The idea of tiddlers as NFTs is interesting, Mat... Even if only to get people thinking in substantive terms about their value.
But i wonder if these two concepts are not somehow antithetical. I thought the fundamental idea of TidddlyWiki was to break ideas down into atomic units (i.e. the most granular deconstruction of an idea that still makes sense as standalone information entity), while the idea of a Non-Fungible Token is that it should be something so special and non-replicable as to become a highly valued collectible. The latter seems to imply rich media -like those very elaborate digital works of art and special moments of video footage that have famously traded for millions. Must admit though: i really don't understand why anyone would pay so much for anything digital! All that being said, i must add: the code that i have taken away from this forum -some pretty "tiddly" indeed (in terms of size) and also some pretty complex plugins- is of great and unique value -certainly more than some stupid 10-second video of political propaganda <https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/beeple-nft-artwork-nifty-gateway-sale-1234584701/> (oh, how i would love to meet the sucker that paid $6.6mil for this! :-)... And if NFTs can somehow serve to correct this imbalance, and get some marketable currency flowing back to TW devs in consideration of the value they produce, then that could be a very good thing. Is that in fact the motivation behind your musings about this, Mat? /walt On Sunday, May 2, 2021 at 11:41:58 AM UTC+1 Mat wrote: > Some years ago I posted > <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/sh3Sz1DVOVs/m/RZn-EBv9CgAJ> the > idea about TW on blockchain (i.e the tech upon which e.g Bitcoin is based). > It was not met with any enthusiasm but I wonder if the sentiment is still > the same. > > At least two things have changed: > > 1. We now all curse at why we didn't by loads of cryptocoins ;-) > 2. The concept of NFT's have become more mainstream. > > In brief, a NFT <https://cryptopotato.com/what-is-nft/>is an entitiy on a > blockchain that is unique and non-divisable. > > I can definitely see a case for tiddlers as NFTs. Both entities are uniqe > and can have a unique owner. They are public and forkable (i.e 'copyable'). > I assume also full TW's could be NFTs. > > A tiddler author could have a physical proof of origination and ownership. > The NFT could probably be made to contain revision history. > > In addition it could make tiddlers tradeable. Why would anybody want that? > I don't know, but I can at least *understand* that some things manifested > in tiddly form could have economic value. When we think of tiddlers today, > they are freely shared so instead think of the tiddlers that we don't see > today. Just like e.g "images" can be freely shared (great!) there is also > *justification* for non-free images. Or burger recipes. Or custom tiddly > solutions. > > I would not be surprised if TW-on-blockchain is created one sunny day, > when the blockchain tech is simplified to a degree that is is easy enough > to set these things up and the costs are low enough, including costs from > of using the system. > > Motovun Jack as a CryptoKitty, anybody? > > Just sayin. > > <:-) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/2e033d10-c7b4-42e9-bcd7-257195f59ec4n%40googlegroups.com.
