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@visualizevalue @naval In my agency art director days, I always used to start with wikipedia if I was trying to find a creative angle on something that was rooted in truth. Full transparency, the 80 checks in the original piece were not intentional so this is a fully reverse engineered rationale: https://t.co/6HG3iW7b7t

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Checks: an image becomes a set of rules
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    @visualizevalue @naval While I think this would make a great artistic statement, it leaves the possibility open for someone to burn the art they purchased and get nothing in return. It's the original piece, sliced in to 80 1/1s — distribute…

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    This piece from March 2021 "NFTs, explained." contains the genesis of this idea: Since then I have been exploring the overlap between social contracts, NFTs, digital provenance, what art is, how it evolves, and who decides all of the above.

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    An edition limited by time only (a nod to the idea that the only requirement to get a check, was $8). It ran 24 for hours on @ourZORA, and 16,031 identical pieces were minted.

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  4. 04 / Project: Checks

    If you have been around NFTs for a while, you'll recall Damian Hirst's "The Currency" — which worked like this: Burn the NFT, get the physical, or keep the NFT, and the physical gets burned. Of the original 10,000, there are 1,846 NFTs left…

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  5. 05 / Project: Checks

    The supply stays the "same" but the market reveals its preference for each medium in the process. (Numbers above are apparently not correct, collection is split across a couple of chains/not displaying perfectly on OS, anyone who knows actu…

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  6. 06 / Editorial topic: Rules

    after careful consideration we're going to adjust the mechanism to only allow for one opepen to be opted-in to a single set at a time currently there's a "waterfall" type logic where you can opt into multiple, but it's distorting signal num…

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  7. 07 / Editorial topic: Participation

    I’ve been responding to the platform constraints of Rodeo through a collection of 26 pieces capturing its dynamics, each minted with unique imagery (below left). Upon discovering that tokens could be updated to point to new images, the orig…

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  8. 08 / Editorial topic: Participation

    $rounds is an erc20 with a max supply of 1,482 indivisible tokens it will be claimable by all gas wars holders (500 tokens) and all failed gas wars minters (982 wallets)

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