Re: Idea: Owning Artworks On GNUnet using Non-Fungible Hashes

[hyazinthe]

My 2 cents:

Take a look around. Your crib, the tech stuff in front of you, look down at 
your clothes. Think of all the immaterial goods, which have made your days of 
the past, and how much they formed you. All of that: A product of 
creativity—useful and new, at the same time.

How much do we appreciate this? Where would we be without it? Still in caves?

The appropriate way to appreciate is giving back by maximizing creativity.

But, you can't. You can't directly. It's like being spontaneous.
When someone asks you to be spontaneous, you can't by that moment.

Creativity only can be maximized by forming the frame, in which creativity 
arises.
And that frame has 2 adjusting screws:
1. The more variety, the more tension—especially contrary, especially 
contrast—there is within a network system, the more creativity arises out of it.
2. The more connections there are within a network system, the more creativity 
arises out of it.

So, the frame which maximizes creativity is one, where there are all kinds of 
entities and all of them are directly connected with each others. It's a place 
of everything and no boundaries.

That means: It's a place where all immaterial goods are copylefted commons—not 
even requiring linking a specific immaterial good to a subject, who has made it.
The slightest glimpse of disastrous copy law is an optical to said ideal frame 
for maximizing creativity.

Best for all of us would be, if all immaterial goods including artwork is 
shared, not attempted to be owned whatsoever. And not only that, on top of that 
this state of freedom being defended.


Best regards,
Bastian Schmidt

--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
Von: carlo von lynX <lynX@time.to.get.psyced.org>
Datum: 09.01.2022 17:15:18
An: gnunet-developers@gnu.org
Betreff: Idea: Owning Artworks On GNUnet using Non-Fungible Hashes

> As much as I notoriously doubt that the end-to-end
> encryption Whatsapp actually stops agencies from
> having any insight, I appreciate Moxie's recent dive
> into the world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs):
>
> https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
>
> I heard similar doubts from CCC people last summer,
> but it is good for someone to put it in strong and
> clear terms, combining it with the critique against
> federation and open standards which the secushare.org
> website has been carrying for a decade now.
>
> The following implies you read that blog post first.
> It's an interesting worthwhile read.
>
> The "Web3" is a joke, as much as the people that claim
> to be into "crypto", then even fail to put a hash of
> a piece of art into the blockchain rather than just
> somebody else's URL.
>
> Obviously while I read all of that, I thought how on
> the basis of GNUnet instead it could all work out for
> real.
>
> 1. GNUnet is *meant* to run on all devices, including
> smartphones. The phone companies may have to adapt!
> There must not arise any "platform" web services that
> run the GNUnet node for you. We switched to AGPL
> license because of this and should pressure any
> alternative implementation of GNUnet to also be
> released under Affero GPL or stricter! As soon as
> we allow nodes to be run elsewhere than on the device
> of the owner, several of our design goals are gone -
> and the article illustrates how people do not care.
>
> 2. We already have consensus protocols on top of
> GNUnet. If we add a ledger we can store the ownership
> of hashes of artworks which AFAIR also happen to be
> the handles for retrieval on gnunet-fs.
>
> 3. If we implement the social graph in secushare.org
> we can avoid using dirty proof-of-work but rather
> provide a blockchain by proof-of-having-a-life. The
> proof that you exist and have a life is the fact
> that you have a social surrounding which isn't just
> avatars you created yourself.
>
> So, whoopa, we have a new Internet with a new
> distributed Facebook/Skype replacement, a way to
> do blockchain apps without ruining the environment
> and a way to prove ownership of digital artworks.
>
>
>