Author:Leaper
The old story that gets newer and newer: Atomicals waiting for its time to debut
I have been paying attention to some new projects during this period. I have seen many so-called "new protocols", which are purely misleading water-injected products. Then I look back at the documents of Atomicals and feel like I am in spring breeze.
From the first day Atomicals appeared, it was an agreement that "really wanted to make something" and "really could make something".
A year ago, when the Bitcoin ecosystem was in chaos, creating such an elegant technical facade was a great feat from a product perspective.
There are still many areas in the Atomicals protocol document that can be carefully considered. I believe that no one has fully understood all the features of the protocol, and there are many potential possibilities waiting for us to explore.
Let me first share an excerpt from the opening of the white paper:
Atomicals’ Vision
Our grand vision is to establish the Bitcoin blockchain as the source of truth and guarantor of digital sovereignty. Atomicals provides a simple yet powerful protocol to take back control of our digital lives forever. Create the future we want, right at our fingertips.
The Atomicals protocol is open source and free for anyone to use. All libraries, frameworks, and services are released under the MIT and GPLv3 licenses to ensure that no one person has control over the tools and protocols.
This is our passion project for the world, finally bringing programmable digital objects to Bitcoin. It works today, with no changes to Bitcoin, no sidechains, no separate tokens, no secondary layers, no intermediaries, no leaders, and no centralized parties.
It is designed to coexist harmoniously with other emerging protocols such as Nostr, Ordinals, etc. Each protocol has its own different advantages, and Atomicals digital objects provide more choices for users, creators, and developers.
Atomicals is the shift towards sovereignty and self-ownership of digital life. A simple yet extremely powerful protocol that re-decentralizes the web and social communities.”
Final remarks: The truth is simple.
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Many people today think that Atomicals are old stuff and old stories, so they “speculate on new things instead of old things.” I don’t object to this in terms of investment concepts, but I think Atomicals will not become obsolete easily.
There are always some old stories that are always new no matter how often you read them; there are also always some old trees that can sprout new buds from time to time.
Old things are not necessarily bad things. Concepts that can survive periodically are good concepts.
Atomicals was born less than a year ago, and it is already considered an "old" thing in the cryptocurrency circle. Looking back, what is new and what is old in this circle? Bitcoin is an old thing, but it can continue to create new stories and new possibilities. So to judge whether an old thing is worth trusting, our standard can be: whether it can continue to create new stories and new possibilities.
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Re-taste Atomicals - it seems newer the more you look at it.
Whenever you re-read the protocol document, you will find some details that may even be "new things" that the entire Atomicals Chinese community has not noticed. Time and time again, my notes also leave many doubts, waiting to be thought about and witnessed.
From time to time, you will find that some of my articles switch to some new angles, sometimes talking about Satoshi, sometimes about dyeing, sometimes about proof of work, and sometimes about DeFi. These are all the new thoughts that Atomicals brings me. There are many new angles, which I will talk about later.
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At different times, we always find some "new hopes".
If you don’t know Atomicals, perhaps the only hope from the perspective of cryptocurrency trading is to be listed on an exchange and to pull up the price. When you know Atomicals well enough, you will begin to yearn for every possible application here, and also yearn for the next surprise that every project under construction will bring.
From the day the protocol was born, it has continued to take root and sprout, with more and more patterns we can see and more and more next possibilities we can look forward to.
In an old article titled “Atomicals: An Interesting Ecosystem Taking Root and Sprouting”, I elaborated on two main reasons: 1. The protocol is flexible and extensible enough, and is derived from the native foundation ecology of Bitcoin; 2. The community and developers keep making progress, from quantitative change to qualitative change.
During market downturns, we will stick to the idealistic path, bide our time and wait for our chance to strike.
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When it comes to the future we are looking forward to, a clear route, a clear goal, and a bold imagination are so convincing.
When we talk about DeFi after AVM, we are not just talking about DEX and lending, we are talking about the trillions of funds deposited on Bitcoin that may be released;
When we talk about PoW, we are not just talking about a new way of mining, we are talking about where the future computing power of blockchain will go;
When we talk about Realm, we are not just talking about a naming system, we are talking about whether the Internet can be reshaped...
Every application we expect may have great significance for the Bitcoin ecosystem, blockchain, and respective industries.
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An asset or a class of assets is only worthy of being discussed if it can be discussed in a specific way. The most amazing thing about Atomicals is that even if the market goes down, our thinking can be more and more open and more "new".
Sometimes, when listening to the chats and speeches of friends in the community, I can inadvertently see some potential new directions, and each direction eventually becomes our "hope". Unconsciously, our hopes are increasing, and they are being realized in an orderly manner.
Today, we have so much to look forward to, and a group of reliable infrastructure developers and project owners are voluntarily paving the way for great achievements. Small improvements at certain stages and occasional big improvements ultimately give us confidence in Atomicals at every stage.
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There are stories, beliefs, communities, and technology. It is a story that is constantly being rejuvenated, and the second half will be even more exciting.
We must act cautiously and find the right time to enter the game.
