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I’d hate to be the guy that loses one of these things.

AppleCandy 6y ago
The author tries to convince that these stones are so ordinary, ostensibly to argue that they will not be stolen. However, watch what happens as these stones start to develop a provenance and get photographed and documented along the way. Reading this I had a flicker of desire to steal "Lily of the valley", and likewise this desire to take hold of such a rare coveted object will grow in the hearts of man over the centuries. What gives something value is not always its intrinsic worth, but also how it takes hold in the public consciousness. Just look at worthless NFTs. And so starts the secret brotherhood of stone-keepers who will fend off the evil advances of those who would break the sacred lineage. Or, liars will introduce new stones to inflate the supply and claim to be sacred stone-keepers. So let's put a blockchain around this thing and be done with it.
- tnzm 6y ago
  How would you ensure correspondence between the stone and the NFT though?
  - tom_mellior 6y ago
    How would you ensure the correspondence between anything and an NFT? You don't. That's why the parent called them worthless.
    - smabie 6y ago
      You can destroy the original meats pace version
  - lapetitejort 6y ago
    Deconstruct the stone and reform it as a series of gates which can be turned on and off by applying electricity. I will leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.
  - criddell 6y ago
    Could you do something similar to how sports memorabilia is marked?
  - trhway 6y ago
    you can engrave the stone at specific depth inside (i.e. not on the surface) by using proton accelerator.
- pierrebai 6y ago
  Multiple secret societies, some protecting an obscure (but in reality, quite harmless and worthless) item, some protecting the first, some trying to infiltrate, some completely made up? Umberto Eco and Pynchon would be proud.
JoeAltmaier 6y ago
I'd guess they are lost already. Or in a drawer. Once the initial excitement is gone, ...

The author tries to convince that these stones are so ordinary, ostensibly to argue that they will not be stolen. However, watch what happens as these stones start to develop a provenance and get photographed and documented along the way. Reading this I had a flicker of desire to steal "Lily of the valley", and likewise this desire to take hold of such a rare coveted object will grow in the hearts of man over the centuries. What gives something value is not always its intrinsic worth, but also how it takes hold in the public consciousness. Just look at worthless NFTs. And so starts the secret brotherhood of stone-keepers who will fend off the evil advances of those who would break the sacred lineage. Or, liars will introduce new stones to inflate the supply and claim to be sacred stone-keepers. So let's put a blockchain around this thing and be done with it.

tnzm 6y ago
How would you ensure correspondence between the stone and the NFT though?
- tom_mellior 6y ago
  How would you ensure the correspondence between anything and an NFT? You don't. That's why the parent called them worthless.
  - smabie 6y ago
    You can destroy the original meats pace version
- lapetitejort 6y ago
  Deconstruct the stone and reform it as a series of gates which can be turned on and off by applying electricity. I will leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.
- criddell 6y ago
  Could you do something similar to how sports memorabilia is marked?
- trhway 6y ago
  you can engrave the stone at specific depth inside (i.e. not on the surface) by using proton accelerator.
pierrebai 6y ago
Multiple secret societies, some protecting an obscure (but in reality, quite harmless and worthless) item, some protecting the first, some trying to infiltrate, some completely made up? Umberto Eco and Pynchon would be proud.

JoeAltmaier 6y ago

I'd guess they are lost already. Or in a drawer. Once the initial excitement is gone, ...