How Ordinals Came to Be

There have been words on Twitter, so I thought it would be useful to write down how ordinals came to be. Ordinals is a few things. Ordinals proper is made up of ordinal numbers, the numbering and tracking of satoshis, designed ultimately as vehicles for NFTs; inscriptions, the NFTs which ride on the backs of ordinals; runes, the degenerate black sheep of the protocol family; and ord , the…