Has anyone experimented with barter nfts? I borrow a cup of sugar from neighbor and issue him a “cup of sugar nft” … solves dual coincidence of needs problems without a fungible currency. Crypto-hardened IOUs.
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Solving for neighborhood favor trading liquidity and market-making, not enforceability. Enforcement is always solved with either guns or mutuality (aka iterated prisoners dilemma)
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How would a crypto iou be any more enforceable than one written on a piece of paper?
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Idea: token representing line “this could just be a database”
Whenever someone says that, you send a screenshot to a minting contract and it issues you a token if you’re first. Proof-of-backlash blockchain 🤔
Other qualifying comments: “crypto uses more electricity than X” etc
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Original idea actually inspired by idea of a set of neighborhood rovers and drones owned by residents forming a local capability swarm. The point isn’t to solve just the stated problem but produce a generative “solution surplus.”
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If you approach any novel solution concept with “this problem can just be solved with <non-novel concept>” you get creative degenerativity
You don’t need a database, pieces of paper will do
Why invent paper, scratches on rocks will do
Cavetech actually solves everything
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And yeah, in yak rover project we’re discussing putting blockchain capability on our rivers for absolutely no good reason. Everything we’re thinking of doing with our Friendly Neighborhood Rover concept can actually be done by walking over to your neighbor’s cave with a rock
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For certain commenters eager to inform me of certain supposed subtleties they presume I’m not aware of…
It may interest you to know that David Graeber blocked me on twitter a couple of years before he died.
Draw whatever conclusions you like from this
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i dont think you need blockchain for this though; just digital signatures
e.g. my neighbors signs "IOU 1 cup of sugar" and sends it just to me; i can then just show the signed message to anyone in case of some dispute, which (besides verifying the sig) is resolved offline anyway
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Is the idea here that eventually the holder of this obligation will receive an actual cup of sugar? How would it work for services that you may not be able to perform? How is this simpler than just Venmoing a few cents or whatever you both agree is the value of the sugar?
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