I already only take consulting gigs that actually interest me. If this turns out *not* to have anything deeper going on than selling links to jpegs in a convoluted way I’ll get bored and quit the scene. There’s more interesting ways to earn a living. So…what’s interesting here?
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Let’s take learnings from my first 3 experiments. I’d been watching the scene idly and doing some mild heckling for a year, but wasn’t actually planning to do any experimenting until next year. But sucked me in early by listing me in a split for *his* first NFT auction.
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His piece sold for 8.25 ETH, but if you can tear your attention away from that or a minute… scroll down and click on “split”
What’s a split? An automated cryptographically secured contract on the blockchain to split a flow of money to more than one destination address.
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Ian generously decided my modest role in the project the NFT was worth a cut, and 4.2% is his little joke because he knows I’m a Hitchhikers Guide fan. But interesting thing is… even if we turn into Deadly Enemies I *still* get the cut of future royalties from any resales.
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Here’s the link to the “home page” on the auction on Foundation dot app. But our deal really lives entirely on the blockchain. Even if this site goes under and disappears, the contract lives on. 🤯
Click on the links that show you the raw records.
foundation.app/@eyecheng/~/10
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Even if the etherscan.io blockchain explorer site vanishes, the thing is STILL there. The only thing that can destroy the contract is the last ethereum node being shut down and getting thrown into the fires of Mount Doom.
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Second experiment. Again I got dragged in faster than I expected. I listed a jpeg from my art of gig project on OpenSea, another “site,” just to get a feel for the workflow. I want planning to sell it yet, but…
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…apparently on Web3, merely listing a thing can mean it is de facto up for sale and I got a couple of offers within hours. It’s like how people sometimes ping me to try and buy my kool 3-letter Twitter handle, but systematic. So I said okay whatever trigger the auction.
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Sold for ~0.36E in a week-long auction. Afaict OpenSea is a bit like eBay and Foundation is a bit like a mix of Etsy and MoMA.
But boundaries are blurred. All these markets kinda interoperate so things nominally minted in one place can show up in other places.
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Does this sale confer any rights in meatverse (incl digital in web1/2) in any way? Or all rights and action limited to The Metaverse?
Like, can that person download your jpeg and print it on mugs and Tshirts?
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