👨👩👦Parent-Child Inscriptions
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There are at least two primary advantages of structuring parent-child hierarchy into a collection: (1) the establishment of on-chain provenance; and (2) the establishment of fixed supply constraints, and whereas the former will provide verifiable proof that a particular inscription does or does not belong to a given collection, the latter will provide verifiable proof that the number of inscriptions within a particular collection cannot be expanded or inflated. In order for an individual to add more child inscriptions to a parent-child collection, they must hold the parent inscription in their wallet; therefore, if the parent inscription was effectively burned by sending it to Satoshi's address, then that would provide on-chain proof that the supply of the collection cannot be increased.
Unlike most other Bitcoin Ordinals collections, DomoDucks possesses both on-chain provenance and fixed supply constraints! As previously touched upon, inscription #256 is the parent of the collection, but in another respect, you might call it the grandparent. This is because the thought of burning such an early artifact would be on par with desecrating a relic. And, therefore, the parent-child hierarchy of the collection is structured such that a single child has been produced from inscription #256 (let's call it the collection's “logo”), and then 256 children have been produced from that child, and, thereafter, that single child (i.e., the logo) was burned. Therefore, even if inscription #256 somehow fell into the wrong hands, it would still be impossible for anyone to add another Ordinal into the collection—its supply will always remain capped at 256.
As for the artistic conception of the logo inscription, it was arrived at by combining inscription #256 with Domo's pfp so that the logo not only has a black cap (like Domo), but a VR headset, too. This logo inscription was sacrificed in order to protect the integrity of the collection as a whole. How poetic!
