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🪨 Engraved words 📖 A short message ✍️ Writing or carving 💾 Digital record
inscription

inscription

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Digital data permanently recorded on a blockchain and attached to a tiny unit of Bitcoin
  • noun
  • /ɪnˈskrɪpʃən/
  • Jargon
translation icon : inscripción en la cadena de bloques

Examples

  • Her finger holds down one of the keys, and we glimpse an old inscription on its side: a small heart and an arrow.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Get rid of your coins that proclaim our Father, in GOD WE TRUST, or be forever hypocritical, getting change out of your pockets and using it, thereby unwittingly subscribing to the inscription contained thereon.

    Blog text (29)

  • In the powerful, concluding six-part sequence, "Inscriptions," Rich moves beyond the boundaries of nation and self to create a mosaic of voices, engaging notions of global history, political memory, and the political process itself.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Villagers in Altinayva caught the small falcon and discovered it had a metal ring on its foot with the inscription "24311 Tel Avivunia Israel," the Milliyet newspaper said.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The inscription on the blockchain verifies the ownership of the cryptocurrency transaction.

  • Each inscription recorded on the blockchain is permanent and can be accessed at any time.

  • When you make a transaction, an inscription is created that contains your payment details.

Surface Forms

inscription singular
inscriptions plural

Morphology

inscription = inscribe (semi-transparent) = inscribe + ion

Morphologically regular (inscribe + -ion), but the blockchain sense is a domain-specific extension (digital 'writing' onto a ledger) that may not be obvious to general learners.

Etymology

The word inscription comes from the Latin parts in- 'on' and scribere 'to write', so it means 'writing on' a surface. Think of a blockchain inscription as a modern version of carving on stone: it is digital data 'written on' the chain that stays there.