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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 st
by AppleCandy 5y 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 5y agoHow would you ensure correspondence between the stone and the NFT though?
- tom_mellior 5y agoHow would you ensure the correspondence between anything and an NFT? You don't. That's why the parent called them worthless.
- smabie 5y agoYou can destroy the original meats pace version
- lapetitejort 5y agoDeconstruct 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 5y agoCould you do something similar to how sports memorabilia is marked?
- trhway 5y agoyou can engrave the stone at specific depth inside (i.e. not on the surface) by using proton accelerator.
- pierrebai 5y agoMultiple 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.