On this episode of Hell Money, Casey Rodarmor tells the full story of his failed attempt to get the Ordinals BIP accepted into the Bitcoin repository - a three-year saga that ended in a silent rejection.

We break down what a BIP actually is and how Bitcoin’s governance process handled - or failed to handle - one of its most controversial proposals.

Topics covered:

- What is a BIP and how the process works

- What Ordinals actually are (sat tracking vs "assets")

- The full Ordinals BIP timeline (2023–2026)

- Casey’s technical, personal, and political grievances

- BIP 110 vs Ordinals

- A proposed reform plan for Bitcoin’s BIP process

- Bitcoin governance and ossification risks

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 Intro, Casey is single

3:52 Ordinals BIP

20:00 Bad social politics incentives

25:15 Inscriptions BIP

28:30 Casey is demoralized

32:00 The Tyranny of Structurelessness

34:00 Bryan Bishop, Epstein files, and narrative control games

37:00 BIP 110

38:15 Blockstream & Bitcoin core, Bitcoin governance

43:25 Bitcoin is ossified, OP CTV

49:35 When is it clear that Bitcoin has failed?

58:00 Quantum threat & VC narratives

1:02:00 Casey's list of demands for BIP editors

1:10:45 It's so over, Maxi Madness