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Zinger ↑ is job hunting
@zinger
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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@jacopo
minting means coining new currency, so not exchanging value (buying / trading) or saving state onchain. "mint a hat" I agree would be horrible, but generally it's properly related to erc20 / nfts right? actually one of the few crypto terms i like as it's technically correct, meaningful, and it's something common folks can only do onchain. curious why the hate?
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No hate, it's just confusing to use the same term in a variety of contexts, won't fly with mainstream users who don't understand or care how things work under the hood, need to meet them where they're at For example, an artist "mints" art onchain but then when you go to collect a copy it's also called "minting"
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Agreed that it's "technically correct" but I think it makes more sense to be "contextually correct" here so that users can be clear on *what they're doing* rather than how it works especially given that tokens are a core primitive of blockchains and the word "mint" will only become more overloaded with time
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