The highly anticipated first minting series “Quantum Cats” of the Bitcoin Ordinals project Taproot Wizards has faced technical issues during sales, causing frustration among users and forcing the project to face an embarrassing delay.
The planned sale of approximately 3,000 Quantum Cats was intended to commemorate a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) called “OP_CAT”, with each cat priced at 0.1 BTC (approximately $4,300). This means that if the series sells out, Taproot Wizards could raise up to 300 BTC (approximately $12.9 million) in funds.
The series was scheduled to open for whitelist sales for two hours at 1 a.m. Taiwan time on Tuesday (30th), but due to certain issues, it has been postponed until Friday. Taproot Wizards stated that despite the malfunction of the minting website, nearly 1,000 Quantum Cats have already been minted, generating sales of approximately 100 BTC (approximately $4.3 million).
Taproot Wizards’ Discord channel is filled with user complaints, and Taproot Wizards co-founder Udi Wertheimer later apologized to potential buyers in X Spaces and acknowledged that these minor issues were “not the experience people expected.”
Taproot Wizards announced that the whitelist minting for the Quantum Cats series will be postponed to 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. Taiwan time on Friday (2nd) (12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday), and the public minting will start at 7 a.m.
The first artwork of the Quantum Cats series, “Genesis Cat,” was sold at an auction by Sotheby’s for a high price of $254,000 earlier this month.
For Taproot Wizards, this sales event marks a rocky start. The company raised $7.5 million in a seed funding round in November last year, reflecting high expectations for a project focused on the rapidly growing field of Ordinals art.
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