Quite a long newsletter this week and more opinionated! Enjoy!

NFTs Can't Die:

Quite a long newsletter this week and more opinionated! Enjoy!

NFTs Can't Die: https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/nfts-cant-die

Writer, artist, technologist. 🇿🇦, living in 🇺🇸. Co-designed ERC20 standard. Co-invented bonding curves.

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Particularly liked: "What makes a blockchain ledger as a social space unique and difficult is that because everyone shares its history... Your conceptual art piece is collected in the same block as the hacker who just phished a person who was hoping to pay rent with that money."

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Thanks! And enjoy the cozy vibes while it lasts on here. :)

this is excellent 👏👏👏

farcaster is one of the quiet corners i love (until we get obliterated with permissionless)

artist . unreal reality . feralmimesis  /misha 🪨

💯 also thinking about ERC-6551 Tokenbound accounts, really interesting what that going to change.

tbh I think we‘re extremely close to building a new type of wallet that we won‘t call a wallet. E.g. Farcaster is basically a wallet, but it doesn‘t hold your finances. Social apps built on crypto will proliferate a new type of wallet 🙌

Reading your article, a side thought, just wondering if the history of NFT would have been different if a wallet would have been called a keychain, what it actually is? With less association with finance would it have been less about money? (😁 maybe not)

“All expression with this shared ledger is one of the reduction of humanity to prices.” 

I think it has to be - if people feel squeezed & lacking opportunity (aka their time not valued) people will look for arbitrage. But that can be the Trojan horse to transparency, where things otherwise impossible can be built

“What will be left is only their history: fossilized rings in a merkle tree that tells about the seasons of yesteryear.”

Loved this line, it really encapsulates why anything that benefits from story will move to blockchain. And last time I checked humans make stories for everything…

nicely written, loved “fossilized rings in a merkle tree that tells about the seasons of yesteryear” 

concept of blockchains are our shared history recorded on an immutable ledger remains a powerful one