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This is a term invented by Ciro Santilli, and refers to a loose set of uncommon Bitcoin inscription methods that involve inscribing one or a small number of payloads per Bitcoin transaction.

These methods are both inefficient and hard to detect and decode, partly because Bitcoin Core does not index spending transactions: bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/61794/bitcoin-rpc-how-to-find-the-transaction-that-spends-a-txo. This makes finding them all that more rewarding however.

On the other hand, they do have the advantage of not depending on any block size limits, as their individual transactions are very small.

Inscribing anything large would however take a very long time, as you'd have to wait until the previous payload chunk is confirmed before going to the next one. This alone makes the format impractical perhaps.

Known examples:

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Implementations:

Ahh, this brings good memories of Ciro Santilli's musical formative teenage years scouring the web for the best art humanity had ever produced in certain generes. And it still is a valuable resource as of the 2020's!

Our examples are located under nodejs/next:

Solved ones:

TODO format???

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It is true, something Ciro Santilli often things about. One likely reason is that the world is broken and most cyclist are speed maniacs willing to put the time in. Unlike Dutch people where everyone cycles.

One of the dudes from the AtomSea & EMBII Bitcoin-based file upload system.

Reference indexer web interface implementation of ordinal ruleset inscriptions.

Source code presumably at: github.com/ordinals/ord

Viewing tip: plaintext inscriptions and some HTML pages don't show well on the preview window, but you can view them well by clicking on "content". E.g.:

This section is about groups of ordinal ruleset inscription that share a theme and were presumably created by a single entity.

Ordinals are inscriptions created with the protocol described at: docs.ordinals.com/inscriptions.html The protocol was designed by developer Casey Rodarmor, and shares a few similarities with the AtomSea & EMBII protocol.

The protocol also includes a way to have ownership over inscriptions, effectively creating an NFT system on top of the bitcoin blockchain. AtomSea & EMBII also already had such a system however. In either case, Ciro Santilli couldn't give less of a fuck about who owns some random publicly viewable digital asset.

For whatever reason, orinals became extremelly popular compared to the AtomSea & EMBII format, leading to millions os inscriptions, and 10k+ images as of block 830k. They also started to take up a substatial portion of the available block space.

This in turn led to a lot of child porn rediscussion, and people linking back to this page to view earlier inscriptions: incoming links.

Unfortunately, unlike AtomSea & EMBII and even cryptograffiti.info uploads, most ordinals are designed to be just souless bulk collectibles, as with as much artistic merit as any random collectible card set or postage stamps you may find at a newpaper stall. To make things worse many of them are likely algorithmically generated. Eternal September had truly arrived to the Bitcoin blockchain. As a result, machine learning would be almost essential in order to find interesting uploads amidst such bulk.

The source code for the reference uploader and indexer is at: github.com/ordinals/ord

The reference viewer server for the runs at: ordinals.com.

The i0 at the end of the URL above means "inscription 0". This is because a single transaction can have multiple inscriptions.

Some of them have sold for high prices. Magic Eden is a popular interface for trading them:

The ordinals also started taking up large portions of the Bitcoin blockchain:

Apparently the "Taproot" Bitcoin update made it easier to upload image-sized data once again, which had become prohibitively expensive 2023 and much earlier:

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This is the most common home "ethernet cable" as of 2024. It is essentially ubiquitous. According to the existing Ethernet physical layer, the maximum speed supported is 2.5 Gbit/s.

"Quantum interconnect" refers to methods for linking up smaller quantum processors into a larger system.

As of 2024, seemingly few organizations developing quantum hardware had actually integrated multiple chips in interconnects as part of their main current roadmap. But many acknowledged that this would be an essential step towards scalable compuation.

The name "quantum interconnect" is likely partly a throwback to classical computer's "chip interconnect".

Sample usages of the term:

Tis term was invented by Ciro Santilli, it refers to ASCII art of text, essentially creating a typeface. in that medium..