The advent of bitcoin ordinal inscriptions has brought 'NFT's' to the daddy blockchain but it is actually a whole lot more than that.
Ordinal inscriptions allow you to inscribe files such as jpegs to the bitcoin blockchain and now with 'recursive inscriptions' you are able to inscribe code that pulls data from other ordinals on the blockchain and render them together, making the bitcoin blockchain a massive repository for data to be accessed.
One recent development to come out of ordinals is the idea of creating inscriptions that stake a claim to individual blocks on the blockchain that represent land in a future metaverse.
The ordinals community has rallied around the new standard and developers have already created platforms and games attached to your bitmap block, the beginnings of a decentralised metaverse.
The Standard is known as bitmap and at the moment anyone can inscribe a .bitmap ordinal from the remaining blocks that have not been taken.
As it stands at the time of writing this over half the blocks have been snapped up and are already selling on secondary markets.
Be sure to check if the bitmap block you want has not been taken!
The tools for bitcoin ordinals are still rudimentary as the space is still young in its development. To inscribe an ordinal a popular place to go is unisat.io but there are many others to choose from.
Here's a great video that explains further:
Other links:
https://twitter.com/blockamoto
https://gitbook.bitmap.land/1-project/home
