In the past few days, a significant event that could profoundly impact the direction of the BTC ecosystem has occurred, yet few are paying attention.
Next, from the perspective of an ordinary inscription player, let me briefly explain what this Bitcoin Core co-signed statement and the lifting of restrictions on OP_RETURN really means:
Do you remember two years ago when inscriptions (Ordinals) became popular?
The BTC ecosystem can suddenly write text, engrave images, and issue assets.
However, it was also from that time that Bitcoin core developers generally regarded inscriptions as 'garbage data' and 'viruses,' as Luke Dashjr once proposed to block the generation of inscriptions by fixing vulnerabilities.
Some miners explicitly refuse to package transactions related to inscriptions, directly triggering a significant drop in the Ordinals ecosystem.
The entire ecosystem has thus long been shrouded in an uncertain shadow of technological bureaucracy that refuses to acknowledge reality.
Until this week, the situation began to shift, with a co-signed letter issued on the official Bitcoin Core forum.
The letter explicitly mentions:
"Based on the core spirit of Bitcoin's decentralization and censorship resistance, non-financial applications (i.e., inscriptions, assets, etc., excluding BTC payments) should not be rejected based on their use as long as the transactions are 'reasonably paid for and technically harmless';
Whether it's inscriptions, runes, or even future on-chain NFTs, social systems, and identity systems, as long as the market is willing to pay, Core will not interfere.
This represents:
✅ Developers realize: they can no longer use a 'censorship' mentality to handle new gameplay.
✅ For the first time, the legitimacy of inscriptions and their derivative play has received positive affirmation from the technical community.
✅ It has opened the green light for all non-financial applications, even considered a 'black and white written release.' The future narrative space for scalability in the Bitcoin ecosystem has been reopened.
If this consensus continues to ferment, what does it mean?
1️⃣ Inscriptions will not be banned or technically suppressed; rather, they may gain more legitimate support.
2⃣ The miner revenue structure may be further optimized: Non-financial transactions often involve large data volumes, willing to pay more fees for on-chain; this helps address the long-term issue of insufficient miner incentives after block rewards are halved.
3⃣ The BTC ecosystem can continue to develop more native gameplay for non-BTC assets.
4⃣ Project parties, developers, hype traders, and on-chain innovators will be more confident in entering the market to do things.
What you see may be the beginning of the next wave of Bitcoin's creative activities. I will spend more time keeping an eye on the Bitcoin ecosystem.
This may not be a market that leads to immediate riches.
But it may be a seed event leading to a new story for BTC.