A quick look at recursive inscriptions: Lego bricks for ordinals

In the recent sluggish bear market sentiment, the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals has brought a hot update worthy of attention-the launch of recursive inions (Recursive inions). It can use a special syntax to refer to other inscriptions, which makes creating inscriptions smaller and less expensive. So what exactly is a recursive inscription? This article takes you through the most noteworthy innovations of recursive inscriptions.

What is the Ordinals Recursive Inscription

On June 12th, Raph, the new chief maintainer of the Bitcoin protocol Ordinals, merged the "recursive inscription #2167" proposed by Ordinals creator Casey Rodarmor into the code of Ordinals on Github. Then Leonidas.og, one of the anonymous developers of Ordinals, tweeted and explained what is called the "recursive inscription".

Recursive inscription refers to an inscription method on the blockchain. It can break the embarrassing situation in which each inscription is independent and unrelated in the previous inscription method. combinations possible. In short, **recursive inscription is an inscription to request the content of other inscriptions. **

The specific content and innovation breakthrough of the recursive inscription

According to the interpretation of developer Leonidas.og, inscriptions can now use the special "/-/content/:inion_id" syntax to request the content of other inscriptions, which directly allows users to use less capacity, that is, lower Costs a fee to create an inscription on the Bitcoin chain.

• In the past: If you want to create the inscription of the PFP collection, you need to upload a picture, and the user downloads the picture on the chain. And with the improvement of picture quality, more precise and high-definition, the corresponding picture memory and space will be larger, and the cost and cost will be more.
• Now: The special id syntax used for recursive inscriptions is essentially to use text codes to find pictures. To create PFP collection inscriptions, you can upload the features corresponding to pictures**, including pattern (monkey), color (green background), action ( Hands up) and other elements. Then combine and splicing the corresponding elements that already exist on the found chain, instead of uploading and downloading around the picture. **
• Direct advantage: The way to create inscriptions in this way is the form of calling text codes, so the size is very small, not only ** greatly reduces the cost, but also makes the size of inscriptions exceed the limit of 4MB in the Bitcoin block size . **
• Expansion potential: Recursive inscriptions have high flexibility, splicing and combination, and low-cost advantages, which bring infinite new possibilities to inscriptions. Complex pictures, videos, 3D games and other forms of content can be engraved on the chain (inscriptions types have added "JS" and "CSS" types).
• OnChainMonkey: The team has forked two fully on-chain npm packages on the Bitcoin chain, then used recursion to call these packages from inscriptions for the upcoming Dimensions collection, creating a beautiful 3D artwork. OnChainMonkey will release OCM Dimensions, a recursive inscription project, on June 15th. Afterwards, the resources of these packages will be public resources, just like adding materials to the library, and others can use recursive inscriptions to refer to them. **

! Quick look at recursive inscriptions: LEGO bricks by ordinals

• Ord.io: Bitcoin inscription exploration and discovery platform Ord.io officially supports recursive inscription creation and display on June 12. The official Twitter was also surprised to say that someone had already used a recursive method to create the dynamic artistic inscription in only 466 bytes.

Infinite Possibilities of the Bitcoin Chain

Due to the characteristic of recursive inscriptions, it is possible to create an intranet. Here, not only can each file request data from other files on the Bitcoin chain, many repositories will be able to access each other, which means that more valuable things can be uploaded to the Bitcoin chain.

Founder Casey Rodarmor has answered questions from community members, saying that the inscription types have added "Java" and "CSS" types related to web page construction. This means that soon we will be able to see dynamic websites that exist on the decentralized web and never disappear;

Still more possibilities lie in:

• Secondary creation of inscriptions: Because of the composable and possibly detachable features of recursive inscriptions, as well as the increasingly abundant public material resources, it will definitely bring more creative stimulation to the creation of inscriptions. *GitHub decentralization: Some people in the community believe that it is also possible to use the features of composability and possible splitting in the future to move the code data on GitHub to the Bitcoin chain, so as to achieve complete decentralization.
• Fragmentation of NFT combinations: This is undoubtedly the most anticipated content. If the recursive domain name realizes split inscriptions, NFT will also realize free combination and disassembly. And this technology can also be expected to be applied in addition to the Bitcoin chain, and innovate more NFT gameplay.

Conclusion

The current recursive inscription code has just been merged for a few days, and the appearance of recursive inscription also marks the further improvement of the programmability of the Ordinals protocol at the application level, which is undoubtedly an important moment on the Bitcoin chain. We look forward to the application and expansion of recursive inscriptions from the richness of content, the reduction of costs, and the possibility of infinite combinations in the future. However, it is still necessary to remind that new things inevitably have uncertain and unknown risks, and code bugs may also appear. While optimistic about trying, please also control risks and invest cautiously.

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