Even the spike in transactions is very annoying and makes shipping costs more expensive and longer.
My withdrawals have been stuck for more than 24 hours and even the fees have been increased.

There are many pros and cons to the emergence of Ordinals, some like them because they see them as a creative innovation,
while others see them as a way to abuse and disrupt the core principles of Bitcoin.

There is no clear consensus on whether Ordinals is an improvement or an attack on Bitcoin.

The only thing ordinals actually affected is the lack or seemless transfer or the fact that they would be feeling up some space and subsequently the blockchain and making full node users wasting disk to download them useless coins.

The rest of the other features you mentioned haven’t been tempered, for privacy it is actually intact because they aren’t asking for KYC or even stopping the running of ones personal node. For decentralization they also aren’t on it because the miners still propagate transactions base on fees and mines blocks as usual, if it want for even decentralization they wouldn’t even be on the blockchain because some centralized bodies would have gotten them removed. But bitcoin network decentralization gives everyone the opportunity.

For security yes, it is still intact, ordinals aren’t Quantum Computers that we would say will pose threat to the network’s algorithm. Then financial freedom; yes you can still have total control of your coins, send them out whenever you want and how fast you want it to be included in a block, just that you have to pay higher this Time around.

Ordinals are none of this two, the only clear attack I see on bitcoin blockchain apart from breaking the two algorithms ECDSA and SHA256 or 51% attack. This folks are just wasting their thinking there are attacking bitcoin because sooner or rather than later this naive people paying huge transaction fees for them will stop

Let’s not get bother about this ordinals again, we experienced them twice before this year and at most it was 2 to 3 weeks so soon even this will pass

I don't think that just because the price is very high right now that the very traits are very attack here, no it's not. We still have control of our privacy, we are still decentralized, security is still very high at 6 confirmations, the only issue is the fees, simply as that.

I don't think either that we are force to used LN, to be honest, I haven't used it and just rely on the simplest form of transactions.

And this is not the only time that the fees has increased because of brc-20 ordinals it has happened before and it just died down without us noticing it. So I guess this is going to happen again, sooner or later than expected.

The clear consensus will come when the transaction fees keep at insane levels for long periods of time. At the moment, the developers are very reluctant to do anything because they think their actions may lead going against one of the principles of the bitcoin network, which is being completely against censorship.

I am imagining when there is a full-fledged bull run which also comes with transaction fee spikes on top of the ordinals' madness, something will have to be done.

For the sake of newbies who would want to come aboard and also for those accepting Bitcoin payments in their businesses, the fee is fucking discouraging. Just about a month ago, we were celebrating how low the fee had dropped because we also faced this same issue some months ago same in this year. Now, we are still here again.

I find it funny how after 1000 topics of how Bitcoin will stop poverty and do some wealth redistribution and help the small guy and all that suddenly everyone realizes that Bitcoin is the perfect example of capitalism
- my money my business, can't stop me from spending on what I want
- you have more money to invest you have more returns
- you pay more you have priority
- no % based on how much you earn or you transfer, 1 billion or 10 cents transferred you pay the same

Guess we need to have some of these wake-up calls now and then!

You talked about total control of your bitcoin. With good control, coin control feature, fee rate customization, you can use a fee rate that is good for you and your capital.

You can observe mempools and pick good times with proper fee rates to broadcast your transaction to mempools and wait for miners to confirm it for you.

A Bitcoin user, a Bitcoin investor must have other reserves to use. You can not store all money you have in bitcoin and when you need to make payment, you have to either sell your bitcoin at any price at that time or have to move your bitcoin with any fee rate you must use at that time.

You can have cash or stable coin in small amount that can be used when you can not use Bitcoin with cheap fee rate or when you don't want to sell your bitcoin at low price.

Blocks are found like normal, average time is about 10 minutes.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-confirmationtime.html#3y

No sudden spike of block time and I disagree to call that Bitcoin has a network congestion. There are more transactions waiting in mempools and Ordinals trigger transaction fee race that make transaction fee more expensive than before February 2023, when there is no Ordinals, Inscriptions.

I see this expensive transaction fee time is not good for everyone but if we can wait, we can have confirmed transactions with lower fee rates because hype, FOMO can not last forever.

It is due to this ordinals trend, once people forget about it we will come back to more reasonable fees