Recursive Inscription: Another Innovation in the Bitcoin Ordinals Protocol

Introduction:

Recently, Raph, the new chief maintainer of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, recently merged the "Recursive Inscription" No. 2167 update proposed by Casey Rodarmor, the creator of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, into the Ordinals code on Github.

Recursive inscription refers to a method of inscription on the blockchain, which has the characteristics of self-reference. In the previous inscription method, each inscription is independent, and there is no connection between the inscriptions. But this is about to change with the introduction of recursive glyphs.

Recursive inscriptions allow requesting content from other inscriptions using the special "/-/content/:inscription ID" syntax. The possibilities are endless with this simple change.

For example, instead of inscribing 10,000 JPEG files individually for a PFP collection (which would be very expensive), inscribe 200 features from the collection, then request those 200 features through the new inscription syntax, making 10,000 inscriptions in combination, each An inscription uses a small amount of code to request features and programmatically present images, which will greatly reduce transaction costs and break through the size limit of inscription images.

In layman's terms, anyone who is familiar with NFT knows that most of a collection of 10,000 NFTs consists of a dozen or dozens of parts. Taking character PFP as an example, it generally includes backgrounds, hats, hair accessories, eyes, and pendants. , clothes, pants, shoes and other parts, and then arrange and combine these parts into 10,000 pictures.

The recursive inscription only needs to upload these dozens of parts, and then call these parts through grammar, and then perform a combination. The previous method is to combine and then upload. Now the recursive inscription has changed this method. This will It saves costs to a great extent and provides more possibilities.

The latter uploaded parts will form a material library, which can be retrieved by everyone, and artists and creators will be able to perform a good post-production on this and open up the imagination.

Possibilities:

**Composable NFT/Inscription Collection: **After the release of Moonbird before, AIMoonbird came out, a secondary creation of blue-chip projects. The appearance of recursive inscriptions will greatly improve the composability of artistic creation, such as It is possible to talk about artworks, digital assets, and games on the chain.

Decentralized website: Not long ago, casey answered questions from community members, adding "JS" and "CSS" types to the type of inscription, which means that there may be existing in the decentralized network in the future on a dynamic website that never goes away.

**Fragmentation of NFT: **Since it can be combined, can it be disassembled, fragment the inscription, and then perform one more operation.

Domain Name System: With the improvement of the composability of inscriptions, whether the domain name is not just a link to an address, but more things can be mounted, such as hanging on the webpage and pointing to the NFT contained in it, etc.

Summarize:

At present, the recursive inscription has only been proposed for 3 days, which can be regarded as a social experiment, but it has attracted the attention and discussion of a large part of the encryption community. It can cause the next wave of upsurge in the BTC ecology. It will take time to identify, but often where the hot spots are, the opportunities where it was conceived.

When new things appear, you need to maintain a keen sense of smell, curiosity and ability to explore new things at all times. Proper research and participation will yield different results.