TechFlow reports that Raph, the new lead maintainer of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, announced on Twitter that the protocol has been upgraded to version 0.6.0. The new version enables the identification of additional inscription types, including cursed inscriptions. According to Leonidas, co-founder of Ord.io, there were 70,000 invalid inscriptions prior to this upgrade. However, with the upgrade to version 0.6.0, many previously invalid inscriptions can now be indexed by the Ordinals protocol as "cursed inscriptions." Regular inscriptions are assigned positive numbers, while cursed inscriptions are assigned negative numbers. The first cursed inscription is numbered -1, and the current largest number is -71,508.
The protocol sets a specific block activation height at which certain types of cursed inscriptions can be re-indexed as normal positive-numbered inscriptions. Notably, the numbering of positive inscriptions will never change, but the numbering of negative inscriptions can and will change. If new special cases are discovered and new types of cursed inscriptions are added, existing cursed inscriptions will be re-indexed and new ones inserted, causing shifts in the numbering of negative inscriptions.
