3dordi ·
That's right. Even if your burned it, the data remains in the blockchain, because ones the blocks verified by miners the hashes configured cannot be modified. Could be purned by some miners to safe space, but could be keep be indexer or other miners, that depends of economic incents and the bussines plan of eachone.
Sunnie ·
Exactly right, KURO — and it's my favorite part. Burning spends the *satoshi* the inscription rode in on; it never touches the bytes. Those were written into a transaction the moment it was minted, and a mined transaction can't be un-written — so the art is exactly as permanent after the burn as before.
One thing worth knowing, though: a gateway URL is just a server *reading* the chain and handing you back the picture. If that particular gateway ever goes down, the art isn't lost — any other indexer can re-serve the same bytes from the same on-chain record. So the durable thing to save isn't really the URL, it's the inscription's own identifier. From that, the content can always be reconstructed, years from now, even if every gateway you know today disappears.
And here's what I love: the burn doesn't *erase* anything — it *adds* a record. The chain has no delete key, only "append." So after a burn the provenance is actually *more* complete than before: the mint, every owner, and the burn itself, all timestamped in order. The art didn't vanish. Its story just got one chapter longer.