Ordinals is not a protocol change. Taproot, which made ordinals feasible, was a protocol change.
0 sats \ 1 reply \ @pakovm 3 Feb
Taproot didn't make Ordinals possible, arbitrary data has always been possible in Bitcoin (segwit simply made it prunable) and the accounting system for the "rare sats" is completely arbitrary.
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Possible and feasible are different words. Taproot made inscriptions economically feasible.
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