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It's unfortunate that "minting" ever became a popular term, just call it what it is in context: buying, collecting, tipping, etc. People say "mint" when they really mean "save to the blockchain", a byproduct of early adopters in the space caring too much about the tech and not enough about the benefits NFTs are just digital receipts, calling the action of acquiring them "minting" is like saying "I saved something to the Visa database" instead of "I bought something"
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tomu
@tomu.eth
i hope mint will be the only crypto term that actually goes mainstream when you mint, you create a unique asset in the blockchain
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Try to explain that to a mainstream user https://warpcast.com/zinger/0xd58e30ef
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tomu
@tomu.eth
for me, it's the same as collecting or tipping. those concepts were introduced for the first time for a specific use case. with mints, it's the same it's a new action that people will do on the internet. you don't need to explain it; it's a new mechanism 'i've sent you a snap,' 'let's take a bereal,' 'i posted a story'... those were new concepts that are now part of our daily life
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That's contradictory: collecting and tipping are both done via "minting" which is my point, it's better to just call those actions "collecting" and "tipping"
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tomu
@tomu.eth
why would you associate minting with tipping? on collecting, totally agree, there's a mix of "collect nd mint" without a clear logic behind
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When talking about onchain art: mint = create and mint = collect, that means that we probably shouldn't be using the word "mint", no need to be "technically accurate" at the expense of practicality (anyone trying to attract mainstream users will understand this, or need to) I think minting is also becoming tipping in many cases since most people don't ever look back on the NFTs that they've collected (wallets are a junk drawer, especially since anyone can just send you shit) so in that case it's more about "the act of minting" as a tip or token of appreciation to the creator, the NFT that you receive in return doesn't really matter, in that case it mostly serves as a digital receipt of your tip https://warpcast.com/six/0x01dbbf2e https://warpcast.com/six/0x93b637c0
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tomu
@tomu.eth
good points, i kinda like the tipping reasoning, need to think about it back to the main point, for me mint != collect mint = the act of creating something onchain collecting = the act of supporting someone onchain
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