fixed, the cursed inscription will never be minted. A limited number of cursed inscriptions will continue to exist, but new cursed inscriptions cannot be inscribed afterwards. This is also the narrative basis and rarity of the cursed inscription. (Odaily Planet Daily Note: See Github for a more detailed discussion .)
Twitter KOL @0x AKLabs stated that the current risk is that the cursed (negative number) inscription has not been merged, and it is even possible that the merger will never happen, or the community has some debates about this plan. So far, the three main developers of the Ordinals protocol (Casey, Rafjaff, and Ordinally) seem to be biased towards supporting it.
In terms of practical operation, since ordinary wallets do not recognize these, it is better to use Sparrow Wallet to save the UTXO of the cursed inscription, rather than Unisat or Xverse, etc. These wallets will think that this is an ordinary UTXO, causing users to save in the normal UTXO. A wallet may accidentally spend it as normal Sats in a BTC transaction.
Inscribed Cursed Glyph Nanny Level Tutorial
Download Sparrow Wallet: https://sparrowwallet.com/download/
Copy inscription information:
{
"p": "brc-20",
"OP": "mint",
"tick": "crsd",
"amt": "1000"
}
Open the website, https://inscriber.com
Click TEXT, paste the inscription information, and enter the Sparrow Wallet receiving address.
Be sure to click cursed , then gas.
Payment
A successful withdrawal means that a transaction has been initiated. One UTXO per address is the safest method. Do not call multiple addresses to the same address. Currently, this method is the safest method, but Gas is relatively expensive.
Enter the website https://looksordinal.com, enter the receipt, and click text
Copy and paste inscription information:
Copy inscription information:
{
"p": "brc-20",
"OP": "mint",
"tick": "crsd",
"amt": "1000"
}
Select the quantity as 1, adjust the gas, check Cursed, and select the service fee . If you don’t build your own node, there will be a delay of one block to transfer the account to the platform.
Click inscribe.
Payment, send the amount to the specified address, the sooner the money is sent to this address, the sooner the transaction will be packaged into the memory pool.
Remember not to close after entering this interface, and then just wait.
After the engraving is completed, enter cursedordinals.com, copy the tx on the browser, and search to find the token.
