Early Bitcoin dev says MEV coming to Bitcoin ‘fundamentally breaks’ it

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  • The emergence of Bitcoin NFT project Ordinals has led to the theoretical emergence of maximal extractable value (MEV) on Bitcoin.
  • One of Bitcoin’s most prominent developers explains why he thinks that would be a problem.
Matt Corallo, one of the first Bitcoin developers, is concerned that recent developments could break one of Bitcoin’s main principles.
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