Understanding Bitcoin Inscriptions
Glossary Inscriptions A technique for embedding arbitrary data — text, images, code — inside Bitcoin transactions by writing into Taproot witness data. An inscription is a chunk of arbitrary data — a string of text, a PNG, a piece of code, anything — written into a Bitcoin transaction's witness data using a specific Tapscript pattern. Once inscribed, the data lives in the blockchain permanently, just like any other transaction history.
- ▪Glossary Inscriptions A technique for embedding arbitrary data — text, images, code — inside Bitcoin transactions by writing into Taproot witness data.
- ▪An inscription is a chunk of arbitrary data — a string of text, a PNG, a piece of code, anything — written into a Bitcoin transaction's witness data using a specific Tapscript pattern.
- ▪Once inscribed, the data lives in the blockchain permanently, just like any other transaction history.
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Glossary Inscriptions A technique for embedding arbitrary data — text, images, code — inside Bitcoin transactions by writing into Taproot witness data. An inscription is a chunk of arbitrary data — a string of text, a PNG, a piece of code, anything — written into a Bitcoin transaction's witness data using a specific Tapscript pattern. Once inscribed, the data lives in the blockchain permanently, just like any other transaction history. The technique was introduced by Casey Rodarmor in January 2023 as part of the Ordinals protocol. It does not require any change to Bitcoin's consensus rules — it works within existing Taproot functionality activated in 2021.
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