Miss Universe El Salvador 2022 Encourages Women to Embrace Bitcoin World After Launching Ordinals Collection
Mexican-Salvadoran ballet dancer and beauty queen Alejandra Guajardo, who was crowned Miss Universe El Salvador 2022 on August 13, 2022, has been actively promoting Bitcoin adoption on social media.
On April 23, 2023, she encouraged others to share their knowledge of Bitcoin with the women in their lives, emphasizing its potential for financial freedom and empowerment.
On April 22, 2023, Guajardo was proud to represent her country at the final Miss Universe pageant and don her national costume, showcasing El Salvador’s monetary history and innovative spirit, and highlighting the nation’s progress in Bitcoin adoption.
Guajardo wore a costume with a “physical Bitcoin” during the national costume competition of the 71st Miss Universe pageant, held on January 14, 2023 in New Orleans.
She explained on Instagram that the outfit symbolizes the history of El Salvador’s currency and its transformation from the Colón to the US dollar, and finally to the introduction of Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021:
“From 1892 until the dollar’s introduction on January 1, 2001, the Colón was El Salvador’s national currency. By adopting Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021, El Salvador established itself as a forward-looking nation with a clear vision for the future. The history of El Salvador’s currency provides a window into the ways the country’s citizens have adapted to changing economic conditions.“
On March 8, 2023, she expressed her honor in launching her 30-piece Ordinal collection on International Women’s Day and encouraged women to strive for greater equality and economic empowerment in the technology industry.
The next day, Guajardo shared his excitement about the Ordinal collection, which celebrates El Salvador’s historic Bitcoin adoption. The collection consists of 30 unique photos of the Bitcoin dress she wore at the Miss Universe pageant. She urged her followers not to miss the opportunity to own one of these exclusive, one-of-a-kind pieces from the collection.
Casey Rodarmor, creator of the Ordinals project and former Bitcoin Core contributor, has explained in a blog post published on January 20, 2023 that the Ordinals protocol supports “inscriptions” on the Bitcoin blockchain. Inscriptions are digital objects created by entering a sentence of content using words, which can be viewed with the order explorer. Unlike many existing NFTs, inscriptions do not require a separate token, a sidechain, or changes to the Bitcoin protocol.
Rodarmor believes that inscriptions are a type of NFT held to a higher standard as true digital artifacts. For an NFT to be considered a digital artifact, it must be decentralized, immutable, on-chain and unlimited. In contrast, many NFTs are not fully on-chain, are on centralized chains, and have administrator keys on the backdoor. Inscriptions, on the other hand, are true digital artifacts that are immutable and on-chain. They are created on the world’s oldest, most decentralized and most secure blockchain and do not require individual auditing to determine their properties.
On February 14, 2023, James Killick wrote an article for “Start With NFTs” explaining the differences between Stacks NFTs and Ordinals:
- “Inscriptions store all content immutably – making it impossible to remove unauthorized or inappropriate material.
- As the transaction size increases, nodes may be required to pay higher fees and experience increased demands.
- As a consequence of the skyrocketing acceptance of ordinals, the average block size has increased, meaning higher fees per block. This could have an incredibly adverse impact on the Bitcoin community if it continues to grow exponentially.
- The latest NFTs and media on Bitcoin have already taken up a shocking 500 megabytes of storage, costing creators over 6 BTC (around $155K) in a short time. That’s an incredible amount of money for so little memory!“
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