The ten thousand CryptoPunks images inscribed onto Bitcoin in February 2023, in the earliest days of Ordinals, claimed by whoever inscribed each one first, all with inscription numbers below a million. Not the punks, not licensed, and not pretending to be; the value was in being the first copy of the first collection on the oldest chain. The record files it as the Bitcoin chain's founding act of homage and theft.
The punks, again, on a different chain, by different people, with lower numbers. The record notes that every question about what an NFT is was asked again here and answered the same way, only louder.
A Decrypt report on the inscribing race, noting that the copies were selling while Yuga Labs, which owned the originals' rights, said nothing. The record files the silence as a position.
Someone in my chat inscribed a punk on Bitcoin and posted it with the caption 'now it's real'. Nobody replied. The record considers the lack of reply the most accurate comment available.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
