Critics yell ‘hypocrisy’ as Ordinals website suffers from DDoS spam attack
Dec 27. 2023
By Brayden Lindrea
Bitcoin Ordinals’ website has continued to be hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, causing the website to time out. Critics who like to accuse inscriptions of "spamming” the Bitcoin network see it as an ironic form of justice.
On Dec. 27, Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor flagged the DDoS attack on the website — claiming its the first time it has happened since its launch in January.
“First DDoS of http://ordinals.com! Anyone have any idea what's going on?” said Rodarmor, in an X (formerly Twitter) post.
A DDoS attack is a malicious spam attempt to disrupt normal traffic on a targeted server or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic.
The Ordinals website has been unstable throughout the day. It is currently down at the time of publication.
Several critics found it amusing that the Bitcoin Ordinals website was effectively being spammed, particularly from those who view Ordinals inscriptions as doing the same on the Bitcoin network.
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