Waiting To Be Signed

A podcast about generative art on the blockchain.

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[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

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[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

@Greekdx I'm taking the cowards way for my first char... hunter. It just felt so smooth up to the high 20s

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

@Greekdx Same! I really like the idea of enchant + tailoring but did not like the feel of warlock. Damage felt really bad compared to other classes. I like to get in the mix of combat so now I am thinking maybe Druid or Paladin.

[ciphrd @ciphrd]

Hey everyone,

I've been meaning to share some updates about fxhash with you for many weeks, but have struggled immensely to do so.

A little while ago, as we were trying to secure a loan to keep fxhash going, we received pretty bad news. As some of you were aware, fxhash was under compliance review by the French tax authorities; it was a lengthy and draining process that lasted more than 2 years. At the end of it, despite our goodwill and the lack of regulation applicable to our case, we were fined ~€500k. This would consume almost all of the loan, essentially putting a nail in the fxhash coffin.

This really took a toll on me, as things were already pretty depressing future-wise. I had been operating the company (arguably poorly) almost alone, handling admin stuff / trying to secure some money. This news essentially voided all these efforts and meant there was no future for the business anymore.

At that point I sort of dissociated from this situation, as I had reached my limits in terms of handling this business. I took some time off April/September to work on myself, my art, and try to figure out what to do next. Taking this time off didn't really come from an active decision, but rather from a need to understand what to do next. As many of you saw, I was becoming less and less present online as I had very little energy left for that. I needed to focus back on myself.

During this time, cosi announced the closure of the project. It was hard to watch silently from the sidelines, but I was eventually grateful that he had the composure to inform you folks about the state of things. I wanted to respond publicly to many of you, but I felt like I couldn't just come out of the shadows at such a time without at least offering a few explanations, which somehow felt like an impossible task to me.

I also know fxhash meant a lot to many of you. People put their art, their time, and their trust into this project, and formed friendships along the way. Its closure is a loss for many people beyond those of us who worked on it. I'm sorry my silence left you with so few answers from me during that time. I'm deeply grateful for everything you brought to fxhash over the years, and sad that we couldn't keep it going.

So here we are now. The business is insolvent. I'll declare bankruptcy in the near future and see how we can pay some of those debts back with the few assets left. As for the future of the project itself, I'm not sure. I took some steps to secure IPFS content on a low-cost dedicated instance in case this happened, as a safety mechanism. But eventually, if we want the art to survive over time, the community will have to organize itself around preservation. I've seen a few initiatives already; hopefully this keeps going for the sake of the art. I think there's a bit of work left on my end to ensure the community can properly take over hosting & distribution of the assets. I'll look into that in the following weeks.

On my end I've been working on art again and it feels great. It hadn't felt great for a long time. I would love to find energy and ideas again to contribute positively to the cryptoart space, but it's gonna take a bit of time to get there.

In the meantime, I'm very grateful to those who reached out to offer help/a shoulder to lean on. I hope we can keep these friendships going throughout life.

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

@algorithms_tez @grodarh @ciphrd @OpelBlitz489314 It’s well dead the site is down and everything

[Eric Andwer @AndwerEric]

if anyone would like my project State of Me please let me know. It's about 3 years worth of work. 25-30,000 lines of code. I stopped making art a while ago. I'm sorry. I fear that part of me may be gone forever.

Unless some miracle happens I'll have to liquidate most of my things in the near future anyways. I wouldn't be able to code even if I wanted to. It's probably not worth anything. I just want it to go somewhere it would maybe have a chance at being alive and becoming something instead of having it fade away with me

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

You’ll know NFTs are really back when I finally buy that $12 bag of chips they sell at Whole Foods

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

@NftEconomist The entire app

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

Tell everyone I got temp banned on discord for 48hrs

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

@heyjeres Eh I broke TOS but it was innocent motives, trying to scrape fxhash discord

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

tossing in a few entries!

[NONESAME @nonesame_]

Pre-launch print contest.

You pick the artwork from algorithms by @heyjeres & @ty__vek. Some classics/Some new work.

We'll pick our 3 favorites, print them and ship them to the winners. US only.

All prints are out-of-bounds 1/1s.

Enter before 9/1.
Instructions in next post.

You have to quote this post so we can find your entry.

Please read the whole thread in case new details some up.

[Frank Force 🌻 @KilledByAPixel]

fxhash is down, so I made a viewer that doesn't need it. 👍

https://t.co/dX7mglqbDN

All 27,430 tezos projects, browsable and runnable. The fxhash catalog is snapshotted into the repo, iterations read live off Tezos, art streams from IPFS. 🌠

#fxhash #generativeart #tezos

[NONESAME @nonesame_]

You can just print things.

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

A lot of that chapter is captured at https://t.co/d40c8IQOiE

[Shortcut @unityofmulti]

I've collected about 1.4k works on @fx_hash_ investing around $ 60k with 'Uninhabitable' by @pointline_ being the most expensive at around $ 3k.
In my pov the platform helped shaping generative art in the age of nft's and deserves a huge chapter in the history-book of cryptoart.

[Waiting To Be Signed @WaitingToSign]

If anyone who follows in into collecting records and uses @discogs to track their collection & want list, reach out! I have a project I have been working on that is in search of testers

[MattW @MattW_tez]

Sad to see this chapter close. I’m very grateful to @ciphrd, the team, the many artists who contributed, and the collector community who made fxhash what it was. The art lives on. Added 3 more pieces from collections that, imo, capture the soul of fxhash.

[NONESAME @nonesame_]

Introducing NONESAME.

A print studio by @heyjeres & @ty__vek.

One-of-a-kind generative art prints.
Lovingly hand-coded by humans, not AI.

Generate infinite outputs.
Make out-of-bounds 1/1 archival prints.

Printing starts Sept 1st, but live to explore right now.

🔗 in bio.

[rudxane @rudxane1]

will miss you fx 😢

The only platform that felt like a grassroots movement at the start. Will miss the early days and the energy but happy to have been a part of it.

From BINGO to SLIPS, the circle feels complete, and it's been awesome to see how all the work on the platform has been able to live on without the platform itself; the tech works.