I’ve put together a few key points about Bitcoin’s history.
The Ordinals protocol emerged in early 2023, and users began writing data such as text into Bitcoin transactions. BRC-20 tokens followed. When you see a fork coin touted as an “upgraded version of Bitcoin,” first find out how its blockchain relates to Bitcoin’s mainnet.
The $BTC network went live in January 2009 and has been running for more than a decade.
Does that make sense? Let me know if anything isn’t clear.