"Mining", or PoW (Proof of Work), is an important foundation of Bitcoin culture.

Today, the ARC-20 colored coin standard has such a flexible feature - the coloring process can also be "mining".

In the Atomicals protocol, the concept of Bitwork is flexibly applied to each sector, so any colored coin can be a "mining coin".

In fact, there have been countless mining coins in this circle in the past few years, and most of them are self-contained. Not to mention "using Bitcoin" or "based on Bitcoin", there are very few that are related to Bitcoin.
"Mining with Bitcoin" instead of "mining Bitcoin" seems to be a nonsensical expression in history. But today, it is this kind of brain-opening that expands our imagination of the feasibility of Bitcoin's future development.

The "mining" mechanism of the Atomicals protocol ranges from micro PoW for personal computers that is affordable to everyone to high-difficulty PoW that is challenging even for professional mining machines. Since the first day of the appearance of ARC-20 colored coins, everyone has felt the huge difference between "mining" and the so-called "minting" and "inscribing".

At that time, the ARC-20 mining infrastructure was not as complete as it is today, and had not yet undergone multiple technical optimizations. We simply relied on the most primitive computing power and a bunch of retail personal computers to "mine" an atom in a few minutes, experiencing the mining moment that belongs to ordinary people.

Since then, more ways to play have emerged. There have been high-difficulty Electron and Neutron, and then huge totals of Quark and Sophon, and later the infinitely increasing difficulty of Infinity. We have witnessed how a mining mechanism has evolved and innovated, giving play to various mining gameplay possibilities based on Bitcoin itself.

No one can forget the “wait” when ARC-20 was launched. This time, ARC-20 uses the fully flexible Bitwork to truly make the “mining” gameplay accessible to the world.

During this process, we also saw an interesting change in the audience.

People say that the Bitcoin ecosystem is a game for retail investors. However, only ARC-20 leaves room for miners or institutions. A colored coin can be a "mini-mining" for retail investors and scientists, or a high-difficulty "professional mining" for institutions and miners. From fairness for retail investors to fairness for the masses, every role can find their own place in this ecosystem, and we will have our own fairness.

Today’s Bitcoin mining is a game for institutions. Why can’t all Web3ers find their place in future Bitcoin mining?
What is Web3? It is all-encompassing, it is universal, it is inclusive.

ARC-20 uses the "dyeing" process and "Bitwork" as a carrier to open up a new direction for the future development of Bitcoin.

To put it simply, this is a way to play Bitcoin that can truly be popularized across circles.
In a broader sense, this can be and may be the life-saving medicine for Bitcoin mining and the torchbearer of the original intention of Bitcoin culture.

On the day when Bitcoin mining is exhausted, people will be able to continue mining on Bitcoin with Bitcoin, and the purpose of mining will shift from "getting more Bitcoin" to "coloring more Bitcoin". Without losing PoW, a major cultural origin of Bitcoin, we have another ultimate idea to continue the lifeblood of the global Bitcoin mining industry, and this time, mining is no longer a game for a few people.

The above point seeks fairness, talks about the audience, and discusses the cultural connotation of Web3.
But fairness alone does not have any groundbreaking appeal. There is another point that is far more grand, more necessary, and more deeply rooted in people's hearts than the perspective of "fairness".

From the perspective of Bitwork’s gameplay, defining a difficulty coefficient and setting a mining coin is just a reproduction of the “mining culture”, which has been implemented by many people in many chains. ARC-20 also has an interesting “variable difficulty coefficient”, which is still just the icing on the cake of “mining” itself.
What really makes the "mining" here unique is Bitcoin.

What are we mining? Colored coins.
What is colored coin? It is Bitcoin.

The entire Web3, the entire blockchain - "using Bitcoin to mine Bitcoin", this is the first and only time.
This word is so outrageous that I was stunned when I first thought of this expression. I think anyone who doesn’t know about Atomicals will think that this word is meaningless: it’s just a nesting doll, how can it be so high-end, right?

But if you know about colored coins, you won’t say that.
Bitcoin becomes a colored coin through "coloring". We always emphasize that a colored coin is a marked Bitcoin, a derivative token with Bitcoin as its value backing, and a native meme that inherits the value of Bitcoin. But we always forget to mention: what can the coloring process be like? How interesting can it be?

Coloring, in essence, makes Bitcoin become another different Bitcoin. In the entire cryptocurrency world, only the act of "coloring" can "upgrade" a Bitcoin to another different Bitcoin. And in the entire Bitcoin ecosystem, only Bitwork can make the "upgrade" have reasonable preconditions.
The phrase “mining Bitcoin with Bitcoin” makes sense only under this logic.

The Bitwork brought by ARC-20 is far more than just a "mining experience". It can truly give "Bitcoin mining" a new and sustainable direction.

We have mined enough Bitcoins, and humans can’t mine for much longer. But the existing Bitcoins can become stronger, better, more meaningful, and more valuable. We can use more work to empower the millions of existing BTCs, to upgrade them, to transform them, and to write their own stories for each Bitcoin and each Satoshi.

"Marking an ordinary Satoshi with the amount of work": A Satoshi that originally had nothing can now be a colored Satoshi that is endowed with work, meaning, and a unique mark.

PoW is not only used to obtain new coins, it can also be used to empower old coins.

On a smaller scale, the gameplay around Satoshi is far more interesting and scalable than “getting more Satoshi”.
In a broader sense, Satoshi will truly have individual meanings that can be infinitely extended and expanded. Countless meaningful individuals will allow Bitcoin to have a "civilization" from now on, or to use the words of my old friend Kun Yuan - create a universe based on Satoshi.

In the Atomicals protocol, you may think that Bitwork is just a replica of the mining method, but what I see as Bitwork is a development path that Bitcoin really needs in the future.

At this moment, if you agree with the value of "dyeing" and "mining", you should learn about ARC-20. Don't resist learning, and don't ignore the future.

Thanks to Atomicals, new possibilities are opening up for Bitcoin.

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