TL; DR
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Ordinal numbers allow users to permanently upload or ‘subscribe’ data (think text, images, videos or even software) to blockchains such as Bitcoin.
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The video game Doom has been ported hundreds of devicesand translated into multiple different coding languages so that the Internet can find new ways to contribute to the decades-long ‘Can it run Doom?meme.
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Today, someone permanently enrolled Doom into the Dogecoin network, using the Ordinals protocol.
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Of course, graffiti has been around for centuries…
But the contemporary ‘scribble style’ that we are all used to seeing on train carriages and toilet stalls emerged mainly in the 1960s, when two powerful forces collided:
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An increase in political activism.
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The commercial release of the Sharpie.
And now we’re starting to see a similar trend take hold in the crypto world, thanks to the rise of Ordinals.
ICYMI: Ordinal numbers allow users to permanently upload or ‘subscribe’ data (think text, images, videos or even software) to blockchains such as Bitcoin.
(Think of the hard drives connected to the Bitcoin network as white walls, and the Ordinals protocol as a Sharpie).
In the real world, the most universal piece of graffiti is a certain human appendage (rhymes with ‘shmenis’).
…whereas in the digital world it is the video game Fatefrom 1993.
Serious.
This thing has been transferred hundreds of devicesand translated into multiple different coding languages so that the Internet can find new ways to contribute to the decades-long ‘Can it run Doom?meme.
Well, today we have a new one for the list…
Someone just permanently enrolled Doom into the Dogecoin network, using the Ordinals protocol.
We really like how non-serious this space can be sometimes.