NiftyNoon: Can Taproot Wizards Save Ordinals? 🐱🧙♂️🛟
Taproot Wizards has finally shared the details for their highly anticipated Bitcoin Ordinals mint after years of teasers and community quests (March 12, 2025)
Nifty Thought:
Taproot Wizards has finally shared the details for their highly anticipated Bitcoin Ordinals mint after years of teasers and community quests. The Taproot Wizards allowlist will be available to engaged community members (including those completing missions and quests) along with up to 1,000 holders of 2 Quantum Cats (entangled with 1 having the dead trait and 1 have the alive trait) that register their Ordinals with the team. There will be a public dutch auction for all remaining Taproot Wizards afterward. For engaged community members the mint price will be 0.2 BTC whereas entangled cat holders can mint at a discount of 0.1 BTC. This would make Taproot Wizards one of the most expensive NFT mints in history, despite the NFT market (and ordinal market in particular) collapsing in asset price. Many have criticized this high mint price and lack of consideration for Quantum Cat holders, particularly 1 Cat holders, with the price of Quantum Cats dumping from 0.2 BTC to 0.15 BTC (down from 0.3 BTC more than a month ago). Although this mint will likely be profitable for those able to get on the allowlist, it remains to be seen if this can spark more interest into the ordinal space overall. Given recent market performance and the decline of Ordinals specifically, it is possible this even will suck liquidity from other projects and collections. Only time will tell.
Highlighted News:
🧙♂️ @TaprootWizards announcing the Taproot Wizards mint:
https://x.com/TaprootWizards/status/1899475352075780437
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