Bitcoin Ordinals creator proposes to change inscription numbering system
Casey Rodarmor, the creator of Bitcoin Ordinals, clarified that the inscription numbers would only be changed, but not scrapped entirely. Bitcoin Ordinals's creator and chief coder Casey Rodarmor has recently proposed changing the protocol's numbering system, with the aim of simplifying the project's codebase. Since the beginning of the Ordinals protocol, each nonfungible token (NFT) created using Ordinals was assigned an inscription number that was unique. They functioned similarly to serial numbers and have been an integral part of the digital art minted in the protocol. I guess the cat is out of the bag! In short, I think that the effort to keep inscription numbers stable hasn't been worth it, and has led to ugly code and stalled development, since new changes need to be extremely and often awkardly careful not to change the numbers of old… https://t.co/SsEqjdtZFB — Casey (@rodarmor) September 19, 2023 However, Rodarmor believes that keeping the inscription numbe...