If something is genuinely useful, you'd be surprised at the lengths people will go to preserve obscure software.
i agree! but there's only so much people with their obscure software on ordinals would be able to do if say the ordinals.com website stopped being maintained. and not many exchanges supported ordinals nfts anymore. but is that the type of position someone would want to be in who paid alot of money for a monkey to have to download the ordinals software from github and run a full bitcoin node just so they can see their ordinal? at that point, i think some people would give up. Quote
I keep a few non-bitcoin-related programs archived that are hard to find elsewhere on the web.
sure! burn them to a usb stick or save it on google drive for easy retrieval.Quote
It's less about whether is something is made by a recognised group of developers and more about not investing in ordinals purely because they're a load of crap. 
Oh, and "Runes" will be more of the same. A turd with some glitter sprinkled on, so any fools will believe it to be shiny.
Oh, and "Runes" will be more of the same. A turd with some glitter sprinkled on, so any fools will believe it to be shiny.
This is Inscription 68649697
https://ordinals.com/inscription/bb4735a5dba97c95de4a50c25e28c1938651b3b76d0a910c869572212f035575i0
That's the latest ordinal as of this time. So there's more than 68 million ordinals now. And they're still minting stupid images like they were in the very beginning. nothing has really changed from that perspective. it would seem.
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Oh, I didn't see this question the first time around. In 10 days, it will mark the 10th anniversary of my account on the forum
, and in about 10 weeks it will mark the first time I made a non-standard Bitcoin transaction, which was the creation of a Counterparty (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.0) token (actually I had probably made trades on the Counterparty DEX even before that, but anyway).
Counterparty uses mainly OP_RETURN to store its data which is readable only by an external protocol (akin to Ordinals, except much more developed, secure, and blockchain space-friendly in every way imaginable). Some larger Counterparty transactions use multisig outputs, which are actually spendable.
10 years is a long time to have an account here. congrats. counterparty, unlike ordinals, looks like a very well designed thing based on that thread link you provided. casey could take notes. , and in about 10 weeks it will mark the first time I made a non-standard Bitcoin transaction, which was the creation of a Counterparty (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.0) token (actually I had probably made trades on the Counterparty DEX even before that, but anyway).
Counterparty uses mainly OP_RETURN to store its data which is readable only by an external protocol (akin to Ordinals, except much more developed, secure, and blockchain space-friendly in every way imaginable). Some larger Counterparty transactions use multisig outputs, which are actually spendable.