I’m a bit tired of people’s hate towards ordinals. The fact that you got burned by extractive cabals changes nothing to the underlying tech, culture and value proposition. It’s really simple: art - on Bitcoin. Literally, the art goes on Bitcoin and stays there. I’m not trying to shill some passing trend. The bytes actually live on every Bitcoin node. You know, Bitcoin, that blockchain invented nearly two decades ago by some weirdo named Satoshi. A blockchain representing the cypherpunk movement, resisting censorship, governments, outliving every other blockchain, being the most decentralised. Yes, grifters used those same claims as dogmatic, maximalist slogans to make people fomo. And yes it hurt sometimes. Doesn’t make ordinals any less incredible. The art is immutably preserved. It’s onchain, it’s globally stored, it’s resilient, durable. Set and forget at inscription. No hosting services to pay for, no ipfs to pin, no domains to renew. The protocol offers enough options to really push exploration and creativity in countless directions. Generative art is at home here. You can inscribe software, libraries, fonts, scripts, and reuse any existing ones through recursion. Provenance is unmatched, parent-child lineage is beautiful, elegant and highly modular to accommodate all kinds of needs: proof of authentication, onchain collections, or any creative relationships between inscriptions. Artists are blurring the lines between storage and algorithmic generation, outputs and systems, provenance and conceptual or interactive art, art and software. Some learn how to code. Others store their legacies. You can do whatever you want and that’s the beauty of it. The ecosystem has matured. Onchain-data-first marketplaces have been built, tooling is widely available, wallets secure, auctions, editions, offers, and everything a healthy eco needs to thrive is now available and smooth. The fact that a few bad actors made you do stupid things and lose money doesn’t mean the technology deserves to be thrown away at the first sign of a new shiny object. If anything, you’ll get burned again by chasing. Now if this really isn’t for you that’s fine. But try to see the whole picture first, follow the people who are genuinely passionate, not the loudest ones. Read the docs, articles, essays. Spend some time on explorers and marketplaces. Meet the artists and collectors. You’ll soon realise it’s far from dead, far from being one giant grift, and far from resembling any other chain’s ecosystem, which is what makes it so interesting in the first place. Always happy to help with the how, where and who. I’m one DM away. 🟠