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Braindump on how Bitcoin and Cosmos Hub inscriptions (via @asteroidxyz) are the two most important inscriptions platforms on the planet... (and how they beautifully compliment one another): 1. Inscriptions really only make sense on transactional chains (meaning chains that don't support smart contracts like Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Cosmos Hub, etc.) 2. Of the chains I listed, there are only two with meaningful dev communities: bitcoin and cosmos -- beyond the hub, the wider Cosmos dev community is significantly larger than the bitcoin dev community 3. Ordinals are expensive. No way around that. So I see bitcoin as the home for premium/luxe inscriptions (i.e. artists and brands who want to leverage bitcoin's branding might). There's a chance bitcoin even surpasses all other chains (sorry, ethereum) as the preferred spot for high-end, lower-volume art. Bitcoin just has a weightiness to it that is utterly unparalleled. 4. Cosmos Hub inscriptions are cheap. And that could make Cosmos Hub / the home for inscriptions that are: a) experimental and WILD as f---; b) more liquid and useable (6 second blocktimes vs 10-minute blocktimes); and c) more fun/playful (since you don't have to be wealthy to mint, trade them) 5. In a sense, Cosmos Hub could become a sort of canary network for ordinals. Radical experiments could lead to success which sometime later gets emulated on bitcoin. That would be an honor since -- to date -- Asteroids are imitating ordinals (by incorporating things like metaprotocols from launch). 6. Much like ordinals have altered the fate and tokenomics and bitcoin, I believe we're watching the very earliest stages of the same thing happen on Cosmos Hub. P.S. I'm contributing at @asteroidxyz, so biased, but I haven't seen a groundswell of energy like this since ordinals itself launched. I thought we'd see haters and take a bunch of shit from validators. Instead, I almost universally see excitement and a sense of awe or bewilderment. It's only been 7 days. Strap in because I have a feeling this ride is going to get insane ☄️