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"Defining NFT in Historical Context" An article I've written in June 2022 going through the history and story of NFTs, collectibility of blockchain assets, and debates around them. Incidentally, also the first mainstream mention of ordinals https://mirror.xyz/chainleft.eth/MzPWRsesC9mQflxlLo-N29oF4iwCgX3lacrvaG9Kjko

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Thanks 🫂 @randomcdog on X is the true goat

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Table of Rare & Historic Blockchain Assets Featuring low supply / scarce traits of old significant assets from 🔵Namecoin,🟠Bitcoin,🔴Dogecoin,🟣Emercoin & 🟢Ethereum blockchains, from 2011 to 2020.

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My 1st Historical NFT cast will be skeptical: If we care about: - Timestamps: Namecoin supply is huge pre-2014 - Cultural significance: that can be (and is) manipulated by influencers - Innovation, or technical and artistic achievements: that can continue to happen post 2024, infinite supply 1/3

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On May 6, 2011, David P. sold the Namecoin name d/radio for 5BTC and stamped the "SOLD" mention in the operation's value when broadcasting name transfer, forever linked to the name’s values history, onchain. This marked the history’s first non-fungible asset transfer on a blockchain. Full doc: https://t.ly/kW0FZ

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Quick on-chain AI niche history: 2021: @nahiko made a proto-neural-net algo (XOR) in smart contract. 2023: - @vanarman stored the byteGANs onchain - InchainpepeGANs: Onchain generated + stored AI art - Perceptions tokenized the algos where you can feed your own inputs to generate outputs 2024: - Reflection - Insula

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