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Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by NotSammyHagar »

bryananderson wrote: post #117
dham wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same thing happened in the online beat space. It used to be producers creating music. Now it's a race to the bottom. Who can download a pre made loop the fastest and put the same drums over everything then sell it for $5. I don't know what has happened with humanity. Everyone just wants to make a quick buck.

Were we ever so different? Perhaps what has changed is not our nature, but the affordances present in our environment. For all our billions of years of evolutionary history until just about last Tuesday, there has never existed a global market with virtually zero cost of creating “goods” to sell. Now, with digital “assets”, there is. The ratio of perceived benefit (make money from selling shitty NFTs or shitty beats)…

The cost isn't zero though, the environmental cost is huge for NFTs in general, just like the billions made on bitcoin are on the back of that.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by andutu »

I think this is an elaborate art project.

This is mainly based off of the 2 "founders" at the end talking about the project. When they go scout for locations and one of the founders starts caressing the top of a thatch hut and the immediate next shot is a piece of paper taped to a tree with the title "Mercle Tree", that's when it clicked that this was a parody.

It's scary that it took me that long to realize.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by gerikson »

rsynnott wrote: post #83
riffic wrote: post #16

Nice to see PeerTube out in the wild. PeerTube is a software application that implements the interoperable social networking standard, ActivityPub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube What this means is if you have an account anywhere on this network, say a Mastodon account, you can interact with the video directly. It's a system that works a lot like how email addresses work (that is, a federated social web). las…

> The Fediverse, as a whole, doesn't want to be associated with the web3 space The funny thing is, ActivityPub is vaguely under the banner of the Semantic Web. Which, at one time, was sometimes called, semi-jokingly... Web 3.0.

This is one of the many things that annoy me about "web3" - they have, in my mind, appropriated a term that denotes something quite different.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by TrackerFF »

gfd wrote: post #63

What's with crypto and tropical escapes? FTX moved their headquarters to the Bahamas and now they are trying to build it into a crypto-hub too: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/sdjcH7KAxgB328RAb/...

Other than what's been mentioned, the "digital nomads" have a pretty long history of traveling to low-cost tropical areas, to get most bang for the buck as far living cost goes. And it makes sense.

But these projects, however, I'm not sure. Maybe they really just want some secluded cult-like utopia of likeminded people. This is gonna be much more expensive than simply camping out in Thailand.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by nathias »

riffic wrote: post #16

Nice to see PeerTube out in the wild. PeerTube is a software application that implements the interoperable social networking standard, ActivityPub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube What this means is if you have an account anywhere on this network, say a Mastodon account, you can interact with the video directly. It's a system that works a lot like how email addresses work (that is, a federated social web). las…

Youtube vs peertube vs odysee is a good comparison between web2, fediverse and web3. Youtube is popular and garbage, peertube unpopular and garbage and odysee unpopular and not garbage.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by s3tz »

no_butterscotch wrote: post #115
Tenoke wrote: post #111

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The Bored Apes are selling entry to a community not art. At any rate, as far as I can see artists I enjoy in real life like Refik Anadol are benefiting from and creating interesting art around them. Most NFTs are of course crap (as per sturgeon's) or simply not about art in the first place but I just don't think that means as much as people with an axe to grind think it means.

What's the community and what happens when you enter it? What are the perks to buying into it?

Seems like it's a crypto secret society.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by mailbag »

andutu wrote: post #172

I think this is an elaborate art project. This is mainly based off of the 2 "founders" at the end talking about the project. When they go scout for locations and one of the founders starts caressing the top of a thatch hut and the immediate next shot is a piece of paper taped to a tree with the title "Mercle Tree", that's when it clicked that this was a parody. It's scary that it took me that long to realize.

Art project for sure, and based on the engagement so far I'd say they've succeeded.

Here is some of their previous work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEtBHQu4DoM

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

arcticbull wrote: post #33
pcwalton wrote: post #17

Ironically given the benefits that the cryptocurrency ecosystem supposedly brings to artists, this promotional material contains stolen IP from at least one independent artist [1]. Cryptoland's response was to block the victim [2]. [1]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1478764832967086083 [2]: https://twitter.com/kamilabianchi/status/1479852849932734477

They also sent a cease and desist to one of the folks making fun of them on twitter - for making fun of them, on twitter. [1] [1] https://twitter.com/molly0xfff/status/1479974074986209286?s=...

"They also sent a cease and desist..."

They sent a request to cease and decease. Under the laws of Cryptoland, there are no second chances.

Re: Cryptoland [video]

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Post by nivenkos »

etataetaet wrote: post #168
throwhauser wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The stock-market valuations of the late 1990s were excessive, but the objectives of the actual companies were fairly reasonable. Trading... over the internet. Order your pet food... over the internet. Eventually many of these things actually happened, they just weren't done by the "first movers" who were represented in the stock market bubble. What's happening now, in the cryptocurrency milieu, is more deranged. It's…

What really got me to understand what an NFT is was a post in a gold / silver subredit. A poster asked the question "Where could I find someone who could make a physical NFT gold and silver coin". I really didn't understand what that meant so I asked. They answered that it was going to be a intricately designed coin that was a physical NFT. This physical NFT was just a coin. Nothing special, no blockchain just a coin…

Also the point of coinage is that it is fungible, NFTs are designed to be non-fungible (and even Bitcoin if you get down to the details).

Sadly crypto-currencies still haven't really solved the currency use-case.

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