If you’ve seen headlines in recent months about classic games like Pac-Man and Tetris running on Bitcoin
the whole concept of video games running on blockchains designed solely for the purpose of digital money doesn’t make a whole lot of sense on the surface.
thanks to the launch of NFT-like protocols on those chains, people are “inscribing” media like artwork and even playable video games on these decentralized networks—whether it’s to preserve them for eternity, or just for the novelty of it all.
here’s a brief look at how that all works
Ordinals protocol launched in early 2023 as a way to turn media into on-chain assets on Bitcoin
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