Mario on Bitcoin. The protocol Ordinals and his ” registrations » are making waves again in the cryptosphere. Quickly after their appearance, a little video game inspired by the famous Doom from 1993 had been registered on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. This time it’s games from the iconic Nintendo 64 which were integrated onto Bitcoin via Ordinals listings.
Nintendo 64 Console Games in Bitcoin Ordinals
The protocol Ordinals allows you to insert all kinds of data on satoshis of the blockchain network Bitcoin (1 satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC). It allows you to create the equivalent of NFT (non-fungible tokens) popularized by Ethereum (ETH), or tokens BRC-20 (so called in reference to Ethereum’s ERC-20 tokens).
In this case, the data inserted are lines of code from video games ! More precisely, those of the console Nintendo 64. It is on the X network that Trevor Owensthe CEO of Ninjalerts, reported the good news.
“I’m happy to announce that Pizza Ninjas has just listed a Nintendo 64 emulator on Bitcoin!
We didn’t think this would be practical at first, but thanks to the new Brotli compression on Ordinals, we were able to list a Nintendo 64 emulator on Bitcoin. »Trevor Owens
Wild 4-player games recorded forever in the BTC blockchain
As specified by Trevor Owens above, this little miracle is now possible thanks to improving compression data from said video games. The compression Brotli allows you to reduce file size by approximately 80% “.
So, a game like the famous Goldeneye 64which weighs 12.4 MB uncompressed, is reduced to only 3.15 MB. As the CEO of Ninjalerts explains, this allows this video game to be placed in a block of 4 MB of Bitcoin (thanks to SegWit). Or to “distribute it over 8 transactions of less than 400 KB”.
With current network transaction fee costs of 15 satoshis/vbyte it would only cost $6,000 » to register this game on the BTC blockchain using the Ordinals protocol, according to Trevor Owens. And the pleasure of playing can be sharing since still according to the latter, it could be constructed a means “to use WebRTC to allow four people on the same WiFi network Play together to multiplayer games in a way that will work forever “.
There combination of this activity linked to Ordinals registrations with the halving coming in less than 2 months lead some experts to say that this cocktail could be explosive. Because additional transaction fees linked to the protocol could compensate for part of the drop in issuance of new bitcoins linked to the block reward (THE halving will reduce this reward from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC).