Bitcoin (BTC) miners have pocketed over $5 million from creating nonfungible tokens (NFT) inscriptions using the Ordinals protocol. Transaction fees for Ordinals transactions exploded 240% from $1.5 million on March 10 to 5.2 million by April 12, according to Dune Analytics data. The rise came on the back of a relatively slow period between Feb. 16 and March 10, from $1 million to $1.5 million. Before that, fees hit the $1 million mark within the first four weeks of the Ordinals protocol laun...