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But I still hadn’t truly grokked what was going on. My third experiment was on the buy side, I “collected” a short story by on yet another “site” called mirror and when the site prompted me to “display” it on my profile I was unable to figure out how.
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bought my first NFT, a short story by @sachinnbenny ... trying to figure out how to "display it on my profile" like mirror is encouraging me to do. mirror.xyz/0x02Dad585640b
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But when I went back to OpenSea… it was *already* there! This was, as I said, my Aha moment. The content had only the flimsiest relation to the container. Form and content are decoupled *globally* as a matter of Web3 architecture. It’s not a design choice for “sites”
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If you recall old Web1 debates about form/structure separation vs coupling, xml/xslt vs html/css (remember ColdFusion? PHP is still around), this is kinda an end run around it all. On Web3 form and content are minimally separated outside the scope of your personal tastes.
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Interlude: ENS. It’s $5/y to get a .eth name >5 chars payable in eth (4 chars is $160/y, 3 is $640/y, which is why I didn’t buy vgr). But at $5 level, current gas prices (transaction fees, like credit card fees but variable based on demand) cost way more than registration!
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So weirdly, because the tx fees depend on amount of data you write, and it makes little difference whether a number is “1” or “10” in the contract that represents your registration on chain, it makes more sense to register for long periods. Web3 commoditizes transaction costs!
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Okay report on final experiment. A couple of days ago I tried to summarize my learnings so far with a little cartoon. A capability maturity model pyramid overlaid on a 2x2. And of course I immediately joked “I should NFT this” and of course I immediately thought “well why not”
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Aside: the diagram has the x-axis separating sustainable futures (above water) from unsustainable ones (below water) and the y-axis separating positive futures (right half) from the negative ones (left half). The annotations are in a weird language Web3 types speak. Primer:
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1/ On NFT Twitter We have a lot of newcomers to NFT twitter. This is a thread to teach them our ways. 6529 will start this list today, but will add to it w/suggestions. NFT twitter has a great culture, very positive. Let's keep it this way.
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Not counting all you freeloading right-clickers on here at the 0 eth level, it’s been collected by 9 people so far (7+1+1), for a total of 1.17 eth. It took me about an hour to think through and draw this, so technically this is the highest paid work I’ve ever done.
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Given you mentioned at the top money wasn’t the draw for you can you say more about the non-monetary utility you see? The post-once-read-everywhere use case is the most intriguing to me and IPFS seems like the most interesting part of the whole stack.
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Is there currently a value-creating purpose to wallets 'owning' identity tokens within the blockchain, or are the positive use cases you've outlined (distributed content-based addressing and automagical consequences thereof) just the bait on the hook of automagic DRM?
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Interesting. That’s similar to the dream of early Web 2.0: XML, APIs, RSS, feed readers, mashups, etc. What killed that dream was usability and network effects: Twitter and Facebook were easier for non-technical people and then built huge lock-in based on having all the people.
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