Casey Rodarmor, the developer at the wait on of the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol, has proposed an overhaul of the existing numbering machine for inscriptions.

In an X put up on Tuesday, he stated that the exertion to preserve inscription numbers web hasn’t been worth it, urging customers to mumble on a GitHub put up to swap the plot numbers are assigned to an inscription created on the network.

“When inscription numbers were within the muse added to ord, the Ordinals wallet and explorer that powers ordinals.com, they were supposed to be web and never swap,” stated Rodarmor.

“Nonetheless, now that we comprise extra journey with the protocol, that appears to be like much less tenable and has undesirable penalties, as holding web inscription numbers is a challenge within the face of changes to the inscription protocol.”

At any time when an ord inscription turned into once no longer known by an earlier model, it assigned it a negative number. While this saved used inscription numbers web, it came with a option of downsides, Rodarmor current.

This incorporated the fact that the so-called “cursed” inscriptions wouldn’t disclose you anything else about the express in which the inscription turned into once made, and the good judgment that turned into once required to preserve note of which inscriptions are cursed turned into once a supply of bugs and complexity.

Below the proposed changes, cursed inscription numbers would perchance be folded into the fundamental sequence and wouldn’t be worn in URLs.

“Also, preserve in mind that inscription numbers would swap, but wouldn’t entirely glide away. Unique inscription numbers would perchance be terminate to used inscriptions numbers, perhaps handiest differing by 1% or so,” he stated.

In April, a bug within the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol resulted in 1,200 orphaned inscriptions. At the time, the indexer feature of the protocol omitted inscriptions after number 420,285.