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I once saw a print exhibition where one of the exhibits was a woodcut panel (the kind from from which limited edition prints are made), with a gash cut across it, to guarantee the limitedness of the edition. Is that a norm? If so, is the print or the panel more like an NFT?
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I guess the woodcut and the print are like a public/private key pair, except non-cryptographically secured, and limited use. In theory you could, at great cost, invert the print into a very precise new counterfeit block, to generate new prints.
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In this case I doubt you could fake it with machine learning. Not only is the training sample too small (say 100 prints in original run) but any production process short of a counterfeit wood block would be detectable as fake.
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That’s kinda what I’m trying to get at...like with woodcuts the tech stack to guarantee limitedness is just wood and chisels and a single person could run the guarantee infrastructure using commodity lumber.
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if anything this sort of reveals how fungible NFTs actually are, because no one deletes the 3D file used to render the gif that becomes the token. or even: how many straight up copy-paste fakes end up uploaded. the paper (and plate) are inherently so much more genuinely unique
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NFTs are trying to have the cake of scarcity-driven-price-inflation while also eating the cake of free-circulatng-internet-scale-meme-power. It’s an inherent contradiction that is at the heart of a lot of the confusion and BS around the medium.
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