Thanks for sharing.

Interesting parallel you draw between, essentially, the economics of the British Crown's rule over the American colonies and the economics of Ordinals and similar non-currency layers grafted onto Bitcoin.

The Crown had high and essentially fixed costs that made it brittle in the face of an imperfect economic boycott.

I don't know much about the market for Ordinals, but I doubt it is remotely as vulnerable from a cost point of view.

Boycotts of Ordinals would drive up their costs only minimally as long as a small but meaningful percentage of hashing power does not participate in the boycott.

A boycott might more easily add considerable uncertainty to their settlement time, however, since it is essentially impossible to predict when a (presumably minority) Ordinal-friendly pool will find the next block.

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Thanks for the feedback but I think that a lot of the inscription hype has been generated by a small VC group of funders so if this is true and it isn't a long time Organically grown interest then the economics of it are as brittle as siphoning the VC money from the funders that would stop it altogether