alexn.eth

eat, tweet, delete, repeat. formerly @niftygateway @gemini

[Other World @otherworld_xx]

2 days left to withdraw all of your NFTs including The Garden pieces and Sin Tokens. They just might come in handy soon.

[Mdiac @Mdiac_]

Into the final days before @niftygateway closes on 23rd April and there are still more than 30k NFTs on the platform

It's now even easier to search Nifty Rescue for lost bags - help your friends retrieve their artworks before next Thursday

https://t.co/si7ZNZ2Sqe

[Sam Spratt @SamSpratt]

https://t.co/VanXt7v6HG

[alexn.eth @AN5]

@toadswiback good meat 🥩

[෴෴෴ˢᵉⁿᵉᶜᵃסּ ͝סּ ͝סּ ͝ @allseeingseneca]

Hi. It's Seneca. It's been a while. I don't know if after months of not posting, this message will get anywhere,

but I'm here.
with finally a little bit of energy to be online again.

A lot has happened in my corner of the world, and I've been steadily working. Some very very significant changes, learnings, and stories. Think I've gone through enough to start being more open about it. Maybe it might help a person or two.

Have a feeling I'm onto some of the most important work of my career so far.

Safe to say, there's a lot to catch you up on.

For now I want to say that I'm going to be at the Hong Kong @consensus_hk next week to celebrate the conference, the new collaboration and Chinese New Year with loved ones. Looking forward to seeing some of you there.

A bespoke new mascot and a free mint commemorative artwork for my hong kong friends and family for the special gathering - coming up here.

Talk soon 👁️ x

[alexn.eth @AN5]

@dccockfoster haven't finished yet but definitely a good read. seems to be the definitive book on the subject so if you're trying to gain a comprehensive knowledge of cults...

[alexn.eth @AN5]

@dccockfoster that’s big. i have a hard time thinking anyone who is a “religious prophet” won’t be cultlike but i’d also note Jones’ followers were driven to him by positive energy and genuine belief in desegregation, anti-racism, and socialism

[Sam Spratt @SamSpratt]

As I said before, a lot of people who genuinely care have been busy off the timeline. Happy to see the collective efforts come together.

Even so. Be like @brian_armstrong and make sure to transfer your Masks and Players to your vaults.

[Sam Spratt @SamSpratt]

Unfortunately, due to its closure, you should withdraw your Masks and Players off of Nifty as soon as possible.

There are a few hundred remaining and I would encourage everyone to keep them close for the future.

There are a tremendous amount of caring and brilliant people in motion as we speak - in and out, high and low - who are all, off the timeline, answering the bigger questions in the air right now. On our end, we have had a plan in place since we first began The Monument Game as it relates to continuity and media migration that extends through Masquerade. As these conversations unfold, it’s become clear that’s not universal and there are a number of ways our path and learnings will touch the broader preservation efforts. My confident hope is that the work being done and all involved at Nifty and around them can continue to band together to do just that.

Anyone that has inquiries on asset withdrawal, please reach out to [email protected]

[toomuchlag @toomuchlag]

308 collectors still have toomuchlag's NFTs on NG.

🚨 Please withdraw your NFTs ASAP

333 Le Anime
42 Abaddon, Pillar of Destruction
42 Spirit / Hero
24 Duzakh, The Forgotten King
19 Yomi, Jester of Blades
14 Kur, The Death's Echo
14 Le Anime / Hero
13 Crimson Thief
11 Tabula Rasa
11 Trust (Veiled)
10 Inferno
4 Amore
4 Sijjin, The Twisted Witch
2 Giganti
2 Mirus
1 Antebellum
1 Il Diavolo
1 Lucifero

[Dave @dave_krugman]

The first NFT I ever bought was on @niftygateway in December of 2020, over five years ago. That experience changed the way I viewed digital art forever, and with one click, changed the trajectory of my practice and expanded the landscape for digital objecthood in ways that are still evolving and expanding. That practice will continue, with vigor, and my conviction in this collective effort is stronger than ever.

Evolution comes with change, and today that change means that the era of NG is coming to a close. I am very grateful to all the people that helped me bring my wildest visions into reality there- from the team at NG who made my ideas real, to my @ALLSHIPS squad who operated at the highest level to build worlds with me, and all the collectors who build alongside me with conviction and support for my efforts in my conceptual photography projects. NG had an undeniable impact on the space we inhabit and its unfortunate that it won't continue onward.

But this is just another starting line. The intersection of this shutdown and the opening of NODE feels a bit poetic. Sad to see the end of the NG platform, but seeing what is happening in Palo Alto with NODE is another zero to one moment. Its a new era. And its going to be amazing. But that is a much longer story that I will share soon, with excitement.

