Recursive Inscription: Another Innovation of the Bitcoin Ordinals Protocol.

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23-06-14 09:00

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Introduction:

Recently, Raph, the new chief maintainer of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, merged the "Recursive Inscription" update proposal 2167, proposed by Casey Rodarmor, the creator of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, into the Ordinals code on Github.

Recursive inscription refers to a way of engraving on the blockchain that has the characteristic of self-reference. In previous inscription methods, each inscription was independent and there was no connection between inscriptions. However, with the introduction of recursive inscriptions, this situation is about to change.

Recursive inscriptions allow the use of special "/-/content/:rune ID" syntax to request the content of other runes. This simple change opens up infinite possibilities.

For example, instead of engraving 10,000 JPEG files individually for a PFP collection (which would be very expensive), it is better to engrave 200 features from the collection and then request these 200 features through a new engraving syntax to create 10,000 engravings. Each engraving uses a small amount of code to request features and present images through programming, which greatly reduces transaction costs and breaks through the size limit of engraved images.

Simply put, those familiar with NFTs know that a collection of 10,000 NFTs is mostly composed of a dozen or dozens of components. Taking a character PFP as an example, it generally includes components such as background, hat, hair accessories, eyes, accessories, clothing, pants, shoes, etc., and then these components are arranged and combined to form 10,000 images.

Recursive inscriptions only require uploading these dozens of components and then calling them through syntax, and then combining them. The previous method was to combine them first and then upload them. Now, recursive inscriptions have changed this method, which will greatly save costs and provide more possibilities.

And these uploaded components will form a material library, which everyone can access. Artists and creators will be able to do great post-production work on this, opening up their imagination.

Possibility:

Composable NFT/Inscription Collection: After the release of Moonbird, there are now secondary creations like AIMoonbird for blue-chip projects. The emergence of recursive inscriptions will greatly enhance the composability of artistic creations, such as art, digital assets, on-chain games, and more.

Decentralized Websites: Previously, Casey answered questions from community members and added "JS" and "CSS" types to the inscription type, which means that dynamic websites that exist on decentralized networks and never disappear may appear in the future.

NFT fragmentation: Since it is possible to combine, is it possible to disassemble and fragment the inscriptions, and then perform further operations?

Domain Name System: With the improvement of the composability of inscriptions, domain names are no longer just linking to an address, but can also carry more things, such as being attached to a webpage or pointing to included NFTs, etc.

Summary:

Currently, the proposal of Recursive Signatures has only been put forward for 3 days, which can be considered a social experiment. However, it has attracted the attention and discussion of a large part of the cryptocurrency community. Whether it can trigger the next wave of excitement in the BTC ecosystem needs time to be evaluated. But often where there is a hot topic, there is an opportunity waiting to be born.

New things emerge, and it is necessary to always maintain a keen sense of smell, curiosity and exploration ability towards new things. Proper research and participation will bring different gains.