THORNTON THORNTON
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THORNTON THORNTON
@214thornton
A life of ideals, that is, full of public interest, and therefore of noble






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WTF are parent-child inscriptions? The long awaited parent-child PR has just been merged into the Ordinals Protocol. Here is everything you need to know: Until now the Ordinals Protocol lacked a standard for on-chain provenance. This means that we have had to rely on off-chain data and social consensus for determining things like which inscriptions belong in a collection or who the creator of an inscription was. This all just changed with the PR (pull request) that was merged into the Ordinals Protocol's master branch an hour ago. It introducing a standard for creating parent-child relationships between inscriptions. The way it works is, if you own an inscription you have the ability to create "children" inscriptions under it, thus making it the "parent" of those inscriptions. You do this by passing the sat of the parent inscription along with the child inscription creation transaction. This establishes a trustless relationship that lives on-chain and can be viewed by anyone. It is anticipated that parent-child relationships will primarily be used for establishing on-chain provenance for collections. Going forward collections will inscribe all of their pieces as children under a single parent inscription. Then the collection creator could burn the parent inscription (for example by sending it to Satoshi's address) which will then guarantee that no more inscriptions can ever be added to the collection. But, let's think bigger. What if child inscriptions could themselves have more children thus creating a complex hierarchy? For example, an artist could create an inscription representing themself that could have child inscriptions representing their different collections that could then have child inscription representing the pieces in the collections. Or perhaps within a single collection you could establish different hierarchies or branches of rarity which would add a new dimension of collecting. The opportunities to be creative with parent-child inscriptions are endless and I'm very excited to see what people create! We will be adding support for viewing parent-child relationships between inscriptions to @ord_io very soon!