All of my solo launches on @niftygateway I minted on my own sovereign contracts, thanks to the incredible builders at @manifoldxyz and @TransientLabs who always emphasized that creators ARE the platform. I'm grateful for their foresight.

If you own any of my work, please make sure you move those tokens out of the NG custodial wallets as soon as possible. If you need help with any of that please DM me and I will work to help you. I will work to track down each holder and make sure everyone is aware of these changes.

DRIVE will continue as it has since LAP 1 in 2021, with races, events, community as a canvas, and future drops and continued innovation. Thanks to @oveck for this photograph and to everyone who continues to engage with my work. Excited for a new phase and even bigger ideas. Much love!

[Griffin Cock Foster @gcockfoster]

This is very sad news, and a very sad day.

More than anything else, what’s special about Nifty Gateway is the artists and the art.

It changed the lives of so many artists, and paid them more than $500M total. That’s the achievement I remain most proud of.

Future art historians will study Nifty Gateway and the art released there. Until then 🫡

[Sam Spratt @SamSpratt]

It's a pure loss that Nifty Gateway is closing its doors.

The closure is weighty. Time will be kind to their role, but I largely just sit in gratitude for what was given to me by its people before an ending we had to prepare for unfolded.

If you look closely at the paintings themselves, the names of every single person who helped build The Monument Game are carved into a tree. In Masquerade, the names appear again. Etched into a ring of wood cut from a branch on that tree's fall. Platforms are unfortunately not forever, but those who worked within are part of the pieces themselves: the artwork and the mission attached, always had a more survivable host of a record of the people who helped us.

What we made together across The Monument Game, Masquerade, the Masks and their royalty structure, exhibitions in Venice and Toledo: these were years of problem-solving and invention. My experience was never with something as abstract as a platform or marketplace, and I hope the people within do not get lost in the conversation around its closure. Each name on these trees gave love, late nights, resources, and real risk to build what I couldn't alone. Working alongside them was a joy, but the greatest gift was what I learned from the team. The engineers and producers unlocked my practice, learning from them opened things that were latent and felt inaccessible to even dream. How to exit ideas-mode or the vibe of a thing, or even a singular medium, and to actually build complex systems as well as how to guide people through them. That's the best a collaboration can offer an artist: support to dream.
When we began development on The Monument Game back in 2022, Rachel and I wrote something into the contract that felt paranoid but non-negotiable at the time: full ownership and transferability of all data, code, and functionality we built together. NG agreed, and their cooperation in honoring that clause has made preserving our work much easier. These pieces and stories are not just mine, but also every person who contributed. Every Player and Mask is a part of these pieces and interfaces and now everything we created together survives.

The mission of archiving every experience, every observation, dot, and the links between the people within has been underway for a long while now as part of a much larger shift of what Luci will become and will be up on my new home for this story quite soon. The archives preserve everything we did together while expanding and refining every aspect. Doing this sets up a foundation where all agency is returned to us for the future.

Human memory seems to survive by jumping to tougher hosts: song, stone, servers, etched into a painting. New domains, pins, contract migrations. These help and go hand in hand with a transition like this, but this is a loss with some lessons. It comes paired with immense gratitude to those who gave enough to us, that even as one thing dies, enough motility was set in motion, flowing towards what we made that our creations together get to live and thrive beyond their first host. And the loss also comes with clarity that permanence isn't a technology quite yet. There is much to learn from the serious archivists. To preserve is a commitment. This is a lifelong project. As inconvenient as it is, good comes in its wake. What we’ve made to archive all of this is the best the artwork, story, people, and technology has ever been shown. A small preview in this still.

A lot of history disappears when doors close. For all those with Masks and Players on there, take time to follow NG’s guidance and support team to withdraw and keep close for the future in a way that can survive these kinds of endings. They gave us their assurance they are all hands to help. No one likes this moment, but there are a lot of good people affected in and out.

I wouldn't be here without the people in the tree. Marking them with creation, and caring for what we built together. That's the work now.

[Duncan Cock Foster @dccockfoster]

Incredibly sad news. Very proud of what NG accomplished and the work that everyone did.

In my time running NG with @gcockfoster , we paid out over $500 million to artists. In 2021, it was ~1/8 of the money YouTube paid to creators in 2021

The NFT movement will continue 🫡

[alexn.eth @AN5]

seems ominous that the two leading prediction markets appear to have no real values. just uncut nihilism. ragebaiting, posting fake news, partnering with scammers, etc.

[alexn.eth @AN5]

@eddiewharton @SamSpratt @MrsRachelSpratt @joeyldotcom @Hildabroom7 congrats eddie! beautiful mask.

[ekaitza @ekaitza_]

I've made some changes for the grid to load a little quicker, will continue playing with it tomorrow.
https://t.co/WeNryDnrfF

[alexn.eth @AN5]

@bitcoinjesusXD gm

[alexn.eth @AN5]

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