# A New Frontier for Bitcoin?

**Published by:** [Optimus](https://paragraph.com/@optimus/)
**Published on:** 2023-06-17
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@optimus/a-new-frontier-for-bitcoin

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A New Frontier for Bitcoin?The Bitcoin community is abuzz with the emergence of something called Recursive Inscriptions. A novel new development building upon the continued hype of the Ordinals Protocol, Recursive Inscriptions seem poised to both disrupt the growing Bitcoin NFT ecosystem and redefine the parameters of blockchain-based file storage as we know it. But how? And why should the NFT space care? Let’s explore. Recursive Inscriptions can seem a bit complex. But unsurprisingly, they have everything to do with the Ordinals Protocol. Aa s refresher, the Ordinals protocol was first introduced to the world on January 21, 2023, by software engineer Casey Rodarmor. It offered a unique way to inscribe data on Bitcoin’s tiniest unit, satoshis (or sats). The resulting Ordinal Inscription is comparable to an NFT but with the significant distinction of being completely on-chain.

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