Back for #fear4tez with this piece
Floating in the Destruction
Basking in the moonlight after an evening of fire and destruction
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@secondrealm@brave@googlechrome Chromium-based browsers have become bloatware. I just had Chrome crash my machine (it was using 40 GB RAM 😬). I’ve been giving @zen_browser a chance and it isn’t disappointing yet.
@maxcapacity Would definitely buy that book. I was convinced he was evil when I was forced to read Magnalia in college. Please include a section covering his time as a bioterrorist
Anyone in cryptoart (or NFTs) should never forget that almost all marketplaces are VC-funded. VCs fund companies like this on the chance they will make a lot of money against their investment.
Foundation was VC funded in millions. Burned their money up. Their remaining value is in their brand and user base. How much is that really worth? Their user base is here and there and everywhere; Foundation can’t really claim them. Their technology can be replicated so quickly that it is has negligible value. They open sourced some version of their solidity contract 4 years ago for a bug bounty. No one today needs their contract. Someone wants their logo, X handle, domain name, and the remembrance of a gatekeeping NFT platform from the glory days.
Blackdove is VC funded (funding from LG and Miami angel investors). So is SuperRare, OpenSea, and almost all of the favorites (like Manifold). Grabbing up a brand with cachet would be a win for Blackdove but I doubt that is worth a lot of money.
The HicEtNunc (HEN), Counterparty, Rare Pepes are among rare exceptions here. SuperRare and Rarible were there before “real” money was to be made and then took on VC funding. Credit goes to them for being there before the money.
If you are here for the art, you might actually care who is trying to make money off your back while having no problem leaving you in the lurch when they can’t pay their operating expenses.
Who is going to fill the void here? Being crowded by corporate interests is tiresome. Not expecting altruism, not fake platforms managing their risk waiting for the big score.
Foundation as a company failed. The prior ownership was shutting down the platform, as it did with Rodeo. We were misled about certain aspects of the company's operations; once they were under our control, these issues became clear, and we canceled the transaction.
I remember that! And the Teia part as well. And I was going to build some tools back then to contribute to the community until I was knocked out of action. I did build a Tezos indexer server that never got used lol. It's cool now that anyone can build the tools with Claude. Would be cool to collaborate on a set of tools, even though they are so easy to build now.
@JestemZero It might be a problem for them to label him abusive (even as obvious as it was) but he and his crew were in a different category for certain.
@JestemZero Images that have been changed. It might not be fair to use that because photographer applying a filter would have some of their work rejected. There is a free Python library for that: imagehash
These in the minting pipeline at least increase difficulty for copy minting
@JestemZero Kalamint had one 5 years ago and offered it to everyone for free. No takers the last I knew. But a simple SHA-256 hash would eliminate all duplicates, is simple and cheap to implement, and would stop lazy copyminters. Perceptual hashing would require more work but catches 👇
@Cherry_Web3@NFTWannabe If you are serious about helping him, he wrote the deliver to in his message. Just add the locker Windbreaker as a pickup location in Amazon. It’s by a Chevron in Tempe AZ
@mandolinaes@shillypreston Typical kind of corporate response, deny the reason but then also make it clear they don’t want to listen to anything. PR playbook: deny, deflect, attack
@Animated6529 I don’t need or want engagement. All you offer is bias and clouded judgment with no critical thinking skills.
All for a fake community built on deceit.
@Animated6529 Nice try with the everyone-is-doing-it deflection. That doesn’t work.
6529 “network” has nothing to do with decentralization and no amount of words will counteract that. It would have to actually do something other than use Ethereum smart contracts. Save the echo-chamber speak.