“Raphjaph”, the current lead administrator of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, has included Casey Rodarmor’s (the developer of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals) “recursive inscriptions” No. 2167 upgrade in the Ordinals resource on GitHub.
According to developer Leonidas.og, inscriptions can now use the specific syntax “/-/content/:inscription id” to request material from other inscriptions. This small adjustment opens up a whole range of new possibilities.
For example, rather than individually enrolling 10,000 JPEG files into a PFP collection (which would be prohibitively expensive), it would be better to enroll 200 features from the collection, followed by another 10,000 inscriptions, each representing a small amount use code to request the functions and display the image programmatically. Artworks are simply kept on-chain more efficiently, saving over $1 million in transaction fees in the case of Bitcoin Apes.
Similar to BRC721, each inscription has the function to call a function, the code for executing the function is exclusively in text format, and the volume is relatively small. As a result, the entire inscription may exceed this limitation, even if the size of the individual inscription is less than 4 MB. Intricate 3D video games are entirely on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Bitcoin Ordinals are a method for satoshis (individual units of Bitcoin) to be numbered, named, and even engraved with data, turning them into non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
The Ordinals protocol is a technique for distinguishing and tracking individual sats, which is a necessary component for developing Bitcoin-based NFTs. As a new Bitcoin block is mined and new coins minted as mining rewards, the system assigns each sat a unique number depending on when it was mined. Smaller numbers indicate older sats.
An ordinal is really stored in a Bitcoin block, meaning the data is available as long as Bitcoin or one of its forks exists. It can only disappear if Bitcoin ceases to exist and every instance of the blockchain is erased. It is almost impossible.
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