Inscription numbers

[casey]

Should inscriptions have short, unique numbers?

Idea:

Inscriptions are numbered in the order in which they are mined. These numbers are always represented in hex. hex(10 ** 9) is 0x3b9aca00 so these strings would be very short. If they were represented as hex, with a 0x prefix, then they can't be confused with ordinal numbers.

Knowing which inscription has which number requires a full node, since you have to see all previous inscriptions, which requires indexing every transaction.

[casey]

I think this is a bad idea:

• Numbers don't have a huge advantage over hashes, symbols are human readable, so they're way better than hashes
• There is no way to provide a compact fraud proof for numbers, whereas there is for symbols (just show earlier inscription with same symbol)