The Rewiring of the Niche: Selling Out, Commons Databases, & NFTs — simondlr.com
New technology can change our relationships. When this happens, it both enables new ones to flourish while at the same time reframing or destroying old relationships. The former can be joyous, wonderful, and the latter can hurt and be depressing. A blockchain, a database in the commons, does both.
The CryptoLexicon is a crowd-sourced community-owned dictionary geared to increase coordination in web3 and stress test a crypto-economic model for content publishing in our newfound digital dimension.
NFT 404: There’s a Glaring Problem with Non-Fungible Tokens
Art - outside the traditional auctions of classical works - is hard to market online. Digital files are able to be infinitely replicated, and sharing a jpeg doesn't lose the original's aura like a scan of a painting might. Since NFTs (non-fungible to
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...
Neil Strauss Pens the Bored Ape Yacht Club ‘Tell-All’
What does it mean to write a memoir about a group of NFT avatars that kind of exists but kind of doesn’t? The author of “Pickup Artists” (and nine other books) tells Jeff Wilser. This article is part of CoinDesk Culture Week.
Eightbit.me lets you make a virtual 8-bit style version of you that helps you keep track of the places, people, and things in your life.
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