Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards delayed the mint of its “Quantum Cats” collection for a third time, in a further embarrassment for the high-profile effort.
After the planned sale of the NFT-like virtual art series was hampered by technical glitches on Monday, Taproot suspended the process with a promise to resume it 24 hours later. However, the task was temporarily scrapped in favor of a postponement of the sale until Thursday. On Wednesday afternoon, the eve of the resumption, a further postponement was announced, until 5 February.
About 3,000 cats are for sale, worth a constant 0. 1 BTC each, so theoretically the supply could reach around $12 million, enough to easily surpass the $7. 5 million in investors the company raised last year.
Taproot Wizards says it underestimated demand from the community to purchase the Quantum Cats. In a post on X, the Quantum Cats handle wrote that the “issues” with the minting site had been fixed, but more time is needed for additional testing “to make sure we don’t discover any other unknown bugs on mint day.”
The Bitcoin Ordinals protocol has caused a stir after its emergence a year ago, whether it’s smart or bad. Effectively allowing NFTs to be created and stored on the Bitcoin blockchain in the same way that other chains like Ethereum brought an application that in the past was lacking.
However, for some Bitcoin purists, ordinals simply created congestion in the network and served to distract from the original stated blockchain project of being a peer-to-peer invoice network.
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This story originally appeared on Coindesk