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Show HN: Signed Work – NFTs, without a blockchain
- easytiger 6y agoNever let a good bandwagon go to waste! Fair enough.
- AffableSpatula 6y agoI nearly dropped all reference to NFTs altogether to avoid this reaction. This a genuine attempt to provide a service to people who want to exchange digitally signed content.
- easytiger 6y agoWhat kind of content do you expect it to be used for "exchanging"?
- AffableSpatula 6y agoIt's applicable to the type of content you're seeing blockchain NFTs used for. It could be used for other types of digital signing/attestations too, even legal documents.
- jslakro 6y agoProbably is missing a showcase or a variety of samples
- hstaab 6y agoAwesome idea, really. I just wish it wasn’t centered around Twitter.
- AffableSpatula 6y agoYeah that's a fair criticism. It is on the todo list to add some other auth factors.
- telesilla 6y agoOpenid would be fantastic
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- napier 6y agoA cert based DRM/copyright register?
- AffableSpatula 6y agoYea, that's a decent way of framing it!
- ko3us 6y agoHow does this actually work? Is it open sourced?
- AffableSpatula 6y agoThe application code that runs this isn't open source at the moment but there's no reason it couldn't be packaged up. Either way, the intention is to expose this as an API so that people can write their own open source clients for users who don't want to trust the web app.
- ko3us 6y agoYeah that’s so cool! I’m super keen for this. I’ve hit you up on Twitter.
- powerapple 6y agoHow do you support the transfer of ownership of NFT?
- AffableSpatula 6y agoGreat question! :) Right now the UI for creating deeds is from author to owner. We will add the interface for owners to sign on ownership with further deeds in the future. This felt like a feature to leave out for early launch.
- powerapple 6y agoHope you don't mind me asking: How do you solve the double spending problem without a blockchain?
- AffableSpatula 6y agoThe database is postgres under the hood which provides atomicity. We verify the signature of signed pieces (and signed deeds) and then commit the transaction to postgres with a digest of the content (which has a unique constraint on it) - this along with the atomic guarantee ensures there can be no double spend of signed messages.
- ztio 6y agowhat measures are in place to detect illicit material? On that note, do you have a content policy? Someone's got to gatekeep and decide what's cool to upload and what's not?
- bot41 6y agoThis type of thing _should_ be decentralised.