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Digital artists' post-bubble hopes for NFTs don't need a blockchain
- olodus 4y agoIn some way, even though the crypto wave has been (and still is) it has atleast pushed the envelope a bit on the common understanding of cryptography. Normal people has heard some new words, some has interacted with some of the concepts, some has maybe even seen a private/public key. To some degree that makes me atleast a bit interested in what comes after that. For example the concepts discussed in this article has some merits to them imo. Without the hype, digital signing could definitely be something artists could adopt to give their art a bit more uniqueness in the public eye. I wonder if there are some ZK things that could further help artists with some of the things they are having problems with in the digital world. I am personally still just barely understanding the concept of ZK things so I clearly won't be the one figuring things like this out but I am really amazed by the cool things that it is able provide.
- syntheweave 4y agoThis is a terrible idea and walks away from the idea of communal stewardship that makes the blockchain method work. Making custody "someone else's problem" benefits nobody.
- yakak 4y agoMaking sure useable custody is regularly lost is kind of the basics of a collectibles market as opposed to a good currency. Maybe it is wrong to make holding your receipts someone else's problem with a group of whacky incentives. I don't really see what is wrong with returning to the patron model. I could give a crap who cleverly collected the right art financially, while having directly given money to the right artists to fund their actual development..