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Nov
For those who have attempted to extend Bitcoin via the metaprotocol layer, or even just write software to index metaprotocols such as ordinals or BRC-20, you may be aware of the scope of the problem. Most traditional metaprotocols we've seen are easy enough to understand a schema for, as far as the rules to process a single block to update the state of an index. For ordinals, parsing a block to track the owner of an inscription by a given sequence number, may require program flow such as: Process each transaction, and if there is a witness stack with an…