On Tuesday, Domo, the anonymous founder of Bitcoin, expressed opposition to a suggested change in the standard that UniSat, one of the biggest marketplaces for BRC-20 tokens, announced it will adopt. This move raised the possibility of dispute within the Bitcoin development group.
UniSat will “follow the Ordinals Jubilee upgrade, to confirm that BRC-20 is still on Ordinals without splitting into an isolated protocol,” it said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Introduced in April of last year, BRC-20 is a token standard on the Bitcoin network that enables users to issue transferable tokens on smaller quantities of BTC in the form of inscriptions.The inscriptions, or tokens, are used in the Ordinals Protocol.
The position of UniSat may result in inconsistent BRC-20 standards.Domo proposed in October that BRC-20 stay at version 0.9 instead of upgrading to the Ordinals protocol.
In response to UniSat, Domo said: “I believe rushing these updates in BRC20 is reckless, disregards their peer indexers, and could potentially harm the broader community of BRC20 users.”
Unisat said its actions would constitute not a fork, but a “split.” “A ‘split’ here refers to that A (brc-20 freezed at 0.9) & B (Ordinals Jubilee) are splitting into different sets with different rules, but still residing in a same physical blockchain, intertwined with each other,” the marketplace posted on X.
A split is “much more hard to deal with than a ‘fork,'” it said. With a split, the two forms can become “intertwined with each other, which open the Pandora’s box of numerous cross-affecting cases.”