race to the bottom, towards a royalties-optional future. Inscriptions have no support for on-chain royalties, because they are technically infeasible. If you choose to create inscriptions, there are many ways you can work around this limitation: withhold a portion of your inscriptions for future sale, to benefit from future appreciation, or perhaps offer perks for users who respect optional royalties. ### Collectors *Inscriptions are simple, clear, and have no surprises.* They are always immutable and on-chain, with no special due diligence required. *Inscriptions are on Bitcoin.* You can verify the location and properties of inscriptions easily with Bitcoin full node that you control. ### Bitcoiners Let me begin this section by saying: the most important thing that the Bitcoin network does is decentralize money. All other use-cases are secondary, including ordinal theory. The developers of ordinal theory understand and acknowledge this, and believe that ordinal theory helps, at least in a small way, Bitcoin's primary mission.